Sentence examples for middle distance is from inspiring English sources

The middle distance is instructive, too.

He sucks a toothpick, looks into the middle distance, is violent when he needs to be, silent when he doesn't.

"In the foreground of the painting are a girl and a lizard on a rock or a dune, in the middle distance is a beach, and from the middle distance to the background is the sea".

What is more, a rocky outcrop dominating the middle distance is taken from sketches made by Friedrich elsewhere, while the peak itself is copied from a study by one of Friedrich's pupils, who had died young.

In Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley writes "Nature at the middle distance is familiar— so familiar that we are deluded into believing that we really know what it is all about.

Function: noun. 1 : a blogospheric catch-all term for the sort of laziness in our political culture which declares "a pox on both their houses" regardless of context, always holds that two sides in any political conflict must be equally at fault and equally extremist, and the center is wherever the middle distance is between two political opponents, regardless of their actual policy prescriptions.

I worry that the formative learning years, particularly in middle distance, are being lost on occasions like this.

But I've never been a fan of TV drama with big-screen pretensions: whatever the context, characters doing nothing and staring into the middle distance are, for me, a big wind-up.

Figures in the foreground may be completely detached and fully in the round, while those in the middle distance are in about half relief and those in the background in low relief.

The pain that the jurors had felt while watching the film — and I watched them looking afflicted; they weren't playing with their hair or staring into the middle distance — was turned against Borukhova rather than against the judge who had caused it.

Twenty years earlier, it manifested itself in rebuilding Orange Juice, with Manyika's help, into the sleek, smart unit of 1984's Texas Fever and The Orange Juice, where a perfect middle distance was located between the shambolic clangour of their early work and a more polished, funky sound.