Sentence examples for distant sense from inspiring English sources

Not without a distant sense of humour (the only sort suitable for a Speaker).

They discuss the possibility of taking part in a drug trial, and Saeed's eyes light up with a distant sense of hope.

and though this isn't what is happening etymologically, in "darkling" we pick up a distant sense of it, and therefore of the bird's littleness and exposedness in his bare tree.

Many will be reminded of their own lectoral epiphanies, of those moments when the magic of literature first made some kind of distant sense, first suggested that this might be the best way of understanding life.

Still, it's one thing to think about death in the abstract, distant sense, and another to be faced with the possibility of your own happening suddenly today.

"Mirage" is eager to judge in a distant, broad sense: It's a lens designed to frame literal and metaphorical views of desert sprawl.

For large river systems located within distant settings it is practical to utilize a remote sensing approach.

Remote sensing offers the ability to examine large alluvial valleys in distant settings but does not imply that geomorphic criteria should be excluded.

If we can find signatures of the dust accretion growth in the ISM of galaxies by astronomical observations (i.e. very distant remote-sensing), it proves the growth to be ubiquitous.

"It also means that the connection is growing more distant in the sense that by definition it's going to be now more third and fourth generation rather than first and second generation.

SAN DIEGO — When one's job description includes predicting the unpredictable, with the threat of danger as a distinct though distant possibility, a sense of humor is a key to survival.