Sentences with phrase «aloof on»

Some of them were also not as responsive to missing their mother and reacted aloof on their mother's return.

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

After the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church was more discreet and almost remained aloof on this issue.

Not exact matches

His bearing was aloof and disconnected from his audience, and yet he maintained that intense stare that bordered on the psychopathic.

Bonforte later amended his comments on Twitter, but what he said fits with other portraits of Mayer that have cast her as more than a little demanding, aloof, and perfectionistic.

«You want to know ahead of time if they come off as awkward, stiff, aloof, carefree or gruff,» she says, «so that nothing about that first encounter throws you off and you can focus on selling yourself.»

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).

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

Then, on Wednesday, D'Vorkin shocked the staff and furthered what already been a growing rift between the new editor seen as aloof and his newsroom.

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.

(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.

She's just upset — and not only with Atticus, but with hectoring Aunt Alexandra, aloof Uncle Jack, and wannabe fiancé Hank, the young lawyer whom Atticus took on after Jem died of a heart attack.

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

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.

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.

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.

«After five years on the tour, he's still extremely aloof, still has no social graces, still acts as if no one exists but him.

He just seems so aloof @ times, physically he is a handful on the pitch but his techical uunderstanding of the game leaves me exasperated @ times.

The illustrious nature of the league, though, is hard to look away from and while Kruse has managed to stay aloof of it up until now, the striker could well be on the move in the summer.

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.

Adolescents, on the other hand, respond more like cats — aloof, unpredictable, hard to locate, not always coming when they are called, rubbing up against you or jumping into your lap on their terms.

On the other end of the spectrum, when mothers are aloof or depressed, they hardly engage at all in the normal back - and - forth that settles a baby's nervous system.

The fun musical play tray will be aloof from the frame and used on the ground as a stand alone toy, and the Dance may be quickly converted from walker to stationary activity center.

Any fears that stylish might mean we'd come across aloof, cool members of staff were immediately put to rest as the reception team welcomed us warmly and chatted away to the six - year - old, telling her about a special challenge for kids where she had to find hidden foxes around the hotel and mark them down on an activity sheet.

That Ernest Okonkwo charge: better to rally as part of a solution, than staying aloof for the sweet blame game, is true of the ball fans of his days, as of present - day Nigerians, on the political front.

A guy who invested in downtown buffalo when everyone else gave up on the inner city while his opponent was carefully reinventing himself as a calm, aloof, controlled and experienced outsider, who just happened to have a former governor (a crappy one at that), married a Kennedy for her name and got cuckolded in the process, wasted billions on bad sub-prime mortgages and canal money, ran against Carl McCall earning the everlasting respect of the African - Americans in NYS, and now sounds suspiciously like Elliot Spitzer.

«The longer we keep silent and stay aloof, the longer the international community looks on, the brazen this hopeless government gets,» he warned.

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.

«Painting Miliband as aloof could backfire on a prime minister who faces exactly the same charge,» Lord Ashcroft wrote.

«It may also interest you Mr. Chairman Sir, that the said Yahaya Bello, since the conduct of the primaries, had been aloof from party activities as it is on record that he did not attend a single meeting or campaign rally of the party.

One group got the fake needles with an aloof practitioner; another got them with a warm, supportive acupuncturist (Hall calls this «augmented» treatment); and the last group sat on a wait list.

The advisor must discover when and where to step in on a project and move a student along, without being too intrusive and pushy, or, on the other hand, too aloof.

It is also a noble gas — so labeled because it was long believed to be «too aloof» to react with the other elements on the periodic table.

The network has grown in a grassroots way, based on a handful of pervasive protocols and aloof guidance from the World Wide Web Consortium, a forum based at M.I.T. for Web developers.

They aloof sit on the daybed at home to attending for admirable singles Ebony bodies whom they appetite to acquaintance with.

They aloof appetite to comedy about on the Internet.

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?

Your computer is aloof the best apparatus to angle distinct women and men on the Internet conveniently.

They aloof absorb themselves while attractive for a date on net.

You can aloof sit on the active allowance to acquisition plenty fish.

Usually, bodies get home from work, they aloof appetite to about - face on the TV and get pleasure the black while watching Television shows.

Modine was nominated for an Emmy for his performance as aloof AIDS researcher Don Francis in the 1993 TV movie And the Band Played On, and continued to accept occasional stage roles in between his film and TV projects.

Emily is very out - going, independent, aloof, and blissfully ignorant to what's going on around her.

Films opening in limited release this weekend include Well Go USA's Korean fantasy - drama Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds, while Sony Pictures Classics is bowing Happy End, Oscar - nominee Michael Haneke's drama centered on a bourgeois family aloof to the refugee crisis in their backyard.

After being labeled since the Bronze Age (Garofalo as the elder spokeswoman for aloof Generation X cool; Pierce as «Niles on Frasier»), it's almost shocking to see them play regular people.

Nonetheless, from that moment on, Bella finds the aloof pretty boy irresistible.

So, Antonioni would find his muse, a perfect foil for L'Avventura's at times aloof, mean - spirited even, alteration on alienation and existential dread.

Rooney has her classic «aloof» resting face on, while Emma seems to be soaking up her Best Actress frontrunner buzz that Lainey wrote about earlier.

No relying on dumbfounded and aloof reactions to otherwise serious gunpoint standoffs.