| His last speech was a good one, it summed up everything he's been working for, but it was a bit stand-offish. |
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| Since then, she's been reclusive, stand-offish, and another synonym for those two words. |
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| He hadn't been cruel or physically abusive, merely distant and stand-offish. |
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| Although initially stand-offish, Sistani ordered his people to co-operate with the Americans. |
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| I found the lady a little stand-offish and decided that the job wasn't for me after all. |
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| You've heard that some of the girls at school think you're snobby and stand-offish. |
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| Even the fiercest Rottwieler or the stand-offish German Shepherd becomes as timid as a doe when Murugan takes them by the leash. |
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| Where most of the marines had been somewhat stand-offish or had just ignored him, John was now being greeted by every marine that passed him. |
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| Some politicians can be very stand-offish but Mr Blair was very nice and pleasant. |
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| He certainly could be responsive and very, very smart, but there was always that stand-offish quality. |
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| She writes in the same light, charming, though slightly stand-offish style. |
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| He's usually stand-offish but seems he and the Captain are talking more as of late so I think that gives us a full house. |
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| He has a reputation for being wooden and stand-offish, but I think he comes across as both personable and thoughtful in his ads. |
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| Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs. |
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| My son's daycare teacher has a stand-offish attitude to me now. |
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| And Singapore will host a similar exercise in August next year. Others have proved more stand-offish. |
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| Everyone nodded, except the girls who remained stand-offish. |
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| Some people are receptive, but others are understandably stand-offish. |
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| An odd thing for anybody to do, but for an Australian particularly in a side like that, in a touring side, it was regarded as being pretty stand-offish, they didn't like it. |
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| She never won widespread popular approval with her stand-offish manner. |
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| We call on the Council not to be stand-offish and to make its contribution to Europe as our project for the future. |
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| Miss Megawati's stand-offish timidity helped to deny her the presidency. |
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| We didn't want a huge, imposing stand-offish figure. |
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| Initially they were stand-offish and didn't understand it. |
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| In Germany banks traditionally have block shareholdings in the companies they serve and put representatives on their boards. This clubbier finance offers three important advantages over the stand-offish Anglo-Saxon model. |
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| That is not untypical of Iran's stand-offish conservatives. |
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| In both spheres, the British were initially stand-offish. |
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