Sentences with phrase «aloof in»

Workers in this personality are aloof in the office.

Britton himself was a prominent figure, but never aloof in a corporate way, often giving interviews to local reporters, bloggers, podcasters, and those who shared his passion for legal marketing.

Most legal scholars and observers readily excuse such a detached style, pointing out that judges must remain aloof in order to maintain the necessary aura of authority and impartiality.

Kind of aloof in general, but she loved to lay by the doors and would bark when strangers came by the house.

Writers who consider that they are responsible for social change can not keep themselves aloof in their protective shells.

Compared to its rivals the X5's steering felt over-assisted and aloof in Comfort mode and artificial in Sport.

However, tied together with more than just a puppy love for one another, Suzy and Sam know they are different, know they will most likely never fit in this tiny island society and seem perfectly happy and aloof in their isolation, making their capture all the more difficult.

It would be easy for a person in Mata's position to be aloof in such a situation.

Is he aloof in the dressing room?

Aloof in one sense, he was nevertheless engaged with the contemporary life of his own nation.

Not exact matches

Though personally cold and aloof, he takes pains to appear in public clad as a man of the people — that is, without a jacket or tie.

During the former Heisman Trophy winner's 11 season career, he received quite a bit of criticism, both for his unapologetic marijuana use (which resulted in multiple suspensions for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy) and for his demeanor, which was described as «aloof» and even «weird.»

David is often portrayed as somewhat aloof, showing up to board meetings in sneakers, munching sandwiches with small - time investors at AGMs instead of major stakeholders, and calling up the Reuters photo desk to chat photography, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Silicon Valley was once politically aloof before realizing in recent years that its future profits depended in part on battles here in Washington.

Cardinal Law, for one, appeared — publicly, at least — to be aloof from the complaints and warnings of victim - survivors and their intimates, as well as from the concerns of laity and clergy in his archdiocese.

«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.»

Someone Who Is Holy walks in beauty, like the night, no doubt, perpetually calm and serene, clean and aloof, beautiful and wise.

Hence, the «de-historization» or «desecularization» both of God and of man is to be understood as a paradox (dialektisch): precisely that God, who stands aloof from the history of nations, meets each man in his own little history.1

This statement can be understood in two ways: first, that concepts are entities that capture the essence of a given thing but remain aloof from its individuating material particulars (such as shape, size, colour); second, the concepts themselves do not have material characteristics: my concept of «tree» has no flavour, location, smell and so on.

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.

The last thing the philosopher should be is an aloof onlooker or a rhetorical cheerleader, for «without the knowledge of actual conditions and of relations of cause and effect, any values that we set up as ends are bare ideals in the sense in which ideal» means utopian, without means for its realization» (JDE 18).

Thus the individual essence of turquoise blue is quite aloof from the relational essence of turquoise blue and can characterize the specific definiteness of a particular actual entity without involving necessarily the specific individual essence of any particular geometrical shape, though through its relational essence it does specify the range, and the «how» relationship, of all possible geometrical figures, x1, x2,... x11, which have the requisite status to possibly merge with that individual essence turquoise blue in constituting the complex synthesis of forms which is the peculiar, concrete definiteness of an individual actual entity.

If their elders remain aloof from civic affairs, at most engaging in detached observation and criticism of the politicians, it is hardly cause for wonder that the young should learn to leave the decisions of state to others and thus prepare the way for the loss of their liberties.

The face is severe, aloof, unsmiling and suspiciously similar to many of the other faces in Badger's...

Yet there were, even in early times, and increasingly with the passing of the centuries, men who stood aloof and condemned the thing for the depravity that it was.

The French dramatic theorist Antonin Artaud, in speaking about the French classical theater, which had become formal and aloof from the issues of human hope, wrote, «In the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.&raquin speaking about the French classical theater, which had become formal and aloof from the issues of human hope, wrote, «In the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.&raquIn the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.&raquin which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.&raquin which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.»

We stereotype men into being emotionally aloof, having a stern voice or hand when it comes to discipline, and being more hands - off in regards to raising an infant.

God as lover can not be aloof like the artist nor identify at a distance like the educator but will be totally, passionately involved in the agency of the evil that befalls the beloved.

But in his writings and speeches, Lincoln is very much a public figure, and ¯ even in his letters ¯ he tends to remain cordially aloof.

This time the United States was determined to stay aloof, yet in comparison with the First World War they were in far more danger morally and physically in the second war.

The classical Christian idea of an aloof, immutable, independent God, representing simplicity and rest, he argues, has much more in common with certain philosophical abstractions inherited from the Greeks.

On the other hand, the Mexican church seems to have remained aloof from the major forces of social transformation in modern Mexico.

A small conservative minority of the Free Church, mostly in the Highlands and known humorously as the Wee Frees, did not go into the United Free Church but kept vigorously aloof from it.

But, alas, it was also bankrupt and could no longer afford to keep itself in aloof purity.

In his opinion we are counterfeit; he holds aloof from our doings as though from filth; he proclaims the final end of the virtuous as happy and boasts of having God for his father.

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.

Instead, she smolders and withdraws in a way that Bill describes as «aloof.»

Like students of those other years, they remain somewhat aloof from established cultural norms and ideas, while putting more energy into «tending their own garden,» but they are less wrapped up in the narcissism of the youth culture.

Instead of preserving suspense through nihilism (in which God is either nonexistent or malign) or through Manichaenism (in which dark and light are equally matched and equally likely to prevail), the novelist gives us a God too powerful and too aloof to bother with anything so interventionist as the Incarnation.

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.

The comparison thing finds its way in sometimes, even when you're hopelessly aloof on most days.

Outdated ideas, bad rotation, tactics, system, plays players out of position, does not make the necessary signings to strengthen the team in the transfer window, is uninspiring on his warm seat, talks media school b@llocks in press conferences and is generally aloof.

But Chryst himself sometimes comes off as aloof and soft - spoken in his media appearances.

In Cleveland they may still believe that's the way cold, aloof, mechanical, stereotyped Paul Brown operates.

Of all the stars in the NBA, none is a bigger mystery than Patrick Ewing, the aloof Center for the New York Knicks

In this scenario, Hamilton would have had to have been so indifferent or aloof — if not actively poisonous — that it would have been impossible for the Angels to carry on.

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

Fox, giddy and wide - eyed in the post-game press conference, stood aloof next to the basket when his teammate found him.

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.