Sentence examples for distant quality from inspiring English sources
It has a distant quality.
He had a distant quality to some extent.
His memoir has a distant quality, a vagueness and rigidity that perhaps came with age.
A squint, for example, can convey a distant quality to the music, Mr. DePreist said.
"Glenn is often described as having a glacial or distant quality about her, but in person she's the absolute opposite: warm and intimate," says the actor Iain Glen, who co-starred with her in the National Theatre's 2002 production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
While procurement of consumables for image processing is less of a logistical bottleneck than is the maintenance of the machine itself, analogue processing remains less desirable owing to challenges in storing the films, disposing of waste, and performing distant quality assurance on the images.
What could easily have become a political tract is thereby personalised, albeit at a cost: too much poetry can give a distant, mythic quality to things that should be immediate.
Lindeman's voice has acquired a new depth, a smoky, distant, intriguing quality, while both musically and lyrically this is an intricately constructed piece, exacted with a cool gaze and sensuality reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen.
And with men less likely to see God as an interventionist presence in their daily lives and more likely to stress God's distant, inscrutable quality, space was opened up for an autonomous realm of human action, described by a series of interconnected words: society, public opinion, civilization, fatherland and nation.
Digital images have a distant, once-removed quality — kind of like dead fathers, come to think of it.
When Nancarrow returned to writing for live musicians in the 1980's, his music had a more distant and abstract quality, as in the oddly stutter-stepping "Tango?" and the even more opaque "Three Canons for Ursula," which assigns different tempos to the pianist's two hands.
