What could he do but pray - to the utterly remote, barely imaginable Emperor?

To them their leaders seemed utterly remote.

Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is a time of "joys."

The look in those eyes was coldly detached, sullen, as it were utterly remote; it weighed upon me.

He seemed utterly remote from the boxing racket; movies were more his game.

The narrow lane of stars that could be seen overhead seemed utterly remote.

She wondered had this really happened, the non-answers to questions, the sense of her mother as being utterly remote, lost to her.

Why should I be drawn to lavender So utterly remote and uncongenial?

The voice seemed utterly remote from the situation, from the roof which was so near the sky.

Today the voters are passive figures in a process utterly remote from public policy, watching shadows on the wall of Plato's cave.