There really were giants in Ireland in far-off times.
There couldn't be a more dazzling way for Westerners to encounter these far-off times and places, and this brilliant, restless traveler.
"In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk.
The original portraits are a glimpse of another Britain, a far-off time when many people were still in thrall to the novelty of having their photograph taken.
In another far-off time - 2004, say - it might have been reliably counted on to damn at least some of these theatrical shenanigans with a little faint praise.
And it cites numerous ways, from health problems to wildfires to extreme weather events, that climate change threatens human welfare – not in some distant land in some far-off time, but here in the United States, and soon.
But no help came from that far-off time, and Bartholomew — not knowing what he should otherwise do — continued to visit the lonely and the sick, to repeat the Te Deum, the Creed, the Litany.
During the World Series of 2010, I wandered the halls in the ballpark in China Basin and loved seeing old photographs of wondrous doings in a far-off time and land — Mel Ott, Sal Maglie.
When we try to Imagine the time and the people who will look back on the grotesque complexity of N.Y. in '41 and say Christmas was really Christmas in those simple, far-off time our mind rejects the picture.
The boss thinks nervously about the next day, when those workers will be needed badly, then tries mightily to look ahead 30 years but can't focus on such a fuzzy, far-off time.
