Sentence examples for historically aloof from inspiring English sources

Like a metaphor for Britain and continental Europe close and yet apart -- Prime Minister Tony Blair and his finance minister, Gordon Brown, sat side by side today at a rare joint news conference, opening a campaign to promote a new consensus on Europe in a nation historically aloof from the landmass across the English Channel.

It was a historically accurate assessment, perhaps, but one that raised complaints about Ackroyd's worldview as apolitical and aloof.

Style: Aloof, patrician.

Historically bad.

"I ain't aloof".

The aloof doctor".

Mies's buildings stood aloof as Mies himself stood aloof.

Aloof, they call him.

SERVICE Aloof and inattentive.

SERVICE -- Competent if aloof.

I become aloof to them.