We are servicing some distant interest, probably alien, although it might just be Verizon.
Crime is a fact in everyday life in America; most national polls list crime as one of the top 10 concerns of Americans; television stations are, for the most part, in cities where crime is of more than distant interest.
I saw him from time to time in London or in the South of France, and he continued to keep up a benign, though distant, interest in my fate.
The best-remembered single picture of the New Orleans flood is probably not of water rushing through the streets, but of President Bush peering at it with distant interest out of the window of his aircraft from several thousand feet above the devastation.
I was only doing what I should be doing – playing the part of the vaguely mobile young man, looking at the menu with some distant interest – when he came over, beer-burnt and fever-eyed.
Boil it down, and you end up with an argument that questions how much of our economy is at the mercy of distant, impersonal interests; and decries the failure of modern politics to understand the potency of local identity, and nationhood.
Roc Nation artist, Rita Ora, plays Drake's distant love interest in the video.
In this courtship, the racing industry is very much the pursuer, and the casinos are playing the role of the not-particularly-distant love interest.
"But the reality is that the issues they promote are very distant from our interests".
The solutions we seek are those appropriate and welcomed in this context, not those imposed by distant values or interests.
To medical students, evolutionary principles may seem dry and distant from their interests and from the rest of the medical school curriculum.
