Example sentences of "distance from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the pitiless unknowing complacency and contempt of the young , Nicandra resented their trivial employments of time , so far distanced from the terrible hazards of loving . |
| 2 | Was it possible he was being distanced from the large family they were trying to help ? |
| 3 | The political and ideological ferment of the interwar period , when the ideological and cultural were fused , created the historical conditions in which intellectuals , writers and artists were no longer distanced from the social process and were to play a significant role in national and international events . |
| 4 | Distanced from the day-to-day world of his youthful and not-so-youthful listeners , he could speak with all the more understanding , all the more authority , to their needs . |
| 5 | Among younger officers , who were more distanced from the original " New Order " thinking of the 1960s , there appeared to be increasing interest in the concept of " integralism " , which urged that the administration be drawn from the broadest possible social range . |
| 6 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |