Sentence examples for something aloof from inspiring English sources

Still, there was something aloof about the performance.

There's an air of separateness about him, something noticeably aloof and withdrawn.

In the opening acts he tends to emphasize the aloof and detached, almost wimpy, side of Werther, and sings as though he is holding something back.

But there were people who criticised what someone called his "divine coldness" - it was as if there were something remote and aloof about his acting.

More often than not, you just get a bunch of water-muddying ads, such as the ones that seem to blame Barack Obama for being a press darling despite having something of an aloof, and often prickly, relationship with them.

His erudite book occasionally feels like something written from the aloof perch of the Boston Athenaeum library, which it indeed was, rather than from firsthand observations of a Rotary Club meeting in the Midwest or an American Army base in the Middle East.

His social behavior was aloof and naïve.

Braff cast himself as an aloof twenty-something in the mold of Benjamin Braddock, but with the passivity of a roll of wallpaper — which he literally blends into, in a signature shot.

Cameron had a habit of failing to engage people with his eyes when in conversation – something that made him appear aloof.

They know something is up, and nervous aloof energy increases the chances of mayhem.

Under Ross, The New Yorker maintained an aloof attitude that gave ordinary people something to aspire to.