Sentence examples for Slightly aloof from inspiring English sources

His gaze is slightly aloof, suggesting his disinterest in the viewer, a sign of his power and status.

I got put next to a slightly aloof lady and was struggling for conversation.

The kooky inventor type character, given a slightly aloof, hipstery charm by McConville, presses on.

He was also impressed by the Aarne pilsner glass by Iittala at Bloomingdale's, which he thought was "tall, slender, good looking and slightly aloof, like a modernist skyscraper".

The semi-blind president, referring to the slightly aloof lady chosen to serve as his vice-president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, showed a cheeringly blunt sense of humour.

He somehow manages to be simultaneously friendly and slightly aloof: "Having experienced extreme criticism and extreme praise, I'm wary about the media".

It's not all blood on the dancefloor every night!" One PR says the key qualities of frontmen and women are that they are "slightly more aloof and self-obsessed … they're usually the biggest wankers in the band.

Aloof, slightly introverted and all too obviously lacking the magnetism of his predecessor, Nelson Mandela, he is not a hugely popular politician.

Newkirk retained the aloof, slightly disbelieving air of a Victorian schoolmaster, while Witt seemed almost to revel in the torrent of vitriol, his "thank you" to each petitioner sounding more and more sarcastic with every repetition.

Foreigners can get visas faster than a year ago.The MPLA is slowly loosening up, the government becoming a bit more open, and Mr Dos Santos slightly less aloof.

The fear was that – for all his oratorical brilliance – Obama somehow lacked empathy, that he was a slightly chilly, aloof figure, that he struggled to connect emotionally.