Sentence examples for historically remote from inspiring English sources

Here and throughout "Harvest," the action feels at once historically remote and uncannily contemporary.

Moreover, trusted authorities had seemed to say again and again that such events were historically remote and could not happen again.

The form originated in the 18th-century novels of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, set far from England in a historically remote, dream version of Catholic Europe.

I'm not unhappy that art — meaning art of historically remote or experimental contemporary sorts, because everybody likes some kind of art — is a minority enthusiasm.

Through March 20 Andrea Robbins and Max Becher roam the globe in search of what they call transported places: things that would seem to belong to some other geographically, culturally or historically remote place.

It has been possible to trace Auden's family connections to figures as historically remote as Cerdic, the first King of the West Saxons, and Charlemagne, Emperor of Frankish Europe in the 8th century.

Historically a remote kingdom, became less isolated in the second half of the 20th century, and consequently the pace of change began to accelerate.

Typically, through this tiny detail, Harris brings a historically and geographically remote reality to us, closer than the closest thing.

Here the suggestion was that the Watergate scandal would one day seem as remote historically as the South Pacific island sculptures are geographically.

The most ebullient exhibition of the New York art season comes in the unlikely guise of a show of hand-stitched quilts from a remote, historically black community along the Alabama River.

Gee's Bend is a remote, historically black community occupying a bulb of bottom land, a U-shaped peninsula five miles across and seven miles long, hemmed in on three sides by the Alabama River.