Sentence examples for comforting distance from inspiring English sources

With the divine retribution angle now an anachronism, and international terrorism making Airport-style plots too near the knuckle, climate change as a plot device provides the right blend of terrible plausibility, comforting distance and chastening subtext.

Perhaps the Greek words create a comforting distance between us and our bodies.

They will be among friends there, and at a comforting distance from any Baltic-Russian border.

The distancing frame of stories and storytellers is thus broken, removing what little comforting distance remains for the reader.

Instead, this language produced a comforting distance, a rarefied space in which to work, functioning a little like a sheet of stained glass beyond which the action unfolded.

Guns place a comforting distance between the person pulling the trigger and the violence that ensues.

The objective function of the resulting constrained nonlinear least-squares problem provides a trade-off between tracking performance, driver comfort, and keeping a comfortable distance from fellow road users.

At first I thought that Clara was comforting him from a distance, urging him to come to her.

It's comfort and distance; that's what you learn" from real-world tests.

Figure 1 Shibata's zone of comfort with distance in (A) diopters and (B) meters.

And the prospect of mass murder at home at the hands of extremists shadows us everywhere, even as we seek the elusive comfort of distance from and understanding of the attacks of that bright September day five years ago.