Word: afar
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...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
Your attitude towards Indian affairs . . . smacks of the sickly sentimental ism noticeable amongst those who view the travail of a lesser people from afar...
...influence on Cornell was sometimes exerted from afar; he was away from the university for some three years filling diplomatic posts. His influence has continued since he left the presidency for good and during his terms as Minister to China (1921-25) and Ambassador to Germany...
...loses her husband's love, eventually her son's respect, finally the farm. The Natural Mother is a worthy book, realistic to a degree, not noticeably shocking but definitely depressing, of the same order as Flaubert's Madame Bovary, whose tone it occasionally echoes from afar...
...coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog. Proudly he led Mr. Edison to a building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every...