The officer of the detail was almost friendly, in a distant way.

This, however, is some way distant from the present Holywell.

I feel frightened, Charles,' she said in that same distant way.

And in a distant but real way nonetheless, Piazza more than understood.

Only six miles from the centre of the city, but in all other ways a million miles distant.

Indeed, she was almost surprised, in a distant way, that she hadn't already been shot.

She did not fully understand his restraint or the rather cautious, distant way he treated her.

All he knew was that somehow, in some distant way, it interested him.

No doubt he is kin to you in some distant way.

Before, however, it had been inevitable i some sort of distant, abstract way.