All 4 Uses of
aloof
in
Childhood's End
- He had laboured to take men to the stars, and in the moment of success the stars-the aloof, indifferent stars-had come to him.†
Chpt 1
- The Overlords remained aloof, hiding their faces from mankind.†
Chpt 2
- Yet here and there faces were turned anxiously towards the sky, to the aloof silver shape fifty kilo-metres above Madrid.†
Chpt 3
- Perhaps these purely physical problems accounted fbr their aloofness.†
Chpt 6 *
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others