Word: distantly
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Where students find McArthur distant, however, B-School faculty laud him as responsive to faculty concerns and as a champion of innovation within the graduate school's often static curriculum...
Because of Bok's time-consuming self-reliance, co-workers say he often comes across as a distant figure, one who is more likely to fire off a quick substantive question than engage in office banter...
...forbidding gap between private lives and that distant sense of a common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...
...neighbor fail in any efforts at improving his lot; envy that a neighbor may be better off, coupled with a belief that he must have cheated; suspicion of anything new, since most changes were for the worst; rampant superstition; and, finally, an unquestioning acceptance of a higher, distant authority, like the "Good Czar" in Russia or his Chinese counterpart, the "Good Emperor...
...Berg's account, Goldwyn's radical self-reliance had something like the nobility of a tragic flaw. His two marriages were deeply troubled, and as a father he was sometimes cruelly distant. What sustained and transformed his life were his simple, almost innocent, aspirations. His movies at their tasteful, well-crafted best (Dodsworth, The Westerner, The Best Years of Our Lives) had the kind of polished literacy the immigrant lad could not himself command but could command others to produce on his behalf...