aloofness

The next day there was a new aloofness about him.

He seemed open and easy to know, once his aloofness had been put aside, but was not.

And in the end, perhaps his aloofness had saved him.

I look back on that year with some regret about my aloofness.

It helps keep the aloofness which the job forces on you.

There was an aloofness to these people that disturbed him.

Though everyone was anxious to see her, they were put off by the cold aloofness with which she held herself.

All moved with the same grace and aloofness as the animal.

She wanted contact with him very much, but he seemed the master of aloofness among other things.

As for the actor's love life, there was no understanding his aloofness.

People who regard him as a friend have perceived an aloofness.

They did not say so to her face or even publicly, but their aloofness was obvious.

His aloofness is a kind of shyness, he has said.

The other's aloofness might have been the distancing of death.

Earlier I had noticed a strange aloofness in myself that came and went.

What looked like aloofness was just a man biting his tongue.

The kill from a comfortable distance, the aloofness of that.

Gone is the old aloofness that critics saw as arrogance.

And with Mallory's aloofness, the house seemed twice as large.

He made an attempt at aloofness, but his voice trembled.

Even then they were warned to expect emotional aloofness on their return.

But her aloofness was not necessarily a sign of hostility.

Many managers find they must maintain some aloofness in order to be effective.

Thinking to show him even a little of what aloofness was like, she had been to the end unyielding.

There has been other conjecture that personal problems led to his aloofness.