Sentences with phrase «faraway places as»

Soon, many of the children enrolled in our public schools had come from such faraway places as Italy, Poland, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, and China.

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For most of my life, I pictured psychics as mystical, mysterious women who stealthily read auras and kept all - knowing tarot cards handy, living in magical, faraway places, usually covered in beads and crystal balls.

As Christopher Lasch says, «Children need to learn about faraway times and places so they can make sense of their own surroundings.»

Few places can impart the faraway feeling as Nantucket does — even today when excellent commercial airline service (about 20 flights in and out daily during the summer) has brought it within little more than an hour from New York and less than an hour from Boston.

Certainly it can be enjoyable to communicate with folks in those faraway regions, but realistically, the optimum online dating site for you would haveto service the region in which you live, as well as the far - away places.

I wish they would propose a law targeting those who fraudulently use crowdfunding sites such as Indiegogo as Ponzi - like schemes, fully knowing that many people who reside in faraway places will be unlikely to expend the time or money needed to recuperate their losses.

Burma has long been one of those special places on my travel wishlist, as exotic - sounding and faraway - seeming as Zanzibar, Bora Bora, or Kathmandu.

Italienische Landschaft belongs to the group of early photo - paintings of faraway places that art historian Dietmar Elger specifically highlighted as exemplary for the dichotomy they presented «between the objectifiable distance generated by black and white painting and the artist's personal interest in the motifs» (Dietmar Elger, Gerhard Richter Landscapes, exh.

And although his work reflects a voracious appetite for foreign places and faraway cultures, as well as an ongoing interest in travel and various modes of transit, Cornell never physically ventured beyond New York.

Unearth gems such as carved furniture and global accents often found in faraway places.