Sentence examples for slight distance from inspiring English sources
"I like keeping a slight distance," he said.
She is contained: positioning herself at a slight distance from everyone else and scarcely gesturing.
The gardener sees everything lucidly, often with powerful emotion, but from a slight distance.
"This is what they do," Veile said, watching from a slight distance with approval.
So my female characters are portrayed with a certain slight distance, or with a lot of guessing.
Ms. Setterfield has maintained a similar slight distance from the five younger performers who complete the cast.
She's sharper when she's singing from a slight distance, arching an eyebrow instead of trying to empathize.
His appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? allowed Cumming to uncover Darling's life and death, and the show's framework has a slight distancing effect, but the actor's writing about his relationship with his father is raw-edged, stinging and inescapably painful.
The suspended animations (reminding me of The Red Balloon) depict a colorful kite floating above the brownish papery hue, forming an extreme contrast and leading us from one place to another, moving only slight distances, back and forth.
In preparation for my conversation with Bromell, I had the treat of discovering "The Slightest Distance," his first collection of short stories.
His stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker in the '70s, and he published two short-story collections, one of which, "The Slightest Distance," helped him win a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in 1974.
