Sentence examples for a distant connection from inspiring English sources

Jake makes one well-intentioned but bad mistake by helping Lettie's husband, who proves so disreputable and dangerous that Jake can be tainted by even a distant connection.

American sports fans will find a distant connection between smash-mouth as a description of especially brutal football and gobsmacked, but the violence in the latter is purely figurative.

Crawford makes some headway by trading on a distant connection with his fellow Scot Sean Connery, whose publicist, Candy Harper Frances Fisherr), he wins over by giving her an in-office follicle makeover.

The backers of the new location hinted strongly of a distant connection to the Ohio River, the great natural conduit into the interior of North America, and ultimately to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.

He made the acquaintance of Giovanni Ruccellai, Lattanzio Tolomei, and Jacopo Sannazzaro; he met the illustrious Vittoria Colonna, a distant connection of his family, and in her house he probably talked with Cardinal Pietro Bembo and Ariosto.

Her music has that insubstantial, ineffable quality: it is R&B abstracted, rarefied, sublimated, with static, glitches and clicks to offer a sense of future-music with a distant connection to some long-lost past; many of her tracks appear to have sampled the sort of symphonic soul featured in this Guardian Music 10 of the best from 29 April.

Whether this behavior had any distant connection to China I do not know, but I doubt it.

What does deserve scorn, though, is the academic culture in which an extremely distant connection to a Cherokee ancestor ends up being touted by a law school as proof of its commitment to diversity.

LIE: David Freddoso calls Obama's distant connection with Bill Ayers "a remarkable relationship for a presidential nominee to have". p. 122) TRUTH: It reality, it's not remarkable at all.

Mr. Humphreys, it turned out, had a distant personal connection to Ms. McCormick.

The mayor all but accused the chairman, Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., of collusion with City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, even noting a distant family connection (a Miller great-grandmother was a sister of a Schwarz grandmother).