The superstar is doubly lucky in that a certain aloofness - a concentration on tomorrow's battle for supremacy - is expected.

His relations to Napoleon were marked by a certain aloofness.

"There's a certain aloofness to fashion with her," he said.

'They have a certain aloofness and reserve,' D.H.

Wa-ga-su was much with us, and I began to notice a certain aloofness toward him by the others of his people.

Even in the event of murder, a Winterslip must maintain a certain well-bred aloofness in dealing with servants.

Walking through the garden, upright, I can maintain a certain aloofness.

But a certain aloofness, and with that a certain reticence, is bred into the very stones of what Thomas Hardy once called "multi-marbled Genoa."

She didn't give the impression of reading and there was a certain stiff aloofness in her bearing.

He had sometimes felt a certain aloofness in Jan, but he had overlooked it.