Sentence examples for be standoffish from inspiring English sources

I think architecture is exposed to everybody and should not be standoffish.

Ike could be standoffish in return.But Ike needed Dick to be his political hound dog.

Churches tend to be welcoming, though the priests and monks — Armenian, Greek, Russian, Catholic and so on — may be standoffish.

I think people are still a little nervous around strangers or people they feel will be standoffish, or busy, or adversely affected by their own famousness or whatever".

"There are white people for whom that moment of having somebody be standoffish or curt or unpleasant, or even the veiled suggestion that race is a barrier, that ends it," Mr. Simon said.

Despite recent inroads, businesses do not routinely seek out schools to offer their help, Ms. Gubing said, and teachers still tend to be standoffish when asked to bring newcomers to the classroom.

His workmates were standoffish.

Even then, Codey says, "Jason was standoffish".

Some of the schools of fish (get it?) are standoffish.

We saw them at the gala and they were standoffish".

"They say he was standoffish in high school," Carter said.