Sentences with phrase «to keep someone at a distance»

There are layers upon layers of emotion going on, which in turn almost keeps him at a distance from the viewer.

That wouldn't be so pronounced if attention were paid to the personalities, but the film keeps them at a distance.

Of course, he is utterly incapable of keeping her at a distance, and they find themselves in and out of each other's arms.

Anyone who has negative comments should be kept at a distance because you don't need someone making the process harder for you!

People from her church kept them at a distance, fed them sandwiches and coffee.

I know being alone is boring and for some the loneliness that they feel keeps them at a distance.

Is your dog's breath keeping you at a distance?

If your partner is soliciting sex from you while keeping you at a distance emotionally, it is a sign that they are afraid to commit to you.

And with de Blasio kept at a distance in 2015, Chuck correctly predicted an early spring.

Although kept at a distance from the Imperial Diet at Augsburg, Luther exhausted himself sending letters, theological arguments and pastoral counsels to Melancthon and others involved at the Diet.

On the surface, everyone was perfectly nice, but Maggie felt the locals were keeping her at a distance with their blanket kindness.

Even a more interesting subtext, punishing his father for putting their family dynamic at risk, is only kept at a distance.

There's no doubt you care for these characters — although that's perhaps down to the skill of the performances — but the film keeps you at a distance throughout meaning you might not be entirely emotional invested.

However, the overall showy nature of the film does keep you at a distance.

She still keeps herself at a distance.»

It's a private space when you're at work, but at the same time you have to keep it at a distance so it's not just about your personal needs, desire, or whatever.

In addition, his active role in the Civil Rights Movement kept him at a distance from the downtown Manhattan art world where he normally would have spent time at exhibition openings and events, possibly increasing his visibility and penetration into collections as well as the prevailing critical discourse.

In 1998 the symbolic house was kept at a distance by the grid like the innumerable artifices that kept Lana Turner always at a distance from the audience in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life.

neighbors are best kept at a distance.

Yet the IPCC has not kept him at a distance.

Partly because of the opposition of Communist countries, The United Nations has kept itself at some distance from faith communities, although Religious NGOs have, for many years, made a contribution at certain levels, in particular to specialist agencies.

Balls added: «Having kept me at a distance in the run - up to the election in 2015, I think we probably only spoke twice in the whole four - week election campaign.

Like Watergate and WikiLeaks, the leak itself is somewhat more interesting than the actual documents being leaked, which Spielberg and his two young screenwriters Liz Hannah and Josh Singer kind of keep at a distance.

Research them like you would a buyer persona you love, but keep them at a distance, and by all means do not target your content to them.

Lazarus, in an earlier time, was also part of the social landscape for this rich man, and below the notice of one who had the wherewithal to inhabit a home where the poor could be «gated» outside and kept at a distance.

I feel insecure about myself, so I criticize other people... or I keep them at a distance.

Confucius told his disciples to pay respect to the spirits, but keep them at a distance; it was the will of heaven, he believed, that we keep our eyes trained on earth.

When I am angry, either something has gone wrong in me to jeopardize my love and lovability, or something is wrong in you, my friend, and I need the strongest sort of emotion to tell you off or to keep you at a distance.

Readers should notice the extent to which family members are kept at a distance.

The productive question which leads toward inner freedom and personal growth is this — «Why do I relate to others in ways that keep me at a distance and prevent me from participating in the give and take of loving relationships?»)

They are kept at a distance.

Gentiles are not to be kept at a distance from God, nor are they more sinful or less pure in God's eyes.

We kept them at distance, rarely allowing them into our penalty box, and when they did our two central defenders, James Tarkowski and Ben Mee, were like rocks.

How could I keep her at a distance emotionally?

The bubbles from a diver will keep them at a distance and can even chase them away.

Anyone who is consistently negative needs to be kept at a distance.

All too often, fears, prejudices, and assumptions cloud our perception and keep us at a distance from what we really think and need.

I had attended multiple conferences and while I enjoyed them, I always felt that the ambience was lackluster and the content was stagnant, and the audience was kept at a distance.

While these websites are helping people from the same group connect and share their feelings with each other, people who are not HIV - positive still think that these people should be kept at distance and HIV positive dating sites are somewhat helping this concept.

It keeps you at a distance when it seems singly concerned with the particular plight of the «art family.»

Jack tries to keep them at a distance — he's learned from experience that relationships can be hazardous to men in his line of work — but after years of allowing professional considerations to trump emotional ones his resistance is no longer as stout as it once was.

Human characters tend to be kept at a distance, the clowns often shown in silhouette through a tent.

We're kept at a distance from Eric, though, because 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain isn't willing to give him complete credit for his survival.

Teller, who receives news of the film's climax over a walkie - talkie, is kept at a distance from the emotional core of the story; that removed feeling, unfortunately, is shared by us.

The non-cohesive story is maddening (with a twist ending that is a guaranteed frustrating letdown), the writing (by McDowell and Justin Lader) is on a fifth grade level with a lot of «telling» rather than «showing,» and the characters are all kept at a distance, leading to zero emotional connection with any of them.

Some opponents are invulnerable to gunfire, some must be kept at a distance, and some have particular patterns or weaknesses that require more than simple button mashing to overcome.

At least in Prisoners, his conservatism was modest and kept at a distance, whereas it's too upfront in its rightist views to digest.

The movie, though, is so busy with characters, convolutions, and happenstance that it keeps us at a distance from the character and story that genuinely work.