Sentence examples for aloof about from inspiring English sources

But there were people who criticised what someone called his "divine coldness" - it was as if there were something remote and aloof about his acting.

British Columbia is basically its own separate country because it is so far away from all the real action so they're all pretty aloof about Eastern Canada's very obvious neuroticisms.

Still, there was something aloof about the performance.

To American officials, Mrs. Merkel, 57, seems at times shockingly aloof about market turmoil.

In some ways, the two rivals are alike: cold, deliberative fish, self-regarding elitists with upbringings out of the norm and trouble connecting at times, as when Obama echoed Jon Stewart's word "optimal" on "The Daily Show" and sounded aloof about the tragedy in Libya: "If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal".

Dr. N. became increasingly aloof about appointments, arriving extremely late or missing appointments entirely.

For example, it is my strong suspicion that the reason Hercule Poirot (print-dates 1920-75) is Belgian is that, if Christie (1890-1976) had made him English, the detective's characteristics – intuitive, aloof, fastidious about couture and cuisine – would have made him too transparently a Holmes clone.

It's not that I'm aloof or cool about it.

Like many artists whose livelihoods rely on the market, Mr. Serrano is not aloof or prissy about talking money.

The father she remembers, however, was kindhearted but aloof, never talking about the war or ever telling her directly that he loved her.

Note the concision with which our poet skewers children's annoying habits, the practice of medicine, aloof parents ("stood about his Bed"), and British alimentation.