Yet his fear was most times a distant thing.

Her pain had become a distant thing, and nothing had come to take its place.

Quite logical and immediate, to a culture that did not concern itself with things distant in place or time.

These, too, are things human, already distant in their appeal.

They were still friends, but it was a more distant thing.

"People can read lips, and there are many ways of bringing distant things close enough to see."

"But I've never been able to see distant things as well as you."

My hands and feet were distant things now, beyond the pain of cold.

He could think and remember, but emotions were distant, muted things.

When one is in complete contact, the senses still function but are a distant thing at best.