I have to confess I've never warmed to Webb's presenting style – I find him a little distant, and lacking the charisma of someone like, say... Ed Stourton.
However, fleetingly, the 42-year-old Labour leader did seem to cast himself in a new light — no longer as a distant intellectual lacking charisma or evident leadership qualities but as the best-placed campaigner to pursue what he called "one nation" politics embracing all social groups and what his critics described as thinly veiled class struggle.
He drove a Rolls-Royce, wore white spats, and was often seen as distant and lacking the common touch: characteristics that did little to personally endear him to the Australian public.
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Many said they were circumspect about using government HIV/AIDS services, fearing they would be identified to the authorities or treated with hostility by staff they described as rude, distant and lacking understanding.
She is distant and lacks a sense of humour.
Although it eked out five Oscar nominations, "Nine" was hammered by most critics, who complained it was emotionally distant and lacked cohesion.
Bradford Young's cinematography captures the yellowish early-morning light when the drivers set out, but, at times, the wide shots make the movie feel distant; it lacks both the visual excitement that Martin Scorsese or David Fincher would have built into it and the momentum and the rhythm that David O. Russell would have provided.
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Archaeological evidence of this distant connection was lacking, however.
