Sentences with word «aloofness»

Quickly, he masked his angry jade eyes with aloofness.

When he wears shades (he's crying, yes, but it also could be construed as aloofness towards his Catholic surroundings) at a funeral where crosses are present, we're aware of his religious beliefs.

Bill de Blasio had just been elected mayor and was urging members to back Mark - Viverito, despite her reputation for aloofness among her colleagues and her uncompromising brand of progressive politics.

Phoning California, Peggy uses the language of the job to communicate aloofness in love: «Tell him that I got his message — no, tell him that I relayed his message to the client, and... there's nothing he can do.

«For Judaism to insist rigorously on aloofness, on segregation, on maintaining itself as a self - enclosed community, is to withhold its witness from the general community, proclaimed an editorial of December 20, 1939.

Owen Wilson makes me laugh in several movies but its usually a sort of pompous aloofness about him that gets the most laughs.

The Rottweiler is basically a calm, confident and very courageous breed, having a fearless expression and a self assured aloofness, it does not generally lend itself to immediate and aimless friendships.

Brilliantly directed by Wright, who uses all kinds of clever visual tricks, inventive transitions and spot - on sound effects to keep us constantly enthralled, the film can also rely on a stellar cast in which everyone shines, starting with Cera and Winstead, who make quirky aloofness into an art form and who end up truly making us care about their rocky road to potential happiness.

Just in case a reader may be confused by my apparent aloofness, I am voting for Romney against Obama for all the intelligent reasons that are put forward on Postmodern Conservative — such as this.

There is a question - mark over whether Lib Dem ministers continued their laudable aloofness after entering power.

Playing what is in many ways the Bibi Andersson role from Persona is no small feat, and while Stewart still generally operates within her well - worn wheelhouse of low energy aloofness, it has never worked better than it does here.

This feline aloofness explains why many owners don't bother teaching their cats tricks, and those do end up disappointed.

Their historical value is especially great, for, regardless of his personal aloofness and his liberal views, everyone of any importance in Tsarist Russia sat for Serov, yet not one of the resulting paintings has anything of the official portrait about it; each is a sincere and illuminating document.

Alas, the film is compromised by Redford's character, as he doesn't have the moral aloofness such a thing requires.

Moscow's approach of seeking strength through aloofness really does not work in a world of instant communication.

This natural aloofness makes them good watch - dog candidates.

When it becomes a bigger issue, as in work not being turned in on time or aloofness during meetings, take people in for a one - on - one.

In Lindsey's case, it was tempered by a kind of anthropological aloofness; in Wilkinson's, less so.»

«1 Byzantium was obsessed by God's inscrutable aloofness, but medieval Western Catholicism found God's presence immanent in all things.

Such issuences do though tend to parlor towards self - serving monoliths of the ritualistic varieties within the commonly types ever leveraged thru aloofness desirables!

Backbench mutterings about the PM's cold - fish aloofness are nothing new, but it taps into a deeper worry: if Cameron can't be bothered to shoot the breeze with local MPs, is he really connecting with hard - pressed families?

While Obama can't be held directly responsible for this incident, it can give a transparent look into his administrative style.The books on the Obama administration all seem to show a detached Obama administrator; someone with a distant coolness from getting into the muck and grime of the federal bureaucracies.The GSA Vegas convention may be another indication of Obama's administrative aloofness.

Cats» famed aloofness may be another clue that their domestication isn't fully complete.

Around the mid-1980s, however, scientists discovered that gold's chemical aloofness only manifests at large, or macroscopic, scales.

The snag is that in quantum mechanics, time retains its Newtonian aloofness, providing the stage against which matter dances but never being affected by its presence.

Sometimes it feels like a tease with its frustrating aloofness, along with its head - scratching narrative detours, including a sequence in which the main character slowly eats and chokes on a slice of cake in a restaurant without further explanation.

Mission commander Dave Bowman is one of Dullea's least complicated characters, yet it is his essential aloofness that makes him such an unlikely and worthy hero.

His ad - lib and Goldblum - ish «uhm - ahh» fit into authoritative aloofness and occasional acts of absurdity.

But as he puffs his way through the orgiastic carnage of «High - Rise» — we swear he lights up in pretty much every scene — Hiddleston manages to lend cigarette smoking an air of insouciant aloofness that's rarely been seen since the days of Bogart.

Aussie theater director Benedict Andrews, making his filmmaking debut after a career of elaborate Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Tennessee Williams adaptations, shows some grace behind the camera — the opening passage, before the film has revealed the nature of Una's road trip, has a vague, mysterious unease to it, enhanced by Mara's signature aloofness.

He belongs to the hardboiled, get - the - job - done leading men of action films past, but even in this time of increasingly progressive heroes remains incredibly popular for his steely, charisma - not - necessary aloofness - so popular in fact that the franchise was resurrected after Jeremy Renner nadir The Bourne Legacy for a fifth film some 14 years after the original just to bring the real Bourne back.

As supremely silly as they are, the Twilight movies are made watchable by Kristen Stewart's Bella Swan, whose combination of fidgetiness and aloofness puts me in mind of James Dean's Cal Trask and Jim Stark.

His agitated and volatile energy functioned as a counterweight to Brando's high - viscosity aloofness in The Wild One (53), but Marvin eventually learned to incorporate the latter's brooding into his own staccato restlessness, resulting in many a show - stopping study of the Soulful Man of Steel.

For his part, Jesse is baffled both by Abby's abrupt aloofness and Jenny's subtle advances.

Still, Both Cutler (who made the very fine documentary The September Issue) and Moretz, a charismatic screen presence (her supporting turn in Olivier Assayas» upcoming Sils Maria is a master class in perfectly modulated aloofness), can do better.

There are a handful extraneous characters who, while there during the actual 1977 case itself, aren't useful here, a skeptical paranormal researcher played with detached aloofness by Run Lola Run and The Bourne Identity star Franka Potente particularly so.

Firth is the very picture of royal aloofness as Bertie, dragged to a dingy basement flat by Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother (Helena Bonham Carter, terrific) where his new teacher insists that «in here, it's better that we're equals.»

Sure Wilson plays his usual role: a surfers aloofness, with a cool head, and an low volume aw - shucks Texas drawl.

Miles Teller's performance is mesmerizing, as his laidback aloofness charms us (as much as it charms the people around him) into thinking that maybe he doesn't have a problem.

No, the Venom GT doesn't have the refinement and accessibility of a Veyron, but for many people — myself included — that painstakingly engineered aloofness and disdain for hypercar theatrics is the Bug's biggest weakness.

To enhance steering feel it has speed sensitive assistance that quickly firms up once on the move but at parking speeds it is easy to twirl taking the chore out of parking duties There always is a gentlemanly characteristic to how the RS 4 responds despite its towering ability, more like a slight aloofness when one is at the helm despite wringing the RS 4 to within an inch of its life on a race track like we did in Milan.