Word: distant
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...musical past is pretty typical: forced piano lessons--again from my mother--for about eight years, and four years of drums. Since guitar wasn't offered, percussion--meaning drums!--was by far the coolest instrument choice a guy could have in grade school. Tuba ran a distant second. Why anyone would pick some instrument like the clarinet was beyond me. The chance to get a grade for beating things with sticks was irresistable...
...Time Warner's stuttering, stumbling, ill-managed attempts to score on the Internet (in which I and several of my Time Inc. bosses have participated) have foundered on the inability of the various divisions to work collaboratively and on the relentless bottom-line pressure that discouraged investment in the distant future when there was a quarterly target to meet...
...reality of what happened out in the ocean comes crashing down on Elian, and when the glow of Disney World and all the attention and gifts wears off, "he'll need to be with the father and grandparents who have reared him, not a group of well-meaning but distant relatives he just met last Thanksgiving," says Dr. Michael Hughes, former head of child psychiatry at the University of Miami...
...should not be censoring ourselves with recently developed international codes, but holding ourselves to our time-tested habit of keeping religious authority at a distant arm's length. Permitting vouchers to be used at sectarian schools--irrespective of their religious affiliation--is a departure from that habit...
...midsummer stillness again, the only sound the wind whistling in your ears. It may be that something tumultuous happened to your laptop, or that ATM down the road; but on an island 1,300 miles from the nearest inhabited landmass (Pitcairn, pop. 65), all such disturbances pass like a distant storm at sea. "The race is not to the swift," wrote D.H. Lawrence in the past millennium, "but to those that can stand still/ and let the waves go over them...