"I'm a little bit worried, because he's distant," said an uncle, Larry Quinones.
"I wish he wasn't so stiff and didn't seem so distant," said Jo Allen Henry, 44, a fourth-grade teacher from Plainfield.
"Voters find Kerry aloof and distant," said Frank Luntz, a pollster who has conducted focus groups for MSNBC among primary voters in a half-dozen states.
At a time when readers are more accustomed to viewing text printed on screens or in books, handwritten manuscripts and letters may initially appear "distant," said Daniel Greene, vice president for research and academic programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
"Daughters are much better at emotional contact with their parents, visiting them more often, while Korean sons tend to be distant," said Kim Seung-kwon, a demographer at the government's Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs.
"We have been able to get the supply of fuel to Paris airports started up again… which makes the threat of a shortage at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle distant," said Patrick Gandil, head of the civil aviation authority.
"There was a hostile reflex toward celebrating Calvin; the public powers were very distant," said Gabriel de Montmollin, 50, whose publishing house, Labor et Fides, released seven books on Calvin this year.
See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour ». "When you see footage of things, when you see history, it's very distant," said Negga.
As an influence on global financial markets, the renminbi is "still a distant, distant, distant fourth," said Albert Keidel, a China specialist at the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University in Washington.
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