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Aloof sentence9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() delusion that its usages per se and simply as ‘contemporary’ – irrespective of whether they are terser, more vivid (or even nobler!) – have some peculiar validity above those of all other times, so that not to use them (even when quite unsuitable in tone) is a solecism, a gaffe, a thing at which one’s friends shudder or feel hot in the collar. I am sorry to find you affected by the extraordinary 20th. 191 127 The Magyar nation stood aloof from it. 315 156 Fersen stood quite aloof from the revolution of 1809. 540 219 He kept himself aloof from all party strife. has lost the trick of putting a word desired to emphasize (for pictorial, emotional or logical reasons) into prominent first place, without addition of a lot of little ‘empty’ words (as the Chinese say), so much the worse for it. aloof Meanings Synonyms Sentences His aloof response made her look up. ‘They also picked out some helmets and round shields’.) But this is not normal order, and if mod. Joe Klein Time, chiselling great thoughts on marble columns. before the word they modify: the alert patient, the aloof physician. Example Sentences as he is courtly in a formal, afternoon-tea sort of way. Some (wrongly) class it as an ‘inversion’, since normal order is ‘They also chose helmets’ or ‘they chose helmets too’. We also want to be careful in a sentence such as I like him better than she/her. I can see no more reason for not using the much terser and more vivid ancient style, than for changing the obsolete weapons, helps, shields, hauberks into modern uniforms. In this sentence the words on the other In this sentence the words on the other hand and eager tell us that Billy feels hand and eager tell us that Billy feels the opposite of Joe, therefore, reluctant the opposite of Joe, therefore, reluctant means uncertain or cautious. Why deliberately ignore, refuse to use the wealth of English which leaves us a choice of styles – without any possibility of unintelligibility. Tolkien, responding to criticism of his ‘archaic’ style, wrote the following: See also its treatment here, which discusses the devices of lyric poetry, including in Le Guin and Tolkien. Show More Sentences The Presbyterian Church held itself. Yes, this is the poetic device known as hyperbaton. How to use aloof in a sentence She stood as cold and aloof as earlier she had been warm and clinging. ![]()
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