distance of time
Example Sentences
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Even with the distance of time, here’s how she describes the mountain setting: “Outside the windows, the landscape beckons; it isn’t a mirage, it’s a Zwang, as we used to say in school, a duty.”
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2024
And, like I said, Gary has learned to love him over the long distance of time in his own way.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2023
From a distance of time and space, Buchholz recalled his introduction to Forest Hills in 1956.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
Dick Clinton’s motivation blurs with the distance of time.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2016
Even domestic troubles and civil discord may have been instrumental in producing those distant emigrations, which at this distance of time appear to us so mysterious and unaccountable.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Schlegel, Friedrich
