She heard excited, alarmed voices around her, but they were oddly distant as she focused on staying alive.

He blinked, then frowned slightly, his eyes losing the oddly distant expression they'd held for much of the meal.

About the drama, he says that "even the occasional attempts at drama feel oddly distant."

His eyes were oddly distant, and she could read nothing in his face.

They echoed off the concrete walls, my protective earphones making the reports sound oddly distant.

Elijah lay in the twilight shadows of the alley and felt the light rain on his face, but the sensation was oddly distant.

'We're off,' she said in a voice which seemed oddly distant.

The noise of the city became oddly distant.

She was too engrossed with her own humiliation to notice her aunt's oddly distant behavior.

But the event, oddly distant from reality, gave the general public little basis for choosing one or another as President.