Sentence examples for distant air from inspiring English sources

There was something slightly crooked in Ms. Lange's features; she had a distant air.

Phil Parkinson, manager of a team separated by 49 places from their exalted opponents, had the distant air of someone whose grasp of reality was wonderfully tenuous.

As we got to the top, sensational views peeked out from between trash heaps and knots of overhead wires: Corcovado in one direction, the ocean in another, with hang gliders looking like small, colorful insects suspended in the distant air.

He intercut that footage — of public funerals and the miniature mushroom clouds of distant air strikes — with intimate images of his father shuffling around the apartment and his mother washing dishes.

His last wartime mission, in 1991, was fixing Marine Corps radar-detection airplanes at a distant, dusty air base in Bahrain.

Like most women in Paris, she was equally enthralled by his proud reserve, his distant, melancholy air.

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So is the thud of the shelling from Mount Qasioun and the distant roar of air force jets.

There were times when the silken air, distant laughter and scent of spring flowers were at odds with the work itself.

Gazing through their Google Glass lenses, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have their sights set on more distant horizons: hot air balloons that carry internet connections to the remotest parts of the world; cars that drive themselves; humanoid robots; and, more prosaically, internet-connected home appliances like fire alarms.

The developed device shoots an Au grain from a distant position using air pressure and loads it onto the applicator.