They aren't even distant cousins.
It was a dangerous miscalculation to assume that people for whom Vietnam is not even a distant memory would give Kerry the benefit of the doubt.
It may have been Tchaikovsky who inspired Pet Shop Boys to attempt their first ballet score, but the music they've written for The Most Incredible Thing is not even a distant relation to The Nutcracker or Swan Lake.
The first war of this new century is not even a distant cousin of the Persian Gulf War, much less of the cold war that still determines, in many ways, the size, form and orientation of our military.
What all parts of Subtopia City share is squalid, bleak town centres, while the real wealth is not even in the suburbs, but in the distant exurbs and expanded villages around them.
By the way, before we get into precisely how this motor feels when you mash the "go" pedal with your right foot, you should be aware that, just because it has the same displacement as the V-8 in Ford's Explorer– Ford bought Land Rover from BMW in 2000 this engine isn't even a distant cousin to the one in its less blue-blooded relative.
I guess when you are a kid you can't even imagine a day without your grandparents and the thought of a day when they will be gone isn't even a distant thought.
Hilary had died in 1991, when Josephine was only one year old, so she was not even a distant memory to her daughter.
In fact it never was, not even in the distant days when it took a slightly subtler form, as when he made his reported claim that "all reggae is vile".
It was so low, so distant, Patty was not even sure if she was hearing it, if it was not simply the echo of the day's stillness sounding in the blood of her brain".
