Sentence examples for distant difficult from inspiring English sources

Their motto was "keep it distant, difficult, and dangerous".

In four words – 'God is distant, difficult' – he could suddenly illuminate, like lightning over a landscape".

She had a troubled childhood: her father left before she was born, and she remembers her mother as a distant, difficult parent.

"God/ Is distant, difficult", says one of Hill's great short poems, Ovid in the Third Reich; distant and difficult are Hill's poems, yet they always give you the confidence that you can press on, that their meanings are not open to whim.

To wander through "A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science" is to absorb the 19th century's passion for botany and zoology; the 20th century's mania for exploration of distant, difficult or desolate places; and present-day preoccupations, particularly environmental issues like water quality.

The world of oil is distant, difficult and far flung.

She was distant and difficult.

"For the better part of a decade, they have endured tour after tour in distant and difficult places," Mr. Obama said.

On this visit those few geese visible through the pervasive anticyclonic murk were strung out along the seaward edge of the marsh, distant and difficult to approach.

Fictional analysis of fictional art, then, is doubly not there, doubly distant and difficult to reach, even in de Kretser's skilled hands.

Better to go all-out for your goals, however distant or difficult, and take stock of your successes and failures in the enforced slow-down of January.