Mr. Obama was trounced a year later in the Congressional race — branded as an aloof outsider more at home in the halls of Harvard than in the rough wards of Chicago politics.
The only thing lonelier than a man with an aloof cat as a best friend is a man with an imaginary aloof cat as a best friend.
Staff members remember him as an aloof colleague.
His image as an aloof technocrat was well earned.
As an aloof sort he tends to rise above all the banter – literally at times.
How else can they continue to paint the president as an aloof, intellectually arrogant, pointy-eared alien?
A handful of Westchester lawmakers joined the effort to oust Mr. Silver, who is widely seen as an aloof leader.
"They view you as an aloof, arrogant, son-of-a-bitch bastard," said Ned Kennan, a pollster brought in to help Mr White win re-election.
In a deeper sense, Ms Coakley has come to be seen as an aloof patrician, "anointed" by the late Ted Kennedy and unwilling to engage in mere politics.
Maybe he thought he could use his appearance as an aloof nerd to make the case that he "accidentally" smuggled drugs.
People working on behalf of billionaires and corporations project themselves as horny-handed sons of toil while casting their enemies as an aloof intellectual elite.
