Sentence examples for seen as distant from inspiring English sources

Mr Tung is seen as distant, bumbling and patriarchal, always quicker to promote "one country" over "two systems".

Psychology explores the ways to make this problem, often seen as distant and uncertain, stand out more prominently in human thinking and motivation.

"It's paradoxical that we have been seen as distant from and guarded about issues like social exclusion when the founding fathers of Conservatism embraced it.

The state and the institutions are seen as distant and foreign, and approachable only through the mediation of the Mafiosi and their friends.

Salacious details of criminal cases fill the pages of the popular weekly magazines and provide fodder for cheap TV shows, but the court system itself is seen as distant, formal and, above all, dull.

AWARE that the EU is seen as distant and imperious, its officials have been trying to persuade Britons to vote in the elections for the European Parliament next week.

He had a difficult relationship with his parents, particularly with his mother, whom he saw as distant and unloving.

Less so are the shadowy circumstances that removed from the scene one of Syria's most powerful men, an interlocutor between the religious sect known as the Alawites, who have long ruled the country, and a government they controlled but increasingly see as distant and corrupt.

The longer we wait, the less of the universe we will see, as distant galaxies eventually recede away from us faster than the speed of light.

I knew what a nuclear family was, but it was something distant and seen as destructive".

The making of "Playtime" proved to be as enormous an undertaking as the construction of its set: in this simulated futuristic Paris (where the familiar monuments are seen only as distant reflections in glass doors), Tati put swarms of people in motion, dispersed multiple fields of action throughout the frame, and captured the choreographed tumult on 65-mm.