Word: distantly
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...melodious note, the birds that nested in the lone apple tree that leaned over the shed; saw as if through a magnifying glass the leaves of grass which were still the pale green of newborn shoots. She inhaled quickly and deeply as she noticed a gardener sleeping beneath a distant tree.“Perhaps I shall kill him as well,” she thought, “if I am not too tired out after disemboweling Frederick with a gardening tool.”Her hand unlocked the door; her slippered foot made the step of no return...
...escape her oppressive father; he tried to force her into a marriage and she killed herself. My chemistry teacher, also a Hindu, fell in love with a Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened to disown her favorite younger boy. The papers called her "Lady Macbeth"; she fled to Pakistan and died alone...
Dangereux didn't explicitly say he was finding the whole high-class restaurant thing pretentious. But what he did was to take over a small replica barn in a rustic-style shopping center in one of Cape Town's more distant suburbs, floor it with linoleum and call it the Food Barn. The result may be the best value fine dining on the continent, if not anywhere. Imagine half a dozen sensational oysters for $5. The perfect Japanese-style tuna tartare for $8. A bouillabaisse terrine set on mussels and a creamy saffron sauce for $10. Dangereux even persuaded...
...driven ballads R.E.M. has produced all too often the last few years. But after a minute, the chorus explodes with drums and Mills’ chanting, and the track vastly improves. “Until the Day is Done” starts off with boring, war-related lyrics and distant drums but eventually gathers momentum to a pleasant, if generic, climax. And the verses of “Sing for the Submarine” sound sinister and vaguely creepy, but give way to a pretty, more complex chorus. The brevity of the album also has important consequences. Some...
...inside. The tea had been finished, and the evaporated dregs had left small, withered flecks at the bottom of each cup. The stones of the terrace radiated the absorbed heat of the early afternoon back out into the dry, angry air which surrounded the Fabreighs. In the distant fields, however, the trees were healthy, moistened with the previous Thursday’s rains. The leaves of the tall oaks brushed against one another caressingly, and when the wind came in short breezes the leaves gasped like the ocean. Out in the small orchard, the plum trees sagged, their branches laden...