To prove the point, Daniel Green, the editor of International Comet Quarterly, has drawn up a list of the exotic terms ("ice dwarf", "interplanetary small body", "icy planetesimal") devised by astronomers reluctant to use the word "planet" in connection with the distant snowball.
Those who feel a close connection with the distant, effected community will likely feel the threat more acutely and personally, making them both more afraid and yet more willing to help.
A Thousand Acres tested this relationship, but she nevertheless concluded her work with the feeling that "this sense of connection through Shakespeare with the distant past had been the loveliest reward of writing it.
The carer must be close enough to develop a good and empathic connection with the patient, and distant enough to prevent over-identification with the patient's problems and the risk of burnout [ 21].
Let's hope the Stax connection doesn't lead to an even more worshipful relationship with the distant past.
In recounting Mary Alice Livingston's arrest in connection with the killing of her mother, Mr. Livingston, a pointedly "distant" descendant, meticulously recreates the world of Wall Street, emerging technology, development, racy journalism, celebrity, political ambition — sound familiar?
And curiously, it is here, in his thoughts about their sense of time and death and memory, that he brings those distant people closest.Mr Pryor's connection with the past is through human beings.
It is the essence that preserves the substance of all things as they're projected in our mind, our maternal connection with the outside reality, that otherwise is bound to remain distant, hidden behind the reflective surface of our senses.
These were horrors in a distant land most people in South Asia had no real connection with the Holocaust and other atrocities, giving it less cultural impact.
Without a wink or apology, the soldiers slide from everyday conversation into Scottish ballads and folk dances that suggest a primal connection with distant generations and traditions.
