| 单词 | middle distance |
| 例句 | His thin shirt has split at the seams and he gazes into some middle distance with hypothermic slackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z For a moment she looks off in the middle distance, somewhere above the bookcase. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He had his hands between his knees, fingers laced together, and was staring out into the middle distance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Instead he looked into the middle distance and spoke in generalities, with so delicate an air as to give the impression that he had become partly invisible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It had been taken at night under a full moon, and it showed a wooden hut in the middle distance, its walls dark against the snow that surrounded it and lay thickly on the roof. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Flanking John Becker were more female faces—brown faces, peering out from the middle distance. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z All burst in the air before reaching her coach, the pieces of metal falling harmlessly in the middle distance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their faces were perfectly composed—but their eyes kept drifting to the children in the cart and then snapping off into the middle distance again as they recovered their discipline. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z An engine rumbled and a truck appeared in the middle distance. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He sat upright in his chair, not looking at Mrs. Olinski or the blackboard but staring into the middle distance, as if looking at the word paraplegic or the paraplegic herself was too painful. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He was looking into the middle distance and thinking. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I caught her staring into the middle distance just for a moment, her eyes blank, looking not at the Asparagus, but past it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Males just look into the middle distance and hold forth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A broad, slow-moving river wound through rich grassland in the middle distance, and at the foot of the long slope, among copses of small trees and rows of vegetables, stood a village of thatched houses. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Jacob has been spooning the stew slowly into his mouth and staring into the middle distance. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He is smiling, staring into the middle distance. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She is gazing off somewhere in the middle distance. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His eyes were focused on the middle distance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple sat, rigid in her seat, refusing to look at anyone, gazing into the middle distance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Followed by a long, contemplative gaze fixed somewhere in the middle distance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “The middle distance is going now too! Here we are.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Even if she was simply seated on the arm of a chair, it was as though she could see cameras off in the middle distance and was always giving them her best side. ‘Battle of Versailles’: How African American models reshaped fashion 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Bachelorette Milestone: Kaitlyn stares off into the middle distance before her final date with Nick. 'The Bachelorette' Finale: Decision Day for Kaitlyn 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Springsteen was famous for refusing to cave to advertisers across his 48-year career, but now here he is on our Super Bowl screens, squinting into the middle distance like a parody of himself. Perspective | If Bruce Springsteen’s Jeep commercial doesn’t bum you out, congrats on the purchase of your new Jeep 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z But as the conversation developed, her eyes began to dart about, sometimes to his face or to her husband, then flitting back to a point in the middle distance. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z He stared at a point in the middle distance, right beyond my shoulder, his hand karate-chopping the air slowly down his meridian to indicate a second, his Marlboro Man machine gun face ossified and unmoving. Josh Brolin Fears the Summer of Josh Brolin 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Sir Holland is a diplomat, a mysterious and taxing job that involves staring moodily into the middle distance, wearing black tie and attending frightfully dull cocktail parties. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z The legal procedural, which is juxtaposed with Viljar’s healing process and his decision to testify, unfolds in the conventional, classical middle distance, with surprising moments of un-Greengrassian sentimentality. Perspective | Paul Greengrass didn’t set out to make another movie about terrorism. But ‘22 July’ called to him. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z One features a single man on the left of the composition, gazing into the middle distance. Review: ‘Donald Blumberg Photographs,’ Observing America on the Streets and From the Sofa 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It could now be seen walking behind a live tree, or viewed in the middle distance over the shoulder of a live actor — effects not possible before. Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92 2013-05-07T18:31:15Z Lewis has spent his career writing from an ironic middle distance. Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Her gaze was fixed somewhere in the middle distance. It took me 25 years — after marriage and 2 kids — to come out 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z The actors looked us in the eye, while the dancers gazed into the middle distance as if nobody else were around. The intimacy of dance, brought even closer 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z She also missed classic signs of adolescent depression or even the impulse to suicide that sound maddeningly like the symptoms of adolescence itself: staring off into the middle distance, irritability, withdrawing from family. ‘A Mother’s Reckoning,’ by Sue Klebold 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But we never see the beach, and only catch glimpses of palm trees in the middle distance. Is “The Neon Demon” gruesome misogyny or brilliant feminist commentary? Can it be both? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Mullarkey stares into the middle distance for a while, wistfully listing the things he used to do with something called spare time. ‘I had no idea about the hidden labour’: has the pandemic changed fatherhood for ever? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z I’d demand as he looked into the middle distance, probably perfectly innocently. A friend told me that my husband was having an affair. I didn’t want to know 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z At times they seemed to be shouting their lines into some middle distance. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z I do my best to join in, but my concentration fails and I find myself staring into the middle distance. Tim Dowling: three girls are visiting. The boys sit in stunned silence 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Jojo stares into the middle distance in a low cut pink gown. 'The Bachelor' Watch Finale: And Ben's Choice Is... 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The little images are of animals seen at close quarters or middle distance, with the right "gizz" and proportions. Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar 2013-02-16T08:01:02Z We read the scene from something of a middle distance, recognizing the location while also kept apart from it, much like the incidents that emerge in the General’s coma reverie. In 'Dinner at the Center of the Earth,' Nathan Englander deepens and expands what he does so well 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Good action movies and comedies require so much skill, far more than simply looking moodily off into the middle distance and whacking Adagio in G Minor on the soundtrack. Why Black Panther should win the 2019 best picture Oscar 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Three dozen identical panels in which the schlubby protagonist stares off into the middle distance, followed by one nearly identical one in which he sighs. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z The middle distance, he said, is usually the least interesting for viewers. Amber Waves, From Spacious Skies 2011-07-22T21:24:33Z She stares into the middle distance, forcefully sucking on a vape and expelling smoky puffs. Vaping on film looks less glamorous than the Hollywood smoking of yesteryear 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z In the foreground were old houses, then a church steeple in the middle distance, a common sight in a country that is nearly a third Christian. Seoul’s Hundred Faces 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Not looking at them, but staring into the middle distance. The new normal: why television has chosen to humanize sex workers 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z There's a lot of him staring into the middle distance with a bottle of bourbon, going "What have I become?" Al Murray's favourite TV 2013-02-11T12:00:01Z In the middle distance, a shadowy man drags on a postprandial cigar. Manet: Portraying Life – review 2013-01-26T19:44:58Z He rolls up his sleeves, scratches his arm, takes off his glasses and studies them, then looks into the middle distance. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z The men are nervous, and to prove this, the cameramen take a lot of photos of them staring moodily off into the middle distance. RECAP: The Bachelorette Watch: Andi Makes Her Choice 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Less usual is that this ray enters the room through a gold-trimmed mouse-hole opening, and in the middle distance, a man who shades his eyes, stares at it. Carlo Crivelli, an Overlooked Renaissance Master, in Boston 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “Right,” said the producer, strumming an acoustic guitar and staring into the middle distance. Ashlee Simpson’s New Reality 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z A long, gray wall meets flat dirt in the background, and in the middle distance there is a gathering of women, like the chorus of a Greek tragedy. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z In one video on her YouTube channel Ms. Astanova is seen in profile, her back arched, gazing slightly upward in the middle distance as she plays Rachmaninoff. Lola Astanova, Julie Andrews and Donald Trump at Carnegie 2012-01-18T23:05:33Z The only way this will be resolved is by staring off into the middle distance in a tropical setting. The 'Bachelorette' Watch: And The Winner Is... 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Take in the entire effect, and consider the views across the pond to the forest in the middle distance. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Their static eyes trained on a middle distance, save for one pair, set in an Angelina Jolie-lookalike face, that seemed to be staring right at me. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z But Mr. Naughton played down the charm of a voice that can be as seductive as Billy Eckstine’s or Bing Crosby’s to maintain a careful middle distance between himself and Mr. Newman’s characters. Music Review: James Naughton Sings Randy Newman’s Standards 2014-01-29T20:05:46Z Because in the beginning was the same light that now reflects the deep hazel of my eyes as I stare into the middle distance. Digested read: Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox 2011-03-21T21:30:01Z Middle-aged couples sit staring into the middle distance. 'I saw the Rolling Stones. In the 60s' 2013-07-01T06:00:18Z In the bottom left hand of the frame, a child looks hopefully into the middle distance. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century by Peter Galassi | Book review 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Suddenly Stewart becomes her grandmother and then she stares into the middle distance for what seems like four hours. The dreams in Inception look fantastic. But what would Leonardo DiCaprio make of these? 2010-07-09T23:10:00Z Affable and boyish, with a thoughtful air that often had him gazing off into the middle distance before he spoke, Dunster seemed eager to look back on “Lasso,” as it drew to a close. ‘Ted Lasso’ Taught Phil Dunster How to Play Nice 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Staring sadly into middle distance Ray Bradbury's house. Poetweet: A website that turns your tweets into poetry 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Katie is staring moodily out of the window into the middle distance. TV Review: Mistresses and Natural World 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z Despite the careful attention to the scruffy foreground knob of land and the breakwater in the middle distance, and notwithstanding the scientific analysis of light and color, the effect is strangely unreal. Artworks That Shine in New York Museums 2013-01-04T00:50:22Z On the cover, she appeared clad in latex fetish gear, posed in a wooden shipping container or tucked under a man’s arm, staring into the middle distance. The Rise of the Social Media Fembot 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z But the startling eruptions of violence in "Aurora" are momentary, and occur either outside the frame or deep in the middle distance. Pick of the week: A natural-born Romanian killer 2011-07-01T01:01:00Z Others shake maracas for the cause and stare off into the middle distance. Review: In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ Super-Bro Against Super-Bro 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z That exhaustive, full-body sorrow, what Saul Bellow called “the rock depth of heavy trouble,” simply doesn’t come across in shots of mournful faces or sad-looking actors staring vacantly into the middle distance. ‘No Future’ Review: On a Downward Spiral 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Or when Dany emerged naked from the fire, a CGI dragon landed on her shoulder, and looked off into the middle distance towards Westeros, where she would fulfil her manifest destiny. When good TV goes bad: how Game of Thrones became a throng of dire old vice 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The Actress’s penchant for playing Chopin while staring longingly into the middle distance suggests to the Actor that her heart is yearning for a new romance. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z His profile picture had been on the studied side; suited and staring into the middle distance. My glass was barely clinked before my online date asked: ‘Guess my age?’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z When I tell Nicholls about my family tree, instead of warmly greeting me as a fellow traveller, he gazes stolidly into the middle distance. ‘Narcolepsy isn’t funny’ – living with a sleep disorder 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z The androgynous figure in a red, short-sleeve jacket looking on from the middle distance with enigmatic intent seems elfin and mischievous, perhaps an agent of transformation. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z It is shot in one take, from the middle distance, acted with a banal frankness which feels like eavesdropping. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z One of the most unsettling things about “Monologue” is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In the middle distance, a catamaran crosses our view. On Maui, seeking out the hidden wows of wild Hawaii 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Chris loves all three women and isn’t sure what to do, so he cries in his hotel suite and stares into the middle distance while using the soaking pool. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Fireworks in the Fantasy Suites 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z To play the British adventurer Sir James Brooke in “Edge of the World,” Jonathan Rhys Meyers sets his jaw and fixes his gaze on the middle distance. ‘Edge of the World’ Review: The Man Who Agreed to be King 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z To our left, in the middle distance, flares flame: refinery burn-off, I guess. Ignition – review 2013-03-24T00:05:45Z Partway through the assessment, Amir furrows his brow and looks away into middle distance, his jaw tightening. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z She mainly follows the actors at a clear and comfortable middle distance. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “Too much sighing and staring into the middle distance,” she says. Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘For me, Brexit is a disaster – talk about not knowing where you belong’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z A cool, elegant and almost imperceptibly black-comic detachment is created with Hausner's group compositions, in which the viewer must always stay attentive for something vital happening in the middle distance. Film review: Lourdes 2010-03-25T22:25:00Z He stared into the middle distance and scrolled through his phone. Trump’s allies pledged loyalty to him. Until they didn’t. 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The grainy black and white footage, taken from thermal imaging cameras mounted on both aerial drones and vehicles, then shows tank fire engaging unidentified targets in the middle distance. 'Reconnaissance by fire' - What Israel's Gaza raid tells us 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Questioned about his possible misconduct aboard the Caine, Sutherland’s Queeg turns fatally defensive, his voice scraping gravel, his eyes peering into a middle distance only he can see. Review: 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial' is a gripping swan song for director William Friedkin 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Bud snaked his way inside, feinting in the middle distance and eating some shots on the way in — but nothing that rattled him. Terence 'Bud' Crawford finally gets to face Errol Spence Jr. and prove he's no B-side 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z He stared into the middle distance as she explained the verbal-autopsy process and then began with her questions. The Incredible Challenge of Counting Every Global Birth and Death 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z From his kitchen window that October evening, Tim Slater, nursing an after-work beer, watched the sky behind the steep hills in the middle distance glow a dark orange. California wildfires are driving up home prices, gentrifying the state “Disappointment,” Allen said as he stared into the middle distance. Perspective | In snowy Buffalo, only a long winter remains after the Bills fall short again 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Mostly she stares pensively into the middle distance, lost in the phantasms of memory. Review: Frederick Wiseman's gorgeous 'A Couple' brings the words of Sophia Tolstoy to life 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Weeds are popping up, the scrub in the middle distance has turned golden and the serene sky above is a gradation of pale blues. Review: Christina Fernandez's photographs, on view in Riverside, are a major pivot in Chicano art 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Two white horses were grazing behind some trees in the middle distance. Van Gogh through a pinhole What will remain of that legacy, when this period of mourning is over and she recedes into the middle distance of our collective memory? The quiet symbolism of the Queen's farewell to Scotland 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z By year two, when new Syrian students ask if I am police or special forces, I stare into the middle distance and lower my voice. Way up there in blue: Seven children dead in Kabul — who is to blame? 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Its appearance reflects that, even if its iconic stone lion, gazing moodily into the middle distance from its perch above the entrance, was added in 1911. What I’ve learned about Bavaria in beer gardens 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Welsh middle distance runner Heyward, who was fifth at the bell, accelerated on the final bend to pass Garcia but was always too far back to threaten Ingebrigtsen. GB's McColgan wins bronze as Heyward takes silver 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "If he can log that, he could technically end up as the most successful British middle distance runner we have ever had." Wightman could be most successful ever, says Coe 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In the middle distance is what appears to be a quintet of galaxies. Take a cosmic tour inside the images captured by NASA’s Webb telescope Around a corner that’s somewhere in the middle distance, there will be better days more consistently. Perspective | Josiah Gray’s career, like this Nats rebuild, requires serious patience 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s a statue of Bush and his father gazing purposefully into the middle distance, and a statue of Barney and Miss Beazley, George and Laura Bush’s Scottish terriers, striking a similar pose. When George W. Bush Confused Russia’s War in Ukraine With Iraq 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Sitting a few feet to his right, their manager - Mrs Rooney's husband Wayne - looked into the middle distance. Vardy v Rooney: 10 things we learned at the Wagatha Christie libel trial 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z It’s a pretty good surprise, and I didn’t see it coming, even though I did catch some other MacGuffins floating around in the middle distance of this espionage stew. Review | Spy thriller ‘All the Old Knives’ is complicated, with an okay twist 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Nordic skier Steve Arnold finally made a belated Paralympic debut, finishing 29th in the men's cross country middle distance seated event. GB's Fitzpatrick comes fourth in slalom 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z They knew how this ended: with lingering shots of them, heads bowed, eyes haunted, staring at the ground or gazing into the middle distance. Real Madrid Rally Leaves P.S.G. Chasing Goals and Ghosts 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Those who plan on watching the second season of Netflix’s The Witcher can look forward to plenty of epic monster battles, character development, and Henry Cavill staring broodingly into the middle distance. We asked a physicist whether The Witcher’s multiverse could really exist 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He barely stopped as he shook Coach Mike Vrabel’s hand and stared into the middle distance, the end of a tumultuous week in a miserable season. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 14: The Bills are at a crossroads, and the Ravens are in trouble 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z So now my colleagues won’t have to see me stare awkwardly into the middle distance the next time I forget about Zoom’s confirmation dialog box. Stack Overflow’s copy / paste keyboard is no joke 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Other parts — the blushing patch of pink in the middle distance, for instance — must have been made with a dryer brush, a more tentative touch: You can see the weave of the canvas beneath. Get up close to this painting of a sea wall and you may never let go of its light “Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears,” Williams tells us — excavating, as she does throughout this magnificent and moving novel, the middle distance between silence and experience. Review: Joy Williams' first novel in decades is an astonishing end-times parable 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Former and current athletes include Kendall Spencer, a long jumper who went to New Mexico; Megan Koch, a middle distance runner from Colorado College; and Madeleine McKenna, a volleyball player from California University of Pennsylvania. NCAA picks 23-member committee to reform its constitution 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Then with a highly relaxed glance into the middle distance, she pondered, “On the one hand, it gives work. But at what cost?” Looking for St. Mark’s Square? You May Find Yourself in a Shipyard Instead 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Several other female middle distance runners with naturally elevated testosterone levels also will miss the competition. Track and Field Aimed for Inclusion. Instead It Sidelined Star Athletes. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z But it is indicative of the strength of middle distance running as a whole. Six British Championships events to watch 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z In the middle distance loomed the San Francisco skyline and neat rows of avenues, each sloping steeply to the Bay. A pandemic side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z So Starmer merely stared anxiously into the middle distance and sucked up Labour’s existential guilt while carefully sidestepping any complicity of his own. Antisemitism report opens up Labour's fault line all over again | John Crace 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z At some point off in the middle distance of history, we will look back on this moment with a certain amount of awe and celebration. Opinion | Democrats are trying to unseat a bully. They need to stop using a bully’s tactics to do so. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z A long, tall, bulky, shed-like building is planted firmly in the middle distance. The first great California artist photographed San Gabriel Mission 140 years ago 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Here he is, smouldering wistfully into the middle distance. Premier League countdown: team news, previews and more – live! 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Eyes seeking, in some obscure middle distance, rational answers to a horrifically irrational act. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Pan American middle distance championships in Formosa, Argentina on May 23 postponed to Aug. 16. List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z For an instant he looked into what I believe is called the middle distance. A Master's first look at the Masters - Golf Digest 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Pan American middle distance championships in Formosa, Argentina on May 23 postponed. List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z For Plendcio, Cody and Shannon Howell, a senior specializing in middle distances, choosing another year in college means putting previous plans on hold. At Biola University, track and field athletes must adjust to a season interrupted 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z In the image released of Mr Trudeau, he stares seriously into the middle distance, showing off a jaw line and chin covered with salt-and-pepper hair. Justin Trudeau and the politics of facial hair 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z In the first orienteering races – middle distance – Chinese women finished first, second and fourth, and one of their male competitors came second but some opponents felt something was awry. The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year awards 2019 | Simon Burnton 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Kardi's cloudy eyes are fixed in the middle distance as he says that in some ways he was lucky. Death by ignorance, taboo and methanol 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z European middle distance championships in Walchsee, Austria on June 28 postponed. List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Inside the venue, parents were drinking Michelob Ultra and staring into the middle distance. How TikTok Holds Our Attention 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Semenya, who was greeted by cheers at the conference, said she still saw herself as a middle distance runner. Semenya says she never felt supported by other women 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z But it provided a dark counterpoint to the bright days of walking; the sunny meadows and majestic Pyrénéen oak forests, the sharp snowy clarity of the ranges in the middle distance. Walking helped me discover the slow unfurling joy of reading books aloud | Patti Miller 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z British middle distance runner Eilish McColgan said she was "upset and angry" after thieves struck at her Manchester home on Wednesday. Olympian's medals stolen in burglary 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z At one point, Moseby stopped the truck and peered out into the middle distance. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Do you see him looking into the middle distance with a firm Rushmore stare? Review | A conspiracy that threatened to stop America’s independence before it arrived 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “In terms of changing events I haven’t decide anything about moving up or moving down. I still consider myself a middle distance runner,” Semenya said. Semenya says she never felt supported by other women 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Dogs barked and a drill on a construction site droned in the middle distance. Netflix, drawn to talent, boosts production in Mexico with 50 films and series 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Sweetener’s album cover art – Grande, staring into the middle distance, flipped upside down – was an instantly meme-able representation of her mindset; attempted stoicism tinged with chaos. Ariana Grande: Thank U, Next review – a break-up album of wit and wonder 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I recently heard a worried-looking overseas tourist asking a staff member, as curls of artillery smoke dissipated in the middle distance. The battle for the future of Stonehenge 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z When I asked the Salafi sheikh about these abuses, he squinted, looked into the middle distance and said they were committed by the UAE’s local partners. Yemen on the brink: how the UAE is profiting from the chaos of civil war | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z He credits the added strength with helping him achieve state, national and world records in middle distances for his age group. To Stay Speedy in His 70s, He Got Buff 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z “When you study history, you get superpowers in terms of seeing where things are going,” Nebyu says, glancing into the middle distance. Here’s how Ras Nebyu transposed his third-eye visions of gentrification into rhyme 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Not every setback leaves the players on their haunches, staring off into the middle distance, wondering where it all went wrong. At Arsenal, a Little Less Bumbling, and a Lot Less Grumbling 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z From the middle distance it can seem surprisingly tiny, like seeing a celebrity in real life. The battle for the future of Stonehenge 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mariam stares into the middle distance of the audience to say the Taliban have “declared war on women”? Thoughtful “mm-hmms” all around. For all its horrors, ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ at Seattle Rep feels uncomfortably comforting 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Buterin, who is twenty-four, occasionally glanced at Zamfir’s formulas but mostly looked into the middle distance with a melancholic empty stare, sometimes typing out messages and tweets on his phone with one finger. The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z He said tourists might one day be able to stay in cabins around the 1,500-acre hillside property, which overlooks the Santa Ynez River, racehorse training stables and vineyards that stretch into the middle distance. Marijuana is emerging among California’s vineyards, offering promise and concern 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The Netflix representative became deeply interested in a point somewhere in the middle distance, and Hoekstra said “Norm” in a tone of voice that must have been familiar to both of them. Norm Macdonald, Still in Search of the Perfect Joke 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z A stony West pondered Kimmel’s question, staring into the middle distance for an excruciating — and silent — three seconds. Kanye West's silence on Trump spoke louder than anything he told Jimmy Kimmel 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The style of official football portraits often shows players standing stoically, looking into the middle distance. The most creative Fifa World Cup football portraits 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Trailing Oregon star middle distance runner Raevyn Rogers only slightly starting the anchor lap, Ellis kicked into a high gear early. Inside the USC women's track team's relay miracle at the NCAA championship 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z When Alexander Ovechkin stared into the middle distance that night and declared, “It finally happened. We finally beat them,” like a man freed from possession. How the Capitals' many close calls added up to a big Stanley Cup victory 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z But much of that inheritance was swept away in the 1980s and 90s and with every year that passes the memory of it recedes into the middle distance of collective memory. Scotland and Britain 'cannot be mistaken for each other' 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Unlike the others, their gaze in the middle distance, their minds on important matters, he took the occasion to address those officers as fellow human beings, or perhaps more to the point, as his colleagues. Opinion | What made Bobby Kennedy so special 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, it is because they clustered in the middle distances that these events are the initial focus of the rules. Sex, Sport, and Why Track and Field’s New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z At work, he was known to pass coworkers in the hall without acknowledgment, his eyes set on some unseen goalpost in the middle distance, unless they initiated conversation. Gricar mystery: New investigator takes over 13-year-old case 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Instead of casting his gaze into the middle distance as he walked from one office to another, he often focused directly into a camera’s lens. Perspective | Mark Zuckerberg is one of the suits now. He’d better learn to get comfortable in one. 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Instead of casting his gaze into the middle distance as he walked from one office to another, it was often focused directly into a camera’s lens. Mark Zuckerberg wore a suit to Washington. There’s no going back to hoodies. 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Robert Ford, a senior middle distance runner at USC, was unsure what to expect when he decided to run for Gilbert, a wife, mother of three and his first woman coach. Track meet at USC brings together the five women coaching the men's and women's teams at major programs 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The I.A.A.F. is requiring that affected athletes lower their testosterone levels to within the female range if they want to continue competing in the middle distances in the women’s category. Sex, Sport, and Why Track and Field’s New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z All around me were the green fields of England; cows were grazing in the middle distance. Opinion | Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he’s bought it. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z But I experienced a growing impatience as the camera, taking a breather from the corrosive comedy, closes in on Mildred peering somberly into the middle distance. Why 'Three Billboards' and 'Call Me by Your Name' leave this theater critic cold 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z And, of course, some putting, specifically long lags and five feet and in—don’t waste time on middle distances where you’ll always two-putt. Why You Shoot What You Shoot - Golf Digest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Filmed in Miami, the last stop in her 2016 tour, we see Streisand often sitting on a chair and delivering her songs while staring in the middle distance or simply with her eyes closed. Review: Barbra Streisand concert film a gooey lump of blah 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z He stayed there for 30 seconds, maybe longer, staring into the middle distance. Arsenal’s Struggles Mount, Tarnishing Arsène Wenger’s Legacy 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z "He was a rapidly improving middle distance runner and his contributions to the school athletics and cross-country teams will be sorely missed," he said. Aspiring athlete Alex Holliday dies on Cuba school trip - BBC News 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z British middle distance runner Laura Muir is expected to abandon her bid to double up at the world championships in London after a foot injury hampered her preparations for the August event. Foot injury dents Muir hopes of doubling up in London 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Brownlee claimed his first victory over the middle distance at Challenge Gran Canaria last month, but was competing against a much stronger field in Utah. Alistair Brownlee wins on Ironman 70.3 debut at North American Championships 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z In the middle distance a handful of Highways England vehicles flit around the landscape, occasionally disgorging people in hard hats and hi-vis jackets. The Stonehenge tunnel: ‘A monstrous act of desecration is brewing’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z And if there are perhaps too many shots of subjects staring thoughtfully into the middle distance or darkly into the lens, the effect of their being filmed dignifies each speaker. Trio of riot documentaries look back to 1992 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The lawns were pristine and stretched into the middle distance. “Signal” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Her coach is a breast cancer survivor, and last year Robinson met former Olympic middle distance runner Suzy Favor Hamilton, whose brother, Dan, committed suicide. Overcoming depression can be just a short — or long — run away 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z In the middle distance: a 19th-century smokestack from which smoke never rises. In a Working-Class Stronghold, a Push for Scotland ‘to Stand on Its Own’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Smiley pauses a moment, looks at the floor, looks up into the middle distance and quietly answers: “Yes, they do.” ‘My Man Godfrey’: a 1930s rom-com that could’ve been ripped from today’s headlines 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z A Vine video of Christie staring uneasily into the middle distance as Trump spoke a few feet away in March has been played nearly 20 million times. Former Trump critics make up a parade of shame at Trump Tower 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z And their mother sits still on a bench, her eyes fixed in the middle distance, her stillness in contrast to the youthful animation that a routine extrajudicial killing hasn't extinguished. The Philippines: No country for poor men - BBC News 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z I judged that I’d see Mr. Trump most clearly from a middle distance. What to Tell Your Children About Trump 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Everyone around you moves like an automaton. You sit next to each other silently, staring into the middle distance. The Five Stages of Trump Grief 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Old salts drank beer in cans and stared into the middle distance. Honky-Tonk Brunch Spot for Brooklyn’s Hellbound 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He frequently posed her in the middle distance of the Northwest landscapes that attracted him. A precarious view above the Yakima River is a photographer’s delight 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Then, finally, as I emerged upon a clearing, it caught my gaze in the middle distance. Lava-hunting in trainers - BBC News 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “It was so painful,” she says, staring into the middle distance. Trouble in paradise 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Almost insignificant in the middle distance, Christ looks on. Stanley Spencer: Letters offer a portrait of the artist as a young man - BBC News 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z When it reaches her teacher’s cellphone, he stares into middle distance, disappointed. Nude selfies: what if they are just an ordinary part of teenage life? 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Her eyes seemed focussed in the middle distance. The Duo That Dominates Dressage 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The British singer Leona Lewis, making her Broadway debut as the heartbreaking Grizabella, has apparently been told to just squint into the middle distance sadly. Review: The hairball that is ‘Cats’ returns to Broadway 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Nick Symmonds is a US middle distance runner and two time Olympian. Who can't tweet about #Rio2016? - BBC News 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z As a two-time Olympic middle distance runner and the co-founder of a growing business that produces an energy chewing gum, he would seem to have a platform anytime an NBC camera swings in his direction. Olympics Ease an Ad Blackout, and Brands Flood the Field 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z Michael O’Neill stared into the middle distance as Kyle Lafferty covered his face in his green shirt, Jonny Evans sank to his haunches and despair was writ large on the Northern Ireland players. Poland’s Arkadiusz Milik consigns Northern Ireland to Euro 2016 defeat 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z One athlete who will be forced to cover up if he qualifies for the Olympics is American middle distance runner Nick Symmonds, who sells space on his skin for advertising. No logo: Paralympians still face tattoo ban, main Games less strict 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “It was surreal,” he says, looking off into the middle distance. The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Kenya, usually a powerhouse in the middle distance race, won only two medals in the championships. Ethiopians shake off doping concerns to strike gold 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The former Olympic champion middle distance runner also said restoring trust in the sport after the scandals of the last year was a long-term project. Coe says Kenya could be banned from Olympics: reports 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z I’m worried I won’t recognise Lemmy, since, for reasons he is not himself coy about, he is often photographed in the middle distance, in low lighting, or under a hat. Lemmy interviewed in 2004: 'People don’t know how to be outrageous any more' 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Pretend to look for someone by peering pensively into the middle distance. Shhh, quiet: an introvert's guide to networking 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The plain was spectacular in its vastness, and snow-crested mountains rose craggily in the middle distance. The Rise of the Artisanal Funeral 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Phillips, 85, has been competing in the senior games for 28 years and is most interested in the running events, especially the middle distance races. South Dakota men see success at National Senior Games 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Any manager who folds his arms, clenches his teeth, stares profoundly into the middle distance and looks like a recruiter for a Marine Corps poster is a pure-bred Peerless. After parting ways with Matt Williams, Nationals need to find a true leader 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z After a few moments she appeared to focus on something in the middle distance and then she was off on an hour-long free-associating journey into my subconscious. Facial? Psychic Reading? Take Your Pick at These Resorts 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The lights found Ramos’s calm, chiselled features, his clear gray eyes gazing into the middle distance. The Man Who Stood Up to Trump 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In the middle distance is some construction material. Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Dalal told her story in a whisper, staring into the middle distance. US hostage Kayla Mueller 'killed by IS', say ex-slaves - BBC News 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Born into athletics royalty in Ethiopia, middle distance runner Genzebe Dibaba is poised to win more glory for her illustrious family at the world championships in Beijing after years of indoor supremacy. The great outdoors beckon for Ethiopia's Dibaba 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Decathletes must possess the explosive power of a sprinter, the long-bursting endurance of a middle distance runner, the power of a shot putter and the ability to glide over hurdles. Debt paid in gold, Warner looks ahead to worlds 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The very top of Wood Hawe, in the middle distance of the image, is now just above the waters. Historic images of England - BBC News 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z From humble origins in the Amazonian state of Pará, he was the country’s leading middle distance runner for more than a decade. What the Olympics means for the people of Rio 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z Ron Clarke, Australia's greatest middle distance runner the man who lit the caldron at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, has died of kidney failure at the age of 78 in Gold Coast, Australia. Chargers say they don't see a way to get San Diego stadium approval in 2015 "I see her here, in front of us right now," he says, staring into the middle distance. How two men survived a prison where 12,000 were killed - BBC News 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z His eye sockets were dark cavities, and he often seemed to be staring blankly into the middle distance. John Nash’s memorable final appearances 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Even guns are for close to middle distance. 'Bloodborne' Review: Blood, Sweat And Nightmares 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The Provo, Utah, native is a recent marathon convert after making a name for himself in middle distances at Brigham Young University. Blake Russell overcomes six-year lull to win USA marathon title in L.A. 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The clock is ticking in Woods’s pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 major championship, turning what began as a marathon into a middle distance race. British Open 2014: Tiger Woods Resumes Chase for 15th Major Title 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The remainder of the day she spent perched on her branch, staring into the middle distance, and no treat or diversion engaged her. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z His furrowed brow makes him look permanently agitated, and in person he struggles with eye contact, staring into the middle distance when he speaks. Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu faces bumpy ride on the Bayou 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z It takes you a little while to see it, in the middle distance, darkened in shadow under a tree. Slender Man: the shadowy online figure blamed in grisly Wisconsin stabbing 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Nick Clegg simply stared off into the middle distance with a haunted look upon his face. 25 years of LOL – the good and bad bits 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z In the middle distance events in particular, athletes become very familiar with each other's strengths, weaknesses and game plans. Seven British medal hopes for World Indoors 2014-03-06T11:15:55Z In a few hours she would be yipping and howling along with dozens of other women similarly possessed, but for the moment she just stared into the middle distance and muttered softly to herself. Exorcisms Draw Egypt's Christians, Muslims 2014-03-03T19:05:17Z Around him, aides shuffle, offering papers and phones, and well-wishers and political figures hover in the middle distance, waiting their turn. The Saturday Profile: Even Out of Office, a Wielder of Great Power in Yemen 2014-02-01T01:44:02Z She looked off into the middle distance like she was dragging up a buried memory, “The ... um ... the Buddhist and the Nietzschian arguing at the end of the Universe.” Motivation 2014-01-22T18:21:15.027Z We were surrounded by Adelie penguins and Weddell seals, and the white cliffs of the great East Antarctic Ice Sheet towered high with both beauty and menace, in the middle distance. Why did Antarctic expedition ship get stranded in ice? 2014-01-21T20:26:44Z So even one of the middle distances, such as the 1,500 meters, would seem unlikely. Mo Farah challenges Usain Bolt to race 2013-07-29T13:24:43Z "The ponds here are from a natural spring," says Johnny, pointing towards a large expanse of water in the middle distance. Fracking the nation: the dash for gas beneath rural Britain 2013-06-28T16:09:30Z A pocket of empty grass catches the eye in the middle distance of the left approaching the large tree up the hill. Defining Moment 2013-06-10T04:00:00Z There’s a good chance Sean will spend a lot of the show leaning over a railing and staring off into the middle distance, contemplating his choices. Walking Dogs in Winter 2013-02-26T17:37:38Z I yanked on my Rollerblades and skated around, squinting slack-jawed into the middle distance. How To Be More Creative 2013-01-04T15:50:12Z The Balkan wars unfolded in the middle distance of the American consciousness until—finally—the United States led a war for Kosovo that was meant to put an end to the carnage, and did. Life on the Front Lines 2012-12-24T05:00:00Z "He does distance stuff, I'm more middle distance," Alec said about his brother. Archbishop Murphy follows in Alec Barnard's wake 2012-12-15T06:08:04Z Greifeld who earned $7.6 million in total compensation last year as CEO of transatlantic exchange operator Nasdaq, was once an aspiring track athlete himself, starting as a sprinter before moving to middle distance running. Nasdaq's Greifeld aims to elevate game with USATF Foundation 2012-08-16T21:48:21Z "It's always OK," he said of facing the Kenyan dubbed the Usain Bolt of middle distance running at such an early stage in the competition. Britain's Lawrence Okoye throws himself into the Olympic discus final 2012-08-06T12:12:44Z IndyCar driver Scott Dixon is learning a lot about the Olympics from his wife, a former middle distance runner for Britain. QUICKQUOTE: `RESPECT' 2012-08-06T10:38:08Z Nick Symmonds, a middle distance track runner with Team USA, was one of those who joined the protest. Olympic athletes take to Twitter to rally against strict sponsorship rules 2012-07-31T16:35:47Z Perfecting the vacant stare into the middle distance Trains, buses and trams might seem natural venues to start a friendly chat. 12 things in 212 words that every 2012 visitor should know 2012-07-27T00:46:38Z Thomas Chamney is an Irish middle distance runner who competed at the Beijing games in 2008 but will miss London through injury. Reality check for doping in sport 2012-07-25T00:28:35Z The opening story in his acclaimed debut story collection, Light Lifting, is about the quandaries facing two middle distance runners as they square up to the limits of their ambition and ability. Guardian Books podcast: Olympic literature 2012-07-20T11:21:09Z In the middle distance loomed Canarsie Pol, an uninhabited island and bird sanctuary just visible in the dying light. Kayakers Wait for the Moonlight on Jamaica Bay 2012-07-11T01:26:36Z At these games Britain didn't just dominate middle distance running. London 2012: Britain has lost a ruthless and competitive edge, and it hurts 2012-07-10T08:00:01Z In high school, I ran the quarter-mile, 440 yards, so I was looking forward to seeing the sprints and middle distances. Cheering Section: For Emil Zatopek, Unmatched Glory at 1952 Olympics 2012-06-23T15:23:01Z Fame And Glory was a very talented performer over middle distances, the winner of the Irish Derby, the Coronation Cup and beaten only a handful of lengths in two Arc de Triomphes. Royal Ascot 2012: Ladies' Day – live! 2012-06-21T10:18:57Z In all, 40 percent of Miami’s field-goal attempts are from middle distance. Off the Dribble: N.B.A. Finals — Heat and Thunder Differ Offensively 2012-06-12T04:32:44Z He turned away and, staring into the middle distance, said, “Oh, my Lord.” The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse 2012-06-06T17:00:07Z The Extinction of Hawaiian Birds The field crew carrying mist-net poles across the lava to reach a kipuka in the middle distance. Scientist at Work Blog: The Extinction of Hawaiian Birds 2012-05-29T19:49:59Z "We have never been in such a bad place," he says, sleeves rolled up, staring hard into the middle distance, from behind the desk that he shares in his small parliamentary office. Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a war between people and capitalism' 2012-05-18T19:55:45Z She had run mostly middle distances as a school girl in Watford, England. Arlington?s Claire Hallissey will run marathon for British Olympic team 2012-05-14T00:16:56Z The opening scene may be described as “The camp of the Knight Errant, Sir Robert Napier, with Bluebeard’s Castle in the middle distance, and the town of Attegrat and the mountains in the background.” March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z In the middle distance are the rice fields, with their intense green, and farther, on the side of the mountain, are the coffee plantations, for which Java is so famous. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z His father was a two-time Olympian in the middle distances. Matthew Centrowitz learns the strategy behind speed 2012-04-12T21:25:00Z In every foreground there was a peasant girl among olive trees, in every middle distance olive groves, and in every background the rocks and sea of Sirene. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Behind the dark green trees of the middle distance it looms as the wall of some forbidden land. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. µ The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Beyond it, the tower of Garthmyle Church rose in the middle distance, a few thatched roofs peeping through the half-leafless trees about it. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The outlines of the distant hills were partially veiled; the colours on the middle distance glowing, mellow and soft, all the sun's glitter being shielded off. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z In the middle distance, across the Bowl, which gleams a veritable "mountain mirror," we see the site of the home whence Hawthorne so often looked upon these cliffs. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z Such warm skies and cold middle distances and foregrounds are too antagonistic for the harmony of nature. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z Rush-grown pools in the middle distance suggested that the intervening country was marshy. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Tulp himself stares out into the middle distance, whilst other members of his guild peer instead at an anatomical atlas open at the foot of the table. The Uses of the Past: Why Science Writers Should Care About the History of Science And Why Scientists Should Too 2012-01-18T13:15:17.130Z As usual, the truth lay in the middle distance. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z There are at least two very dark clouds hanging in the middle distance: the state of the euro zone economy and French presidential elections. Analysis: Searching for glimmers of euro zone hope in 2012 2011-12-22T14:56:08Z "This is what comes of leaving Calcutta without paying your bills," I suggested; "or perhaps it's a Missionary Deputation——" The Natives advanced into the middle distance. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z The middle distance was almost unbroken swamp, except in one quarter, the north-east, towards that bend to which he had been proceeding when he was captured. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z Far away, across the yellow wheatfields, and beyond the vine-clad slopes of the middle distance, rise the huge shoulders and purple peaks of wild sierras. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Undulating ground, covered with vines and orchards, carries us into a middle distance of cypress and pine-clad hills. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Flocks of wild fowl speckled the middle distance with a single lone fisherman on the starboard bow. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z A goat has stolen part of my scanty bread ration and is now browsing peacefully in the middle distance. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z In the middle distance is Time with his scythe. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Though she is now the most famous female middle distance runner in the world, she is just one of the pack based on the latest results, although she did win in Paris this season. Analysis: As the Stars Come Out, Here's Where to Look 2011-08-27T19:57:21Z On the edge of the receding wall of mountains to the right of the valley in the middle distance, a stately building stands above the brow of a steep hill. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z "I'm very optimistic about what the future of the middle distance and distance runners look like." At 36, Lagat among favorites in 5,000 at worlds 2011-08-26T20:25:08Z In Harry's middle distance another more decorous swing-door vibrated to and fro, with a sharp smell of hops, a rattle of glasses, a voice reckless but good-humoured—proposing a like libation. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The background is brilliantly lighted; but the middle distance and the foreground are in shadow. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The tee is at one end of the polo field, with the grand stand in the middle distance on the left. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z That is the crux and nexus of life this summer for the promising 20-year-old middle distance runner from rural Kenya. Kenyan runner hopes U.S. success will improve family's life 2011-07-28T20:08:34Z A painting has foreground, middle distance and background. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Still standing just inside the front door, a glance to the right reveals part of the living room; look to the left, and there’s the kitchen counter in the middle distance. Octagon house comes full circle 2011-07-07T20:42:00Z A hunter is talking to two women in the foreground; cattle and a bleaching-ground occupy the middle distance, while a church amid trees is in the extensive stretch of background. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z For a long time he may have been undecided whether her regard was directed at her brother, at the extreme end of the line, or at some one in the middle distance. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z They are of all heights, some gigantic, and out of all proportion, others far too small and grotesque in shape, and others again, in the middle distance, far too gigantic for their position. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z There is a landscape setting, in which the middle distance is hidden by rising ground, and only part of the head appears above the horizon. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z How harmoniously the distance is blended with the middle distance, and the middle distance with the foreground, by means of the bridge across the river!’ The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z In the middle distance on the right there is an old Dutch house, a part of which, as well as the church with its clock-tower in the distance, is brilliantly lighted. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z She is a natural diplomat, said Mollie Hebda, a junior middle distance runner for Navy and Palacio’s best friend and training partner. After Serving Her Country, Compiling Records at Navy 2011-05-13T00:38:26Z Beneath, on the ground, kneel San Francesco and San Bernardino praying for the people who stand in a great crowd in the middle distance gazing up to the Madonna. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z When the middle distance is hidden by a rising foreground, an illusion may be created by the far distance alone if this be of considerable depth. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z At the Penn Relays, a junior middle distance runner on the Tennessee women's track and field team reflected on the damage. NFL draft starts with remembrance of storm victims 2011-04-29T01:09:08Z The sun piercing through thick clouds lights the middle distance, while foreground and background are in shadow. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Sit slack-jawed as he insouciantly hangs the cup off one arm and stares enigmatically into the middle distance! The Fiver 2011-04-06T15:32:21Z Just seen Hoy looking suitably relaxed, staring into the middle distance. Live - World Track Championships 2011-03-25T17:00:09Z On the far southward horizon could be seen the glistening cone of Mount Hood, kissed by earliest sunbeams, and in the middle distance the volcanic peaks of St. Helens and Adams. Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z The farthest mountains receded into invisibility, and the horizon was marked by an outline of summits hitherto familiar in the middle distance. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z In the foreground to the right is a watercourse, and in the middle distance a mill. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The farmer slowly repeated her name and stared into the middle distance. Amid Sendai's Devastation, a Father Seeks His Daughter 2011-03-13T14:25:00Z Sinking deeper into his dusty couch, he propped his chin on his hand; and, simultaneously, a vision emerged and filled the middle distance. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z In the middle distance, felled trees awaiting burning; in the foreground, a flat and wet area with main drainage outlined. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z In the middle distance a haze of smoke through which a regular forest of factory chimneys could be dimly discerned marked the position of Barborough. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z In the middle distance are trees and a country house, and in the foreground a meadow with cows standing on the banks of the river. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z At the height of his career, Thorpe was the greatest middle distance freestyler of all time, but he said he would now target the relays and the 100 and 200 freestyle. Van den Hoogenband relishes prospect of Thorpe vs. Phelps 2011-02-02T18:03:59Z He lay watching Joan for a little longer, dancing in the middle distance still. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Rather than look into the camera, she seemed to gaze into the middle distance while regurgitating the debunked claim that 16,500 Internal Revenue Service agents will be policing Obamacare. Obama, Congress Play Grownup for One Night: Margaret Carlson 2011-01-26T09:07:29Z The club type she preferred to know from a sort of middle distance.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Sunset at Scheveningen shows a beautifully lighted sea; some boats with fishermen occupy the middle distance; and the beach with promenaders is shown in the foreground. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z It looks like schmaltz - lots of fake grins or wistful gazes into the middle distance, but schmaltz looks good on film the director says. Fairytale romance 2010-12-25T00:08:58Z He looks into the middle distance as the soft Seattle summer drizzle hangs outside his window. Inside Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2010-07-12T20:59:00Z Once again, in the middle distance, the ocean was burning. Scientists Build Case for Undersea Plumes 2010-05-29T01:26:00Z Yanukovich, who says his foreign policy is aimed at steering a middle distance between Russia and Europe, avoided any discussion of sovereignty. Yanukovich, under fire, defends deal with Russia 2010-04-22T18:01:00Z In the middle distance is a fowling-piece with a shoulder belt and net. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Flat races are classified as 'sprint races', 'middle distance' and 'long distance' races, although the distinction between these is somewhat arbitrary. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The middle distance was bright with young barley, and in the background stretched the hills in misty purple. The Key to Yesterday I was in the centre of a very arid plain with blue mountains on the horizon and lines of ruined aqueducts in the middle distance. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I All I can offer you is liberty to tumble around the hayfields at Foreland Farms, with my sketching easel in the middle distance. The Moonlit Way The foreground is in shadow, while the middle distance and background are fully illuminated. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Parker and Jennie fought clamorously on a variety of subjects in the middle distance, but Curtis was hardly more than courteous to Mrs. Parker—so absorbed was he in some inner controversy. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Back of all that were the hills, going up from the joyous sparkle of the middle distance to veiled purple where they met the bluest of skies. The Key to Yesterday The old king's palace was looming vast in the moonlight, with a broad sea of silver to take the place of the brown valley level in the bridging of the middle distance. The King of Arcadia Harold Grey was introduced and subsided modestly into the middle distance, but upon a chair from whence he could observe Belinda's shining profile in a mirror. Shadows of Flames A Novel The middle distance is in shadow, and here we have trees, fields, and dunes. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z In the middle distance is Umpog Swamp; in the foreground the edge of the southern end of row of Kames which points down the valley. Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 I know where I am, and I know where I want to get, but there’s a middle distance to be filled in... filled, not padded... and ideas won’t come. Lady Cassandra Winding among the billowy hills in the middle distance, a wavering double line of aspens marked the course of the Boiling Water. The King of Arcadia These tints are balanced by a very little warm colour on a road and gravel-pit in the foreground, a single house in the middle distance, and the scarlet jacket of a labourer. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 In the middle distance, a horseman is carrying off his booty, and on the left two horsemen are pursuing the fugitives. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The mounds in the middle distance cover the ancient city. The Bible Story His name, somewhat prominent from the functions he exercised, helps to fill up the middle distance of the picture, that environs the advent of the first Tudor king. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Croizette and Sarah Bernhardt passed to the front, and the elder actress receded, if not into the background, at least into what painters call the middle distance. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Two hundred and fifty feet of this nearly perpendicular vegetable-clad wall formed our foreground, while the middle distance was represented by the calm and brilliant waters of the bay, with two or three thickly-wooded islands. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Trees and a wheat field occupy the background and middle distance; and in the foreground are seen sheep and cows, painted by his brother, Pieter Gerardus van Os. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z They had been driving much of the day and dining early on the balcony of their hotel, looking out upon the glorious view toward Sorrento and Capri, with grim Vesuvius, smoke-crowned, in the middle distance. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Westerly, beyond the drab and golden foreground and the blue haziness of the middle distance, the Cascade Range silhouetted against a sky whose tones became richer and more cheerful as evening approached. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making His bland eyes peered forward into some middle distance, ignoring Scott. Feline Red In the middle distance, a few ilex and cypress trees were effectively and naturally distributed. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 On the right, in the middle distance, there are two trees near a rock, and a cascade, and the background is mountainous. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Out of the green pastures in the middle distance rose the ruined towers of Glastonbury. Cynthia's Chauffeur The way down to this spot from the Halliday cottage was a grassy street overarched with low-branching evergreen oaks, and so terraced that the trees at times robbed the view of even a middle distance. John March, Southerner A hawk which nests among the steep inclines of Todt Hill shot out from a neighboring ravine and hung motionless, but never quiet, in the middle distance. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 Sirmio appeared like a woody island in the middle distance, and beyond the lake rose an amphitheatre of mountains, surmounted by the distant summits of the Tyrolese Alps. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 On the left, in the middle distance, a brown and a dun-colored ox are lying down. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z A French man-of-war was going out, homeward bound; she lay in the middle distance of the port, an ant-heap for activity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston The middle distance was dotted with half a dozen "follies" "for sale," each with its small bunch of workmen's cottages, some empty, some full, alas! and all treeless and grassless under the blazing sun. John March, Southerner The same hawk, to me the most blessed of birds, would often sail as before in the middle distance, or night-hawks would cut their strange curves in the evening sky. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 The light throughout the foreground and middle distance is wonderfully natural, and clearly develops the numerous groups and figures comprehended in this colossal work. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 On the extreme left, a richly dressed lady and gentleman are watching the affair with interest, and in the middle distance, on the right, two men are watering their horses at a ford. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z The sky is barred by flaming clouds, two enigmatic men move in the middle distance. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The field and hill alone will make a study of distance and middle distance and foreground, but it would not make an effective sketch. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors On the low bushes near by were spread the drying clothes; in the middle distance stood out the straw-thatched hut; and beyond, for background, were trees and bushes and huts and half-hidden stone walls. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 "That head man of yours is a duffer," she said sharply, pointing a very earthy trowel at the unconscious figure of the gardener, who was busy in the middle distance digging potatoes. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts "The warm, clear chiaroscuro in which the whole foreground is kept is admirable, while the sunlight falling on the middle distance has a peculiar charm." The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z All of which is correct, yet we respectfully submit that the theatre, like a picture, has its optics: its foreground, middle distance, background, and foreshortening. Ivory Apes and Peacocks To Comanche there came that August afternoon, when it was wearing down to long shadows, a mixed company, drawn from the far places and the middle distances east of Wyoming. Claim Number One Everything is at last worked out and he has it on paper in front of him; he puts the paper four square on the table, gazes into the middle distance and proceeds to recite. The Lost Kafoozalum A shining spire in the middle distance arrests the eye. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France How masterly is the chief group in the middle distance! The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Large nests of buildings in the middle distance are always beautiful, when drawn carefully, provided they are not modern rows of pattern cottages, or villas with Ionic and Doric porticoes. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners In landscapes it is used in skies and the middle distances, but not in the foreground, unless mixed with yellow. Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements In the middle distance a canoe with two figures in it rose and fell lazily in the gentle swell. Death Points a Finger All the Umbrian sense of space is there, in this valley with its winding stream and blue distances, while in the middle distance the delicately drawn trees are mirrored against the clear sky. Perugino In the middle distance are some fishermen, a black horse, the other side of a canal, and a house. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z One of these is inferior to the other, and in many respects false to the drawing; the "Jericho," for instance, in the false series, has common bushes instead of palm trees in the middle distance. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners In landscapes, in some instances, it serves for use in the middle distance and foreground; the light places should be retouched with yellow or gold. Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements That which was in the foreground of their life is now in the background or in the middle distance of yours. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer In the middle distance the piers of Old London Bridge, and the house at its foot with overhanging gallery, make a pleasing old-time picture. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In the middle distance a coach and six horses with lackeys is seen, and in the background the spires and towers of Rijswick are basking in the sunlight. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z But a middle distance of Hobbima's involves a contradiction in terms; it states a distance by perspective, which it contradicts by distinctness of detail. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) In landscapes a little can be used in the skies, the middle distances, and lights on the ground in the foreground. Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements This very capital picture exhibits an open country divided in the middle distance by a river whose course is lost among the distant mountains. Six Centuries of Painting St. Andrew’s Church rises in the middle distance. Leading Articles on Various Subjects There were tall windows thrown wide to make the blaze of gas bearable, and two tall mulattoes in the middle distance bringing in and bearing out viands too sumptuous for any but a French nomenclature. Dr. Sevier His middle distances are good.intricacy even in the best works of the old masters. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) For the middle distance mix blue, rose, and a little yellow or gold if you want it greenish, or you can use a very little brown. Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements In the centre of the middle distance is a frigate, and in the foreground smaller vessels. Six Centuries of Painting Presently a long-drawn-out screech in the distance, and a fearful crash in the middle distance. War Letters of a Public-School Boy A Claude would see the distances, a Gaspar Poussin the middle distances and flowing lines, and Wynantz the docks and thistles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Nevertheless, the foliage of Claude, in his middle distances, is the finest and truest part of his pictures, and, on the whole, affords the best example of good drawing to be found in ancient art. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) James is in the middle distance, a couple of flags draped over his person. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 But of late the prospect of going back, or living with any aunt at all, had receded into at least a middle distance. Daisy's Aunt Sally and her lover were far and away the best foreground for the panorama of his mind just now, and she herself would be quite happy in the middle distance. Somehow Good The far background was well enough, trees on the side of a hill; but the objects in the middle distance were a railway line and a ditch full of muddy water. A Padre in France In his picture of the Weald of Kent, in the British Institution this year, there was a cottage in the middle distance with white walls, and a red roof. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) And there were things in the middle distance, also to the left, that you might accept as beehives or as native kraals. The Dop Doctor In the middle distance, burgesses and sad-faced women look on at the martyrdom, and in the background a distant street, filled with soldiers, leads steeply up to a ruined classic building, not unlike the Colosseum. Luca Signorelli With regard to every other measurement, however, there was not the slightest doubt but that in a few years he would equal his distinguished father’s outlines, a fact already discernible in his middle distance. Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman In the middle distance the recruits caught sight of a soldier pacing, his gun, with bayonet fixed, at shoulder arms. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army He is not quite so various and undulating in his line as Stanfield, and sometimes, in his middle distances, is wanting in solidity, � 10. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The blue Mediterranean spread out before them, Capri in the middle distance, and the beauties of the shore nearer by, were an endless entertainment for Dolly. The End of a Coil In the middle distance three brothers bear the dead body, and in the foreground the Saint stands and raises him again to life. Luca Signorelli Signal to the driver to stop in the middle distance. Jonah and Co. Large nests of buildings in the middle distance are always beautiful, when drawn carefully, provided they are not modern rows of pattern cottages; or villas with Ionic and Doric porticos. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The foregrounds of J. D. Harding and rocks of his middle distances are also thoroughly admirable. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The lines of ropes through the foreground connect with others in the middle distance leading tangentially to the house beyond. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures In our own experience the foreground, middle distance, and background, mark off the present, the approximate, and the distant future. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer At "64" the scale is set for the most distant of land views, beach scenes and boats in the middle distance off-shore. If You Don't Write Fiction Just beyond the picture, to the right, the ridge breaks down, and the little valley in the middle distance sweeps around, becomes a steep, narrow gulch, and ends at the breach in the glacier wall. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America There is, on the left hand side of Salvator's Mercury and the Woodman in our National Gallery, something, without doubt intended for a rocky mountain, in the middle distance, �4. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) A barrier across the middle distance is almost as objectionable. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures In the same way, the middle distance indicates the near past or future, and the background denotes the more distant past or future. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer An occasional shell was heard in the middle distance, as artillery beyond the Yser threw a lazy feeler over to the railway station. Young Hilda at the Wars In the middle distance were fir-clad hills, while behind them rose blue and misty mountains. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg He remained heedless of the other three boys hanging awkwardly in the middle distance. The Adventures of Bobby Orde It is the large building in the middle distance, standing back a little from the lake, and to the left of the castle. Rollo in Geneva “In the foreground with eight pink pajamas in the middle distance.” Iole Those who possessed paint-boxes were encouraged to work in colours, and the head mistress, who had herself no little skill, gave many useful hints on the putting-in of skies and the washing of middle distances. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life In the foreground, as a cowboy,221 or in the middle distance, in his proper person as a tenderfoot, it seemed as if there was a vocation for him. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Marny had settled into his chair now, and had stretched his fat legs toward the blaze, his middle distance completely filling the space between the arms. Fiddles 1909 A drop-scene fell; the stage was transformed, for, in the middle distance, swelling green hills rose against a soft blue sky seen between trees in the foreground. Flamsted quarries There were a lot of girls in pink sunbonnets picking wild strawberries in the middle distance,” he added thoughtfully. Iole Moreover, it lies shut in by hills, and there is no distant horizon to give the value of foreground and middle distance. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Straight ahead in the middle distance I spied two stray dogs making a direct course towards us; not wandering about, but evidently going somewhere. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska The middle distance is dotted pleasantly with hawthorn bushes and the pretty pieces of sandwich-paper that are always the harbingers of London's Spring. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 Look at the exquisite little wood scene on page 123, with the foreground in shadow, and a bar of sunshine lying across the middle distance. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 A pleasant enough morning: the sun just climbing above the shell-shattered, leaf-bare woods in front; the moon dying palely on the other horizon; even a school of fast-wheeling birds in the middle distance. Pushed and the Return Push Two chiefs appeared walking through the grove at a middle distance. Witch-Doctors There lay the great white Yukon in the middle distance; beyond it the Yukon Flats, snow-covered, desolate, stretched away enormously, hedged here at their beginning by grey, dim hills. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Little Tahoma in middle distance; Gibraltar and Cathedral Rocks on extreme right; "Goat Island" on left. The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' The foreground of the landscape was a pump, the middle distance a wash-tub, and the background a brick wall, about ten feet distant and fifteen feet high. Charlie to the Rescue Through the glasses one saw the yellows and greens of bracken and moss and grass in the middle distances. Pushed and the Return Push There was never any prospect; sometimes a hill-top with its trees would look over the nearest hedgerow, just to make a middle distance for the sky; but that was all. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Going home, he did not meet a soul; only in the middle distance of one of the lower side streets he espied a policeman. Clayhanger They are greater upon flesh-tints and pearly grays, middle distances and chiaroscuro, than upon conception, expression, or elevation or magnificence of sentiment. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 With madder red, the brown gives a fine tint, most useful as a warm shadow colour; and with Prussian blue, clear, very sober neutral greens for middle distances. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists The view is worth several hours of an artist's time, and its effect is considerably increased by a solitary tower, resembling a moss-trooper's abode, which stands in the middle distance. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 Another picture is the Vale of Ashburnham, with the house in the middle distance, Beachy Head beyond, and in the foreground woodcutters carrying wood in an ox waggon. Highways and Byways in Sussex But the local colour of its surroundings did not support the comparison, and the reason of its being loomed up gauntly in the middle distance. On the Heels of De Wet Canning and another gentleman were looking at a picture of the Deluge: the ark was in the middle distance; in the fore-sea an elephant was seen struggling with his fate. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings In combination with Indian red and Naples yellow, terre verte forms a series of mild russet greens, of much use in middle distance. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists The illustration shows, in the middle distance, a considerable area of bottom land which the site overlooks. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 Hobbemas, Vandycks, Murillos—what are these when the sun shines and the ceaseless mutations of a herd of deer render the middle distance fascinating? Highways and Byways in Sussex The middle distance of the plain was spangled with a streak of winding silver. On the Heels of De Wet From the west end of the nave, as a dark silhouette against the eastern apsidal windows, or as an object in the middle distance, it helps the spectator to realise the length of the cathedral. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See It was the one small lapse from the strict conventionalities, but it sufficed to cut out all the middle distances. The Price Plate XLI shows the eastern side of the depression; the large tree in the middle distance is on the bank of Clear creek and below the terrace. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262 The hour was hot and breathless, the middle distance quivering through a heat haze, and the remoter reaches of the prairie an opalescent blur. The Emigrant Trail The composition was usually a dark foreground with trees or buildings to right and left, an opening in the middle distance leading into the background, and a broad expanse of sunset sky. A Text-Book of the History of Painting The great lake glitters in the middle distance, from the opposite banks of which the ground gradually rises, and the eminence is crowned by the stately structure. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath In the middle distance small villages faced each other across the stream, and toward these most of the roads converged,—proof of the existence of a ford. My Lady of Doubt My idea is that what artists call middle distance is better suited to her colouring. The Second Latchkey The sooner I see the old girl standing on her pins in the middle distance, the better I'll feel. Star Born An interior with a figure or two in the middle distance, and a passage-way leading into a lighted background were sufficient for him. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Charles's mistress, her pug-dog, the page-boy who tended the dog, nay, the boy's putative father, occupy the foreground: and the poet, the statesman, and the hero retire into the middle distance or the background. Studies in Early Victorian Literature In the middle distance you may see a farm windmill from sail to platform, but away across the snow-plain sea you catch only the uppermost part of the white sails. Some Winter Days in Iowa In the middle distance was a churchyard crowded with people, most of them looking very ill, and many of them leaning on crutches. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence The smoke of burning went up in the middle distance, denoting the heap of weeds pulled by the Major and Gertie during the last three days. None Other Gods In the middle distance is a castle with tower and flag, and on the horizon are a windmill, a castle with two towers, and some trees, above all a red cloud. English Embroidered Bookbindings There was no middle distance in her perspective: romantic recollections of sunny afternoons on an esplanade, with military bands, officers, and gallants around, stood like gilded letters upon the dark tablet of surrounding Egdon. The Return of the Native Shall I get over, advance ten paces, and gaze Into the middle distance? Berry And Co. The cliffs in the middle distance consist of the sands and clays of the lower Greensand formation, and are constantly falling and being eroded by the waves. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight The foreground is thrust back, the distance brought forward, and the middle distance is nowhere. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses A busboy refilled their water, and Hershie took a long sip, staring off into the middle distance. Super Man and the Bug Out He opened the door to his old bedroom and there she was, stark naked and beautiful in the morning sun, comm in hand, eyes focused in the middle distance, shouting. Eastern Standard Tribe All thoughts of relief have been pushed into the middle distance—and even beyond—by the urgent business we have now on hand. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation And in the middle distance before and behind us they mocked us with their calls. The Killer Every other colour meets others in harmony—tawny sand, silver-grey scrub, crimson-tufted flowers like heather, black ribs of rock, puce shoots of screes, violet mountains in the middle distance, blue fairy battlements guarding the horizon. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War I have here two half-plate films exposed at 8:30 A.M. to-day, one with five and one with six seconds' exposure, subject chiefly middle distance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 At middle distance and well to one side, stood Grand Marshal Valentine, racking his brains for the lines which should give the signal for the shock, but all in vain. A Man and a Woman All that seemed alive in the white landscape were the partridges—sometimes in great flocks—which scudded at our approach, or occasional groups of hares in the middle distance holding winter parley. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend In the middle distance and perhaps a mile away was a low fringe of brush; to the left an equal distance a group of willows; and almost behind me a clump of cottonwoods. The Killer Several superior peaks rise out of the wilderness, where the churches are; and beyond the puzzling middle distance, where smoke dissolves all form, loom the dock warehouses, a continuous range of far dark heights. London River But the compound force, resulting from such a combination as he supposes, would be anything but a constant force; it would evidently be a force greatest at the poles, and diminishing to the middle distance. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 Strange creatures, momentarily changing shape and size, glided monstrous across the middle distance. The Silent Places Brett, carried swiftly along the level road, kept his eyes fixed on Beechcroft and its contiguous hamlet until they vanished in the middle distance. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate In the middle distance stood a long, narrow, thatched roof supported on poles. The Killer The cottage in the background, the trees and weeds in the middle distance, the distribution of light and the subdued tones of this impressive picture, are all excellent. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 There were near green hills, and far blue mountains, and certain rocky eminences in the middle distance, but nothing of grandeur. The Princess Passes And then, dim and ghostly, rank after rank, across the middle distance drifted the caribou herds. The Silent Places Mrs. Scaritt became famous for her curtains as an artist is known for his middle distances, his woodland green, or his flesh tones. Half Portions "The mote in the middle distance?" he asked. A Christmas Garland The dark greens of the foreground soften into deep-blue shadows in the middle distance. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 In like manner the middle distance and the foreground come under observation and are put on in one below the other. Military Instructors Manual On the whole Gabriella felt that she preferred the safe middle distance between the two exacting standards of living. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Presently, from the middle distance a bright patch of colour set in a whirl of dust drew rapidly nearer and resolved itself into a group of cavalry officers extending their chargers in a smart gallop. When William Came At the next corner we would pause, undecided as to what to do; there, in the middle distance, would stand our friend, smiling. African Camp Fires Of these buildings, only the large temple in the middle distance to the right of the picture, with its pylon gateway and its four Osirian colossi, recalls the general arrangement of Egyptian architecture. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Height of gun carried horizontally by man in middle distance above central group, exactly Phi proportion 291with top and bottom of picture. The Practice and Science of Drawing To return; the large particulars, then, were these: the foreground, the middle distance and the background made a synthetic whole, logically consistent, rational even—when you allow for the artist's make-up. The Red Redmaynes One sees all the armies of the ages charging out of the middle distance with Death riding at their head. Carry On Letters in War-Time We made friends with many of them, communicating by laughter and by signs, while our guide stood unobtrusively in the middle distance waiting for us to come on. African Camp Fires Two men in the middle distance were going away from the house. Elizabeth's Campaign Then trotting under a sunny sky, on a broad vacant road, they made for a line of hills in the middle distance. Lady Connie In the middle distance Mr. Du Brant still strolled backward and forward, pulverizing his teeth and swearing in French. The Captain's Toll-Gate But in the middle distance Life was playing marbles with the Unknown. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 There was sometimes no background and no middle distance in his mind. Robert Browning The portrait of Emperor Charles V. as Pharaoh is pointed out by the gallery attendant, who then retires and diplomatically coughs in the middle distance. Promenades of an Impressionist Behind that ridge in the middle distance ran the river and the Nuneham woods; beyond rose the long blue line of the Chilterns. Lady Connie Trains crept with noiseless mystery along the middle distance, under their canopies of yellow steam. Tales of the Five Towns In the middle distance twinkled a light, beyond which in long stretches lay the sombre marshes. The Rules of the Game An attendant in livery stood in the middle distance. The Tracer of Lost Persons The middle distance is occupied by picturesque buildings dating probably from the Middle Ages. Promenades of an Impressionist The sheep are in the middle distance on the edge of the river. The Art of the Moving Picture The most conspicuous feature in that landscape was a lofty flat-topped hill in the middle distance, being somewhat isolated, and on the western border of a plain which extended from our position to its base. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Beyond the hedge, in the middle distance, looms a square and stately Georgian mansion, whose lights twinkle hospitably. The First Hundred Thousand It needs only Friday's funny fat umbrella to complete the picture, with the goat scampering in the middle distance. The New North In the middle distance a glorious sycamore draws you to the left, and a file of elms beckon the sliced way to a marsh, wilderness of grass and an overgrown gully whence no balls return. Murder in Any Degree Everything Punic or Italian in the middle distance or massed background speaks of the very genius of the people concerned and actively generates their kind of lightning. The Art of the Moving Picture In the distant view "The Island" is conspicuous on clear days with Chichester Cathedral spire in the middle distance. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End Above the rim of the silver-blue sea—patched with purple stains in the middle distance—webs of steamer smoke lay along the southern sky. Deadham Hard “And hidden treasure, and night attacks, and young virgins in the middle distance,—yes, I’d really like to stay a while.” The House of a Thousand Candles In the middle distance, armfuls of honeysuckle in full bloom were brought in and twined about white pilasters. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe There is a brilliant blue sea before my windows, with purple mountains as a background and silver-topped olives and rich green pines in the middle distance. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections But just as he had hurled his seneschal over the battlements, in order, as he playfully observed, to make the falling softer, his eye was arrested by a wreath of smoke in the middle distance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 Here and there, in the middle distance, little towns, pale-walled and glistering, climbed upward amid gardens and olive yards from the rocky shore. Deadham Hard He always drew the same landscape—large dishevelled trees in the foreground, in the middle distance a plain, and on the horizon an indented chain of hills. Liza "A nest of nobles" On a rising ground at the foot of one of the bold bluffs in the middle distance, a collection of neat wigwams formed, with their surrounding gardens, no unpleasant feature in the picture. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest In the middle distance a regiment of prisoners was being slaughtered in a singularly bloodthirsty fashion. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 |
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