We could see them in the distance, watching from motorcycles.
"I keep my distance, watching it and thinking.
While mother and daughter were inspecting it, Taylor and I stood at a distance, watching them.
From this distance, watching New York's street scum being roughed up by Andy Sipowicz is mere voyeurism.
The salesman stood in the near distance, watching and waiting, whoever he was, whatever he said and did when he wasn't there.
Somewhere in the distance watching over this human comedy, Mr. Marker discovers, is a grinning cat, an orange tabby with a maniacally toothy grin.
The eye keeps wandering upward, admiring the light on the waves, following the movement of that sailboat in the distance, watching the test-flights of young phoebes.
Perhaps the most serious charge against him is that he viewed the human world from a disdainful distance — watching, with a certain voyeuristic pleasure, as people botched their lives.
He said what he found hard to cope with was the weird mixture of distance, watching it on screen, and then sudden engagement, where he gets overwhelmed with it all again".
One can imagine the young Donald surveying life at a comfortable distance, watching tradesmen come and go, cocooned in warmth and safety, with the knowledge that whatever anti-social forces might be gathering beyond the gatehouse would be safely intercepted.
