Couldn't risk that she would turn away when the job became a reality rather than a distant thought.

Home was still a distant thought for most senators early Friday morning.

He suddenly detected a searching and probing of distant thought in his mind.

The truth, justice, revenge, were distant and abstract thoughts for Hannah.

Suddenly - a drifting, distant thought - he realized that the void surrounded him.

They would turn to me with brooding and recognition sometimes, or watch a distant thought.

He describes the voice as both young and old, male and female, like distant thought speak.

"She's real," he said, and from the boot came a single, distant thought in confirmation: Yes.

"My sister gave me the strength to do it," she said calmly, lost for a moment in a distant thought.

She shook her head, and a distant thought came to her: What's wrong with me?