Florence is 50 miles to the southeast but even more distant in spirit.
With its dove-gray walls, chandeliers and sconces, and a chamber orchestra discreetly tucked into one corner, the setting transported visitors to a time as distant in spirit as it was in location from the frenzy of Fashion Week in Midtown, where most American designers are now showing ready-to-wear collections for spring 2001.
Dr. Michihiko Hachiya has written in his book "Hiroshima Diary": Those who were able walked silently toward the suburbs in the distant hills, their spirits broken, their initiative gone.
"It was a good day on Mars," Matt Wallace, manager of the robotic rover mission, said after the distant Sun set on Spirit's landing site in Gusev crater, near the Martian equator.
The events and attitudes revived in Ken Loach's documentary-homage are so exotically distant that the "the spirit of '45" might as well mean the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
As Soviet musicologist Daniel Zhitomirsky points out, the composer "was fond of delving into old music and had a great feeling and gift for conveying the spirit of distant historical periods".
You don't have to be an old boy from Eton, Harrow or even Cheltenham College (one of the locations where If … was filmed) to sympathise with Travis's alienated spirit – my own (distant) school days were spent at a Catholic comprehensive in northern England – you just need to share his belief that the game has been rigged so you might as well trash the rules.
The Spirits became a distant memory, even for people in St . Louis
Talk of a "war" itself encourages people to believe in a clear and not-too-distant victory, whereas the apocalyptic spirit of al-Qaeda may be around for decades.
In a vivid continuous visionary state, the shaman experiences himself in disembodied form, flying away from the place of the séance to a distant location to visit ghosts, spirits, or gods.
