Sentence examples for remote ideal from inspiring English sources

In most of Europe, universal male suffrage remained a remote ideal until late in the 19th century.

It was important to him that she be a remote ideal, and he would say vehemently that "he only loved her shadow and cared nothing for her reality".

But whatever results are emerging this morning, William Blake's The Dance of Albion can only feel like a cruel irony or a bitter protest or an impossibly remote ideal.

Laarmans, who is the protagonist in Kaas, had been introduced in Lijmen, and he reappears in Pensioen (1937; "Pension"), De leeuwentemmer (1940; "The Lion Tamer"), and Elsschot's masterpiece, Het dwaallicht (1946; Will-o'-the-wisp Will-o'-the-wisp Will-o'-the-wisp Will-o'-the-wispn setting.

Yeats, who was influenced by probing theatrical experiments from around the globe, was most urgently moved by a desire to create drama that was "remote, spiritual, ideal".

This remote is ideal for large conferences or classrooms, as the device can be placed in an optimal recording position and activated at a distance.

Kauai's Waimea town provides a remote but ideal base for exploring Waimea Canyon (the Grand Canyon of the Pacific), the Kalalau Overlook atop the green wrinkles of the Na Pali Coast and the towns of Hanapepe and Koloa.

Their traditional homelands are often in remote mountainous regions, ideal hiding places for armed groups fighting over natural resources and drug-trafficking routes.

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But those forebears, quite recent ones, too, can turn out to have ideas and ideals remote from our own.

The lyrics felt elegiac — as wistful and remote as the ideals of "Imagine" — but the music said fight.