Sentence examples for while distant from inspiring English sources

Of course, not all cultural exchanges are undertaken in good faith — Christian missionaries and the Imperial British East Africa Company were not invited to Kenya, nor were they happily received — but, every once in a while, distant and distinct societies meet, and the resulting fission produces something unexpected and sublime.

Jason Miller's ceramic antler chandelier has been a big seller, while Distant Origin's Lucite stag light resembles a mod trophy.

He said the "bleak alternative" would have been to go through numerous probate courts while distant relatives of Gurlitt made their claims on the collection.

Robb even imagines a Proust "acquainted with the law of modern life according to which one's immediate surroundings remain a mystery while distant places seen in guidebooks and paintings are as familiar as old friends whose material presence is no longer required to maintain the friendship".

Stated in this way, nearby patterns tend to be heavily linked together while distant patterns may form a sparse structure.

Immediate friends are those directly connected (one jump between them), while distant friends are linked by two or more jumps.

They teleport us to live for a while in distant places we only hear about on the news.

Obviously the focus changes, and you may have noticed that while the distant object was blurry while you looked at your finger, your finger (in double) was in focus while you looked at the distant object.

I write to Charlie once in a while, we remained distant friends.

He generates an intimacy while remaining distant: he seems to know much about everyone else while revealing little of himself.

The ratings, while still distant from those of its most popular time-slot competitor, NBC's " West Wing," are climbing.