To poor voters, he came across as aloof and professorial.
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At times, Aquarians may seem aloof, cagey, or overly idealistic.
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Hailemariam Desalegn, who resigned in February, was timid and aloof.
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One camp blames aloof, cerebral Mr Obama for straining alliances.
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Air sign Aquarius is aloof yet friendly, logical yet wacky.
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But he could also be rude, aloof, brooding, and difficult.
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For the next hour, she's aloof and stays mostly silent.
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It is raw, and complicates Johns' aloof or iconic image.
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Now, I cannot conceive of myself as aloof and separated.
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Too many of them had maintained too aloof a posture.
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Georgi became sullen and aloof, and he stopped speaking Russian.
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That said, you're very loyal, even when you seem aloof.
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All the while, the cat maintains a charmingly aloof expression.
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Quickly, her demeanor turned from pleasant to suspicious and aloof.
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On February 16, love planet Venus enters cool and aloof Aquarius.
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Mr Obama was aloof, caring little for the company of businesspeople.
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Is Johns aloof to all this, or is he a witness?
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He also wanted the "mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher": aloof; earthy; purposeful.
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India has mostly stayed aloof from troubles outside its immediate waters.
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She is aloof from the wheels of publishing and public relations.
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His new target is a political system run by aloof oligarchs.
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That is not to suggest that he is aloof or unfeeling.
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Democrat and remain somewhat aloof from the Vermont Progressive Party. But
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Prior to that crisis, Kenner tended to be aloof and professional.
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Old dogs can learn new tricks, and "aloof" cats can too.
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And for a candidate sometimes criticized as aloof and wooden, Mrs.
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More than people, the game is interested in cold, aloof essayism.
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Fastidious, aloof and touchy, Chopin kept even friends at arm's length.
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Mexico's relatively aloof attitude toward the coronavirus has created diplomatic tensions.
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In their platonic online forms, cats are individualistic, aloof, extremely spooky.
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He is a bit aloof, marked more by gravitas than familiarity.
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The European Central Bank is supposed to be aloof from politics.
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Afterward she said she based the performance on her aloof father.
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"The perception of Warhol was that he was aloof," Ms. Bevan said.
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Likewise, Roger Goodell responded to criticism in his usually aloof way. OK!
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Aloof he didn't manage, but he had the vague remarks part down.
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Mr Santos, an aloof patrician presiding over a slowing economy, is unpopular.
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This sign's aloof, enigmatic reputation didn't show up out of thin air.
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In this calm suburb of Donetsk, many people stood aloof of politics.
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His moods swing between the equally undesirable poles of aloof and violent.
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This cat may not be aloof, but she's got her pitch down.
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Cerreti knew that she could seem aloof, insistent on procedure and discipline.
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That's why I always act like my normal self — awkward and aloof.
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However, Venus is very affectionate, and Aquarius's aloof vibe isn't exactly cuddly.
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Yet she never came off as someone who was superior or aloof.
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Whoever claimed that Ashbery was aloof and cool got it all wrong.
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I ask him where we're going, but he's as aloof as ever.
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Unlike Byron, he never withheld admiration; he was never detached or aloof.
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This left a generation of Japanese people feeling aloof and dangerously vulnerable.
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Remember when we would whine about how aloof and deliberative he was?
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But much of the Irish public sees him as aloof and distant.
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Xie remained optimistic and pugnacious, but he was also calmer, more aloof.
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The knock on Mr. Obama was that he was dry and aloof.
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My funny, lighthearted boy slowly turned into an aloof 18-year-old.
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I stood aloof and awkward while she offered to buy him lunch.
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US can't stay aloof or immune from imposing tariffs on EU's auto.
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To Pericles, living life aloof from the affairs of state was stupidity.
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The impression one came away with was that Pence was disengaged, even aloof.
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We want our leaders to be open and transparent, not closed and aloof.
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When Callie Dunne is first introduced in the show, she's straightforward and aloof.
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Admirably, Johansson had to be aloof but not alienating, and she nailed it.
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The couple seems a world away from the staid, aloof court of old.
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" "I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional.
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You know how you sometimes act mean and aloof to tempt your crush?
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Your ruling planet, the Moon, is in cool and aloof Aquarius today, Cancer.
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Sometimes he's a little more aloof than we are, because that's his character.
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Once the campaign began, however, May turned out to be awkward and aloof.
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Not only was the prime minister a more urbane and annoyingly aloof man.
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Lauren is a stunning, single cookbook editor, slightly aloof and a little mysterious.
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People with Mercury in Aquarius are detached, objective, aloof, intellectual, logical, and cool.
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Perez was a slender, attractive woman in her forties, with an aloof manner.
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Other times they keep their distance, appear aloof, are hard to pin down.
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I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional.
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Her aloof reaction is the perfect jumping-off point for figuring out the ending.
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We got an aloof European Carl Andre fan and the blandest white feminist imaginable.
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But when he comes over – tearful and aloof – the pain between them is tangible.
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That's when Carter-Johnson decided to reassess her assumption that cats were aloof companions.
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If we remain aloof from this preferential-trade network, we cannot solve our problems.
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Hughes had supported many of Roosevelt's policies, but he had an austere, aloof image.
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If he was a people's king, Bhumibol was a quiet and somewhat aloof one.
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Generally narrated by aloof, single women, Hempel's stories feel at once personal and private.
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"She's listening, but this is my conclusion: She's aloof, frenetic and misguided," Higgins said.
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His sentences are crowded with incident, but he's fundamentally an aloof, emotionally reticent writer.
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Luther Stickell, Ving Rhames's character is ultra cool, aloof, and a little bit mysterious.
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These architects of the global economy pride themselves on being brilliant, aloof and rational.
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Based on her minimalist, cerebral aesthetic, I'd expected her to be austere and aloof.
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He is aloof but attentive, calling out birthdays, plugging one member's one-woman show.
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In a Stereogum oral history, you said people may have thought you were aloof.
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"She shines when she's with children and she seems much less aloof," Brower said.
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CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has remained aloof throughout the whole sequence of events.
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Needless to say, I'm also expecting her to be cool in the aloof sense.
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Under P.G., we had a family feel, and now it's all institutional and aloof.
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He signed the Defense of Marriage Act, and he was aloof to labor unions.
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I tend to be aloof and dumb a lot and I say 'Later' too much.
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While the big state-owned companies stayed aloof, various private insurers jumped into the charge.
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She's more visible now, but even more aloof, given the press restrictions on her position.
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"The international community has been aloof," said Jaime Marthey, the head of the city's council.
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I found myself in a hot, loud and crowded room full of aloof young strangers.
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Yes, he could be grouchy, aloof and selfish at times, but he was never dull.
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His notion that the French want their president to be aloof and Jupiterian is misguided.
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Find balance and compromise with your partners instead of taking offense if they seem aloof.
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His frequent public appearances in Japan have made him seem less aloof than previous emperors.
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Practically every other smartphone maker has plunged into virtual reality, but Apple has remained aloof.
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Mr Macron has stayed aloof, says Mr Simeoni, though that might change after the election.
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Perhaps your partner is just sort of arrogant and aloof, hard to feel close to.
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While other undergraduates cavorted through their time there he stood aloof, worrying at his poems.
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And Kevin (Justin Hartley) is still floating by as the attractive but aloof white guy.
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He was known as a melancholic, an aloof intellect that hovered resignedly above real life.
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If I'm feeling aloof, he'll tell me with words what he can't do with actions.
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In 2016, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are aloof style icons and respected fashion designers.
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May's strengths: She has always stood aloof from the clublike aspects of life in Parliament.
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Month after month, the bird cozied up to his chosen mate, but "she" remained aloof.
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They are passionate, and beating passionate people is way more fun than beating aloof people.
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Books of The Times The voice is instantly, almost violently recognizable — aloof, amused and melancholy.
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He looks aloof, vaguely dissatisfied, like a fussy man out alone at an inferior restaurant.
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The financial crisis persuaded voters that they were governed by aloof, incompetent, self-serving elites.
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The consensus is in: He's aloof, Jupiter-like, tone-deaf, devoted to coddling the rich.
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Often criticized for being aloof and academic, he is, in fact, proud of his toughness.
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Her good buddy on these daily voyages on a mattress was her aloof cat, NippersPumpkinClaws.
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I thought maybe he was just being shy, or maybe he was sort of aloof.
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"She thought I was a little bit aloof or a little bit... closed," Hogan said.
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In her chapter, he was cold, aloof and accusatory, not to mention under Luisa's thumb.
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Meanwhile his Lanthimos Losers are stolid, severe, too ignorant or aloof to pity themselves appropriately.
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Once upon a time, Victoria Beckham had a reputation — very unfairly — for being a little aloof.
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Without guiding text or a road map, laypeople may feel disoriented or find the space aloof.
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Sweet, romantic Venus squaring off with cold, serious Saturn results in sensitive feelings—or aloof detachment.
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Employers did not welcome them, locals were at once friendly and aloof, the winters were awful.
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The gaze is most commonly male, white, and aloof (think Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Alec Soth).
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He's an aloof observer, silently making passing judgments on those who share public space with him.
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Protesters tried to give police flowers as a sign of peace, but the officers stood aloof.
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They see Washington as distant and aloof, just as many Leave voters saw rule from Brussels.
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Their aloof behavior making it awkward for a team that needed teammates to be highly communicative.
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Although many Mexican architects linked their fortunes to successive governments, Mr. González de León remained aloof.
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Bearded and bespectacled, he is far from his days as a smooth-cheeked, aloof rock god.
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Your relationships are so important to you—even if you sometimes seem so aloof and detached.
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On one hand, the Sun entering Aquarius is putting you in a chill, even aloof, mood.
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This was an extreme reaction for a mayor who is already unusually aloof from the press.
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To my surprise, I did not find the designer particularly aloof or monastic in her bearing.
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It's difficult to get clear data on mountain lion populations and activity, since they're so aloof.
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From afar, she is the reserved, aloof foil to the colorful Grace Coddington, another Vogue editor.
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Hart ruefully recalled reporters having "a cool and aloof key" on their Radio Shack TRS-80s.
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Cats: Despite their aloof reputation, cats are just as sociable as dogs, a new study found.
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When the camera panned to Louis-Dreyfus, she was acting aloof and pulling on a vape.
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We always stayed away from him, that rich kid, off by himself, aloof from everybody else.
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If a wife was overly analytical and aloof, the new person is action oriented and effusive.
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One minute they can be aloof, and the next moment they can't get enough of you.
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Where Hilton was aloof and artificial, the Kardashians seemed completely open, performing a kind of emotional nudity.
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INDIA STAYED aloof during the cold war, happy to be the flag-bearer for non-aligned nations.
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Just like Carrie, Tess went for the aloof bad boy instead of the sure (and charming) thing.
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President Xi Jinping, accused of being aloof amid the crisis, made a very public appearance in Beijing.
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We see her full-face and in profile, connected to the viewer (and her mother) and aloof.
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The bad boy, meanwhile, is aloof and rich, and has some of the school's lowest test scores.
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However, even the most aloof individual has to admit that $825 million is a pretty big one.
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Ulanova, considered the greatest ballerina of her time, was highly aloof and confined to a busy schedule.
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He has the personality of a Basenji, which is somewhat aloof, incredibly smart and loyal as heck.
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Mr Khama has become authoritarian and aloof, relying for advice on too narrow a circle of friends.
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Musk's almost unnerving blend of confidence, resolve and quiet reserve can make him seem aloof, even egotistical.
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Other aloof victims have also fallen prey to these reddit-fueled battles, looking at you Zac Efron.
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Like I said, though, I wanted to seem aloof with my boss, not like I actually cared.
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Cool and aloof are words commonly used to describe you, but today you're feeling intense and passionate.
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But it has often appeared aloof and suspicious, failing to communicate effectively or to work with allies.
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Most satire keeps itself a little aloof, the better to look down its nose at its subject.
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They're really visionary in the way they're thinking about how you capture something as aloof as time.
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Some critics considered him aloof and said he showed apparent disdain for some of the Castros' opponents.
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"She's listening, but this is my conclusion: She's aloof, frenetic and misguided," Higgins said earlier this month.
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It was another Dalldorf patient — Clara Peuthert — who first suspected this aloof woman was the missing Romanov.
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Aloof: How it's said to have treated certain investors and creditors, dismissing concerns and sometimes being unresponsive.
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They attack not only politicians, but also journalists whom they perceive as part of an aloof elite.
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As a result, Yekaterinburg has the reputation as a city aloof about what others think of it.
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She understood how instinctive it feels to angle away and be just a little aloof and uncommitted.
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In order to do this, he must, paradoxically, remain aloof, and approach everything with a clinical detachment.
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In the revival, Harry Hadden-Paton has instead reduced Higgins to an aloof but harmless man-boy.
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From the more objective vantage point, those same qualities took on an opposite shade: aloof, haughty, petulant.
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Even some local officials who support Mr. Putin wonder privately why the president picked someone so aloof.
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There is Brad Pitt: too lean and too chiseled to ignore, rangy and funny but emotionally aloof.
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Real superhero stuff: An aloof, misunderstood character reveals his secret powers just as things turn really bad.
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Owen McIntosh was suitably brash as Sense, and Kate Maroney was somewhat aloof as an arrogant Ambition.
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I messaged to ask how he was; his reply was aloof, so we left it at that.
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Some colleagues called him reserved and moody, aloof in a way that gave him an enigmatic magnetism.
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He seems immune, however, to the aloof charisma of Sontag's style (in fairness, he is not alone).
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Saying that the poverty measure is flawed can be easily caricatured by politicians as an aloof viewpoint.
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But the country can no longer be accused of holding itself "aloof" from the closer integration of nations.
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Danny becomes more aloof with his wife the more attracted he is to the game — and to Karl.
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Is it possible for a TV series to be at once *hot-cha-cha *sexy and icily aloof?
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This breed can be somewhat aloof when dealing with strangers, but will always be loyal to their owner.
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It's fine to use your deputies to manage the building, but don't be an aloof and distant leader.
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Washington kept his pronouncements on policy and other matters to a minimum, giving him a somewhat aloof image.
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I've been aloof to a lot of the industry stuff, just because I've been in my own world.
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Not to mention the even more ridiculous tropes that insist on teachers being aloof and out of touch.
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Critics say his policies favor the rich and his personal manner is often described as aloof and arrogant.
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He popped up in Nocturnal Animals, my personal favorite movie of 2016, as Amy Adams' aloof asshole husband.
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This isn't the time for staying on the surface, playing it cool, being aloof, or stuffing feelings away.
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Like Warhol and his disciple Jeff Koons, Marisol was aloof and opaque, a master of the gnomic pronouncement.
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He explained that he hadn't yet told his parents about his diagnosis, as they were aloof and unaffectionate.
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As do the aloof, silent goths, the smiley, excitable nostalgia hunters, and the drunk, borderline aggressive metal heads.
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The moon in aloof Aquarius clashes with rebel Uranus at 8:56 AM, and we're itching for freedom.
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February 4 brings the new moon in Aquarius, a cool air sign famous for being aloof and detached.
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To those who know him, he's thoughtful and sensitive, but to others, he reads as aloof or creepy.
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The high-minded, text-heavy, general-interest weekly often held itself aloof from news cycles and popular culture.
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It is a marked difference, for example, from the queen, who has maintained a more traditionally aloof style.
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Too often, it has been such a structure in the wrong ways: crabbed, self-protecting, aloof and denunciatory.
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There were no sightings, but Mr. Higgins ventured a profile of the creature: aloof, calm, uninterested in people.
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She is a more aloof character: Her raw, intimate portraits of others often did the talking for her.
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Warhol is not supremely aloof and indifferent, but, rather, deeply committed and surprisingly sophisticated concerning the repressive society.
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No. If activism doesn't fit with the aloof, independent self-image you're trying to curate, then grow up.
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But those shows, being exceptionally showy, stood alone, aloof to the internal discussion among Stratford's nine other productions.
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Political leaders must repudiate the mythology that they should remain aloof from directing the conduct of military operations.
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He didn't have to be so aloof about the whole affair that he seemed to be hiding something.
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Ms. Knepper described Mr. Hodgkinson as "very aloof," and uninterested in the children he had helped to raise.
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Cats and dogs: Despite their aloof reputation, cats are just as sociable as dogs, a new study found.
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Yet he never feels impassive or aloof, either: There's tremendous emotional complexity to his contrapuntal, Romantic-influenced style.
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The 44th President may sit aloof on his throne, but I bet he can still draw a crowd.
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Seen as aloof and well-off and representing the elite, Macron has seen his approval ratings continue to fall.
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That is, that he's aloof, seems disinterested in playing, people don't like him, can he play with James Harden?
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That in turn makes them seem aloof, or separate from the rest of society, and so the cycle continues.
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His ratings remain dismal, not least because of his cold, aloof manner and his eagerness to please the party.
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I'd be making smartass faces and big smiles into the camera, while Amber appeared distant, foggy, emotionless, and aloof.
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"He was looking aloof, a little bit holier-than-thou, and pompous," a former NBC executive told the outlet.
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Yet despite gasps and cries from the public, and stark warnings from doctors, the national government remains strangely aloof.
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Despite the dozens of accusations, Cosby has remained aloof in interviews with the press, and has denied any wrongdoing.
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PITTSBURGH — Young men and women recline on their backs, some shirtless, staring at the camera confrontationally, or smoking, aloof.
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Religious and ultranationalist parties were on the rise; voters rejected a Labour elite they saw as weak and aloof.
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As the films leading lady, Dawson plays Julia, the new fiancée of an aloof divorcée and brewery owner, David.
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Cora herself wavers between appearing raw and naked, then suddenly aloof — always just out of reach of being knowable.
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The other grievance is over the country's narrow, feudal politics, dominated by a handful of rich, aloof Manila families.
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This is a true humbling: He grows as an artist only by undermining his aloof pose and embracing others.
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" The aloof literary critic is saying, "I'm not one of you, and I'm going to pretend you don't exist.
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They can be as celebratory or as aloof as they want to be and that's their own personal choice.
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Like movie stars, they register as at once archetypal and particular—obliging but slightly aloof in their violent roles.
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Work consumed most of his days, and people were aloof, with none of the warmth he'd known back home.
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You sputter and stammer internally, throwing wordless accusations at the headphone-wearing figure aloof and alone in their booth.
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This posturing has allowed the populists to depict them as aloof elites fighting the Germany of the regular guy.
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Her handling of the so-called refugee crisis and her downbeat, aloof style alienated large chunks of the electorate.
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The government kept an aloof stance toward the protests until late last week, hoping the movement would peter out.
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The government had kept an aloof stance toward the protests until late last week, hoping they would peter out.
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Mr. de Blasio has always dismissed the criticisms that he is too earnest, too arrogant, too unlikable, too aloof.
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Oh, these women: They make you swoon, and then they stand there aloof as you collapse at their feet.
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But Beijing's aloof response — a foreign ministry spokesman said he hadn't heard about such a phone call — reintroduced doubts.
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As time has passed, Thiago is still sometimes moody and aloof, dashing into the closet suddenly to avoid interaction.
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Between those disadvantages and extreme shyness, which she covered with an aloof and frosty manner, she had few friends.
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Becker brings a sincerity to Pen that makes for a delightful contrast with the aloof charm Jaunai provides Mar.
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When she took the job, Lam struggled with a public perception that she was aloof and out of touch.
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Cats: Despite their aloof reputation, cats are just as strongly bonded to us as dogs, a new study found.
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He was just real strong, quick bat, a little aloof from the freshmen—he had a destiny about him.
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Those stories that you read of him being aloof, not talking to people, not rehearsing — he was fully engaged.
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As a character, Cage is a little more aloof and restrained than the heroes of Daredevil and Jessica Jones.
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The collectible record insert features winking and smirking doodles by Jamma, possibly emphasizing the playfulness of Arcane's aloof character.
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But, aloof as ever, she held on to her office, offering only to resign if the national assembly so decided.
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Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Bill (Jaeden Lieberer) are especially smitten by Bev's mixture of kindness and aloof self-confidence.
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Jasper Johns's art has been accused of being cool, detached, aloof, and remote; nothing could be farther from the truth.
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His campaign headquarters is not on the street but sits aloof on the seventh floor of a tall office building.
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She seems to tick all the boxes of popular prejudice about Russia's liberal opposition—aloof, out of touch and spoiled.
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Long stereotyped as shy or aloof, they posed for photos with people they didn&apost even know outside the stadium.
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We respond late to text messages, play aloof and project total indifference when we want to hide how we feel.
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How conveniently these bolstered Mr Duncan Smith's complaints, as a pro-Brexit campaigner, about an aloof and elitist Europhile establishment.
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One minute he was the most charismatic person in the room, the next he was aloof and serious—cold, even.
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Criticized as aloof and lazy while playing with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Kessel was traded to the Penguins last summer.
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Even before Luckey's project was discovered, the company had acquired — fairly or unfairly — a reputation for being aloof and secretive.
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Guys telling me "I love you" out of the blue and then becoming cold and aloof, repelled by my attachment.
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Then once you've got them you get lazy—and act aloof—until you are ready to woo and dazzle again.
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With Bellic, GTA IV's British and Australian writers have a physical representative for an uncompromised, arguably aloof perspective of America.
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The city can be cold and aloof and you can live crunched amid its population and remain lonely and overlooked.
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Yet, as devoted as the mother is to the principle of the people, she remains aloof from them in reality.
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Part of the problem is his personality, which many find aloof and distant in a land that prizes the opposite.
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This would allow Din Djarin to remain aloof and mysterious while still providing opportunities for richer characterization and emotional connection.
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Hawke's Tesla nearly folds into himself when he sits with a colleague, and he's more quietly self-deprecating than aloof.
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And then Tuchel — this detached, almost aloof figure in soccer's collective imagination — leaned down and kissed Gueye on the cheek.
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In this photo, an aloof kestrel sits above an annoyed magpie on the dead flower spike of an agave plant.
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Someone who is aloof with their coworkers or who shies away from social events at work may have rigid boundaries.
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He was, as Mr. Dunn characterized him, aloof and "impersonal," not one to give much encouragement, at least not verbally.
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I was a bit aloof and was enrolled at a very conservative Catholic school, even though I wasn't very religious.
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Liberal technocrats contrive endless clever policy fixes, but they remain conspicuously aloof from the people they are supposed to be helping.
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Institutional critique, with its now historical status as counter-establishment, is the aloof calling card of the resultant lite light show.
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To his critics, Sunday's missive was an empty, wordy gesture by an aloof 'King Macron' determined to retain core economic reforms.
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The flatness of both canvases refuses the viewer the opportunity to read too much into them beyond their mutual aloof distrustfulness.
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It was no secret that the suspicious, earthy president and the polished, aloof Mr Wickremesinghe had grown to detest each other.
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The angels, meanwhile, are aloof and filled with the same benign ineptitude the bureaucracy of heaven shows in The Good Place.
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He might easily have played a part in lobbying for an Armenian homeland after the Ottoman defeat, but he kept aloof.
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" Hinman, his cousin says, "was very friendly but very aloof, he moved in his own world like many talented people do.
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His party, La République En Marche, remains aloof from the pan-European political groupings through which much EU business is conducted.
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Though, we bet the Stranger Things creators do occasionally wish Harbour was a little bit more like the aloof Chief Hopper.
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At first he seemed aloof: it took him a month to meet the victims' families and 17 months to visit Iguala.
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He made his rival, incumbent President George H.W. Bush, who had fumbled the same question seconds earlier, appear aloof and uncaring.
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He has a more engaging manner than his aloof public persona, which has led to a reputation for haughtiness, would suggest.
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Until the humanitarian situation of the refugee crisis became unbearable, Chancellor Angela Merkel had always been an aloof pragmatist of power.
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The moon enters Aquarius today, a sign that astrologers often call aloof—but you're feeling intense and in it today, Cancer.
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They were partying with a motley collection of freaks, aloof artist types, A-grade pro-madheads and terrified looking exchange students.
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This came to a head when some LPs accused Abraaj of misappropriating funds, and the firm basically responded with aloof panic.
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The cameras were rolling, my tensed-up body was shaking and an aloof Alex Trebek stood just a few feet away.
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In a bare blue cage we see two soporific lions, their eyes vacant, their fur painted with aloof strokes of white.
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The colorful, forthcoming subjects include the 20-something Bettye McCluin ('overskilled, sexy, aloof') and the 'fading jet set cosmopolite' Callia Bartucci.
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In Glinn's images, as in others, the Beats lived mostly in evocative black and white — aloof, interior, maybe a little buzzed.
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He and fellow ex-chiefs still plan to convene a meeting to discuss the problem, even if the government stays aloof.
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The shapes, vaguely floral or leafy, flirted with representation but remained aloof, floating like mysterious essences in a timeless spirit world.
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Although well known for his television appearances during the drafting of the Constitution, he has kept himself aloof from political life.
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Using complex sentences with impeccable grammar in a group chat with your friends is likely to come across as rather aloof.
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Still, these symphonies are sprawling; it's difficult to make them not seem long-winded, aimless and even, as some feel, aloof.
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But this "bravado rationalism," with its aloof dismissiveness and bullying imperiousness, only serves to inflame the problem it purports to solve.
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This is why Leos fall for mysterious Scorpios and aloof Aquarians, even though their goals and needs can be so different.
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But in The Girl on the Train universe, there are only two kinds of women: damaged messes and aloof, uncaring bitches.
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She was somewhat aloof, I remember being told early in my career — 'Puan will decide when and if you may touch her'!
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" He was so aloof to other issues that a widely read German news magazine ran a story headlined "Smiling from a distance.
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He might be affable, but he is a loner, aloof from the tearooms and quiet drinking holes that make up Westminster life.
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For a performer who once cultivated an aloof and even menacing persona, Cave's turn toward communion, on stage and online, is striking.
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While Zuckerberg's curious affect isn't the kind of aloof cool we traditionally associate with dry men, he rarely gets really sodden either.
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Cool and aloof, he has never been able to shake off suspicions that he is a secret member of the Communist Party.
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If he were an actor, all the aloof dangerous hero roles would be his, like a bodyguard or a kung fu master.
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They touch screens, wear clothes and are kept healthy by the products of firms that they dislike as immoral, exploitative and aloof.
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I made lots of friends and discovered I'm actually kind of extroverted, even though I used to think I was rather aloof.
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A true gentleman should be calm and aloof, always adhering to decorum, even when agreeing to fight another man to the death.
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Even though stereotypes perceive cats as being anti-social and/or aloof, they do communicate and show affection in many different ways.
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For example, if you have Venus, planet of love and affection, in Aquarius, you might act a little aloof around your crush.
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They engage in a metaphorical dance as Elio in some ways tries to match Oliver's affect, acting like an annoyed, aloof teen.
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The feline Barack Obama began his aloof reign wanting to prowl alone on the stage and he's ending it the same way.
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And so the fact that he was a little aloof and quiet—not around me, but around everybody else—never bothered me.
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Across Europe, he has been unable to personally integrate other pro-EU forces and sometimes appears aloof from what other Europeans think.
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It didn't take six seasons for even the most aloof viewer to know that Kirk has never been husband of the year.
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He somehow balances the critique that he can be too grave and aloof with the fear that he might get too black.
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Despite the numerous efforts and proposals tabled to help resolve the issue, the United States has largely remained aloof from the process.
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The truly professional journalist will choose the noble, sacred, profound and perilous, and remain aloof from the despicable, mundane, shallow and comfortable.
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There's another aspect to his job: The best mayors have been brazen civic cheerleaders, and too often Mr. de Blasio seems aloof.
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Even her relatives in the village stayed aloof because they feared being associated with the wife and son of a Communist fighter.
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A great part of the film's appeal is in watching the down-and-dirty cop match wits with the aloof master criminal.
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A flamboyant turn from Isabelle Adjani doesn't hurt either, with the star sending up her own image as an aloof leading lady.
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For months before his firing, an aloof Mr. Noor had mostly not bothered to show up at the governor's office in Mazar.
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The transformation of cats into internet traffic juggernauts is based on material that largely allows them to be themselves: aloof, illogical, unimpressed.
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But despite her exemplary range, many American viewers maintain an image of her as an aloof, exquisite, possibly imperious, possibly enigmatic beauty.
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At best, Parasite casts the wealthy as aloof and unconcerned; focusing only on their lives, they're oblivious to the suffering around them.
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Braun has sought to remain aloof from the research firm's repeated attacks, responding with broad-brush denials rather than refuting specific charges.
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Previously, the city, endlessly obliging to its rotating clientele of businessmen and tourists, had seemed aloof and polite, like a hotel concierge.
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One doesn't necessarily have to carry hostility toward someone from a demographic different from theirs to treat them in an aloof manner.
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Clinton struggled to deal with decades of political baggage and a Republican attack machine that cast her as aloof, elitist and disconnected.
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When a female employee hides her pregnancy and people begin to suspect as much, they may view her as dishonest and aloof.
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Venus is an affectionate energy; however, Aquarius is cool and aloof, which is how you'll approach your love life during this time.
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He has a tranquil and occasionally goofy presence that can come across as down-to-earth in some moments -- and aloof in others.
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Jumin is an aloof businessman and cat fanatic whose public presence and womanizing father have skewed his ideas about romance into something strange.
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To continue to regard Johns's art as hermetic and aloof is to refuse his invitation to begin scrutinizing what is before our eyes.
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He's still as insecure as always, but he rarely hides it behind that aloof attitude that can make him so lovable at times.
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Upon viewing the footage, she had tears in her eyes; she was really shocked at how cold and aloof her facial expressions were.
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Just as you're refusing to let yourself be intimidated (for long) by the seemingly aloof colleague, you'll also want to avoid acting nervous.
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Sitting down at the PEOPLE / Entertainment Weekly / InStyle Portrait Studio in Toronto, Adams explained how she tackled an aloof, sophisticated character like Susan.
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They can run from expressions of emotion (Scorpios are literally all about their emotions) and be too aloof and hard to pin down.
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When I interviewed them in 2014, they described their father as caring but aloof -- not one for attending ballet recitals or playing ball.
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The Democrats regained the White House by nominating a personable populist, Bill Clinton, who contrasted with an aloof WASP, George H. W. Bush.
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Abandoned by his wife, Moose has found something like contentment worrying over the needs of the hotel's guests and his increasingly aloof daughter.
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Overall, however, there is a sense that Malkmus has mellowed with age, that he's less aloof, less disdainful—in a word, less cool.
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In 2012, Barack Obama successfully portrayed Mitt Romney as a plutocrat, an aloof vulture capitalist who has little concern for working-class Americans.
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Even when you are that aloof gal, who doesn't ask questions or have expectations of something real or long-term, it still ends.
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Homecoming has what I can only describe as a "midcentury macabre" look—a sleek, aloof style that signals something is not quite right.
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And so long as he's aloof on the other end, LaVine will have a clear ceiling so far as his overall impact goes.
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Its Obama was a bit cold and aloof, its Hillary Clinton a relentless striver, and its George W. Bush a malapropism-spouting manchild.
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Aloof, elusive, uneasy, it may be Abercrombie herself, who is given a new visibility that should be coaxed into an even greater fullness.
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But for any remaining…Read more ReadCats are notoriously considered more aloof and less reliant on their owners for survival, the authors noted.
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State of the Art Silicon Valley has long preferred to remain aloof from national politics, but the Trump era has altered that stance.
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Republicans have gone on the offensive in response, using Pelosi's descriptor to cast the Democrats as aloof and detached from working-class Americans.
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After a month in aloof Aquarius, the sun is moving into watery Pisces on February 18, where it will stay until March 19.
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They viewed the judiciary not as an aloof and cloistered fraternity, but as an energetic and vigorous participant in the American democratic experiment.
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"She thought I was a little bit aloof, or a little bit, closed," Hogan said of Kozlowski's first impression of him upon meeting.
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That one tiny whiff of vulnerability meant that I wasn't aloof Professor Brooks, I was just another schmo trying to get through life.
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But it also foments disdain towards public servants, who seem to be aloof most of the time and turn oppressive when pressed from above.
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While his Inner Goddess was notably absent, we learned a lot about his character, and got a better sense of his aloof, controlling demeanor.
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Pat pursues the truth via Tamar's sister, an aloof woman named Corinna (Connie Nielsen) a racist who speaks in a vaguely mid-Atlantic accent.
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Yet despite their aloof image and hostile-seeming foreign policy, many Russians want to look good to the rest of the world — especially now.
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Scorpios can often be seen as aloof and difficult to approach, but they are paradoxically impossible to ignore, often becoming an object of fascination.
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And when she does get the chance to speak, why is it only on a subject that makes her look both complicit and aloof?
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But to Ms Park's critics it is all of a piece with her leadership style: imperial, aloof and out of touch with her people.
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Strange, just like he was written in the character's 1960s source comics by the legendary Steve Ditko, is a narcissistic, arrogant, and aloof surgeon.
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The signs are that central bankers of Ms Yellen's kind (nurtured in academia, immersed in economic models, aloof from politics) are out of favour.
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" Conway, without naming Obama, said that "other presidents" had been criticized for an overly aloof attitude that she characterized as "too cool to rule.
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For one thing, he wouldn't be the aloof, haughty Doctor Strange we know from the comics, he'd be just another earnest do-gooder superhero.
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Macron, meanwhile, is sinking to new lows in polls, weighed down by unpopular reform efforts and an attitude that some French regard as aloof.
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The clientele lining up for their lattes, normally silent and aloof, had been drawn into an animated discussion about the vote and its consequences.
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In comedies, jokes are underlined by closeups, but "Atlanta" 's camera stayed aloof, serving not as an exclamation point but as a neutral bystander.
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"Some things can be misinterpreted as being rude, malicious, or aloof, when in fact, it sometimes its not any of those things," he says.
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The European Union (minus Britain, which, aloof, stays out of these things) just agreed to a legally binding rule on the presumption of innocence.
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In the scene, Mr. Firth, playing the aloof Mr. Darcy, dives into a pond and emerges with the garment molded to his strapping physique.
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And when it came to the closest royal family relations — those who could have redeemed her in an instant — she was more than aloof.
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Caio Terra A divisive figure in the grappling community, the stories of Caio Terra off the mats paint him as aloof and socially uncomfortable.
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In explicitly telling us how Han came to be cynical, detached, and aloof, the veracity of his "cool," and ultimately his redemption, is eroded.
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But he stood aloof from the strenuous heroism of Negro uplift, and what he thought of as its flat-footed insistence on "political" art.
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The hedge fund mogul has always been famously aloof, stubborn about his investments, and a big fan of expensive nights out on the town.
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Mr. Yasin, 36, learned Chinese and tried to stay aloof from politics, making a living selling cars in Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang.
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The mayor — at times feisty, at times aloof — has become embroiled in countless headline-grabbing tussles with the tabloids, the police force and Gov.
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In her room, glancing at her sensual frame as she carelessly lays on an undone bed, aloof, wrapped in a heavy haze of thoughts.
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He and his voice have been described as aloof, eerily neutral, silky, wheedling, controlled, baleful, unisex, droll, soft, conversational, dreamy, supremely calm and rational.
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Fed up with his job at a tech company, Peter (Ron Livingston) tries to get fired, but his aloof behavior earns him a promotion.
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But that climb turned me into a certain sort of person: aloof, invulnerable and uncommunicative, at least when it came to my private life.
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He pulled off the trick of remaining aloof from popular culture even as he lent some grit to the popular weepie "The Notebook" (2004).
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The current scandal over his security guard isn't the only issue that has sparked accusations that the president is aloof and out of touch.
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In Balanchine's "Prodigal Son," her Siren was not aloof but a cruel temptress who threatened to devour Mikhail Baryshnikov methodically with every acrobatic embrace.
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When you encounter him as an aloof but well-meaning kid, he's sporting barely-fitting clothes and, again, a tin pot on his head.
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Based on the things Paltrow says and preaches, you would think she's completely aloof and unaware, but Brodesser-Akner painted her as incredibly self-aware.
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The figure in her self-portraits is aloof, an object in a welter of paint, a form slowly changing into the ground pressing against her.
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Malik, the most aloof of his former bandmates, has been candid about his disinterest in One Direction and the fact that he knows about sex.
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Puertolas is an aloof but unassuming Spaniard who stands about 5′22014″, with a tuft of gray in his bangs and a rough chinstrap beard.
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Brash and unpredictable, fiercely affectionate one moment and aloof the next, Shalini's mother is a force of nature — with Shalini as her fervently loyal companion.
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Mari particularly scorns Emma, who has always been aloof and judgmental of their neighborhood and the "chuntaros," or working-class migrants, who live in it.
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The appearances seemed aimed at countering criticism that Mr. Xi has been aloof amid rising public discontent with his government's struggle to contain the crisis.
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That obviously wasn't the case — I came off as incredibly aloof, the guy never called me again, and I went to the museum exhibit solo.
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After dealing with decades of unfair stereotypes that they are aloof and unloving, cats are finally getting a chance to clap back thanks to science.
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Normal People follows a relationship that begins in high school between an unlikely pair: the handsome, popular academic Connell and the aloof, asocial bookworm, Marianne.
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The Davao Boys remained aloof, but their purpose and resolve to wage the drug war were clear to Esteban, who works on drug-awareness campaigns.
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The lobbyists, strategists and elected officials perceive the intellectuals as aloof ideologues who do not have to worry about getting elected, building coalitions or governing.
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All were seemingly part of the same photoshoot, in which she looks patrician and aloof against a neutral background, lounging in front of a fireplace.
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At one, there stood an aloof security guard, who seemed, like the fully assembled furniture around him, to be present only for purposes of display.
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Paro puts on a good show of being elegantly aloof while standing on one foot as Devdas unties her blouse and slips off her anklet.
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Where Ryan Gosling is characteristically aloof, Sir Anthony Hopkins's sinister incisiveness shines through in this perfectly-cast legal thriller from Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear, Fallen).
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The state of not-dancing—as well as being inherently anti-social, aloof, and, well, self-defeating—is nearly impossible to cajole someone out of.
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But it also features big bundles of cash from donors who supported other GOP candidates in the 2016 primary and then stayed aloof from Trump.
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The two of them together could have made a small aloof republic on Dromord Hill—they could have written the rules for it. October. November.
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Bridge yearns for her aloof husband to express his love; Mr. Bridge, who has "practically everything he ever wanted," wishes he could do just that.
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With the media following closely behind, the mayor came off as both aloof and tone deaf to the pain and anger of local black residents.
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"He is too aloof when it comes to the details and the nitty-gritty of both policy and politics," Mr. Greimel said in an interview.
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In many ways, she seems so much like that little girl from the video, still—intently focused, to the point of appearing detached or aloof.
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Considering she already combats an image of aloof elitist, I can't imagine someone didn't let the artist know that this passage should probably be cut.
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"We pride ourselves in our roots and where we come from, but we aren't cold and aloof like other rivals," he said with a grin.
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Mr. Erdogan has become increasingly aloof over the years, surrounded in his vast presidential palace by a smaller and smaller circle of aides and ministers.
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"Former colleagues on Capitol Hill describe a hardworking but aloof congressman who walked through the halls with earbuds, effectively shielding him from interaction," wrote Mahoney.
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In the real world, a young woman is far more likely to debate a friendly mansplainer than win over an aloof-but-secretly-decent aristocrat.
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He is an ambassador or a poseur, a visitor out of time and place, his manner ruthlessly aloof, his impression of his surroundings comically unreadable.
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His incessant howling of personal grievance only helped to show that the aloof titan of Fifth Avenue, mythologized in "The Apprentice," had a tender underbelly.
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Aquarius energy is pioneering, brilliant, eccentric, original, standoffish, aloof and detached, and these are the energies we will be working with over the next month.
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Schulz has gone on the offensive, attacking Merkel's character, calling her "aloof" and "out of touch" in an interview with public broadcaster ARD on Sunday.
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Mr. Plummer can be an aloof, fairly cool screen presence and he chills Getty Sr. with cruel glints, funereal insinuation and a controlled, withholding physicality.
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Managers began picking coders less on the basis of aptitude and more on how well they fit a personality type: the acerbic, aloof male nerd.
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Aloof and austere, Thieu also lacked Ky's charisma, and his supporters were often repelled more by Ky's abrasiveness than enticed by true esteem for Thieu.
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With a high forehead and sometimes aloof expression, Ms. Kim resembles her father more than her grandfather, the revered North Korean founder Kim Il-sung.
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There has been little progress since then, with Pyongyang resuming some limited testing of weapons and being aloof toward dialogue offers both from Washington and Seoul.
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Cameron better understands how she can seem a little cold and aloof, but she can't bring herself to say how she feels when it most matters.
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Astrologers describe you as cool and aloof, Aquarius, but you have your cozy moments, and today is one of them thanks to the moon in Taurus.
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He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.
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I imagine it's hard to feel desire towards someone who feels like they're stifling your independence, or similarly, someone who feels aloof and uninterested in you.
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But his baked-in smug and aloof criticisms didn't seem to take Trump seriously enough, nor his supporters nor the undecideds who are skeptical of Clinton.
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It suggests the king, an aloof but meddling figure, is seeking a resolution to the standoff, rather than implicitly endorsing the suppression of the red shirts.
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It could've recalled W's aloof decision to skip that 2000 debate or, worse, Ross Perot's disastrous exit from and then reentrance to the 1992 presidential race.
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So next time you are looking for a way into your kitty's aloof little heart, grab a few boxes, some scissors and get your maze on.
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A panel of senators assailed him with pointed questions, but he was a formidable interlocutor—slippery, aloof, and impeccably prepared—and no senator landed a blow.
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Alienating, assuming, and acting aloof are behaviors that will tarnish your reputation before you've even had a chance to make it to your first performance review.
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The leaders A common thread for Facebook and Twitter this year came in their CEOs: men considered amalgamations of aloof yet at times ruthless tech geniuses.
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"He was quite aloof from politics and tended to keep his personal news to himself," Yang's former landlord, New York-based businessman Yi Gai, told Reuters.
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Alienating, assuming and acting aloof are behaviors that will tarnish your reputation before you've even had a chance to make it to your first performance review.
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She is elegant, sometimes aloof, and doesn't always seem to relish her role (or at least its trappings) in office as much as previous first ladies.
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Numerous people who have worked with Mr. Bannon over the past few months said that his attitude lately had grown more imperious and aloof than normal.
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"Somethin' Stupid" is a song about trying, and failing, to woo an estranged lover, one who has developed some trust issues and is a bit aloof.
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After all, the world of the United States publisher and its flagships Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ had always remained resolutely aloof from its international versions.
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During his first term, Liberal insiders complained Trudeau was aloof and handed off some day-to-day government work to a small group of loyal advisers.
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If folks were really upset that wearing heels made Melania appear aloof and indifferent, then why couldn't everyone just be happy that she took them off?
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Expressing emotions doesn't come easily, meaning that people often think you're aloof or introverted, relationships can be a challenge, and you're frequently left feeling deeply misunderstood.
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There has been little progress since then, with Pyongyang resuming some limited testing of weapons and being aloof towards dialogue offers both from Washington and Seoul.
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Silvers notes that prior to NYU, she was a "loner" — mostly due to her busy schedule — but she doesn't strike me as aloof or untouchable at all.
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Shkreli was never the aloof supervillain he so frequently postured as, and the only true threat he represented was to our collective patience through incessant attention-seeking.
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Critics say that the blame for the violence surrounding the poll rests largely with the president, an aloof leader with scant regard for human rights or Anglophones.
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His long-time friend Gerry Adams was useful, too; but aloof, where he had wit, and a ready smile, before that hard-as-flint look came over.
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If you're both practical and interested in cultivating cool, aloof photographer vibes instead of dorky ones, Chrome's Niko lineup of camera bags is definitely worth a look.
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In Lady Bird, Chalamet visits the opposite end of the emotional spectrum as Kyle, an emotionally aloof high school musician who refuses to get a cell phone.
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Nonetheless he must avoid any suggestion that, at the age of 76, he lacks the energy for a scrap or that he is aloof from ordinary voters.
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Aloof and powerful, Jayalalithaa had a cult following among the people of Tamil Nadu that endured even though she went to jail for corruption more than once.
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But, should you take the time to penetrate their steely exterior, you'll discover there's more to this sign than their aloof first impression would have you believe.
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In contrast, research showed that it was in fact Lauer who was leading to dips in ratings with what viewers saw as an "aloof" and "pompous" attitude.
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Ailes, a mastermind of political messaging, is a formidable foe to the Clinton campaign, which continues to struggle with the perception that she is aloof and stilted.
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"Many of these traumatised people have been traumatised by some kind of interpersonal violence and have lost their ability to connect, are distrustful, are aloof," says Oehen.
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South Korea's Moon has won sympathy by taking a common man approach in sharp contrast to the aloof stylings of his predecessor, who was impeached for corruption.
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They struggle to reconcile the charismatic, warm and funny woman they know in private with Clinton's public persona, which can come across as stern, aloof or annoyed.
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Remaining aloof from debates about war and peace allows members of Congress to criticize the executive when a war goes badly, and claim credit when it succeeds.
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Lately, Toews has focussed her schputting on the city of Toronto, and her neighborhood in particular—too aloof, with its pet spas and hipper-than-thou boutiques.
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The filmmakers assembled the rest of the cast, including Jonathan Hyde, who played dual roles as young Alan's aloof father and a hunter who terrorizes the players.
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These infuriatingly aloof images exhaust themselves in that's-just-how-it-is closure — they are "money porn" shots, if you will, of the 1% fucking the poor.
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First and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation's chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty.
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Mr. Macron's words and planned actions framed an attempt by a politician regarded as aloof and imperious to connect with ordinary citizens in Europe's third-largest economy.
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He was passive, active, cocky, coy, aloof, needy; to virginal fans such as myself, he made sex sound liberating, funny, and boundless, as well as impossibly fraught.
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But I think, as it became more apparent that I wasn't just going to be some aloof person who was fine with surface-level conversations, he panicked.
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Warren appears to be aiming to be Sanders' running mate Bloomberg was not the disaster of his first debate, but he came across as aloof and cold.
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The visit came after Mr. Xi had been criticized for appearing aloof amid increasing public discontent with his government's response to the crisis and an idled economy.
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If you met me at this time, I was most likely friendly, just to the point of getting close and aloof to the point of getting cold.
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His father, whom he idolizes, is mostly cold and aloof, spending much of his time away from the island on trips that he refuses to talk about.
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He was described by two former classmates as aloof but easily influenced, a teenager who sought approval from popular crowds but was never quite accepted into them.
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In this nationalistic vision of European geopolitics, the EU is portrayed as an invading force: dictatorial, aloof and undemocratic, hellbent on the formation of a continental super-state.
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Displayed on two free-standing walls that cut through the show's main gallery, big, handsome color images by Thomas Struth and Stephen Shore are both aloof and opulent.
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But her sometimes aloof expression and high-tilted chin also spoke of someone who sees herself "of royalty" and "above anyone else", leadership experts and some critics said.
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"He's highly intelligent, aloof, awkward, and seems to be a bit detached socially but very likable and very cute," said Stanfield, recalling what drew him to the role.
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The film does that a bit in its later moments, especially in one lovely flashback, but it makes the character feel aloof for much of its run time.
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Its problem is that it might be too smart for its own good, aloof and presumptuous about how much its audience can deduce without explaining more of itself.
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"The self may not be an aloof independent 'ruler' of body and mind, but neither is it an illusory product of impersonal physical and mental forces," he writes.
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Mr. Talese, who does not have a cellphone, much less a smartphone, and has remained aloof from social media, had no idea what the man was talking about.
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In South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, a figure a little like Obama—handsome, intellectual, rhetorically refined, slightly aloof—had been replaced by a far less lofty figure: Jacob Zuma.
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Elizabeth Warren has been called "aloof" for her focus on policy, and the scandal around her claims of Native American heritage earned her a comparison to Hillary Clinton.
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Exacerbating misfortunes like this was Mr. Rush's reputation as a moody and erratic live performer who could enthrall audiences one night but seem lackluster and aloof the next.
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You can't build trust on shaky ground, so being aloof when it comes to owning up to a mistake can negatively affect a lot of relationships at work.
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The store also offers Shag-emblazoned merchandise like throw pillows, beach towels and even women's socks featuring the artist's distinctive depictions of cats, wide-faced and effortlessly aloof.
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Another artist, Miguel Angel Ríos, who was born in Argentina, attains a pitch even more dire, but less aloof, in his video "The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados)" (2012).
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That short will be followed by "Phffft," a 1954 comedy that is just as much a showcase for the sublimely aloof Judy Holliday as it is for Lemmon.
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Few of Romney's opponents doubted his devotion to family or basic human decency, even if they criticized him as aloof, but the film focused on those qualities anyhow.
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Because she was watched closer and judged harsher than any male candidate ever was, she protected herself by becoming closely guarded, which caused the press to call her aloof.
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This weekend, the Cat Art Show LA returns for its second edition, with 226 works by over 23 artists, all focused on our lovable, if somewhat aloof, feline companions.
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Simply put, a narcissistic foreign policy that sees our role in the world as that of an aloof mercenary nation rather than a leader is both dangerous and misguided.
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He is often called "the wolf"—a reference to his aloof and cunning demeanour and a play on his surname, which sounds like the Chinese word for the animal.
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"YOU HAVE the most peculiar ideas of relaxation," Laura Jesson tells her aloof husband in the film "Brief Encounter", when he suggests that she unwind with a cryptic crossword.
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If Mr Gillespie is aloof and Mr Wagner is accommodating, a third candidate is all-in for Mr Trump, betting that that's the best path to the Republican nomination.
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The aloof and imperious style that characterised Ms Park's presidency also cut it short; Choi Jong-kun of Yonsei University says she "looked down on the entire legal process".
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"Sure." sounds a lot different than the more aloof "sure," and it could mean the difference between someone thinking you're mad, and someone thinking you're very chill and cool.
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He wasn't aloof or weird or a recluse, he was a cheeky scamp who wanted to do his thing and not be intruded upon, don't most people want that?
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He began the race as a Trump-aloof, establishment Republican, a member of the Bush II inner circle and an advocate of a Republican Party more welcoming to immigrants.
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The article now includes an update added on March 603th 2018 IT IS one thing to stand defiant and aloof on the world stage, another to be a pariah.
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He had the aloof insouciance to sneer in the face of great risks and dangers, which is a trait all good smokers need when lighting up the next fag.
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Her response to almost any problem is to spout policy, which is admirably pragmatic, but, as in the economic plan of action she delivered in Kissimmee, can sound aloof.
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With each kaleidoscopic twist of the story, characters who seem aloof or hostile in one telling are humanised in the light of a set of "what ifs" in another.
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Egan had an intimation that her novel should open at a luxurious, secluded house on the water, imposing yet private, situated in the city but aloof from it, too.
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But Molly is never really asked to reconsider her aloof, judgmental behavior—she only reneges on her bossy ways because she runs the risk of losing Amy for good.
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Why were even their milder siblings — placid Pam, brother Tom, and their refined, aloof mother, Sydney — also fascist sympathizers, happy to visit Unity in Munich and socialize with Hitler?
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Barr's stance during the Ukraine affair, however, in which Trump's administration stands accused of pressuring Ukraine to launch an investigation of his Democratic enemies, has become noticeably more aloof.
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A rich single man, Bingley, comes to town and takes a liking to Jane, while Lizzy takes an instant dislike to Bingley's even richer friend, the aloof Fitzwilliam Darcy.
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Some might see you as weird and aloof, Yoda, but that's just because you're " able to see things from a different perspective than other people are" according to Annabel.
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I expected our interview to be an endless drinking session with an aloof rocker atop a throne of records and nude Frazetta sylphs, telling me about Speedwolf's secret return.
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Newspapers led their front pages with a Reuters picture showing May, dressed in a red jacket, standing apparently aloof and alone from a mass of suited male EU leaders.
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But Michael, while not aloof, is still distant and disconnected from her, calling on her more to help him locate his socks than to be his partner or confidante.
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BARCELONA, Spain — Since taking charge of Spain six years ago, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has done his best to remain aloof from the gathering threat of secessionism in Catalonia.
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To him, Judge Thomas's repeated pornography-laden harassment against an "aloof" Anita Hill may have looked like a textbook case of workplace harassment to a white, puritanical feminist eye.
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Before the Republican primary last June, Gillespie was running as the leader of the Republican establishment in Virginia, aloof from the turmoil in the Trump wing of the party.
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Aquarius is cool and aloof; while the Sun and Venus travel through this Air sign, you'll likely feel the need to check out, spend some time alone, and unwind.
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"A Little Life" is a story about a friendship between four young men that revolves around aloof and charismatic Jude, whose early childhood traumas define everything about his life.
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Later Nolan's self-centered and aloof Clytemnestra discretely hiked up her micro-skirt and inserted a two-foot-long plastic snake into herself, then did a slow, campy dance.
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Warren has been called "aloof" for her focus on policy throughout her career, and her misleading claims of Native American heritage played a role in that 2012 Senate race.
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And from the beginning, Hawaii's Department of Public Safety (DPS) has shown itself to be aloof when presented with evidence about dangerous conditions facing its inmates in mainland prisons.
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Seeing this piece, it becomes easy to understand how art history could have disassociated this seemingly less refined mode of art from the aloof elegance of Athenian marble sculptures.
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Some felt intimidated by the typical spa setup, which often includes a secluded location within a hotel, a seemingly aloof reception desk staff and undressing and putting on a robe.
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It's perhaps the chilliest, most aloof song of Swift's career, a brittle piano-plinker that reduces one of the best pop artists of the 21st century to a Descendants villain.
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Owners who were more agreeable, meanwhile, had cats associated with a more positive wellbeing, and cats more likely to be a normal weight with less aggressive and aloof/avoidant tendencies.
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The probable new leader loses nothing by trying to prove himself while bigger party figures such as Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France region around Paris, stay aloof.
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Han Solo as viewers met him was already a wonderfully cocksure concotion, equal parts aloof and goofy, a guy defined by both his losing streaks and his last-minute loyalties.
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The image is in contrast to Park, 64, who was perceived as isolated and aloof even before the corruption crisis that was to envelop her presidency erupted late last year.
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British newspapers led their front pages with a Reuters picture showing May, attired in a red jacket, standing apparently aloof and alone from a mass of suited male EU leaders.
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It was brilliant because almost everyone else here desperately tried to give the crowd what they wanted; Kendrick, aloof but amiable, gave them what they didn't even know they needed.
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But that self-conscious yet strivingly aloof jive charmed something in audiences; the clip of Hammer dancing went viral long before the movie's wide release, or even it's limited run.
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Your relationships are important to you, Aquarius—you might be aloof and detached, but you're still an air sign, which means community, communication, and relationships are so important to you.
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Unlike the ruling families of the Gulf, where royals hold posts throughout the government bureaucracy, those of Morocco and Jordan tend to stand more aloof from day-to-day government.
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They share a classic rom-com meet-cute: At first he's glib and aloof, and then they're laughing in a storage room as she shows him clips of Mamma Mia!
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Many diplomats now contend that Mr. Pompeo has done more damage to the 75,10-person agency than even his predecessor Rex Tillerson, an aloof oil executive reviled by department employees.
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Months before the changes to the Youth League were announced, the party's discipline enforcement agency issued a long, unusually scathing account of problems in the organization, including an aloof leadership.
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"If you inherit such a large estate you also inherit responsibility and should not come across as aloof," Lars Klingbeil, secretary general of the centre-left Social Democrats, told Bild.
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So it made sense that the aloof and justifiably arrogant Sherlock Holmes might represent for them an ideal of masculine brilliance (they are mostly still men), rationality and self-control.
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The jealous Hera, the aloof Artemis, the impassioned Ares and Zeus — the Greek gods, and the civilization that created them, grappled with strong feelings as much as contemporary humans do.
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Carr does not perform regularly and is aloof on social media; her appearance at this club in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a relatively rare opportunity to see her in action.
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Kim's reported show of emotion — and the fact the state acknowledged the bus crash — is a significant departure from the choreographed aloof persona of both the leader and the country.
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Although Colton was talkative during most of his time with Hannah — at one point he spoke for over a minute straight — he was strangely aloof during this portion of the conversation.
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Akihito, 85, took the throne in 1989 and devoted his career to making amends for a war fought in his father's name while bringing the aloof monarchy closer to the people.
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Operatic characters — an aloof pantheon of gods, monarchs, priests and countesses — are generally more outsize than approachable; their exponents have traditionally been measured on a scale of perceived regality and remoteness.
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The "aloof and sleazy establishment is being punished by voters step-by-step," said Heinz-Christian Strache of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in his Facebook salute to Mr Trump.
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The brand announced that they've selected nine of their most-loved shades to gift their customers on Sunday, including Tanarama, Aloof, Delish, Florabundi, Moxie, Epic, Dare You, Chintz and Mixed Media.
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The bosses get some quality absurd lines off—"It's a doggy dog world, and frankly we've been hiring cats" is perfect—but Mascis, parodying his own aloof interview responses, doesn't budge.
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Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey and President Barack Obama have all been accused of staying aloof from black culture to gain more power and be more relatable to a wider, whiter audience.
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Opposition lawmakers say Rajoy, who has led the PP since 2004, will have to make more of an effort to change his style, seen by many as aloof, to gain backing.
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Indeed, ever since the Zapatista uprising, they have essentially defied all such political classifications, remaining largely aloof from the academic politics which have come to characterise broadly comparable left-wing movements.
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That may seem unremarkable elsewhere, but newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in's "common man" touch is being feted in a country more used to authoritarian rule by aloof leaders.
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Homenum revelio While the Harry Potter series was still being published, Rowling remained relatively aloof from her readers' passionate engagement — or replied largely indirectly, through the medium of the books themselves.
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Instead of dying out like 2 million years ago, the megalodon—the biggest shark that ever lived—somehow survived and is now going after innocent puppies, aloof beachgoers, and seafaring vessels.
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When conservatives need to cast liberals as aloof elitists they appoint themselves the poor white's defenders—until their ideology is threatened, and then it is time to take out the trash.
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With long, dark coils of curly hair and tattoos strewn across the small sections of her arms, Monet struck me then as the sophisticated, slightly aloof older sibling I never had.
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Throughout, the vocal production serves to take the pedal off the gas a little, making Timony's voice feel as though it's floating above everything – aloof but not unbothered; Debbie Harry-esque.
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When Murphy entered the industry, he sometimes struck his peers as an aloof, prickly figure; he has deep wounds from those years, although he admits that he contributed to this reputation.
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He is a fastidious, aloof man who keeps spotless the polished cement floors of his house and always wears the same uniform: light blue button-down shirt, jeans and Timberland boots.
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Running up a new outfit, she argues that if Corning is to turn back the challenge of upstarts like Howard C. Nolan (Glenn Fitzgerald), he will have to be less aloof.
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May, who proved famously aloof during her early months in office, has been on a charm offensive lately, reportedly inviting legislators to her Chequers country home for prosecco and canapé receptions.
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McBride's father represents a stereotypical male ideal, the strong, aloof hero; McBride's unfortunately named ex, Eve (Liv Tyler), who flickers in and out like a broken promise, is his father's antithesis.
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Because, compared to the aloof philosopher-king Mbeki, who attacked the country's problems with his big words and his pipe, Zuma was unmistakably of the people -- he was entertaining, grounded, unperturbed.
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"You see Jenny being glamorous on TV and Donnie performing on stage, and you might think they're these aloof celebrities, but they're so real and genuine and really fun," he says.
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Gadot made Prince feel like a fish out of water, a goddess among mortals, while also managing to avoid portraying her as foolish or icily aloof; just ask her Batman v.
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His terrible job is playing rodeo clown "Chips" to entertain drunk cowboys, and the woman he loves is an aloof Parisian (Sabina Sciubba) who only married him for a green card.
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We are seeing Kratos allowed to visibly care for another person (albeit in his own aloof way) and be responsible for their well being throughout the game, opening him to true vulnerability.
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"If you inherit such a large estate you also inherit responsibility and should not come across as aloof," Lars Klingbeil, secretary general of the center-left Social Democrats, told Bild on Tuesday.
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Having paid the foreign student fee, I spent the mornings hanging around the main university building on Reconquista, sweating more than normal, trying to look friendly and aloof at the same time.
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The fact that Johns's art is not swiftly reducible to easily consumable bits of meaning seems to irk people as well as lead to accusations of being cool, detached, aloof, and remote.
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Not unlike Donald Trump's victory four months later, the result spoke of social disparities, of a powerlessness felt by many and a distain for aloof elites in a seemingly distant capital city.
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Sessions' responses were equally aloof earlier in the hearing when Senator Mark Warner, the panel's ranking Democrat, asked whether he had knowledge of any discussions at DOJ about potentially pardoning Trump associates.
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded to frequent criticism that she is too "aloof or cold" in a caption under her portrait on Humans of New York, a viral portrait photography page.
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Moon is hoping to host Kim in Seoul for their fourth summit, perhaps as early as this month, but North Korea has been aloof amid stalled nuclear talks with the United States.
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Watson's performance as Belle is an odd combination of inquisitive and aloof, which actually works well for a character trapped in a French town where everyone is just a bit too comfortable.
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These women are apparently "intimidated by the secretive, aloof image of the CIA and do not understand anything about the internal environment of the agency or the agency's culture," the document adds.
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I'm anxious that skipping out on bar nights—especially when our boss goes—will make me look like I'm not a team player, not invested in my job, or aloof and uptight.
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Bitter, full of petit-bourgeois resentment and genuine grief (his son died fighting in Poland), Drygalski is suspicious of the entitled and aloof Globig clan, and has been watching them for years.
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A reflection on artificial intelligence was accompanied by recorded garbled whispers of an erotically aloof female voice, while a thrumming electronic drone threatened to engulf the sounds produced by the live musicians.
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In that same episode, Collier Sims, M.E.'s well-meaning though aloof husband, can't cope with the fact that his teenage daughter marries her African American boyfriend after they learn she's expecting.
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In this kitschy update, Bartel shifts his focus away from aloof bohemian artistes to desensitized showbiz hacks, represented here by a fickle studio executive (Richard Paul) and narcissistic director named Schreck (Bartel).
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I have a reputation in some quarters as an aloof recluse but that's only because I refuse to go to writers' festivals and talk the fake-intellectual [expletive] that most writers talk.
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Players on the Broncos had soured on Ralston, who they thought was aloof and ineffectual; a dozen players issued a statement after the 231 season expressing their lack of confidence in him.
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Based on the aloof, punishing control he displays in his small, tight bud of a first novel, "We Begin Our Ascent," he doesn't appear to have a disheveled bone in his body.
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Because this is a novel by the superabundantly talented Moshfegh — she's an American writer of Croatian and Iranian descent — we know in advance that it will be cool, strange, aloof and disciplined.
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It seems that one central reason the studiously aloof Mr. Merritt decided to tackle the intimacy of a sonic memoir was "to do an about-face" from his usual approach, he said.
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These attributes were generally derided by the era's early adopters, until Araabmuzik re-introduced a generation of aloof college kids to the heart-opening pleasures of trance on his 2011 album Electronic Dream.
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Lawmakers saw him as aloof, an impression the White House staff would occasionally try to shake by putting lawmakers on Air Force One or having them play a round of golf with him.
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Realizing the futility of that approach, he hesitantly changed to a more cooperative and friendlier posture — effectively turning into a supplicant for contact and attention with an aloof, hostile and indifferent Chinese leadership.
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What to look for: A deeper line implies you invest a lot of time, meaning, and thought into your loving relationships, while a faint line means you're more aloof or uninterested in love.
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" She adds, "Personally, I feel Nancy was distracted and aloof because President Reagan's battle with Alzheimer's had not yet been announced, and I sort of think she had other things on her mind.
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ADULT. always felt a bit more serious than their peers, a bit artier, a bit more aloof, a bit less likely to prance around small clubs with a dildo strapped to their forehead.
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If you think starting college is hard, try doing it as a 17-year-old virgin going through a breakup, while spreading the word of God in a really pretentious and aloof way.
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" She adds, "Personally, I feel Nancy was distracted and aloof because President Reagan's battle with Alzheimer's had not yet been announced, and I sort of think she had other things on her mind.
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And to the everlasting frustration of the party, the state's Democratic governor, the aloof and enigmatic Andrew Cuomo, appears more than happy to live with this arrangement—all while telegraphing his presidential ambitions.
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Aides say that in engaging himself directly with the federal efforts, Trump hopes to avoid accusations lobbed against his two most recent predecessors of appearing disengaged or aloof during certain moments of crisis.
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She said nothing at all for six months, though many took note of her aloof demeanor, the strange scars on her body, and the Russian accent that emerged when she did eventually speak.
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These attributes were generally derided by the era's early adopters, until Araabmuzik re-introduced a generation of aloof college kids to the heart-opening pleasures of trance on his 2011 album Electronic Dream.
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The bulk of those who received the hot beverage found the other person to be warm and caring, while a majority of those who held the cold beverage found the other person aloof.
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Much like how the aloof skyscraper is expressly tempered by the unpretentious housing block, the building's glazed, crystalline exterior is softened by a lobby accented with textured brick walls and light wood finishes.
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Mr. Prince, after all, is the artist who started photographing existing photographs in the late 1970s, which set the stage for appropriation art and the suave, aloof style of the 1980s Pictures Generation.
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Unlike the Scandinavian royals, who happily pose for photographs when walking into charity events, the British royals tend to stride by with their heads down, which can make them seem aloof and awkward.
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But there are enough parallels here that my spidey sense has been pricking, especially in "The Book of Dougs" when Michael gets visibly irritated with the Committee, who are, indeed, aloof and ineffective.
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Kim Yo Jong's aloof expression when she wasn't meeting with high-ranking South Korean government officials and high-tilted chin prompted scorn from many South Koreans, who said she looked "too haughty" or "uppity".
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The 40-year old former investment banker was also under pressure to make amends about cutting remarks he has made about the costs of welfare that critics say made him look aloof and arrogant.
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I've always been tempted by the appeal of Croc Rock, maybe tonight would be night where I fulfill my destiny to become a kept love-boy for an emotionally aloof divorced mother of one.
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Sixty percent of the cat owners polled said their cats are loyal and 59 percent said their purr-fect pets snuggle right up to them, even though felines are often unfairly labelled as aloof.
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Even after the case, Brennan-Jobs says her dad was always stingy, aloof and curt with her — even denying that he named one of the first computers he worked on, "The Lisa," after her.
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Finally, the political fallout from the Obama administration's often aloof posture toward Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has encouraged Iran and Hezbollah to consolidate political power in Beirut.
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Like their semi-kinky 90s counterpart the choker necklace, belly chains also have a "you can't have me" vibe, a clutch statement for an Aquarius, whose aloof personalities can be hard to pin down.
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No one player has been able to capture the attention of millions simply by being the most aloof, smirking-est weirdo on the planet who also happens to have a rocket for an arm.
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It is the kind of gap that sows distrust between urban and rural voters, many of whom wrap their resentment of big-city dwellers in a broader animosity toward an aloof and unresponsive government.
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Johns's statement runs counter to the commonly shared view that he is cool and aloof, and that, in his work from 21-22014 to the early 103s, his primary concern was with formal issues.
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The instances of more aloof, detached narration tend to carry the book's ideas forward with greater force, leaving us feeling we're wired to a cold security camera and its fascinating, unfinished footage of events.
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Anthony Cheung's "Assumed Roles," with the excellent violist Maiya Papach as soloist, burst with character, as the erotically aloof viola part contended with bossy interventions from an oddball ensemble including saxophone and electric guitar.
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I feel that it is important for everyone to understand the crucial yet carefree message of "Free to Be … You and Me," and the way it espouses progressive ideals without being aloof or patronizing.
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He earned the nickname "the Prince of Darkness" in the media with venomous critiques of white America and aloof and erratic stage behavior that sometimes bordered on hostility, particularly in front of white audiences.
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"Likeness" encompasses such sublimities as Donatello's painted terra-cotta bust of an Italian aristocrat, which shines with aloof sensitivity, and Rodin's breathtaking translucent "Mask of Hanako II Type E," which seems the soul incarnate.
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Another Netflix talk show that has remained aloof from the news is Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee," an interview program that started on the streaming service Crackle before Netflix bought the rights.
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You can hardly fault the cast, which centers on Blanchett as Bernadette Fox, a semi-reclusive mother whom her Seattle neighbors find standoffish and her brilliant AI engineer husband Elgie (Crudup) finds frustratingly aloof.
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But he could not remain aloof from a global glut in oil that sent prices tumbling in the early 21986s, just as the people who had voted him into power were expecting better lives.
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Not only does the broader membership routinely hand the Animated Feature prize to Disney/Pixar but voters from outside of the specialist branch can be shockingly ignorant and aloof when it comes to animation.
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They take aim at the impossible idealizations of women in both art and advertising, depicting mostly nude and aloof androgynous supermodels, and the occasional feline, with a new kind of cool yet visceral bravura.
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His public manner became aloof and stony, but the bravado of his boyhood resurfaced when he drank too much, as he did with zestful abandon on annual, usually solo vacations to the Florida Keys.
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More disastrously, the jacket has been the biggest hurdle for Trump herself in terms of public perception, lending to the idea many Americans have of the first lady that she is detached and aloof.
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France's General Charles de Gaulle, president from 1959 to 1969, held his country aloof from NATO and maintained an independent military and diplomatic posture, demanding the removal of all American personnel from French soil.
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If anything, Mr. Kwiecien (as the dashing, aloof aristocrat Onegin) and Ms. Netrebko (as the bookish, impressionable Tatiana, who falls for him at first sight) were dramatically sharper and vocally bolder than in 2013.
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Yet the movie works as well as it does thanks largely to its human component -- specifically, Brad Pitt as the intrepid, emotionally aloof astronaut who braves facing his past to try saving humanity's future.
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Ferrari were closed and aloof under predecessor Maurizio Arrivabene, a marketing man drafted in from sponsor Philip Morris, with some insiders talking of a climate of fear at Maranello while he was in charge.
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Mark Green, a Manhattan liberal of the sort Giuliani had long defined himself against, was ahead in the polls and seemed likely to defeat Michael Bloomberg, who himself had stayed fairly aloof from Giuliani.
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You've been playing it cool lately (which is actually really hard for you to do, as you love the chase), but you can't pretend to be aloof any longer when this eclipse rolls through.
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That was the thing with Trump; he almost echoed the old presidential non-campaign of years past, where candidates affected an aloof disinterest, occasionally stepping out on the porch to make a few vague remarks.
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Bangkok's media portrays Apirat as a "trusted lieutenant" of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who conducted the 2014 when he was army chief, and as a commander who would prefer to remain aloof from politics.
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As Robert, Pine is quiet, even aloof, a man who could have been happy raising his daughter (Josie O'Brien) and playing with his large dog had he not been called to be a wartime monarch.
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And why won't your aloof coworker ever make eye contact with you when you're at the coffee machine, even though you sit a mere three seats away from each other for nine hours a day?
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There, she found a growing and helpful community of kitty lovers who were shattering the stereotypes that felines are lazy, aloof and disinterested animals that prefer to stay at home over accompanying their owners outside.
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A successful espionage fable needs to burrow deep beneath the masks these spies wear, even in their private lives (think of le Carré's enigmatic George Smiley), but Marian remains a tabula rasa, aloof and unknowable.
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The cover bore a black-and-white photograph of the two men: one youthful and telegenic, a visionary sparkle playing about his eyes and mouth; the other solemn and aloof, dependable perhaps but distinctly uninspiring.
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"If Texans viewed the federal government as impotent and aloof before the Civil War, resistance to the victorious Yankees and their interventionist 'know what's best for Texas' ways took hold after the war," she continued.
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The military chief of staff quit in anger over budget cuts; the president endured ridicule over how much he spent on his makeup; he has been accused of being aloof; his popularity ratings have plummeted.
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Hughes grew up in Sydney, Australia, remaining fully aware of his Australian sensibilities long after leaving his home behind — an accomplished self-awareness, really, as Australians are practiced at remaining aloof of their cultural character.
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He too often stood aloof from or actively discouraged efforts to revise traditional Protestantism to make it more respectful of the world's racial and cultural diversity and of the findings of modern science and scholarship.
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I actually feel very disconnected and it's always been hard to fit in, so I've been content to be aloof, but then that policy came out and I connected with all these people being upset.
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The Giants were a cocky group in training camp four months ago, and no one typified the self-assurance more than the team's robotic coach, Ben McAdoo, and his aloof boss, General Manager Jerry Reese.
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Melson's YouTube rollout, like Bryce's, is replete with stirring proletarian imagery: neighborhoods festooned with American flags, an aloof Republican incumbent dodging town halls, Melson alone in the ring pummeling the air with slow-motion jabs.
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"The only downfall is that we may have a more aloof and cool relationship to our emotions — which will be a momentary relief, considering the Sun moves into emotional Pisces 30 days later," Stardust says.
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FRANKFURT — Central bankers like to portray themselves as being aloof from the hurly-burly of politics, coolly assessing the economic data as they ponder whether to add a jolt of stimulus or take some away.
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Q-Tip gets respect here for his brilliance and ambition, but Abdurraqib likens him to a perfectionist older brother: demanding and a bit aloof, seemingly oblivious to how hard Phife was trying to prove himself.
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Instead, I remembered the time Peebee, the aloof archaeologist, finally agreed to go on a date with my hero in zero gravity, and the deep religious conversations had with Suvi, the ship's science officer, over tea.
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Where she may have been subtle or seemed aloof to outsiders in the past, it's clear Beyoncé has reached a point where she can be unapologetic about how she understands the world as a black woman.
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"Such remarks create the impression that London may soon deviate from a largely aloof attitude over the South China Sea issue and start playing a meddling role there like the United States and Japan," it said.
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When George W. Bush flew over devastated areas of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the photos of him peering from the window of Air Force One were derided as evidence of an aloof commander in chief.
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Though she can come off as an aloof, shallow fashion-head like a Libra, Naomi is also extremely wholesome and family-oriented, being one of 12 children and bringing her mom to the Drag Race finale.
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Colman won last year's best-actress Oscar for her portrayal of another British monarch in "The Favourite," the eccentric and voluptuary Queen Anne, but Elizabeth, aloof to the point of refrigeration, is a different proposition altogether.
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Unlike her characters, who tend to be laconic and aloof, and her narratives, which are elliptical and enigmatic, Denis speaks fluently, linearly, and sometimes at great length, with an instinctual command of pacing, foreshadowing, and suspense.
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Stefánie isn't even her father's first new name; before he was Steven Faludi he was István Friedman, only son of an aloof, self-indulgent Jewish couple in Budapest who lost everything but their lives under Nazism.
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A series where Mickey Mouse, Disney's ineffable icon, is an embattled monarch leading a group of heroes while also being aloof, secretive, and unwise in a way that occasionally leads to other characters suffering serious harm.
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Francois Hollande is under so much pressure at home over terrorism and his still-tanking economy that he would be seen as aloof and trivial if he got too deep into arguing the toss on Brexit.
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According to Sam Wasson's comprehensive biography "Fosse" — the basis of "Fosse/Verdon" — the "Aloof" section was inspired by Arthur, a Mod-themed New York nightclub that catered to the likes of John Wayne and Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Many Sri Lankans saw Mr. Wickremesinghe as aloof and ineffective, numb to the economic troubles that have begun to pile up around them as this island nation slides deeper into debt, much of it to China.
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And when teenagers act aloof, their parents often feel tempted, if not duty bound, to secretly search bedrooms and surreptitiously scan online activity to ensure that their child isn't engaged with drugs, drinking or digital misdeeds.
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Rosie Perez, who portrays a photojournalist in "The Last Thing," told me that the day she arrived on location in Puerto Rico to shoot the film, she immediately noticed Rees's sharp intelligence but found her aloof.
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Frances feels out of step with many of her peers because she doesn't come from money, and because she can get a little too high on her own supply: She's well-read, aloof, and darkly funny.
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But plot alone can't explain why we return to "Rebecca," which even its most fervent fans will admit is cribbed from "Jane Eyre" (mousy heroine, aloof love interest, his inconvenient first wife, a very convenient fire).
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So has the way Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, has cut an unpopular figure at the State Department, where he has yet to fill numerous leadership positions and is widely viewed as isolated and aloof.
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In March 2017, the brand put out a commercial featuring a fictitious Carl's Jr. founder named "Carl Hardee," who had returned to the company after allowing his aloof son to put near-naked women in its commercials.
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But Leaving Neverland has collapsed the distance I was able to maintain from the boys who weren't safe from Michael Jackson, and in doing so killed my platonic affection for him, my identification with those aloof girls.
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While the first two of these signs can tend to act aloof or downright cold around new people, the third is more likely to be friendly but might not be interested in finding common ground with others.
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This song could have gone either way: its alternative undertone links it to the likes of Anna of the North and Niki & The Dove, respectively Norwegian and Swedish artists whose coolness is attained by remaining slightly aloof.
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As Quartz notes, there's been some discussion in South Korea over the no-look pass and how it reflects male entitlement and treatment of subordinates, as well as a certain tinge of aloof misbehavior on Kim's part.
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Acheson, who was President Truman's secretary of state, went on to say that Britain's attempt to play the part of a world power aloof from Europe by leveraging its "special relationship" with America was almost "played out".
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While onstage with Destroyer, an indie-rock band of which he is the most consistent member, Bejar tends to be aloof, as if reluctant to inject mindless banter into the tension generated by his cerebral, haunting songs.
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Hill's aloof, dispassionate description of Thomas's harassment, and her preternaturally cool reaction to all the lurid slanders hurled at her, left the senators skeptical that she was telling the truth; shouldn't a wronged woman show more emotion?
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Neither president has remained aloof from Europe's politics as the stakes have mounted this year with critical elections that have so far beaten back the far-right populism that helped thrust Mr. Trump to power last year.
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Where clubs should stay aloof from gossip, leaving it to managers to dispel inconvenient rumours as they see fit, they are instead embroiling themselves in the rampant speculation and spreading misinformation which could ultimately harm their employees.
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The former vice president's stumble over his position on the Hyde Amendment, combined with a "Rose Garden" strategy that has kept him aloof from mixing it up with his rivals, raised questions about the solidity of his lead.
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The snippet also shows the crew up to their usual shenanigans: Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) looking a bit lost and introspective, Marnie (Allison Williams) appearing aloof and in love (or lust?), and Jessa (Jemima Kirke) giving zero fucks. Hmm.
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With my hands deep in the cadaver's chest, I realized that I didn't have the luxury of staying aloof the way I had during that funeral years ago, or even during the anatomy classes I took in college.
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Haibatullah needs to reassess Pakistan's seriousness about getting the Taliban into talks and he will have to divine whether the Taliban really will face any consequences if they continue Mansour's approach of staying aloof from Pakistan-brokered negotiations.
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The slogans screamed "Thieving banks", "Revolution" and "No to the G7", mirroring the anger vented across France in five months of anti-government "yellow vest" protests fueled by perceptions of a growing rich-poor divide and aloof politicians.
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It remains largely aloof from broader political trends, including a slugging match between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in office nationally under Narendra Modi, the prime minister, and Congress, the once-dominant centre-left party that worships Gandhi.
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Leaving them without an SD card slot or an included adapter runs entirely counter to Apple's fundamental principles of having a coherent ecosystem and a more user-friendly approach than the (previously) cold and aloof Windows PC manufacturers.
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So far, the smaller anti-Brexit parties have agreed to work together in a limited number of regions, though Labour — which is not committed to remaining in the European Union but wants a second referendum — has stood aloof.
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Hillary Clinton was an unlikeable, aloof, entitled candidate who lacked her husband's political skills and flubbed the handling of her private email server and the Clinton Foundation's acceptance for foreign donations during her term as secretary of State.
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"I thought he was cocky, aloof and full of himself," said Mr. Veeder, who spent much of his boyhood in Greene County, in upstate New York, chopping wood, clearing fields and helping his father build their mountaintop home.
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She expunged "term-paper pomposity" from her reviews, distancing herself from aloof "gentleman critics" by balancing her encyclopedic film knowledge with proudly subjective opinions, autobiographical tidbits, dirty jokes and remarks she overheard from other patrons in the cinema.
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Mr. Tillerson also alienated State Department officials and career employees because he tried to cut the budget, left important posts open and, in their eyes, remained aloof — all of which he was asked about in the committee interview.
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It's nothing we didn't already intrinsically know about the smuggler/Galactic hero-to-be, but it's interesting to see Ehrenreich (best known for the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!) put his spin on Ford's signature aloof cool (and vest).
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Mr. Macron had come to France's rural heartland, where the economy is less than shining, hoping to connect with ordinary people, lift his sagging poll numbers and shed his image as the aloof, coldhearted president of the rich.
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In Stoke, UKIP is hoping to strike the same chord with voters as it did during the EU referendum campaign, when it pitched itself as the voice of the disenfranchised, standing up to aloof political elites in London.
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But the empire remained aloof from its competitors, higher-brow than Harold Ross's New Yorker (then owned by the yeast millionaire Raoul Fleischmann) and smarter than the magazine stable of its archrival, Hearst (Cosmopolitan, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping).
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Paired with an aloof Kate Winslet — with whom he has less chemistry than he did with Wood Harris, who played his business partner on "The Wire" — he works very hard to appear oblivious to the script's many idiocies.
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It was also the fact that Obama initially presented himself as an aloof technocrat in the tradition of Gary Hart, someone who had little direct ties with the black community and with the tradition of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Although the Queen's seemingly "aloof" attitude was off-putting to a country in mourning, the newly-released letter to one of her closest aides, Lady Henriette Abel Smith, sheds light on the depth of emotion that she kept hidden.
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But it also added another layer of distance between the artist and her audience, at a time when the idea of the aloof, otherworldly megastar was being steadily challenged by tell-all social media and girl-next-door normalcy.
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Indeed, if Mr Macron's poll numbers have recovered, it is despite the violence, and largely because of his marathon "great national debate", designed to show that a leader seen as aloof and out of touch can in fact listen.
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His team has floated the notion of working with the Congressional Black Caucus on infrastructure matters, and told the Financial Times that if the Freedom Caucus remains aloof "we will make a deal with the Democrats" on health care.
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The community insists he get remarried before he can raise his son properly, and it soon becomes clear that they might actually have a point: Menashe is lovable but completely aloof, a comedic figure overflowing with irresponsibility and pathos.
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Photo by Holly Andres, courtesy of Esperanza Spalding On the cover of Emily's D+Evolution, the title character, Emily, looks aloof as she stands in all white by a multicolored rocky hill, backed by dead trees and cloudy skies.
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It's difficult to imagine her spooning medicine into anyone's mouth, making the film an appropriately modern take on an aloof, magical female caretaker—a woman who is wonderfully good at her job and feels no need to explain herself.
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Besides, if it's the marriage bit you're worried about, as an ex-colleague once reassured me, when things don't work out by the age of 40, you'll be hot, aloof, and readily picking up the first round of divorcees.
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Britain initially stood aloof from the project but then spent a decade trying to join, as its poor economic performance became clear; between 1946 and 1965, British GDP per capita grew at half the rate of other industrialised countries.
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As Trump's base among white working-class conservatives remains aloof from the incumbent, ousted White House officials Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka have campaigned for Moore in their bid to counter more moderate voices in Congress and the administration.
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Bieberveli won Pop Recording of the Year for Purpose and the Fan Choice Award, which he and his blond dreads accepted in a typically aloof, boxing-centric video message that was met with resounding boos by the Saddledome audience.
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And — not to get too far into plot spoiler territory — one of them is pregnant, one of them is engaged to an aloof dude across the country, and one of them has a dream of becoming a recording artist.
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Though he had won election five times to the House and twice to the Senate, he was a cold, aloof character who preferred to hole up in his Senate office, reading poetry, rather than glad-hand in the cloakroom.
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The charge that he could not communicate — that he was reclusive, aloof, only comfortable in front of his laptop — stemmed from a "preconceived image of me that some people had decided on without looking at my work," he said.
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When I watched the mailbox for word from her in my teenage years, hungry and hopeful yet also huffy and aloof, I could never have imagined how the arcs of our lives would send us back toward each other.
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And Sanders's camp is so eager to attack Bloomberg in part because the former New York mayor's tenuous historical connections to the institutional Democratic Party make him an ideal foil for Sanders, who is himself aloof from the institution.
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But it is about about a Latinx family led by an Army veteran single mother raising her teenage children (an out lesbian activist and a politically aloof boy) in the same household as her devoutly Catholic Cuban immigrant mother.
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It is aloof, angular and idiosyncratic, as Li's personal pieces tend to be; her previous novels, like "The Vagrants" and "Kinder Than Solitude," in contrast, are more conventional, majestically bleak portraits, often of the Communist China of her childhood.
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The king also moved swiftly to block his elder sister earlier this year when Princess Ubolratana, 5.23, broke with the tradition of the royal family remaining aloof from politics and announced her surprise bid to run for prime minister.
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So Tillerson proceeded to fight his own battles at State (where he was increasingly unpopular, seen as aloof and arrogant) while Kushner held policy meetings at the White House, many of which were held without even a nod to Tillerson.
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Under the visually-astute eye and editing prowess of Alessandro Zanoni, the ghostly corners of the Ordos district of inner Mongolia are captured in all their isolation as shadowy white photographs, made more aloof with linear composition and hovering text.
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For so long, I'd put off the possibility of us opening up our relationship because — try as I might to be cool and aloof and whatever about casual hookups — I typically like sex best when the person matters to me.
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The Supreme Court has been described by its critics as the "Rehavia Junta", for the name of the neighbourhood in Jerusalem where many of them once resided; elitist and liberal-minded secular left-wingers, aloof and detached from wider Israeli society.
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The trope about dad/daughter relationships, across all races, typically goes like this: even loving fathers are aloof, or disinterested in their daughters' interests, and they are only driven to intervene when she's in danger or in a romantic situation.
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Watch out for surprises when the Moon connects with Uranus at 11:38 AM. Venus enters Pisces at 6:20 PM, putting people in a romantic mood, and the vibe shifts from cool, aloof Aquarius, to a much more empathetic energy.
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But his refusal to engage in the usual political horse-trading of Brazilian politics - instead remaining aloof from direct dealings with Congress on the issue - had angered many lawmakers and increased the difficulty of obtaining sufficient support for the legislation.
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Where aloof Aquarians like to assess their feelings from a distance and process them in a near-scientific manner, Pisces usually prefer to keep their emotions right on the surface, so that they're easy to access, process, and, ultimately, share.
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Johnson said in a speech on Saturday, while also insisting the Irish backstop be ditched, that he had very friendly relations with EU leaders and that Britain would be neither disengaged nor aloof and would try to solve the problem.
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While it may not always feel true, political scientists broadly agree that presidents have historically been quite responsive to public opinion, perhaps more so than the framers — who saw the office as standing somewhat aloof of mass sentiment — originally intended.
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He has the air of a man who has accidentally wandered away from Milan Fashion Week and ended up in the manager's dugout, but who's so totally aloof that he's just gone with it and, accordingly, won the World Cup.
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It centers its story on a goofy, lovable white man who learns to be less racist after spending time with a black man who, though he's aloof and unlikeable at first, becomes more "sympathetic" after he's beaten up a few times.
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With the exception of its far east and west—the oil-rich Gulf and quietly prospering Morocco, aloof behind a border with Algeria that has been sealed for 20113 years—the rest of the Arab world does not look much better.
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The late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October 2016 after a seven-decade reign, stayed aloof from politics during the last decade of his life when Thailand was rocked by clashes between Bangkok-centred elites and more rural-based populists.
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People who were around when they made their most arresting and pathbreaking work have a deep respect for their legacies, while younger folks who've only been around for their self-mythologizing and lazy later periods see them as aloof has-beens.
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Raised in Palo Alto by an aloof biologist father and a mother who played Chopin on the piano but could offer comfort only when her daughter pretended to be ill, Pagels rebelled by embracing evangelical Christianity when she was 15.
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In sharp contrast to her public image as everyone's good friend, happy to listen, she presents herself — with tongue in cheek — as cartoonishly aloof and indifferent, stuck in a privileged bubble, cracking several jokes, for instance, about her fabulous wealth.
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U.N.C. officials, who were told late last month about three episodes that some players thought revealed Hatchell to be racially insensitive and aloof, placed her and her assistants on paid administrative leave and opened a storied program to abrupt scrutiny.
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There's an echo of Warhol's aloof observational style in these early black-and-white images, as well as in a rare silent film by Mr. Shore, "Elevator" (1964), which intercuts shadowy shots of a lift's metal grilles into flickering harmony.
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"Seth is from downtown Manhattan, and the language about the graffiti and the dialogue between the kids sounded authentic to me," Ms. Sevigny, 43, said of the play's allure, her rollicking laughter in startling contrast to her typically aloof characters.
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It also seems like a thank you to her for staying aloof from the ongoing primary between Biden and Bernie Sanders, which represented a breakdown of a longstanding political alliance between Sanders and Warren — originally forged during the bankruptcy fight.
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Parents, in general, tend to be slightly more aloof in regards to all kinds of sharing in the UK — although most parents won't brag about their children, they also won't share information about anything that goes wrong with their parenting technique.
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Adding to the animus is Mr. Kushner's aloof demeanor and his propensity for avoiding messy aspects of his job that he would simply rather not do — he has told associates he wants nothing to do with the legislative process, for instance.
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The executive now in charge of Warner Media's entertainment offerings, Robert Greenblatt, suggested in a December interview with The Hollywood Reporter that HBO cannot afford to stand aloof from the rest of the company, now that streaming has upended the industry.
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Not the aloof kind of distancing that you might expect from someone in his position, but the kind where one puts emotion and ego aside in order to truly listen, to understand, and then to find a way to build bridges.
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While many at the NSC were happy to see Bolton gone — he was viewed as too aloof and too unwilling to use the traditional NSC decision-making process — it means enduring a third leadership change in less than three years.
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Then again, if you suddenly mutated from being a dweeby bloke from the highlands into a ripped, handsome, Armani-pant modeling stud with a bank balance bigger than the GDP of most European countries, you'd probably be a bit aloof too.
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Since both Batman and Bruce Wayne had so many different iterations over the years, in the game players were able to essentially create their own version of the character, acting as either the aloof playboy, the hardened crime fighter, or somewhere in-between.
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Planned increases to a fuel tax prompted five months of "yellow vest" protests nationwide and the worst rioting Paris has witnessed since the 1968 student uprising, though the discontent swiftly turned into a broader backlash against inequality and an aloof political elite.
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Fara (who has a physics degree) told me how much she admires Stoney in particular, but also made note of a few other favorite ghosts, like the elaborately monikered, snootily aloof Ethel Brilliana Tweedie—and one of my favorites, Helen the Botanist.
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In After the Reconciliation (2000), Godard appears once again, less aloof but equally tiresome, opposite Miéville herself as his wife; the two of them fall into a stinging series of conversations with a man and women whom they pull into their marital discord.
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I also think that the motif of a man in such an extreme state conveys a challenge to many previous readings of Johns and his work, including the charges that he is aloof, purely intellectual, and engaged in work that is needlessly opaque.
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But in refusing to re-examine tax reforms that have exposed him to charges of being a "president of the rich" — he scrapped a wealth tax and lowered the rate on capital gains — the former investment banker, was again depicted as aloof.
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The stalled negotiations have also had an impact on inter-Korean ties, with the North aloof toward the South's plan to host Kim Jong Un in Seoul this month as agreed at his summit with President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang in September.
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And so, instead of welcoming China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative as a source of much-needed capital and infrastructure for itself and smaller neighbours, India has kept aloof, condemning it as a sneaky Chinese scheme to entrap unsuspecting client states in debt.
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David's no fool, and there are indications from early on that he's not nearly as out-of-control as he likes to pretend — that acting dissolute is a shield for him in the same way that acting aloof is one for Lorraine.
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In a rare moment of vulnerability, the Democratic nominee acknowledges that she "can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional" and describes an incident from her Harvard days that taught her that as a woman, she must learn to control her emotions.
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From aloof academics to career government cronies, President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 21625 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 2900,220006 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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Let's meet in the middle here: Put real effort into anticipating and countering problems with solutions that aren't just clever technical workarounds, and perhaps that will make a small dent in Facebook's growing reputation as an aloof overseer of our digital lives.[TechCrunch]
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Bush rode into office on the strength of white working-class voters who were drawn to his heartland cultural politics, alienated by Al Gore's aloof demeanor, and appeased by Bush's repudiation of the hard-right orthodoxy of the congressional GOP of the era.
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Because you can come off as aloof and are ruled by serious Saturn, you're sometimes perceived as cold and unfeeling, but the truth is here have been times in your life when you had to repress your emotions to survive without crumbling.
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There's a certain type of woman who is always dressed in something stylish but not fashionable, expensive but never ostentatious, exquisite yet hard to place: some thoughtful, meticulously cut piece of clothing that channels the contemporary moment while remaining aloof to trends.
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Down that road lies Iraq II. But American policymakers desperately need to learn how to find the middle road between overreaction and inaction; between a missionary zeal to solve other people's agonies and the illusion that we can remain aloof from them.
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But there is a curious congruence between the smiling nihilism of the 2016 Berlin Biennale and the aloof refusal of this year's: Neither offers enough of a positive vision of what an art exhibition, and what art itself, might actually be for.
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Arya was initially aloof as she enjoyed another hot pie with Hot Pie, but when the lad revealed his true narrative purpose — to notify her that Jon was back in charge in Winterfell — it redirected her from her revenge quest to King's Landing.
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Maybe that flash of vulnerability was enough to get you rooting for Sharapova, an unlikely underdog often considered more aloof than adorable in the earlier portion of her career, which included five Grand Slam singles titles, including one at the 2006 Open.
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Far from simply emboldening the sitter and recording for the purpose of emphasising dynastic security, he imbued depictions of Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria — he of slight stature and impenetrably aloof character, she of famously protruding teeth — with warmth and humanity, even vulnerability.
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We're All Still Here (1997) is an episodic film that features Godard heavily, first delivering a Hannah Arendt–influenced monologue on a theatrical stage, and later, in the final part of the film, as the aloof partner in a couple opposite the actress Bernadette Lafont.
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A Democratic congressman from New York state torched Nancy Pelosi this week, calling her "aloof, frenetic and misguided," as he joined a growing group of rebel Democrats who say they won't back the Californian for another term as the party&aposs leader in the House.
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In the midst of this froth of political chatter and school gossip, Román was often aloof, sitting at one end of the table, undercutting another person's point with a joke, doing casual impressions of professors, rarely saying anything that would reveal his point of view.
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While the court deliberates, Ms Park will remain characteristically aloof and alone in the Blue House, the presidential office that was also her childhood home (her father, Park Chung-hee, led the nation from there between 1961 and 1979, after seizing power in a coup).
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Criticisms of Macron's aloof leadership style and a summer scandal over his top body guard beating May Day protesters helped to push his approval ratings to a record low of only 34 percent in August, according to an Ifop poll for Le Journal du Dimanche.
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His acute political sense, working-class background - he is the son of a cleaning lady of Algerian descent - and reputation as a plain speaker have made him popular with the public at a time Macron faces accusations of being aloof and out of touch.
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He earned credibility among his supporters because they believed the story of resentment he was telling, not because he livestreamed himself eating a poison-free Big Mac—and, of course, he never had to deal with accusations about being "aloof" that typically dog female candidates.
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If the administration does take a hard line on Russian steel imports — in particular on grounds of national security — that could help refute somewhat the broader narrative that the president is a bit too cozy with Russia, or that he's seemingly aloof about Russian cyberattacks.
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Seberg is best known for her iconic role as Patricia in 1960's Breathless, the enigmatic and mysterious love interest to Jean-Paul Belmondo's Michel, but she starred in dozens of films, bringing a mix of aloof cool and genuine vulnerability to her roles.
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Waititi and his writing team lean into this idea in Ragnarok, cleverly mining the idea that Thor has no idea just how much his home means to him, and using his aloof relationship with the Asgardian people to finally infuse him with real humanity.
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If super-producer Kevin Feige is Tony Stark, the aloof know-it-all who changed everything and left others scrambling to catch up, then Mysterio is every director who's subsequently felt hemmed in by Marvel Studios' overriding ideas about how movies should be made.
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The careful, aloof, patrician George H.W. Bush was succeeded by the charismatic, brilliant, relatable Bill Clinton; Bill Clinton's successful but seedy presidency gave rise to the disciplined, religious, and decidedly non-bookish George W. Bush; W's blunt, divisive nationalism led to Barack Obama's hopeful, cerebral cosmopolitanism.
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But it's an excuse that we continue to accept, because we're still beholden to the idea of the difficult genius, the demanding executive, the aloof artist, the person who deserves to act this way because of their work, and the understanding of masculinity that accompanies it.
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The consumer electronics giant, which historically has remained aloof from the unglamorous but potentially lucrative market for enterprise software, has in the past two years set partnerships with IBM, Cisco Systems and now SAP that enable Apple products to reach a growing audience of business professionals.
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There's evasive fellow patient Kurt (voiced by The Wire's Michael B. Jordan); aloof staff member Bela (Spiderman 2's Alfred Molina); golden-haired child Lucy (Bubble Guppies' Bailey Gambertoglio); and occult expert Elsa (Daredevil's Rosario Dawson), who promises Wilson a way out of his increasingly strange situation.
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Written as a kind of cocky intergalactic lothario, Valerian ought to be as sexy and charismatic as a young Han Solo, though "Chronicle" star Dane DeHaan— so good in brooding-emo mode — seems incapable of playing the kind of aloof insouciance that made Harrison Ford so irresistible.
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"The approach of the UK government is not going to be disengaged or aloof or waiting for them to come to us: we are going to try to solve this problem and we are going to do it in a spirit of friendship and cooperation," Johnson said.
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"The failure of leadership at the department and at post, the sluggish reaction to the initial reports of afflicted personnel, the aloof response of the medical team at the State Department, silence from diplomatic security to the rest of the department is simply staggering," said Menendez.
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In fact, the times when she does try to be witty and totally fails — like when she responds to an aloof boy saying he wouldn't snitch on her with "I hope not, because I'd fucking kill your family" — are even more hilarious because they're so painfully accurate.
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And expect Mr. Solomon, who is active on social media and has a side gig as a DJ (he'll be spinning at Sports Illustrated's Super Bowl party in Florida this weekend) to try to humanize the aloof institution, which he took over in the fall of 2018.
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It grew during the week as the royal family remained aloof and distant in Balmoral, their castle in Scotland, and appeared not to be reacting to the clamor that Diana, whom the public thought the royals had treated shabbily in life, be shown proper regard in death.
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He believes that Western civilization is locked in an existential battle with the barbarians at the gates, that nationalists must wrest control from the aloof and corrupt globalist elite, and that America is a once great nation shackled by welfare for both the poor and the wealthy.
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And expect Mr. Solomon, who is active on social media and has a side gig as a DJ (he'll be spinning at Sports Illustrated's Super Bowl party in Florida this weekend) to try to humanize the aloof institution, which he took over in the fall of 13.
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He is widely seen as an honest man of the people, rare for a leader in a country where the political class is scorned as corrupt and aloof, and his push for infrastructure and cutting red tape has burnished his image as a hands-on leader.
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If you're not ready to ask your crush how they feel and risk potential heartbreak, here are some signs you can watch out for before deciding whether you'll ask them to be your valentine: Why does steamy, romantic Valentine's Day land in cool, aloof Aquarius season?
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Comey's Sam the Eagle-like rectitude is an embodiment of the attitude the FBI has often had toward politics in general, and even toward the political appointees who oversee it at the Department of Justice and the White House: an aloof superiority that, when challenged, stiffens into prickly independence.
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People think of you as cool and aloof, but anyone who knows you well enough knows that your living space is usually warm and cozy, filled with plants, sweet treats, and cozy blankets—and with Mars in Taurus, you will not be compromising on any of your comforts!
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Above: photo of The International courtesy Valve One of the striking things about Dota 2 is that, although its rise coincided with the explosion of interest and audience for esports, it's remained almost entirely immune—or perhaps aloof—from the trends that have largely shaped professional gaming since 2011.
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But before Mr Maimane can become South Africa's giant-slayer he must resolve the dilemma of power: should his party seek to govern some of South Africa's leading cities by forming an alliance with the radical, dangerous Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) or should it keep clean and stand aloof?
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Jay continues to explore roles throughout the episode, and we get a first and fast glimpse of him finally playing the part he has long been pursuing of either tender farmer or aloof animal husbandrist, when he hangs out with his new baby chickens in his pretty shambly garage.
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Even Lil Bub and Friends, a documentary which explores exactly why cats are so popular on the internet, paints a picture of the animal that sees them fully live up to their reputation for being, at times, aloof and independent—wholly unconcerned with the human caretakers in their midst.
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Once a matinee idol for the art house set, thanks to the cerebral, aloof demeanor and subtly anarchic wit he displayed in cult favorites like "American Psycho" and "Mulholland Drive," the celebrity-industrial complex transformed him from an actor that cool people knew into an actor everyone knew.
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Meanwhile, Conservative MP and Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg — an arch-Brexiteer whose aloof, aristocratic demeanor has come to symbolize to many the political elite's disdain for the public — was heavily criticized for his body language, reclining across a parliamentary bench as the debate raged.
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When I first met him, on the campus of Yale University, where he is chairman of the playwriting program — one of the most exclusive in the country, admitting only three students each year — it struck me that he was, if not distant, then at the very least aloof.
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"Brexit is probably a bigger break for Britain than for the European Union, as the perception from the Continent has always been that Britain was somewhat aloof and detached and closer to the U.S. than Europe," said Holger Nehring, professor of contemporary European history at the University of Stirling.
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One of the officials told Senate investigators that Peter Strzok, a senior FBI official on the Clinton investigation who was fired last year after the release of text messages he'd sent that were critical of Trump, was "aloof and dismissive" when presented with information about the potential Chinese hack.
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One thing that has happened, as events this week have shown, is that this largely west coast-based industry, which once prided itself on remaining aloof from the rest of America -- and disengaged from Washington politics -- now finds itself part of a nation often at war with itself.
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It's possible that this could be somewhat of a never-ending problem, as Bloomberg reported Apple discouraged employees from ad hoc solutions like marking doors with post-it notes, while its moderately high turnover rate could result in newer hires remaining aloof on the issue until that terrible second of revelation.
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He might seem aloof — I maintain a vivid picture of him standing still against a fence, head wrapped in noise-canceling headphones, amid the pre-race celebrations before one of the races in Brooklyn last summer — that all falls away when you get him talking about the details of his job.
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Modest in scale, rigorous in execution, mysterious and aloof in outcome, Winkfield's invented forms tell us that all is not lost, that capitalism does not yet own our imagination — that the excessiveness of the mind's eye does not require the profligacy of high-end production or large expanses of real estate.
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Across town that same week, Ms. Johnston and Mr. Lee, who are married, also unveil Phase 1 of their renovation of Josef Paul Kleihues's Museum of Contemporary Art, an attempt to humanize the famously aloof building by unlocking some of its unyielding geometry and embracing the park to its east.
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Among the other candidates, Cory Booker wound us up with another anecdote about some person he met as soon as he moved to Newark, while Pete Buttigieg tried to maintain the imperial, aloof self-confidence of the Rhodes scholar who became the mayor of a small Midwestern city and defies stereotypes.
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Part of the way deals used to get done in Washington was by part of a meta-deal — members of Congress who got on the deal train would have the opportunity to advance pet ideas, while members who stayed aloof from dealmaking wouldn't be able to move the ball forward.
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From the moment he tapped Ms. Fallon for the job, Mr. Obama charged her with improving his relations with Capitol Hill, which had grown toxic amid complaints from lawmakers in both political parties that the president was too aloof, and that his staff was unwilling to involve them in big decisions and debates.
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At times, Mr. Pence can seem jarringly out of place, a clean-cut 1950s Republican cheerfully navigating the chaotic "Mad Max" landscape created by the disruptive duo of Mr. Trump and Mr. Bannon, trying to stay engaged while remaining discernibly aloof from the less-savory aspects of serving in the Trump White House.
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In its first two decades of existence, the founders of the Ciudad Abierta, which included artists and poets as well as architects, kept mostly aloof from other schools and, controversially at the time, from the turmoil of the dictatorship, particularly the prison camp for political dissidents at Ritoque, three miles down the beach.
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And while Obama's speechmaking may have become mundane through repetition at home, and his more aloof disposition with foreign leaders abroad have led to mostly distant relationships with his counterparts, his lofty turns of phrase can still move audiences who are seeing him for the first time and for whom he remains a hero.
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Not just regular hot, like the average professional footballer or someone off Riverdale, but a rare, disorienting kind of hot that interferes with your brain chemistry and temporarily warps your personality – a hot that causes aloof men to fall over themselves trying to maintain their composure and self-assured women to boil over with rage.
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Rather Beijing has maintained an aloof posture consistent with its approach to the Middle East as a whole since the end of the Cold War whereby its core interests in the region -- access to energy resources and overseas markets and investment opportunities -- have been pursued through an "offend no one" and "attach no strings" strategy.
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The prime minister has a bad habit of being glib and aloof, which is charming the first time you see it on the campaign hustings against Stephen "I do math homework for fun" Harper or when it's played on the news alongside Donald Trump's latest musings about America's ideal guns-to-child-murder ratio.
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" A 1983 profile by Jon Margolis actually took this observation so far as to end up assuming that "Sanders, even if re-elected, probably will not have much impact outside Burlington" because Bernie was aloof from national socialist organizations and "prefers to make the revolution in one city, fill the potholes, and keep the tax rate down.
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The work is difficult to connect to, and that feels like a very deliberate decision (although it's unclear what Imhof's motivation to remain so aloof might be); of the works in the exhibition, hers felt the most atmospheric, the most immaterial (as Kittelman pointed out), but definitely not (for me, at least) the most engaging, intellectually or viscerally.
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For two hours, America's dads Joe Biden, Tim Kaine, and Barack Obama and its aloof rich uncle Michael Bloomberg relentlessly made the case that Trumpism was not Republicanism, but a tumor infecting a once noble Republican Party and that the only way for Republicans to get rid of the tumor was to vote for Hillary Clinton.
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If Nas was the aloof observational poet sketching devils lasso metaphors of Queensbridge, Mobb Deep brought the energy of Timbalands stomping down pissy stairwells; they were the sweat on your spine, the grim color of the chalk outline, the heart racing like a cardiac patient, shattered glass echoing, the mutant fragrance of marijuana and bullet smoke.
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Back in 2006, The New York Times's Clive Thompson described the unsavory options facing the company: If Google remained aloof and continued to run its Chinese site from foreign soil, it would face slowdowns from the firewall and the threat of more arbitrary blockades—and eventually, the loss of market share to Baidu and other Chinese search engines.
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I think you just need to ... I always say that after the 2004 election, when John Kerry lost because everyone said he was too elitist and too aloof and all that kind of stuff, well, we lost the white working class and so the answer is someone that has to connect with the white working class.
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Though the middle child, Theodora (Kate Siegel), is the most aloof sibling of all, she inevitably functions as a kind of empathic bridge between her mentally broken younger siblings and her two skeptical older siblings; yet she has a secret of her own, in that her empathic ability allows her to "sense" secrets tucked away inside people and objects.
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To help them generate a list, you might offer as a starting place these criteria proposed by Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton, in his recent Op-Ed: First and foremost, any new president should execute public duties with a commanding civility and poise befitting the nation's chief executive, but without appearing aloof or haughty.
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The episode opened and closed with the lush and romantic 1982 hit "More Than This" by Roxy Music — it played at the bowling alley where the Morozovs soaked up some American culture with Tuan, Elizabeth and a noticeably aloof Philip, and it was reprised on the soundtrack before the closing credits, as Philip and Elizabeth pondered their latest kill.
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When one considers the ever-changing nature of process complaints, after previous complaints and demands had been addressed, it becomes clear that the White House counsel's defense strategy is one of representation without participation --that is, one of representing the client's disdain for the whole process by remaining aloof from attempting to rebut the testimony of witnesses.
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Despite being married to a reality star husband who can hardly bear to walk by a pack of reporters without saying something -- or let a morning go by without a tweet -- Melania Trump has fought against the stereotype that she is aloof, detached, even "trapped" in the White House, as the hashtag #FreeMelania, which spawned memes, suggested.
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" Having bipolar depression doesn't define my personality or anyone else's, but according to Dr. Yvonne Thomas, Ph.D, a Los Angeles-based psychologist whose specialties include relationships, "A person with a mental illness can be misread as not caring, being insensitive, or being aloof, which can affect even being able to start a relationship with a new person.
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