For many years his chief cleric, Alcuin, a Jacques Delors of the day, was a monk from York, who no doubt shook his head at the standoffishness of his compatriots.And how Charlemagne loved the law and laying it down.
Some diplomats see China's support for the American-led military campaign in Afghanistan as a departure from its policy of opposing armed intervention.But the Pentagon's standoffishness towards the Chinese military has not been helping.
This week he is paying three visits to Congress on three consecutive days, to make his pitch for a grand bargain to each party's caucus in both chambers.Lamenting Mr Obama's standoffishness is something of a hobby in Washington.
Officials say Binhai will feature in the country's next five-year plan to be promulgated in 2006 a sign, they say, of the zone's elevation from local project to a national strategic priority.The mutual standoffishness between Beijing and Tianjin both municipalities that answer directly to the central government rather than any province is also beginning to erode.
Attenuated forms of religious practice that originated in 19th century Germany were embraced by the upwardly mobile children and grandchildren of the immigrant generation.American Jews' standoffishness towards their Jewish nationhood shifted sharply after the six-day war in 1967.
German standoffishness toward the EU is now based in law: a 2009 ruling by Germany's Constitutional Court allowed it to ratify the Lisbon treaty but limited further transfers of power to Brussels.
The movie's setup instantly lends her built-in distance an extra dimension, of resistance to painful knowledge, as well as empathy, in providing a substantial and conflict-riddled core for her standoffishness.
Instead, he's hardworking and quiet — something fans often mistake for standoffishness — and has played through several injuries during his six-plus years in New York, including excruciating bone bruises and a headfirst collision in center field.
Called to Hollywood to direct "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," his first film, he not only faced down the studio head Jack Warner with a nervy threat to resign but also treated him with a contemptuous standoffishness.
Her presence — with its curious amalgam of alertness and standoffishness — is a neat bit of typecasting; Fonda provides a sort of scaffolding of willpower and disdain that props up the ambitious Brandt.
