If we consider violence against women as something "other" – a distant, old-fashioned story to shiver over in delicious fear like a ghost story – we detach ourselves from the reality that on average two women per week are murdered by a current or former partner in England and Wales today.
A distant older cousin, Emily, becomes Mynah's emotional Virgil in the time of mounting anxiety.
Does she really love this imperious and distant old man?
Toby: Isn't the future of libraries dependent on not having gatekeepers who are scary, on libraries not looking ancient, and not being about distant, old knowledge?
In the signing line are scores of acquaintances — former classmates, parents of my friends, friends of my parents, Sunday-school teachers, fellow-actors in school plays, teachers from high school, co-workers of my father's, bridge partners of my mother's, people from church, near and distant old neighbors from Webster Woods.
In the signing line are scores of acquaintances former classmates, parents of my friends, friends of my parents, Sunday-school teachers, fellow-actors in school plays, teachers from high school, co-workers of my father's, bridge partners of my mother's, people from church, near and distant old neighbors from Webster Woods.
As one young survivor hopefully tries to signal to a distant ship, an old man sitting among the dead has already given up hope.
Even their style seems to be a distant echo of the old.
"And is the mothership man-made or from a distant planet?" In the old days, the United States systematically compiled reports of U.F.O.
The Texas-born Mr. Kirshbaum, 66, who taught at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester for 35 years, took over the Gregor Piatigorsky chair in cello at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California in 2008, a distant successor to that old cello wizard himself, who died in 1976.
Yet, in many installations, I could see a connection to a distant past -- to Old Master art.
