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How to use distancing in a sentence

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With The Invisible Man, he was intent on distancing himself as much as possible from the darkness of his past.
He creates a veil between viewer and subject and, with over-emphasis on craft, runs the risk of distancing his audience.
I am convinced that someone, even several people, had the task of distancing my brother from his family.
Yet voice-over is always a trifle distancing, and particularly so when the language of the 1770s sounds so archaic to our ears today.
Many of the works on the political side of the spectrum relied on fragmentation, appropriation and postmodern distancing to make their points.
That put the president in the unusual position of officially distancing himself from his own appointee.
Maybe some of the adoption of Finnish was a way of distancing themselves from the Lapps as well.
A certain distancing by the party leadership has left questions unanswered and added to confusion and panic in the republican movement.
She used to be such a daddy's girl and her new habit of distancing herself from him hurt more than he could describe.
One of his first acts as CEO was to change the name to Hynix, distancing the company from the Korean chaebol.
And he did the right thing, distancing himself from this highly narcissistic pastor.
Some men maintained protective intergenerational boundaries by distancing themselves from disapproving parents.
He turned his back towards me as if distancing himself emotionally from me.
Nuclear war perhaps best exemplifies the facelessness and technological distancing so essential to modern evil.
He does that while appearing cynical, often distancing himself from the utterances of those voices.
Sora huffed rudely, distancing himself away from his cousin as if she was a disease.
We have already remarked that such a distancing accords with the speaker's Horatian stance.
This style is formal, favouring noun clauses as subjects and objects, and often postponing the main verb, or distancing it from the subject.
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.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
Handcuffed as he stood, to attempt to run with any hope of distancing his pursuer would have been simple folly at best.
It sank in Rhoda like the preaching of an end that was promise of a beginning, and girdled a distancing land of trouble.
To his intense gratification he had succeeded in distancing his fellow across the way by half a block.
This paper points out that the significations that managers have, involve a gap of incomprehension and distancing vis-a-vis accountants.
During her abbacy, she treated the convent as her personal fief, clearly distancing herself from the other sisters by exempting herself from the order's rules.
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