Sentence examples for yet remote from inspiring English sources

The elder Cohen woos the boys with a confectionary fatherliness; he's alluring yet remote, a pastiche of beatnik wisdom and cowboy flourishes.

The disagreement is at once curiously English yet remote from a land whose political institutions draw no direct lineage from the extremes of Communism and fascism that fixated Continental Europe for much of the 20th century.

But by 1965, given Vietnam and the audience's boredom with a subject too often rehashed but not yet remote enough for Spielberg-style hagiography, World War II movies were becoming white elephants.

As the kind of parent who never considered leaving any of her important art to her two children, and as a romantic who often chased after reluctant genius (Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheimm emerges from "Art Lover" as an outlandish yet remote figure.

Sexually amoral (he uses his monster to murder the maid he has impregnated), rigidly dividing his life (making a bloody hash in the laboratory; prissily refined at the breakfast table) and intent on his "higher calling", this Victor Frankenstein was as ruthless, fascinating and yet remote as the social climber of Room at the Top or the early James Bond.

In December, United announced it would begin flying non-stop from San Francisco to Papeete from October 30, 2018 – March 28 , 2019 thus providing U.S.-based fliers with another welcome option for getting to one of the world's most popular tropical, yet remote, destinations.

Or, better yet, remote-controlled drones.

Better and odder yet, this remote is also a microphone.

You control Veebeam from your laptop rather than with (yet another) remote control wand.

The separate, multifunction toilet is operated by yet another remote control, the room's fourth.

She's both physically present yet psychically remote, lost in a dream.