Sentence examples for a distant seat from inspiring English sources

Anonymity puts you up close, not pondering from a distant seat in the stalls.

It was the first time I saw them live and I had a really distant seat.

With more than 15,000 motorbikes and only 47,000 people, Tabatinga resembles a small version of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, another chaotic place where cars take a distant back seat as the preferred mode of transportation.

Drug problems, he said, "took a distant back seat to the economic issues".

But for pre-meds, such courses have long taken a distant back seat to core science courses.

Wallace the artist and Wallace the conversationalist take a distant back seat to Wallace the eventual suicide.

The film, writes Stephen Holden, "gives character development a distant back seat" to the "mechanics of its formulaic plot".

The rustic cooking of the region in the heel of Italy takes a distant back seat to the food of noble Tuscany and lusty Naples, and is represented on few menus in New York.

The production -- in most respects, a faded fax of the last musical staged by the fabled Gower Champion -- is a full-frontal assault by rat-a-tat tap, with everything else taking a distant back seat.

As much as these wonderful actors invest their performances with psychological nuance, their efforts go mostly for naught in a movie that gives character development a distant back seat to the grinding mechanics of its formulaic plot.

But it's clear, based on the Snowden revelations, that the government's concern for our individual privacy and security takes a distant back seat to its ability to spy on anyone and everyone.