Sentence examples for close yet distant from inspiring English sources
Argent captures that peculiar mix of ease and awkwardness between relatives who are close yet distant.
When the male employees jeer at her, she retreats, in her thoughts, "To a place close yet distant, both here and not here; / Present, but untouched by doubt or by fear".
As South Korea's new president, Lee Myung-band and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan prepare to meet next month to chart what they say will be a new relationship between their countries, Mr. Rhee's experience helps illustrate what Japanese and Koreans mean when they call each other "close yet distant neighbors".
That push and pull creates a distinct process and also bleeds into the way Reichert's figures appear: close yet distant, realistic yet manufactured, strange yet familiar.
Or for the fact that neighbors were so close, yet so distant?
Its setting is apartheid-style South Africa, a time and place that seems both close and yet distant, a paradox that film makers are now finding irresistible.
But something darker lurks in this dazzling tale, with the spectre of a rainbow-coloured sky threatening to fall upon the star-crossed couple who have become so close yet remain so distant.
Ms. Butler and Ms. Smith say they are close, yet at moments they seem more like distant relatives reunited at a wedding.
