Sentences with phrase «of aloof»

Inverting the position of the aloof cultural critic, the works wrestle with the complexities of commitment and the artist's own fumbled attempts to create a personal and political integrity.

In Venice, Faust features a cast of aloof, androgynous performers activating the pavilion's imposing architecture by singing, headbanging, dancing, wrestling, playing dirgeful music, climbing up walls, and perching on pedestals as living sculptures.

Hudson started out as an artist himself — one of his performances was called «The Greek & French Arts» (he described it as «an art history porno cooking lesson»)-- and was almost shamanish in his affect, with his shaved head, evolving vaguely Burning Man facial hair, and refusal to wear the usual art - world uniform of aloof - in - all - black.

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

Despite the stereotype of the aloof tabby, cats need to give and receive love and attention every day.

Younger dogs are more playful, but an endearing quality of aloof laziness often develops as they mature.

A lovable, slightly repressed gay man, Fenno leads the life of an aloof expatriate in the West Village, running a shop filled with books and birdwatching gear.

A bunch of ever - so - mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods....

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.

Fresh off his return to the dramatic arena on the newly acclaimed HBO series «The Deuce,» Academy Award nominee James Franco («127 Hours») may earn a second with his eerily irresistible portrayal of the aloof and mysterious cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau.

It's when Alma decides that she wants more, and Reynolds begins to worry about what that intimacy is going to do to his aura of aloof impenetrability, that Phantom Thread begins to cultivate its devastatingly funny domestic subtexts.

Bening is entertaining to watch no matter what she does — whether she's prancing in front of the aloof Masha or subtly manipulating Stoll's weak - willed Boris.

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.

When Heath won the leadership, the chief whip, Whitelaw, decided that Prior should be appointed as PPS to the leader of the opposition, believing that his approachable manner would help counter Heath's air of aloof reserve, or «brusqueness amounting to rudeness», as Prior called it.

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.

... The sole distinguishing characteristic of Morrison's writings is psychological waywardness — derived, it appears from his unhappy childhood as the son of an aloof naval officer... According to his biographers Morrison's chief boyhood pleasure was defying, confounding, and tormenting other people.

One can discover nothing of that aloof and superior nature whereby one recognizes the knight of the infinite.

Gamble rarely wrote editor's notes or ran letters from readers, giving the publication something of an aloof air.

Not exact matches

She does tend to come across as sort of cold and aloof.

But there is a downside to being out of touch, not least of which, it can make you seem aloof.

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.»

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.

Remember, connecting with your audience (whether that be an audience of one or 1,000) will always mean taking the time to engage them, exposing your humanity and jettisoning the unfortunate behaviors so commonly associated with an aloof and ill - prepared presenter.

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.

It would leave America facing an invidious choice: either back Japan, or stand aloof and let the security structure of East Asia disintegrate.

The company has implemented innovative functionalities or smart methods into its ICO smart contract that keep the LHCoin token aloof of the market prices.

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.»

However, whereas progressive Christianity interprets this to mean that the church must remain aloof from involvement with political parties and economic interests, the fourth church, at the urging of its forceful thinkers, supports the best systems available.

The Sufis generally were favored over the ulama because they kept aloof from politics, while the religious scholars sometimes could set limits to the authority of the rulers.

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

Eighteen of his courtiers joined the new religion but all the rest kept aloof.

Their doctrines of salvation prompted their — allegedly aloof and insensitive — understandings of God.

Rubenstein can teach the Christian that the God who stands aloof from the history of nations is the God who stands aloof from Auschwitz, and that the price of accepting a dehistorized or subjective God (the God who is absolute Subject and only Subject) is the abandonment of the objective world or reality as such to the realm of «flesh.»

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.

It means also to remain aloof from many of the moral languages of our time, which are — even at their most sentimental, tender, and tolerant — usually as decadent and egoistic as the currently most fashionable vices.

Holmes» equally talented father, an innovating physician and essayist, portrayed his son as The Young Astronomer, brilliant but aloof from the lives of others.

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).

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.

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.

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

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

Moreover, the statement's lack of christological focus invites an aloof and patriarchal concept of God which fails to withstand nuclearism; indeed, this concept is the very precursor of nuclearism.

Christianity would be a sorry failure today if it kept itself aloof from the search for constructive solutions of human problems.

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.