Sentence examples for distance collapsed from inspiring English sources

"With our physical distance collapsed by the networks, that innermost and most intimate of rhythms will be rendered immediate on our digital screens.

Combing through the written record and television clips, he narrated well-known events in such minute detail that historical distance collapsed and readers began to feel that they were living through them week by week (or, in the case of his bravura reconstruction of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, watching them on TV hour by hour).

2) To further evaluate whether an effect of polar angle-based connectivity was detectable in our data, we performed the binning analysis with respect to angular distance (collapsing across eccentricities).

And since I first read Proust's amazing descriptions of the emerging technologies of airplanes and motorcars and telephones I've thought of fiction as particularly suited to depicting new modes of communication and conveyance — the way they reorganize social space, collapsing certain distances, establishing new ones.

And yet he's present: the "unearthly distance" is collapsed ("The moon was in my mouth") by language, which manifests everything on the same plane.

Using the cosine of the angular distance, we collapsed responses to the left and right of the selected alternative into one measure, with a cosine of 1 representing a response that was exactly toward the chosen alternative.

Appleton got up and ran a short distance before collapsing.

Metamodernism: A paradigm, structure of feeling, system of logic, and cultural dominant in which all distances collapse into an alternately (or even jointly) scrutable and inscrutable, clear and ambiguous, all-complicit and indirect singularity whose relationship to contemporary living is a mimetic one.

Distance has totally collapsed, and the twin towers are the ultimate metaphor for that collapse.

Just as Amazon collapsed distance by bringing a huge range of books to out-of-the-way places, it is now collapsing time, by enabling readers to download books instantly.

Railways and, later, cars and aeroplanes, collapsed distance and time, and old ideas of locality became undermined Old ideas of authority and order were also demolished as we entered the Age of Enlightenment.