Word: distantly
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...such a personal film, however, Weber seems conspicuously, almost alarmingly, distant. Throughout his own “autobiographical documentary,” Weber gives himself the un-intrusive role of guide and narrator and makes only the rarest appearances in front of his own camera. His running commentary, now casually reflective, now mytho-poetical, reveals his sense of marked detachment from the world he examines. “We sometimes photograph what we could never be,” he sighs in wistful voiceover...
...First I think of the situation I want the story to show, then I pinpoint who the characters will be. Probably five of the stories will be in the third person, a little more than half. Generally if a main character is very distant from me and my experience, I will write him or her in the third person. I should probably deviate from this at some point...
Professor of Government and Faculty Council member Jennifer L. Hochschild said she does not anticipate the forms being burdensome, but that planning for the distant future may be difficult...
...graduating seniors facing a fiercely competitive job market, the age of free-flowing venture capital, amorphous dress codes and foosball tables in the workplace is a shockingly distant memory. The naïve enthusiasm of the dot-com generation is all but dead. And yet, it’s nice to think back—on the one hand, reminiscing about the easy money, and on the other, chuckling knowingly at the mistakes of those touting the infallibility of internet start-up success. The timing is perfect, then, for a production that offers haggard veterans of the recruiting process...
...might have well been 1897. Just three years removed from its glorious Ivy title season, Harvard was finding new, inventive ways to lose, and Murphy was forced to defend himself and his team almost every other week. The magical ’97 season seemed a relic of the distant past...