True, the court's dignity has come at the price of its staggeringly anachronistic aloofness.
So Mr Ma has to balance his economic romance with China with political aloofness.
To counter the tendency toward aloofness, Martin insists that floorwalkers take lessons on how to be friendly and approachable.
His aloofness makes him a curiosity in a government with a populist style.
Credible outfits may boycott the worst-run elections, but such aloofness avails little if less reputable groups attend in their place.
The authors of old could afford aloofness because they had a few cultural dynamics working for them that have all but disappeared.
Both were McDonald's lifers known for their aloofness from the franchise set.
His aloofness from what played out in Iraq is a hindrance to him when it comes to issuing any call to arms in Afghanistan.
Aloofness is less a description of the authors of old, and more a comment on the system they worked within once they were established.
Mr Chirac naturally affects a presidential aloofness from such partisan machination.
The youngest sister, attorney Gus, resents the aloofness of middle sister Pia (Olympia) but also wishes to make her happy by reuniting her with a lost love.
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Supachai sympathizers fumed and Boonchu berated Tarrin for his aloofness.
But his aloofness (except for an occasional soothing but empty statement) as the battle with Yukos escalated has taught investors two things about him that they hoped were not true.
That aloofness might change: Popular, whose business is purely in retail banking, has experienced even more pressures on its margins than other banks, and its share price has suffered accordingly.
China's offer of money to help sort out South-East Asia's financial problems was a first and one that people in the region have begun to contrast, however mistakenly, with what they see as America's aloofness from their problems.
In Ukraine, the news website Ukrayinska Pravda reports that flooding in Kiev had forced President Viktor Yanukovych - widely known for his aloofness and for shunning contact with ordinary Ukrainians if possible - to travel to work by trolleybus.
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First, Gates took a job in the humanities division of the University of Chicago with the mandate to help the school better connect to its surrounding neighborhoods, whose residents resented its perceived aloofness and perpetual expansions into their blocks.
In the face of this aloofness, in part driven by regulatory restrictions and the exclusively non-retail nature of their investors, these funds now must now answer mounting questions about who they are and what it is that they actually do.
In Venezuela, like in many countries in Latin America, the natural vehicles of political debate and opposition-the political parties- have become weak as a result of ongoing corruption, disconnection from the public, aloofness from sources of societal support, and lack of social and political vision.
In part this reflects the weaknesses that lie alongside the charismatic skills paraded by Mr Obama in Denver this week: his inexperience, especially in foreign affairs, at a time when the world looks more and more complex and troubling, and a certain cerebral aloofness that seems to make it hard for him to connect with Middle America.
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