Sentence examples for obscure and distant from inspiring English sources
I think often of a haunting few lines from Proust: "We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future.
Yet Washington officials can offer no coherent justification for joining another obscure and distant conflict.
Service was vague and distant.
Dust clouds beyond 2,000 to 3,000 light-years from the Sun cannot be detected optically, because intervening clouds of dust and the general dust layer obscure more distant views.
So what if a joint was smoked in the dim and distant past, or an article written in an obscure academic journal suggesting that mornings in America sometimes dawned cloudy?
Free shows, on the other hand, or ones at obscure or distant venues are always likely to lose out.
But it's hard to catch alien stars in the process of planetary baby-making, because the same dust that creates planets helps obscure these distant solar systems from our sight.
The archive may also help to ease a smoldering issue that few Western scientists like to discuss -- that papers arriving from obscure or distant institutions instantly provoke increased skepticism from journal reviewers.
When you think about all that fundamental stuff some ancient and shared with other mammals and distant ancestors, some idiosyncratic and new consciousness can seem like a merely surface phenomenon, a user interface that obscures the real works below.
She is tender and distant at once.
