Sentence examples for think distant from inspiring English sources

A television review in The Arts yesterday about "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," a documentary about the prizefighter, misattributed an anecdote about his reply when he was asked once why women prefer African-American lovers: "We eat cold eels and think distant thoughts".

Matt thought, "Distant, okay" and looked at her jaw line.

When we talk about these diseases, we tend to think of distant places like West Africa and South Asia.

Most paleo dieters try to stick to some type of regimen similar to what they think our distant, pre-agricultural ancestors might've eaten.

These bursts may also be more common than that first strange flash in the sky may have seemed; researchers think these distant "fast radio bursts" must be going off once every 10 seconds in the sky.

The narrative of drone pilots so emotionally dulled and disassociated from humanity that they think of distant dead humans as splattered bugs isn't necessary for this to be a powerful art project. .

I thought of distant times and places and people, and I knew I would circle on my father.

Using the cool system helps children to wait for the extra marshmallow, and brain scans show that this system is more likely to be activated when people think about the distant future.

There are no numbers beyond two in Pirahã because, Mr Everett argues, they have no money, engage in little barter trade, do not store food for the future and do not think about the distant past.

Still, after Russia formally recognized South Ossetia as an independent state, Zalina Tskhovrebova, editor of the city's largest newspaper, allowed herself to think about the distant, wealth-drenched European principalities of Liechtenstein and Andorra, which are about the size of South Ossetia.

People may think I'm distant, or unfriendly, since I share so little.