This is why we put up with Bran's standoffishness in "Game of Thrones," because as readers we trust that his standoffishness is a trait that will become meaningful as the narrative unfolds.
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Mr. Moss's neurotic style has led to accusations of standoffishness, and he can be a taskmaster.
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Aiming for epic adolescent romantic melodrama, they instead capture the grating cadences of standoffishness in electric detail.
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It was his perceived arrogance and standoffishness that kept a wall up between A-Rod and the public.
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Mr. Macron's European friends have been gentler, but the rejection — or at least the standoffishness — has been no less unmistakable.
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Ruffalo, in his round-shouldered, restrained performance, seemed to have uncannily captured Bilott's trout-lipped solitude, a standoffishness that made him seem permanently braced.
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Doubly so given the level of intoxication the late-afternoon crowd appeared to have reached, and the standoffishness upon which San Franciscans generally pride themselves.
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What seems like pride or standoffishness to the others is really just obedience; she can't take dance lessons with them or attend the school play.
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After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend.
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Both Peter and Toomes see Tony Stark as a looming figure in their lives, and both resent his standoffishness, his power over them, and the perception that he sees them as inferior and dismissible.
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Concealed in plain sight, my whole life, amid the moral rigidity and Swedish standoffishness of my father's family, had been a regular guy who had affairs and drove to Baltimore with his buddies and manfully accepted his fate.
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My race of devoutly rational bears find ancient tablets chronicling the improbable saga of a bygone empire, and it ignites a frenzy of enthusiasm for alien cultures, driving them to abandon their standoffishness in favor of closer ties with all their neighbors, giving rise the galaxy's first Federation.
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They later make up and Suzuki promises to join Chiharu in her new school the next year. ; :Drama role by: Hiro Mizushima, , Voice actor for game/drama CD: Masaya Onosaka : Chiharu's boyfriend. Suzuki's cool demeanor is often mistaken for standoffishness, and so he has few friends. Oblivious to Risa's crush on him, he develops feelings for Chiharu, and eventually asks her out.
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Rather than the "cool and collected" Cloud as seen in other games, Remake depicts his apathetic attitude as a façade to mask his insecurities. Nojima wanted to convey that his standoffishness could be seen as lame. Cloud's initial redesign for Remake departed more dramatically from the original's, but was later altered to more closely resemble Nomura's design. Tifa's desire for revenge against Shinra is complicated by her reluctance to enact violence.
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Harry takes a dislike to Parker; he resents the attention Gwen pays to Peter, and he assumes that Peter's standoffishness is snobbery. After confronting Parker, Harry realizes that Peter is merely shy and is also worried about his ailing aunt May Parker. Despite this rocky start, Harry and Peter became friends, eventually sharing an apartment. Harry does not realize that his best friend is the superhero Spider-Man, nor that his father became the supervillain Green Goblin in an accident while attempting to create a super-serum.
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In the manga, Haruka says that she and Michiru have "wealthy patrons". The anime and manga versions of the character are reasonably interchangeable, although her standoffishness is more pronounced in the anime. Like Michiru, Haruka is sometimes considered an antihero. In the Sailor Moon musicals (Seramyu), Haruka and Michiru's relationship remains largely unchanged; they are always shown together, which is consistent with both manga and anime, and while their romance in the musicals is usually kept low-key, the actresses for the two do kiss on stage in the omake of Kaguya Shima Densetsu Kaiteiban.
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2) #8 (April 2012) He is the good-natured "prankster" of the foster home, prone to mischief and pick-pocketing. The first of the Shazam kids placed with the Vázquez family in Philadelphia, Freddy was placed into foster care after his parents went to prison, and he has not seen them since age 10.Justice League (vol. 2) #21 (June 2013) Despite Billy's standoffishness when he is first placed with Freddy and the Vázquezes, Freddy ends up befriending his new foster brother – despite swiping his wallet when they first met.
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