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That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ...
I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.
Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.
Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.
When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits.
Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
I'm a weird guy. I'm practically albino. What about me isn't weird?
Frumious. Anything that inspires its own adjective is a force to be feared.
I'm not an oddball.
I hate to fall back on weird to describe them, but goofy is too weak, and strange sounds too sensible.
Annoyingly attractive
Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.
Conspicuous by his absence.
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
Nature forgot to shade him off, I think ... A little too boisterous
like the sea. A little too
vehement
like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every
colour scarlet. But I grant a sledge-hammering sort of merit in him!
Been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm
Stubborness and staunch, they are both same things
from different point of view, such crazy and eccentric.
For you, someone kind of quiet and mysterious-"
"I'm not mysterious," I interrupted.
"You are a little. And sometimes people don't know whether to interpret silence as confidence or fear. They're looking at you like you're a bug so maybe you'll feel like you are one.
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
A Coy Aversion
...a flutter
too shy
to be seen...
annoying attractive
sometimes decided to be truculent and unyielding, like a grouchy toddler -
In the immortal words of Mr. Burns ... eeeeexcellent.
Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery ... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
Does he seem listless, out of sorts?
I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.
Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.
Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional. (FINE)
Try to look like Peabody."
"Sorry?"
"Serious, official, yet approachable."
"You forgot adorable."
"Peabody is not adorable."
"She is from my perspective. Besides, I was talking about me.
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
People are quite frequently eccentric.
I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.
Odorous as a crateful of bad eggs with the miasma of original sin.
An absolutely different and distinctive character.
outwardly nice but inwardly horrid.
He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.
A charming arsehole, isn't that what they're called?
Strange looks everything for a stranger!
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Unobtrusive. In no one's way.
Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.
I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.
and mentally aberrant type.
To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.
I love introvert people. They ignore us on face unlike the extrovert's alter ego
She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever.
No charm, no humor, no wit
and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .
Chances are, while you can come across as introverted, the real reason for your apparent reserve is you're happy to be the life of your own party (be it in your head or in your own space) rather than follow the crowd.
coltish-looking,
Aware of her beauty and ignorant of her love. Coquettish
Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.
I am an emotional I am an emotional, devotional, incandotional creature.
There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
I am self-contained and self-reliant; your opinion is nothing to me; I have no interest in you, care nothing for you, and see and hear you with indifference.
Sometimes sassy, a little bit nasty but always classy.
Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!
I am a little extrovert.
Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent
mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.
Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Yes, I'm quirky, loud and crazy.
I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.
I'm very naturally happy, quirky and positive.
that weird sour body odor only monsters have, like a skunk that's been living off Mexican food. Grover
To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.
Bold to the point of recklessness. Brave and brash.
She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.
People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.
She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy.
She had the rare combination of being quiet and popular, a code that made her intimidating to younger, fashionable girls and mysterious to older, confident boys.
aborigine, angry, beautiful, fiery, fearless, remorseless and untouchable, overly
One of those personalities who, in spite of all their words, are inarticulate
Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.
In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.
CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.
I think that people vibe off your energy and I'm a pretty mellow person.
Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...
Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: stink. Stank. Stunk.
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
Bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health.
good looking in an adorkable kind of way.
I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very sociable creature.
Your very presence makes other people feel awkward. You stand out when in fact you'd rather not.
Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.
And he's just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary)
She's feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)
I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
Algernon is a pleasant companion. At mealtimes, he takes his place at the small gateleg table. He likes pretzels, and today he took a sip of beer while we watched the ballgame on TV. I think he rooted for the Yankees.
I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'
...radiating honest ignorance