Pete Doherty

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

English Musician

Jermaine O'Neal

When people question your integrity, when people question who you are from afar, when they've never had a conversation with you, and don't know the time and effort you've put into your communities, but then you're kind of this thug, this out of control player, that makes no sense to me.

American Basketball Player

Greta Van Susteren

In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

American Journalist

I'm kind of shy when it comes to women, so I don't really approach them. I'll just admire them from afar, and if they happen to say something to me, then maybe I'll find the courage to say something.

American Musician

Luke Pasqualino

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

English Actor

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Randy Moss

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

American Athlete

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

British Author

Paul Auster

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

American Author

Al Horford

Dominican Basketball Player

Used to describe something that's very far away from the speaker's or observer's location.

Great Distances

'Afar' adds a touch of poetry or romanticism compared to simply saying 'far away'.

Poetic Feel

Often used to create a strong visual image of vast distances or expanses.

Visual Imagery

Refers to specific distant places, often with a sense of vagueness or exoticism.

Specific Locale

Can evoke a sense of the unknown or unexplored when referring to distant locations.

The Unknown

Often used to set the scene in a narrative, adding depth and expansiveness.

Descriptive Backdrop

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 and admired her from afar. But the goddess’ grandfather was very possessive and would not let the sun god anywhere near his beloved granddaughter. To get past the grandfather, the sun god disguised himself as a hummingbird. As he took a drink of tobacco flower honey,

The myth of the moon...

 and one of these laws tells us that brain waves can't control objects because they're neither strong nor far-reaching enough to influence anything outside of our skulls. Physics also tells us that the only forces that can influence objects from afar

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 But then an annoying whine interrupts the peace, getting closer, and closer, and closer. Until...whack! You dispatch the offending mosquito, and calm is restored. How did you detect that noise from afar and target its maker with such precision?

The science of hearing -...

 So I think 'Oumuamua probably has many more things to teach us, and in fact there might be more surprises in store as scientists such as myself continue to work with the data. More importantly, I think this visitor from afar

The story of 'Oumuamua,...

 surrounded by a layer of clouds. These clouds, predominantly made of hydrogen and helium, include traces of methane, which give this ocean world its rich blue color. While the clouds create a cool, calm veneer from afar,

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 And there are others we look at from afar, with envy sometimes, but knowing that we are what supports them. All the basic sciences support them, including math. All that makes science, science is the rigor of math.

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 But this painting stands apart from the quiet narrative scenes that we observe from afar in many of Vermeer's paintings. A girl reading a letter. A piano lesson. A portrait artist at work.

Why is Vermeer's "Girl...

 Socrates, famously, believed that he had a daemon who spoke wisdom to him from afar. The Romans had the same idea, but they called that sort of disembodied creative spirit a genius.

Your elusive creative...

 They have been observed for thousands of years, and even provided the basis for the earliest calendars. For most of human history, the moon could only be studied from afar.