Sentences with phrase «aloofness about»

There was an aloofness about him more thoroughgoing than modesty or reticence.

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Guy Kawasaki addresses emotional contagion in his book Enchantment: «Smiling sends a very clear message about your state of mind, not smiling creates an opening for many interpretations, including grumpiness, aloofness, and anger.»

But because they put up this wall and make it hard to get to know them and isolate themselves, then people start to make up things about them and resent their aloofness.

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?

Then they grow into adults, and can still be cute, but such a pet's newfound independence and growing aloofness may feel bittersweet to its human kin, begging the question: How might a kitten lover keep young cats in their lives — without ever worrying about them growing up?

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.