Sentence examples for was very distant from from inspiring English sources

But it was very distant from the cognition you might find in a real animal.

"A little bit, but I was very distant from it at the same time," he replies.

Eventually, when I had enough information to sketch the contours of a solution to the mystery of the missing pages, it was very distant from the official version of events.

At the same time, though, my father was very distant from us and very hard to get to at all.' That relationship and that absence is at the root of many of Rufus Wainwright's own yearning melodies, he believes, but it finds its most poignant expression in the extraordinary song 'Dinner at Eight' on Want One which describes a confrontation with his father at a restaurant some years ago.

Burke's further view that our simple ideas of pain went towards a complex idea of a God who inspired terror, was very distant from the deists' view that He could be understood by our natural faculty of reason alone and that as such He was known to be benevolent and not much besides.

In the winter of 1794 95, Priestley wrote to friends that his situation was very "distant from my original views" and "my time here is far from passing so agreeably as it did in England", yet he was "very thankful for such an asylum" and he attempted "to make the best of my situation".

The truth is, many people in France are very distant from those ideals today".

"But the reality is that the issues they promote are very distant from our interests".

Of course, the speakers are different in each case, and the worlds they are speaking of and from are very distant from one another.

As a suburban Londoner I'd been very distant from the miners' strike but even I understood it was about more than economic restructuring.

Of course, this is very distant from their erstwhile vanilla terrorism, since it involves guns and the possibility that they will have to murder Hardenberg.