Word: distantly
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...fellow. But Rockne's suit was afraid of Musburger's suit, and kept trying to bend the wrong way at the knees and elbows. Rockne's suit is wrinkled and brown. Musburger's is the finest in town, but others nearly as rich and dark trap the light of distant stars in the lobbies of the Hilton and the Hyatt Regency...
...takes a brave or foolhardy author to court competition with the 19th century masters, to write an ersatz novel when dozens and dozens of the real things are on the library shelves. That Palliser succeeds in capturing this distant world of Victorian fiction -- with its careful plotting and moral punctiliousness -- is impressive enough for openers. That he makes The Quincunx a gripping read throughout most of its length is practically miraculous...
...some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones that bark or baaa or moo or, maybe, sound like distant summer thunder...
...here so long no one really fears it). The telephone, like democracy, is infinitely tolerant of stupidity; it is a virtual medium of stupidity, a four-lane highway of the greedy and false and brainless. But it is (unless tampered with) a faithful channel of words from mouth to distant ear, mind to mind, and that is, absolutely and exactly, the meaning of freedom...
...five of us. We passed the cup aroud, savouring each sip; the cell was stifling and hot, making the filthy water palatable. The meal over, Zac and I crawled to a corner, too exhausted and shocked to speak. I slept fitfully, trying not to think about the near or distant future...