“The castle stands aloof from the rest of the city, protected by a rather austere palatial facade.”

“Every great feat has been the child of dissatisfaction, and if everyone was aloofly content, who would open the world of new possibilities?”

“Even now, a few feet away one of the giant soldiers stalked aloofly as if all these people were not really there at all.”

“This idea of the island writer — secluded, in but not of the world, aloofly authoritative — is old and enduring.”