Sentence examples for distant closed from inspiring English sources

Even now I find it hard to write if I know there's someone else in the same building, no matter if they're sitting quietly behind a distant closed door, minding their own business.

He generally works in what might be called a distant close third person, inhabiting his characters' perspectives without blinkering his own panoramic vision.

Distant, close, midway between the two?

But "forward defence"—striking al-Qaeda and its offshoots in distant lands, closing down its foreign sanctuaries, intimidating its sponsors and lopping off its paymasters can be only one part of this prolonged war.

Each time the protagonist returns from battle, his wife nags him to talk about his feelings; he remains distant, stoic and closed off, and then, life moves on.

ESPN sometimes seems a little distant, while Fox closes in so tightly that pitchers don't seem to have limbs.

She was unrepentant about having described the two countries in a previous interview as "distant relatives and close neighbors".

The gorgeous gesture that closes "Distant Mandate" implies that the nick of time has arrived, sadly, a little late.

My stories were supposed to bring that distant land closer.

It has 1.3-megapixel resolution, and the lens can be set at distant or close-up.

Longer lenses bring distant objects closer for photographs, say, of wildlife.