Sentence examples for a distant reminder. from inspiring English sources

For years it has been a distant reminder of Britain's austere past and of the days before fancy cereals and continental breakfasts.

This is a return to a favourite topic of Kureishi's – intimacy – and for me the movie is a distant reminder of his 2001 film Intimacy, directed by the late Patrice Chéreau.

It's as silly as it sounds, stilted and cheap-looking in its waking action – but the dream sequences, rendered in marbled monochrome with slashes of red and yellow, provide a distant reminder of the master's dormant gifts.

Only Leonard Peltier remains behind bars as a distant reminder of those hateful and fateful days.

The lack of accepted curricula seems a distant reminder of the many gains made before evidence-based medicine.

Those championship trophies sitting in the window of the Lakers' practice facility have become like the stopped clock in Miss Havisham's house, distant reminders of an era when things ticked.

In several interviews last week inside and outside the Police Department, those who talked about the detectives' deaths said that the shootings seemed like a dispatch from a distant past, a reminder of an older kind of reality -- no less tragic than Sept. 11, but different.

For them, carnival was not a cultural reminder of a distant and different home but a means of asserting their claim to the only home they knew.

That old drive sits beside my new laptop, an inert and minuscule paperweight (only 30 gigs!) — a reminder of a distant and now inaccessible past.

Most natural history museums are in urban centers, offering reminders of a distant natural world, but this one is housed in the realm it surveys; it is at home.

Moments later, a truck pulls around the corner and heavily armed M23 soldiers spill out of it on to the street – a timely reminder of what a distant prospect that security is.