keep aloof

Kali’s and Janaki’s children were much older, and as for Kunthi, she preferred to keep aloof.

“We try to keep aloof from it all.”

The bracelets, according to Wonder Woman’s prose, were “fashioned by our captors” as physical symbols that “we must always keep aloof from men.”

"The organisation has a huge international influence and Xinjiang can't keep aloof from it and we have already been affected," he said.

He sat then in the same chair by the pillar, facing his silent wife, and said: “Strange woman, the immortals of Olympos made you hard, harder than any. Who else in the world would keep aloof as you do from her husband if he returned to her from years of trouble, cast on his own land in the twentieth year? Nurse, make up a bed for me to sleep on. Her heart is iron in her breast.”