Numerous important museums have remained aloof, for one thing, including the Louvre, the Prado, the Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Topkapi Palace in Istanbul and every Swiss museum of note.
The clothes don't beg for a response: they are cool, airy, terrifically aloof, and yet things that we might wear every day.
I got out my old copy of Jane Eyre, and there was the evidence: "The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him"; "the black horned thing seated aloof on a rock, surveying a distant crowd surrounding a gallows".
Here, as in much of his critical writing, it is a personal thing, almost aloof from influence.
There is no such thing as aloof sexuality in her language, no elevation of masculine-feminine eroticism.
Although Mr. Birt's dour and aloof personality did not help things, his principal sin was to establish good management as the BBC's primary objective.
Mr de Blasio is a lifelong political operative who has never run a large organisation (his current job is city ombudsman).Mr Bloomberg seems aloof and logical and says things like: "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it".
He's not having identity issues, he is very aloof and not affected by things like that.
My own lack of enthusiastic social engagement has caused me to be labelled all sorts of things: shy, stuck up, aloof, standoffish, distant, snobbish, rude even.
It can be easy for shy people to do or say things that can seem aloof to others; this can unintentionally give all the wrong impressions.
