Sentence examples for remote things from inspiring English sources

"Now computers are for everyone … in the 1980s they were still remote things for experts only".

Since remote things are admirable (thaumaston) and the admirable is pleasant, Aristotle says, one should make the speech admirable and pleasant by the use of such unfamiliar words.

He also believes that astronomers need to be patient and able to work on remote things, with data that may take years to come back from a mission.

And moving to the MA programme is a more remote thing, too.

When we first started working on this film that seemed like a kind if antique remote thing and now it's part of how we do business in the West".

Anyway, I guarantee that it won't be long before the whole remote thing hits the bricks.

To be honest, I couldn't care less about the game or the sword Wii Remote thing.

It pleased them to make the immediate inference that all matter essentially has a God-given and inherent attractive power and, as it were, mutual love, as if matter had senses, or as if a certain intelligence were given to each part of matter by whose means each part could perceive and desire even the most remote thing.

It's weird because Wang sucks on Wii Table Tennis -- though I don't think the remote thing senses my unorthodox reverse backhand smashes.

And it shows that slavery is not this remote and distant thing, but part of our intimate and personal family histories".

It's not so remote that things are inconvenient, but for the most part, Tennessee is a well-kept secret".