Sentence examples for distant affair from inspiring English sources
But the moralizing along Fifth Avenue always seemed a distant affair, Mr. Reilly said.
Initially, Norman considered the war that erupted in Europe in the summer of 1914 to be a distant affair, and he felt reassured by President Wilson's pledge of neutrality.
And war itself increasingly became a sterile and distant affair: U.S. soldiers directed drone attacks from buildings on U.S. soil, using high-tech weaponry much like blockbuster video games.
When you follow the news, elections can seem like distant affairs, the exclusive province of candidates, their consultants, and the journalists who cover them.
In 1938, at a time when many Americans were fixated on the escalating tensions in Europe, while at the same time resolute that the country not become entangled in distant affairs, one Virginia man was focused on getting involved in another part of the world.
A distant love affair, yeah.
The delicacy of this remark fails to disguise its clarity of purpose, and, as it happens, distant international affairs are by no means the only source of "intrusion" in "A Gate at the Stairs".
My own so-called halcyon years feel like a distant and rather different affair relatively.
Franklin was a deist; God, in his opinion, was a distant presence in the affairs of men.
There were only the two of them on the mountain, flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back and the crawling lights of vehicles on the plain below, suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs barking in the dark hours.
With the rise of China as a principal export destination and the visit last month by President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia to court Latin American leaders, there are more frequent reminders that the United States is becoming an ever more distant player in the affairs of the region, said Riordan Roett, the director of the Latin American Studies program at Johns Hopkins University.
