remoteness

Example Sentences

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The people who have held the commanding heights of news—from editors down to reporters—may not be quite Kaelesque in their remoteness from their less refined fellow citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

But neither remoteness nor favorable courts were enough to make central Louisiana into American Siberia.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2025

Dr. MacKinnon: “You don’t think she saw your remoteness as a defense? When she uses remoteness herself as a defense. Didn’t you just tell me? She never looks back?”

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

B’s house always had a feeling of remoteness and remove from the rest of the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

On the wall hung a huge tinted photograph of Samuel, which had captured a cold and aloof dignity, a scrubbed and dressed remoteness, which did not belong to him living.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck