Sentence examples for more distant figure from inspiring English sources

Hitler is a more distant figure.

His mother takes a keen interest in his work, and supported him through art school in his youth, but his father sounds like a more distant figure.

Key's insight was that Alabama voters prefer political representatives who lived close by, even when the more distant figure might better speak to issues of common concern.

He focuses his rhetoric on the invisible bogey figure in the room, a Democratic politician who happens not to be his actual rival in the contest – the incumbent senator, Kay Hagan – but a more distant figure looming over the race.

Yet, once, as I was waiting in the lobby, I saw a dozen heads turn away from Naomi Campbell to a more distant figure: Manolo had entered the room.

Evelyn received his first school lessons at home, from his mother, with whom he formed a particularly close relationship; his father, Arthur Waugh, was a more distant figure, whose close bond with his elder son, Alec, was such that Evelyn often felt excluded.

There is the bending man taking his shirt off, making a "window" through which the more distant figures appear.

Twitter, meanwhile, is at an even more distant number three.

This warrior association is challenged and undermined in the novel by the presence of the baby, its mother Helen, its grandmother Margaret and other more distant female figures.

This is consistent with the observation that time points zero and 180 mn were close in the PCA space, whereas measurements belonging to the 30 mn time point were more distant and scattered (Figure 3).

Phylogenetic analysis of amino acid sequences inferred by tcaC genes found in bacteria with true tca operons (possessing tcaA and tcaB) suggest that Bt did not acquire tca from either Photorhabdus spp. or Yersinia spp. in recent times, but from a more distant common ancestor (Figure 5).