Sentence examples for removed from the action from inspiring English sources

They are just more removed from the action.

"She's been removed from the action and danger for a long time.

Our politicians – the ones Lord Justice Leveson wanted removed from the action – can't find common ground.

As at Sushihatsu, the rear dining room is quiet and feels slightly removed from the action at the sushi bar.

Even Newt Gingrich was far removed from the action; his role tonight was as a commentator for Fox News.

The audience ends up feeling rather removed from the action, as if listening to an entertaining radio debate.

Langton's chapters operate synthetically, at a curious remove from the action, as if from a consciousness hovering above those of the figures in the story, whose movements and feelings and thoughts are tethered to more local contexts, to the purposes and outcomes of actions.

But Mr. Falanga doesn't seem like a stranger in a strange land, despite his use of the second-person singular throughout, a device that can put the character at an even further remove from the action than usual, amping up his disconnection like the hero of "Bright Lights, Big City".

Variety remarked, "Connelly, though a shade looser and more spontaneous than usual, seems stuck at an emotional remove from the action".

You are at a certain remove from the action, but then if you were in his studio and felt constrained about yelling out a hundred questions, this is exactly the experience you would have.

The physical arrangement of the amphitheatre represented the order of Roman society: the emperor presiding in his opulent box; senators and equestrians watching from the advantageous seats reserved for them; women seated at a remove from the action; slaves given the worst places, and everybody else packed in-between.