| He was as devoted to secrecy as he was to power, and by intrigue and double-dealing he maintained an aura of aloofness. |
| His mysterious, mesmerizing aloofness suggests that all we yearn for, all that really counts for us in the end, is hopelessly out of reach. |
| Being basically a shy person, I think some players mistook my shyness for aloofness. |
| Yet her word-perfect, positivity-enhanced sound bites couldn't conceal a fundamental aloofness. |
| With its mixture of antiquity, regality and aloofness, it is both royal and ancient in ways no other Scottish burgh will ever be. |
| In the sestet we hear his revealingly equivocal reply to the proffered charge of aloofness. |
