Sentence examples for is pretty distant from inspiring English sources

The idea that the day after Britain agreed to give up its stake in the colonies Americans collectively sang the 18th-century equivalent of kumbaya is pretty distant from reality.

Dads were pretty distant, a bit like Mad Men.

But that was pretty distant, and a very faint memory.

(And the rafters at the Beacon Theater are pretty distant.) There is little pretense at integrating the songs into the texture of the play smoothly.

Later in that trip, I experienced gunfire for the first time, though it was pretty distant.

A dozen or more Japanese men and women (the number is contested, because some were pretty distant from the blasts) are indeed considered "double hibakusha" -- survivors of both bombs.

The mood of "Distant" is pretty well summed up in the title, and while "Climates" begins in warm sunshine, it feels most at home in the wintry landscape of its final scenes.

Again, this is pretty enormous behaviour: shagging once so hard a crowd of distant angry parents call the police about it is pretty massive, but finishing up?

A strip of wood is pretty flexible.

It is pretty straightforward to use.

The linkage is pretty compelling.