With The Invisible Man, he was intent on distancing himself as much as possible from the darkness of his past. |
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He creates a veil between viewer and subject and, with over-emphasis on craft, runs the risk of distancing his audience. |
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I am convinced that someone, even several people, had the task of distancing my brother from his family. |
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Yet voice-over is always a trifle distancing, and particularly so when the language of the 1770s sounds so archaic to our ears today. |
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Many of the works on the political side of the spectrum relied on fragmentation, appropriation and postmodern distancing to make their points. |
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That put the president in the unusual position of officially distancing himself from his own appointee. |
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Maybe some of the adoption of Finnish was a way of distancing themselves from the Lapps as well. |
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A certain distancing by the party leadership has left questions unanswered and added to confusion and panic in the republican movement. |
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She used to be such a daddy's girl and her new habit of distancing herself from him hurt more than he could describe. |
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One of his first acts as CEO was to change the name to Hynix, distancing the company from the Korean chaebol. |
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And he did the right thing, distancing himself from this highly narcissistic pastor. |
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Some men maintained protective intergenerational boundaries by distancing themselves from disapproving parents. |
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He turned his back towards me as if distancing himself emotionally from me. |
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Nuclear war perhaps best exemplifies the facelessness and technological distancing so essential to modern evil. |
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He does that while appearing cynical, often distancing himself from the utterances of those voices. |
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Sora huffed rudely, distancing himself away from his cousin as if she was a disease. |
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We have already remarked that such a distancing accords with the speaker's Horatian stance. |
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This style is formal, favouring noun clauses as subjects and objects, and often postponing the main verb, or distancing it from the subject. |
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In the weeks following our interview, I find myself using the distancing technique, in which I narrate my situation as if I'm an onlooker. |
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Here, he used the intimacy of video to infiltrate the intense, distancing formalism of modernist dwellings and let us peer into some fanciful dramas unfolding within them. |
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A growing body of research on parent-adolescent relationships has debunked the popular notion that emotional distancing is a necessary companion to adolescent individuation. |
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Neither is it a purely sacrificial and reparatory act to the offenses or distancing from the eyes of God. |
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Do you think the diocese would be bashful about distancing itself from him? |
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As if distancing himself even more from his peers and to unlearn even more, he began to work intuitionally, moving blindly forward. |
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It also indicates a tendency for coping strategies in which there is a distancing from a stressor as opposed to active problem-solving. |
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For example, office decorations, reading material and personal items may be welcoming to some but distancing to others. |
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She delivered these facts in a cold, steady voice, obviously distancing herself from the nightmare for the sake of self-preservation. |
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Following an uproar, including distancing statements from the show's sponsors and now a petition, Kills and Moon were shown the door. |
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Many groups are cutting their ties with Mr. Kinsella and distancing themselves from him. |
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Today you are living with the results of your distancing from the Master who came to teach you. |
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Is this a way of distancing yourself even further from Noir Désir, a rock band you've frequently been compared to in the past? |
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Despite professional distancing, that relation could have a severe psychological impact on handlers. |
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Absolutely not. I am not revisiting the portrait, on the contrary I am distancing myself from it. |
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This atmosphere of welcoming is increasingly necessary in confronting today's diverse forms of distancing ourselves from others. |
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Culpability, according to this ruling, could only be avoided through expressly distancing oneself from the content contained in linked pages. |
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As the century began, a major division in the historically dominant Protestant churches had the indirect effect of distancing cultural elites from religion. |
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Now, dickie says, the church is distancing itself from the perceived alliance. |
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During that time, his success mounted but he seemed to be distancing himself from cultural relevance. |
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But, astonishingly, rather than distancing themselves from the crisis, Hamas leaders have intensified their engagement in it. |
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They got that, but they got it colored by a distancing, third-person narrative and bouts of self-justification. |
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Given a chance to cast a free vote distancing themselves from the plan, 40 of 45 GOP senators voted yes anyway. |
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This has the effect of distancing the speaker from the hearer. |
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It then grows to challenge the official government structures, seeking to protect its operations from outside interference, further distancing the areas it controls from state authority. |
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This right remained a bone of contention between the church authorities and universities that were slowly distancing themselves from the Church. |
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This distancing of Yorkshire from England led Read to question whether Yorkshire people were really English at all. |
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The distancing nuance describes the fact that the subject aims in a direction away from himself. |
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His Republican rival, Bob McDonnell, is hectically distancing himself from well, himself. Over more than two decades in public life, Mr McDonnell has been a reliable social and religious conservative. |
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Beneath squalls but with fairly acceptable visibility, Groupama 3 is also distancing herself from the ice field which has been pinpointed to the SW of Cape Horn. |
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Thus, far from distancing itself from its core business, the Kudelski Group is deploying its resources wherever its digital security technology has its raison d'être. |
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Women and men were about to create a new cooperative and mutualist world by taking charge and sometimes distancing themselves from government, which may imply having a different kind of dialogue with it. |
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All of them have remained distanced from one another, distancing and dividing men spiritually so that they see each other as enemies or strangers. |
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Democratic forces must give an example, especially to the right wing, and the democratic right wing has great responsibility for distancing itself from the extreme right-wing phenomena that are running riot in Europe. |
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It is very worrying that the federal government seems to be distancing itself from its responsibility as a federal regulator to oversee these kinds of processes. |
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The effort to show that, apparently, the European Union is distancing itself from the US imperialist policy in Iran is brazen deceit of the peoples. |
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It is surprising to note that some participants in the work of the group are distancing themselves from this indispensable approach without which any further development will fail. |
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It would be wrong to think that the line between countries that succeed in distancing politics and politicians from media management is as neat as the 'iron curtain' was. |
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Last week, a representative of Koch Industries sent a letter to members of the Senate distancing the company from efforts to defund Obamacare, while still making it clear that Koch really does not like the law. |
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Part of the problem is that clinicians are strapped for time, frequently lack up-to-date data or counselling skills, or have difficulty distancing themselves enough to offer a balanced view of a patient's options. |
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This was doubly disturbing for a community whose ancient funereal ceremonies lay great store by ritual purification and distancing the living from the 'contagion' of a corpse. |
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The LG Hamburg has declared that it is only possible to disclaim responsibility by expressly distancing oneself from the contents of the web sites. |
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Garnier's eclecticism might well lose a few of his less committed fans en route, bewildered as these fans will inevitably be at his distancing himself from the dancefloor and experimenting with post-techno sounds. |
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Such obvious imbalances stack up, distancing us from the objectives of peace, democracy and sustainable development contained in the Barcelona Declaration. |
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Distancing himself from Thatcherism, he declared that there was such a thing as society. |
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