Sentence examples for distant towards from inspiring English sources

They were nine and 12, and distant towards me.

It would not matter how fluent your German is, German culture is either decidedly private or very distant towards others.

The Irishmen mingled with the FARC leaders, but were 'very cold' and 'psychologically distant' towards the lesser ranks.

24 But obviously Apollodorus does not pass a fair judgment upon the statement of Ephorus, and also confuses and falsifies the words of the poet; for he ought first to have asked Ephorus this question: Why he placed the Chalybians inside the peninsula when they were so far distant towards the east from both Sinopê and Amisus?

After escaping David, Ellie is more introverted and distant towards Joel.

In "Marge Be Not Proud" (season seven, 1995), she felt she was mothering Bart too much and started acting more distant towards him after he was caught shoplifting.

His decision to use only his own judgment in dealing with all sorts of matters, his resolutely distant attitude towards memory and knowledge, his warning that we should not mix God or transcendent principles with the human world, are some of the key elements that characterize Montaigne's position.

I asked Clare Mosely, head of charity Care4Calais if she felt people were taking this same distant view towards the jungle and migrant crisis, saying, "It's what the UK is doing right now.

The request that Neurath be replaced by Nadolny, the former Ambassador to Moscow who had resigned earlier that year in protest against Hitler's anti-Soviet foreign policy, indicated that Hammerstein and Mackensen wanted a return to the "distant friendliness" towards the Soviet Union that existed until 1933.

The last heroine in Clannad is a first-year student named Fuko Ibuki who has a distant attitude towards others and, before she met Tomoya, was generally seen alone by herself making wood carvings of starfish with a small knife to give to others as presents.

Depersonalisation is expressed in a negative, cynical and distant attitude towards others.