Sentence examples for puts a distance from inspiring English sources

The title puts a distance bet.

She can't resist playing jokes for jokes' sake, giving lines a Mae West-style spin that, however amusing, puts a distance between star and character.

With their down-to-earth lyrics, these are songs that don't require the kind of pretty voice that puts a distance between a singer and material that addresses topics like prostitution.

It glamorizes her — highlighting the pale face framed by waves of red hair (none of her usual curls) and the boxy sleeves of her beautiful, vintage-looking black dress — at the same time that it puts a distance, a subtle alienation, between her and the viewer.

"Except we didn't put a distance, not really," he said.

Having been drawn in by Main's enthusiasm, she quickly sought to put a distance between herself and him.

But the key factor for the leadership is to put a distance between what happened in the Chongqing hills and the political movement that has ruled China since 1949.

"We did not want to make it a clear quid pro quo swap, so we put a distance between them," one of the officials said.

How, in this madding American hour, to put a distance between the frenzy of crowds and the mind's flickering necessities?

However, due to urbanisation and economic problems, families then separated, and thereby put a distance between the aunt and her niece.

There is scarcely an ounce of fat on its bones and none of the wacky postmodern japery the Coens sometimes use to put a distance between a story and its audience.