These distant events seemed irrelevant to the poor of Britain.
But distant events necessarily become viewed differently over time.
"In distant events, it's definitely a tossup — him or me.
There is no purpose in moralizing too much about distant events.
Raw anger Now 79 and in poor health, Fryer is reluctant to revisit these distant events.
Stephen is not seeking a companion survivor of time, to illuminate those distant events.
They wanted to know more about Bin Laden, more about Al Qaeda — more about distant events still shaping current events.
Although characters make flawed choices, the novel also hints at how little control they have, their lives "moulded by distant events, by other people's wills".
Garfagnana, an enclave in northern Tuscany protected by steep Apuan Alps, was, in Maggiani's view, an isolated microcosm that nevertheless experienced repercussions from distant events.
He added that Mr. Kissinger is willing to "contribute what he can from his memory of those distant events," but did not say how or where that would occur.
Although the book is written in the narrow first person, D'Sai seems to be a party to conversations that happened long before he was born and has a detailed knowledge of distant events and people's thoughts and feelings.
