standoffishness

Perhaps that will change as monarch, but as Prince of Wales he developed an affable, grandfatherly style, with no standoffishness.

“I think it would be a very interesting study to see what has changed there, what has remained of the standoffishness of Savannah,” he told me.

This kind of standoffishness, saying Black people need to just be for Black people, is not Cedric’s position at all.

Of Mia’s—well, standoffishness, even as she spent hours a day in Mrs. Richardson’s own home, in this very kitchen.

As for Oyelowo’s onset standoffishness, that melted away on the last day of shooting in Cannes.