Sentence examples for distant friendship from inspiring English sources

They both had children, though their distant friendship possessed them, as if their marriages&children were irrelevent.

The script is sketchy and somewhat puzzling (after a blissful night with Mousse, Paul leaves in the morning without explanation), but we're carried along by the potently ambiguous moods, the slow shifts from distant friendship to intimacy.

In this refined, yet undeniably conservative, way it is possible to forge deep distant friendships for life.

I can't offer you anything in your cell except my devotion as your reader, my trust in better times, and my distant but sincere friendship.

This year we even have the spectacle of a writer appearing twice, as both critic and target: Frederic Raphael, monstered by Craig Brown for his co-authored book (with Joseph Epstein) Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet, and himself the begetter of a demolition of John le Carré's A Delicate Truth.

Cristiano Ronaldo has rejected suggestions that a lack of team spirit has contributed to Real Madrid's slow start in La Liga – saying he took a similarly distant approach to squad friendships at Manchester United.

Marion's friendship with Britten – "distant yet close", a typically Britten-ish kind of relationship – lasted the rest of his life.

It's about a lonely adolescent called Blakemore and meditates on education, faith and teen friendship in the distant days before the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.

She's not unhappy, but her parents are distant and a childhood best friendship is showing signs of fracture.

Two and a half months later, those halcyon days of friendship look like a distant memory.

But living elbow-to-elbow in the ethnic mix of New York, the small groups of Hindus and Jews have discovered that sharing a distant enemy is sufficient basis for friendship.