"I allowed myself to drift very far from my sense of integrity," he says.
"In the restaurant industry, you are never really far from the sense that everything is sort of controlled chaos," he said.
Or has archaeological science wandered so genuinely far from common sense that it sees news in what may, to interested outsiders, look blindingly obvious?
Despite, or perhaps because of, their numbers, their wealth and their ever-expanding ranks, the 28 nations of the European Union are far from any sense of common purpose — beyond risk aversion — in their collective response to the crisis in Syria.
All this may feel far from your own sense of reality.
Far from having a sense of entitlement, Steele has always felt like a pioneer exploring a new frontier.
Its failure might have been in part because the concerto so confounds one's expectations of Elgar, just as Mr. Varone's choreography to the music feels very far from the general sense of his work.
Her book, "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture," carries what might seem at first glance to be a counterintuitive message: Far from making economic sense, the American obsession with cheap goods — the craze for bargains, discounts, factory outlets and Wal-Mart — is actually bad both for the planet and the individual shopper.
As such, far from increasing my sense of loneliness and isolation, social media have provided me with a means of reaching out and remaining connected to my friends and family – my support network – when all of my depressive traits are pulling me away into solitude.
But far from the distorted sense of entitlement plaguing many American players, Tskitishvili has never been the star of any team, arriving more as an N.B.A. fan than a player, reaching out and touching Jordan during a preseason game because, as he explained, "I just had to".
