Sentence examples for for a distant world from inspiring English sources

In the immediate vicinity, the only connection to the developed world's riches was a square thatched hut that had been painted with a large, black Nike logo, an expression of impossible yearning for a distant world -- in Davos, say, or Washington -- where $100 sneakers are the norm.

Far more often, though, O'Brien's prose is her own and firmly under control, an apt instrument for the precise, poetic recollection of a distant world.

However, by then, as Professor Duffy put it, England's Catholic inheritance became for the English people "a distant world, impossible for them to look back on as their own".

If, for instance, you were living on a distant world scanning the skies for alien life, then Earth might well be on your list.

But both Spiegel im spiegel with resonant marimba and bells, and Für Alina reworked for vibraphone and crotales create a distant world of repetitive beauty.

But these broken signals from the past bring us, just for a fleeting moment, close to a distant world – the world of those who ruled Britannia for 400 years of these islands' history.

It was as if Ben saw HD in a distant world, like the people on TV.

Perhaps an outpost of humanity on a distant world.

I felt that I was in a distant world far removed from all others.

It would probably require a deal on world trade in agriculture, for instance—a distant prospect.

Pluto won out, possibly because it's appropriate for the most distant world to be named after the god of the underworld.