He wanted to know more, but her distant manner kept him away.

He was speaking to her in a distant manner, as if she weren't there and he was talking to himself.

Gone was the habitual stoop and the casually distant manner.

Riker noticed in a distant manner that he was as well.

But his severe expression and distant manners were back again, so she felt somewhat rebuffed.

In a distant, noncommittal manner, he said, 'I'll be nearby.

He smiled again in a distant and pitiless manner.

All this was done with a closed face, a distant manner which Jurnet found hard to account for.

He was a thin quiet man of fifty with smooth creamy gray hair, cold eyes, a distant manner.

His cold, distant manner is just a shield against showing his real emotions.