Sentence examples for historically distant from inspiring English sources

The weirdness under the conventions throbs even more insistently and indiscreetly, now that those conventions themselves are historically distant.

Cushman has had several successes with novels for middle-grade readers about strong girls, age 12 or thereabouts, facing a hostile, historically distant world.

In other words, the personal stamp -- our identities, in some historically distant, outmoded way -- have become unidentifiable and unrecognizable, purposefully so.

In the days leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, on Sunday, Bach, Brahms, Mahler and their ilk have once again been pressed to serve, their historically distant, emotively durable works lending voice to public expressions of grief in manners broad enough to enfold diverse beliefs and perspectives.

These trends have given us an intimate look into events, often violent ones, that have historically seemed relatively distant.

The shortest novel in this selection is also historically the most distant and interesting because it is "dyslexia friendly", printed on cream paper in an unusual font with serifs.

It is distant historically, culturally and linguistically.

However migration and gene flow between populations that had historically been geographically distant has accelerated in the modern era and many large metropolitan areas are now exceedingly diverse.

Scots are distant these days from historically important institutions such as churches and trade unions.

Fighting for the lives of generations not yet born is both a historically novel situation and one more distant and abstract than the great emancipatory struggles of the past.

This is a reflection of Otago's historically large influx of people from distant lands during the early settlement period, particularly from the Celtic countries of Scotland and Ireland.