However, John was an aloof and remote figure in the lives of his children, as Bruce would later recount.

But there she sat, a stately, aloof figure, having apparently paid not the slightest attention to the appalling mud-stains on her beautiful dress.

She became a kind of hologram of a mother, a shimmering but aloof maternal figure, always just out of reach and out of touch.

People there recalled Cardinal Ratzinger as an aloof figure.

She remembered the aloof figure from gossip and brief glimpses in the small town of Glaston, but his image had never really impressed her.

Ramsey often came across as an "aloof" and "proud" figure.

Mr. Hu, usually a colorless and aloof figure, seemed to be mounting something of a charm offensive in Africa.

She was standing straight now, with her arms at her sides, a shining, seemingly aloof figure.

His daytime television appearances also seem intended to show that he is not the aloof, presidential figure his critics depict him to be.

During games, Ganso cuts a detached, aloof figure.