1 Sentences With "standoffishly"

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On a snowy morning in that Flemish port city, I'd gone to the Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) to see "The Dance of the Bride" by Pieter Bruegel, and whatever other treasures the standoffishly formal museum with hissing radiators might offer me, when I found I had it all to myself aside from the tall, bald museum guard with a red beard and a gray flannel suit who shadowed me from room to room. from The New York Times