The great romance didn't last for ever, of course, and he has other ideas of what constitutes a happy relationship, none of them very far removed from his idea of himself as a "big girlie poof who wants to get married and settle down for ever in a nice, quiet suburb".
As university and living abroad took me physically further away from Loftus Road than I'd ever been, I felt equally as far removed from the core principles of the club I'd started supporting.
It's a hard balance to strike – an adult writer too far removed from the ever-changing emotions, technology and idioms that inform teenagers' existence may make rookie errors that jolt the reader; a teenage writer may not yet have the skill to distil their recent experience and knowledge into book form.
In terms of dancehall, not so many years ago it would have been something far, far removed from anything a man would ever do, but now it's very popular among men.
Nevertheless, this is still far removed from the level of sophistication required to counter the ever increasing shortfall in supply of kidneys for transplantation.
Me, I'm so far removed from "curating" the Kitchen's dance program that almost no one remembers I ever had anything to do with dance in New York City.
In keeping with Kazuo Ishiguro's source novel, no one in Never Let Me Go ever displays any great urge to the heroic – a choice that feels jolting, but isn't so far removed from the film's historical precedents.
Genetic modification that could lead to reliable moral enhancement is extremely far removed from our present-day knowledge and capacities, and it is doubtful whether it will ever be successfully achieved.
Those who made the trek were rewarded with a scene far removed from the Berlinale frenzy, eerie and tranquil and transporting — something new in the ever-growing film festival cosmos.
That has, in truth, been the case here ever since President Vladimir V. Putin came to power and proceeded to orchestrate elections in which the Kremlin's favored candidates remained far removed from the people who nominally elect them.
