But Max's ostentatious supportiveness is another kind of thoughtlessness, as the reader can see from his tone-deaf attempts to become buddies with the serious, strange, withdrawn Ellton.
Erik's wife, Nellie, and Magda are best friends, and Magda is the single person who is able to communicate in any real way with Erik's strange, withdrawn child, Gaby, who appears to be autistic.
He's too strange and withdrawn to be married or have a girlfriend.
"But when I greeted him he didn't say a word to me and seemed strange and withdrawn".
It was strange though because he usually at least says hi to me because I do know him, but when I greeted him, he didn't say a word to me and seemed strange and withdrawn".
"He usually at least says 'Hi' to me, because I do know him, but when I greeted him, he didn't say a word to me and seemed strange and withdrawn".
Even [the gunman], although he was very withdrawn and a strange character, at least he was earning his own money with his newspaper round," he said.
"Perks" like Sky TV are to be withdrawn, apparently, which struck me as quite strange, given that most prisons don't offer Sky TV anyway.
Dressed down in sweats and shades and sandals, she initally seems out of sorts, sniffly, sniffy, withdrawn, and at odds with her own songs' strange, jack-in-the-box time signatures.
If Moore does not withdraw and Strange runs a write-in campaign, it sets up a race among Moore, the Republican; Jones, the Democrat; Strange, technically an independent; and any other write-in candidates.
Zoologists are baffled by the strange behaviour of a troop of baboons at a Dutch zoo which have become inexplicably withdrawn, apparently fearful of an unseen threat.
