World War II in black-and-white documentaries can seem impossibly remote and antiquated.

The lights of the Venice boardwalk seemed impossibly remote.

Such a bleak predicament seems impossibly remote on this shining spring morning in Richter's studio.

Hunza ought to be impossibly remote, but nothing, not even the formidable Karakorams, can hold back the human urge to travel.

The impossibly remote location provides access to an almost unspoiled wilderness of water, ice and granite.

His voice seemed to come from deep inside him, from a place impossibly remote.

The end of the canal seemed impossibly remote, as unattainable as a mirage in the desert.

On a crisp autumn morning shooting is taking place in an impossibly remote and incredibly picturesque Oxfordshire valley.

Perhaps in the 1950s, the world two centuries hence would have seemed impossibly remote.

"A career in the theater seemed impossibly remote at the time," she said.