Sentence examples for distant thing from inspiring English sources

"I always felt like it was this distant thing that I couldn't touch.

He made whatever awaited us after high school seem like the most thrilling, yet distant, thing ever.

In countless villages such as the sleepy hilltop one of Owo, where Fadoyebo lived, the bloodshed had been a distant thing rumbling on in remote lands.

And it shows that slavery is not this remote and distant thing, but part of our intimate and personal family histories".

To these Iraqis, the debate over whether the war has been just or unjust, whether the blame lies with Saddam Hussein, or the Americans, or the insurgents, is a distant thing, carrying no promise of relief from their pain.

And that's both a personal thing and a distant thing.

In those days, my facile anger was as often burning against distant things as close.

In the spring of 1609 he heard that in the Netherlands an instrument had been invented that showed distant things as though they were nearby.

"On the Web there is no cue as to distance, so there's no way to make a mental map where distant things are smaller and nearby events loom large".

Lively traces the effect of these wartime refugees (popularly known as "the skinnies") on English country life, showing how the government's policy of billeting children and sometimes entire families in rural areas eroded the "profoundly deceptive truth" of pastoral changelessness by bringing distant things close, including urban poverty.

Their lives told a series of stories: that soldiers, like secretaries, are not abstractions; that wars are never distant things that can just be fought in a faraway place and left there; and that the military as much as the civilian sphere is a place where our values can be embraced and realized, rather than abandoned.