Sentences with phrase «aloof by»

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Founder Edwin Land, by then 51 years old, was to many an «aloof, authoritarian» chief executive, hell - bent on overtaking the far bigger Eastman Kodak (then ranked No. 45).

One may think that someone untethered by an office may have an aloof stance when employee loyalty and engagement is concerned, but it appears the opposite is true.

«The limitations of quantum thermal dynamics may only be attributed by the heated degradation effects in timed probabilities upon perpetual decaying ratios of certain atoms structuralized accolades of which quantum physics remains allegorically aloof upon and can not be soundly fathomed via any mathematical physics conveyances which by the way are fraught with faulty mathematical probabilities and unreasoned factual soundings.»

By implication Holloway's new synthesis can not be built upon a metaphysics that holds itself aloof from the natural sciences.

Christians by and large have remained aloof to the challenge of reviewing or re-conceiving their faith in God and Christ in terms of the local or ambient faiths.

The primary difference between the process concept of God as creator - preserver of the world and that of classical theism is that the former insists God ought not be conceived as aloof to and unaffected by what happens in the world.

But he simultaneously lived the life of theologian, ethicist and church person, demonstrating that politics uninformed by the judgments of faith, and faith aloof from the human struggle, are twin seductions to which we must not succumb.

The aloof intellectual as portrayed by Rorty seems to be a luxury the world can ill afford.

By remaining aloof from such claims, Wilson teaches us to take them less seriously.

What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.

Her story was told as a love story, complete with a handsome but aloof Prince Charming, who picked her by means of a beauty pageant.

In recent days this sentiment has been echoed by many who apparently prefer to remain aloof from the controversy while implicitly appealing to the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin's Seamless Garment, which attempted to create a consistent ethic placing abortion within a larger web of concerns, including capital punishment, warfare and poverty.

The sermon as performance makes the Word aloof from the concerns of men and is unmet by the meanings of their lives.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

In a 2013 profile on al.com, he described being welcomed, but held aloof, by the team.

The dark side of these personality traits is that in enjoying his prominence Marino sometimes seems boastful, and by only tolerating his prominence, Kosar sometimes appears aloof, or even snooty.

By «central midfielder» we don't mean a trequartista floating between the lines (and watching aloof from afar while his team - mates defend).

Living in Swansea guys — He was not rated by the Swansea Jacks, apparently an arrogant and aloof man, they couldn't wait to get rid of him as he lost the plot — most noticeably against us!

Arsenal aren't going to garner any sympathy from anyone by adopting an aloof attitude, and it won't make them any better on the pitch.

By studying different local environmental conditions, we may better understand why some men act like fatherly wolves and others act more like aloof chimpanzees.

Miliband, from the standpoint of mid-2012, can focus on the underperformance of the economy and decline of living standards, all presided over by an aloof Tory elite.

After all, they had stuck with him in part out of disdain for Mark - Viverito, a staunch liberal described by some of her colleagues as aloof.

But Cartmill, who notes that he is «mortally certain» there is no Sasquatch, is irked by Meldrum's trying to guilt - trip those who do not do Bigfoot work and his disparaging them as lazy or aloof.

Does she absolutely adulation me by that time aback we were aloof met a few times on the dating sites and babble on the chatting room?

By nature, the specialized online dating sites bind the individuals that can participate in their network, thereby accoutrement a added agreeable acquaintance to those that acquisition them to be aloof what they are attractive for.

A few of the dragon attacks are then followed by the dragon being mysteriously absent, as if this winged creature was too aloof to follow - through with killing its prey, like a cat with a bug.

His Will is gently prickly, a little aloof, driven by money rather than sentiment — and spared from having to learn the lessons three - act screenwriting usually imposes upon such characters.

As brilliantly portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch («The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug») who brings richness and complexity to the role, Turing is a brilliant but highly eccentric individual whose aloof personality is off - putting to his superiors and his co-workers.

As an actor, he portrays characters that have settled into their aloof, awkward skins by way of deep thought, nerdy diversion, and hilarious observation.

The problem is that Tipton is, by and large, a blank slate — her peculiarly gawky beauty aside, she's a desperately lacking lead presence, at once bland and aloof.

Despite being solitary and existential (an effect heightened by the aloof electropop soundtrack), The Driver forms an attachment to his neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son Benicio (Kaden Leos).

Strange, just like he was written in the character's 1960s source comics by the legendary Steve Ditko, is a narcissistic, arrogant, and aloof surgeon.

Bill Hader and co-scriptwriter Seth Rogen appear in the high school comic odyssey «Superbad» as a pair of aloof, fun - lovin» cops who take chronic third - wheeler Fogell (alias: McLovin, played indelibly by Christopher Mintz - Plasse) out for the night of his life in a freewheeling B - plot.

By definition, grab - bag films are uneven, and some of Coffee And Cigarettes» segments — a meeting of Spike Lee's less - charismatic siblings, an aloof beauty's lonely afternoon — capture Jarmusch at his most oblique and least rewarding.

This may be a slow - burning thriller about eco-terrorists, but it's also directed by Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff), a filmmaker who maintains an oddly aloof perspective while moving at her own steady pace.

He also discovers that the heist was actually a test by the suit's aloof, wealthy inventor, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas).

Aloof to the servants» gossip about her — what she looks like when she dances, rides a horse, takes a bath — Miss Julie invites more wagging tongues by seducing her father's affianced valet John, seemingly more out of tedium than sexual desire.

Here, Holmes is a well - dressed, coolly aloof figure who beats corpses with a riding crop and is oblivious to the amorous attention of poor Molly from the lab, and Watson is a veteran recently returned from Afghanistan who's troubled by flashbacks, a psychosomatic limp, and a therapist who makes him take up blogging.

«Patrick Melrose,» a despairing yet impressive Showtime adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn's semi-autobiographical novels, is about a lonely little rich boy who is raped by his narcissistic father and ignored by his coldly aloof mother.

As it is, Reitman has given us a witty, elegant movie that is nonetheless, like its protagonist, somewhat aloof from the vicissitudes experienced by mere mortals.

Even if I did not particularly learn anything from it, I was completely engrossed by Elizabeth, which not only makes the traditionally stuffy and aloof British costume drama accessible, but entertaining and exciting as well.

Even as Walter establishes a rapport with his younger son Henry (Riley Thomas Stewart) through the puppet, though, his teenage son Porter (Anton Yelchin)-- a smart but angry kid who keeps a list of Post-Its enumerating all the traits of his father of which he wishes to rid himself, and finds himself hired by valedictorian Norah (Jennifer Lawrence) to pen her forthcoming graduation commencement speech — remains aloof.

Hardcore Marvel Comics fans know in Doctor Strange's brief origin story by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Strange was a straight - up a-hole before life as the Sorcerer Supreme and even after he remains a mostly aloof, unrelatable character.

Set in what its opening credits slyly term the neo-Pleistocene age, the film follows a group of plucky stone - agers, led by Dug (Eddie Redmayne), who have their home colonised by the dastardly Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston, adopting a peculiar and very funny pan-European accent) and his Bronze Age, a tribe of aloof technocrats with an unlikely passion for football.

by Angelo Muredda Grief becomes an occasion for pontificating about the nature of memory and archives in 306 Hollywood, Elan and Jonathan Bogarín's surprisingly aloof portrait of their charming grandmother's trash palace of a home in the months and years after her death.

Eleanor has hopes that living with her aloof, academic parents (well - played by William Hurt and Isabelle Huppert) will allow her to heal and reinvent herself in private, but instead she finds herself constantly under scrutiny, and questioning herself whenever she feels too happy or too blue.

At the same time, it has remained woefully aloof from concerns raised by front - line staff and freely available evidence.»

While this might seem obvious, teaching is often the last focus of education — shifted to the side by standardized testing, changing curricula, faculty room politics, overbearing or aloof administrators, and shrinking school budgets.

By contrast an Audi TT is inert, aloof and curiously unsatisfying.

I was a geeky, bookish 13 - year - old when I first laid hands on a copy of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, the story of a nameless young girl who falls passionately in love with aloof widower Maxim De Winter, only to find that their marriage is haunted by the spectre of his dead wife, Rebecca.