Word: standoffishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Prouty describes the teenage Kerry as shy, not to be confused with standoffish...
...class like this? The Undergraduate Council clearly doesn’t agree with me — that body awarded the lecturer the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize in 2002. Even expected outlets of discontent don’t pipe up. The Harvard Republican Club? Not a word. The ever-standoffish University President Lawrence H. Summers? Nothing—in fact, he’s a guest lecturer, probably the most conservative on the docket...
...impatience extended into the laboratory. Safety standards were lower in those days, and, in her eagerness to get results, Franklin often didn't bother with protective gear, even when working with radiation. Bold as she was in her work, however, Franklin was curiously standoffish with regard to the opposite sex. According to her biographer, Brenda Maddox, Franklin was still ignorant of the facts of life as late as her third year in college--this from a student of biochemistry...
...College christened its new life-sciences building the Franklin-Wilkins building. But in life Franklin never felt a need to be defended. Prickly she may have been, even brusque and difficult, but she was never troubled by bitterness over what might have been. Who was Rosalind Franklin? The snippy, standoffish, supporting player? The brilliant, wronged woman? Or somebody else entirely? There are deeper mysteries in life than DNA, and some of them may never be solved. --By Lev Grossman
...start splitting each other by race...The problem is that we need to stop thinking about that and just live in it,” he says. “One of the frustrations I felt, that comes off in a pretty standoffish tone in the article—I don’t appreciate it when other people of Asian descent come to me and assume a lot of things about me. I think there’s an expected role for me, based on my skin...