Sentences with phrase «only feels distant»

When our faith not only feels distant but dead.

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Occasionally they might hear a distant dolorous echo, a faint fading rumor of forgotten bliss, carried to them over the purple sea, but they only turned away and thrust their hands into their pockets, anxiously feeling for their purses.

Put another way, one can feel oneself to be in natural connection with the distant thing; the thing can be isolated for strict observation only by a process of abstraction that somehow attempts to neutralize the intervening medium.

Everything about it even though we're set in the not too distant future, I mean it's only like 6 years - 8 years in the future, there's something about it that feels timeless.

A Newsweek article stated that a 1957 meeting between Soviet and U.S. scientists left the Americans feeling smugly superior and believing that a Russian launch date was quite distant — only to be informed that very night that the Russians had launched Sputnik («Traveler»), the first man - made object put into Earth's orbit.

It's only a bridge away, but busy Cairo feels distant from the tranquility of El Gezirah Island.

The friendly AI never feels broken, but it can get distracting when you're trying to hear one of Joel and Ellie's conversations, only to resort to reading Ellie's subtitles, as she's so far away her voice is only audible in a distant mumble.

But it yields better rewards if you risk it, and it's even harder to survive because you can get turned around easily, only able to see your base by the distant green glow that makes you feel like safety is within reach.

«Through humor and a disarming mix of high and low culture, Slavs and Tatars have the unique ability to make topics that seem foreign or historically distant feel not only approachable but incredibly timely and pertinent to our daily lives,» added Gabriel Ritter, The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art.

I say surprised not only because I am disposed to a cynical suspicion about now - ubiquitous international contemporary art biennales and fairs, which somehow manage to be both bloated and vacuous, but also because, as a historian who works on postwar art of the not - so - distant past, my relationship to «the contemporary» and «contemporary art,» both in regards to my teaching and scholarship, has felt rather tortured of late.

This is why so many couples who go through traditional couples counseling only feel MORE distant from each other afterward.