Or Obama might seem too small, lost in all that space, a tiny, distant figure.

The distant figures who had been out there were gone.

I watched the distant figure until it went away again.

Although I had sat within feet of him, he was still to me that distant figure from the history books and newspaper photos.

I walked toward a distant figure sitting on the grass.

A distant figure alone under the sun in that high place.

Several distant figures turned to look at him as if startled.

And he looked with great interest at the distant figure.

Then, again, there were those distant figures on the beach.

We could not fire on any distant figure, with the girls possibly among them.