Sentence examples for had been remote from inspiring English sources

As a futuristic science-fiction film, the project opens the door to abstractions — visual as well as intellectual — that had been remote from Truffaut's earlier films.

As a futuristic science-fiction film, the project opens the door to abstractions visual as well as intellectual that had been remote from Truffaut's earlier films.

The Bavarians believed that they had a better right to the Carolingian inheritance than the Saxons (who had been remote outsiders in the 9th century) and in 919 elected their own duke Arnulf as king.

"If there had been remote controls here in the stadium people might have been reaching for them," he suggested.

However he called Russell Brand "tuneless", and during George Michael's performance he thought that "if there had been remote controls here in the stadium, people might have been reaching for them".

Writing in 1961, the British official historian Stephen Roskill stated that the attacks marked the end of a "series of operations whose results can only be classed as intensely disappointing", and concluded that the possibility of sinking Tirpitz had been "remote" due to the shortcomings of the Barracudas and their armament.

A security official told AFP news agency that it appeared the bombs had been remote-controlled.

These old-fashioned stories must have been remote from his own school experience.

Such a possibility might have been remote, but after 9/11 it seemed unwise to trifle with it.

Penn may have been remote, but it faced opposition from some local whites over Dr. King's visits.

He said that for him, the Holocaust was "a matter of history, not personal memory" and that anti-Semitism "has been remote from my experience".