Sentence examples for if distant from inspiring English sources

Neighbors said they had peaceful, if distant, relations with them.

Part of that fear stems from genuine if distant affection.

A shining, if distant, light in the positional darkness.

SYDNEY — This was a good, if distant, vantage point to view the proceedings in Copenhagen.

But the relations between the races had always been peaceful, if distant.

I'm utterly baffled but mask it with a respectful, if distant, "O.K".

She is still a strikingly handsome woman, with a chic, highlighted bob and a warm if distant gaze.

There is little pressure on the Mets now, as they play out a season that may build toward a better, if distant, future.

The discovery of a new Dickinson treasure in the course of an attic cleanout or a basement purge is a perennial, if distant, possibility.

Like the French and the British, whose industrial societies have deep (if distant) rural roots, the Japanese have long romanticized life in the countryside.

I know, too, that there's no organized conspiracy, nor even any vague ill will, involved in how it came to be that Bridgegate continues to attract punditry while West Virginia only generates the kind of sympathetic-if-distant coverage we usually grant far-off and not too devastating natural disasters.