Two years later this idea of the hero was elaborated in Past and Present, which strove "to penetrate…into a somewhat remote century…in hope of perhaps illustrating our own poor century thereby".
Not so at Monestevole, a remote 15th-century hamlet on an Umbrian hill, surrounded by farmland.
In a remote 19th-century village, two pastor's daughters took in French refugee Babette (Stéphane Audran) as their servant.
He's then drawn into a beguiling family of spell-weaving, curse-delivering immortals who live in a remote 19th-century mansion, decaying on the outside, an art-deco palace within.
His most determined critics included the federal judge Richard Posner, who wrote of Bork's views, "There are other reasons for obeying a judicial decision besides the Court's ability to display, like the owner of a champion airedale, an impeccable pedigree for the decision, connecting it to its remote eighteenth-century ancestor".
But for long stretches — particularly in the early going — you get the impression that all the performers are uneasily aware that they are performing in a classic of the remote 19th-century theater, and Mr. McGuinness's adaptation certainly does not help collapse the distance between Ibsen's era and our own.
Another day we climbed to a small remote 8th century Hindu temple (Selogriyo) but real point of the hike was incredibly beautiful scenery on the drive and the ensuing hike.
A work of art, if it is any good, is enigmatic, remote and takes centuries to understand.
The irony attached to many of the world's most beautiful resorts is that they are in places so remote that for centuries they were known primarily to their indigenous people, pirates and castaways.
NOTHING seems more remote from 12th-century French Gothic than 17th-century English Baroque.
