Two of the N.H.L.'s oldest and most renowned franchises — the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs — will be missing from the postseason, once again unable to build on their increasingly distant championship traditions, and having alienated their local and worldwide followings.
Feeling distant from tradition, they devoured recordings by the great Amadeus, Emerson, and Alban Berg Quartets, while pursuing close collaborations with such distinguished composers as Christopher Rouse, whose vibrant, sinewy sounds had a palpable influence on the Calders' development.
Without a wink or apology, the soldiers slide from everyday conversation into Scottish ballads and folk dances that suggest a primal connection with distant generations and traditions.
With this image and his array of ancient religious symbols, Mr. Graham ties this 21st-century church both to Catholic traditions and distant mythology.
My mother suffers from dementia and forgetfulness now, and is growing frail, but her ways remain forever devoted to traditions, to distant memories, to ancestors worshipping and family.
The integrative medicine research of Elizabeth Targ, MD has demonstrated the energetic power of prayer (from all spiritual traditions) in distant healing.
It has helped to create his values and to hand on a tradition to distant generations.
It attracted workers from many countries, providing training for younger individuals who carried the Elton tradition to distant places, such as California and British Columbia in one hemisphere and Australia and New Zealand in the other.
And while the show's many fabric-based pieces may have distant roots in a tradition of textile industry labor, work by H. A. Rodriguez-Mora, Juana Valdes, and Alejandro Diaz (whose "Breakfast Tacos at Tiffany's" is a standout) is interesting for its intelligent and expressive riffs on Minimalism and Pop.
His band Brewed by Noon embraces progressive jazz, fusion, rock, and folk traditions from such distant points as Mali (it includes the guitarist and vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate) and Ireland (the singer Susan McKeown is also on board).
