In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.
I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
