The contrast between the approaches of the two composers could scarcely have been made clearer – Stravinsky's distanced objectivity, clean and rigorous in its impersonality, set against Verdi's lavish and intensely empathetic rendering of fear in the face of mortality and final judgment.
I'm pretty sure he got away a lot of it, but the layers of lies and occasional slip-ups made him anxious and distanced him a bit from his family.
I don't think there's a person alive who really wants to hear a sixty-two-year-old entertainer talk on TV about having sex — actually talk about having real sex, while at the same making the usual, distanced jokes about having sex.
The Bellow generation has made us accustomed to ironically distanced Jewish narrators of violent or extreme events.
He compared it to U2's 1987 song "Running to Stand Still", saying "That same sort of descriptive but distanced narrative is what made [it] so powerful".
Our intervention differed in that the workshop (1) took place during the clinical clerkship year, (2) made use of practicing PCRs and physicians, and (3) encouraged a distanced but amicable relationship with the PCR.
You might say, then, that "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" offered a distanced view of its era from the day it was made.
Carlos Sastre, Evans, Vincenzo Nibali and Wiggins all made big breaks in the final kilometres but Armstrong was outmanoeuvred and distanced, left behind with Andreas Kloden.
From our point of view, this is due to the fact that the model provided by the BCSQ-12 extends the standard definition of burnout, allowing greater differentiation to be made using clinical subtypes; but at the cost of becoming a little distanced from the core of the syndrome as it has been considered using the classical model.
Ms. Williams's more improvisatory and defensive Anna – opposite Ms. Scott Thomas's distanced, abstracted Kate — makes the play more obviously a comedy.
