Sentence examples for distant about from inspiring English sources

But there was still something a little distant about him.

Not that there's anything archaic or distant about the enveloping energy that emanates from the stage.

"There is something very abstract and distant about the dependencies of the new economy," he says.

There's just something fragile and distant about it, like it's been beamed in from somewhere.

But it does mean that political parties should start thinking now – while the election is still nearly 20 months distant – about some of the ways they would respond, rather than turn to the subject only once the polls have closed.

I want to use the word "distant" about the writer's sense of his world, to suggest not coldness, but exactitude, something of the "fine, cold" quality Anna finds in Eliot.

Unfortunately, your distant equipment takes about one second to respond to each button press.

Ordinary Russians care little about distant countries and international events not involving Russia or Russian citizens directly.

It turns out he may be a 20th cousin -- yeah, talk about distant.

In this role, islands act like distant outposts, scattered about, breaking up the endless expanse of nothing at all.

The most distant clinic is about 120 km from the SMRU office in Mae Sot.