Her father, "removed, remote and distant", spoke of Bengal as "a wonderful green and fruitful land", while her mother, with her "rich, warm, vibrant personality", quoted German nursery rhymes and tales of Christmas in Berlin.
Programing languages share a lot of structural similarities with their distant spoken cousins.
The peculiar percussion in the song's middle-eight – helicopter blade whirrs, and a distant shouting army – sound especially fierce against Michael Stipe's distant, spoken-word testimony.
Staten Island catcher Mitch Evans also came from a distant land speaking a foreign language -- in his case, Australian.
Even though he had a distant memory of speaking and hearing, he had never learned the facility of reading words upon the tongue.
Their names are Ielpi, Vigiano, O'Berg, Butler, and they pick through the muck of destruction, their eyes distant and sad, speaking of nothing but death.
As results deteriorated last year and the owner became increasingly distant from Scolari, speaking to him only briefly after matches, Michael Ballack responded to questions about the manager by criticising his substitutions and his training methods, and arguing that the team lacked fitness.
An obscure camera artist named William Morris Smith also took a distant shot of Lincoln speaking on March 4 , 1865
It was hard not to recall their 1973 counterparts, the ones the narrator of Roberto Bolaño's novel "Distant Star" describes as speaking in a "slang or jargon derived in equal parts from Marx and Mandrake the Magician," whose dreams of revolution would end in torture dungeons and prisons or in long years of enervated exile and bitter reckoning — the story of a generation.
He had become more distant from Putin, often speaking out of turn.
