At this time of year, when the wintersport season starts on these pages, some distant resorts can usually be relied upon to herald the event with a light dusting of snow on high ground.
Skiers were less able to spend money on travel and hotels, but still keen to ski; so they went to local areas rather than bigger and more distant resorts.
After winning on the indoor courts in Europe for most of November, Roger Federer was in the sunshine at a distant, undisclosed resort with his wife, Mirka, and twin daughters.
I would like to point out that once upon a time, destination weddings meant you were all but eloping, not expecting your family, friends and acquaintances to spend several hundred – if not thousands – of dollars travelling to a multi-day events at a distant tropical resort.
The VAIO P is also a distant last resort (too pricey).
The team's achievement was described by news program 24 Horas of state channel Televisión Nacional de Chile as "coming from a distant beach resort in the region of O'Higgins to conquer North American lands".
The best parallel in critical writing might be online episode recaps of TV shows: a viewer rolling around in a work of art, noticing it deeply, not just (as critics too often do) resorting to distant acts of intellection.
But improvements to both software and hardware have made it unnecessary, and our ray-traced shadows and normal maps are applied without resorting to distant data centers.
Much improved roads allowed tourists to travel with ease beyond Engelberg, to more distant, higher, snowier winter resorts, such as Saint Moritz.
His voice was rasping and his hat and his coat evoked the streets of some distant city, and in that dead Adirondack resort town all cities were distant.
