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Example sentences for: aloofness

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When the old man gets sick soon after her arrival, the daughter who missed her mother's funeral has a chance to make amends for a lifelong habit of aloofness.
Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang ) and Joe Klein say that Bradley's aloofness and condescension still hurt his popularity, and Klein predicts that if he is the Democratic nominee his Senate votes against the Gulf War and welfare reform will haunt him.
This may account for a cool reserve, almost aloofness, that some read even into the architecture of the tall houses in the straight and narrow streets behind the port.
For a while, I dismissed these with an almost Gallic aloofness.
The actor sends up his own preening aloofness, and he has never been more emotionally exposed than when it dawns on him that his smug façade has been literally penetrated.