Marika sensed a distant alien presence as they began the climb from the river.

But he could sense the presence of the key, faint and distant, somewhere deep inside the keep.

Her mother was a strange, distant presence, physically there, but mentally off in a place only she could visit.

A longer pause, as if that distant presence was thinking.

His mother, Nora, gave her first baby away and is a distant, unhappy presence.

But he had always been a distant presence, protected by retainers.

For the last eight years, Ronald Reagan has been a formal and distant presence in the nation's capital.

Another presence, distant and faint but still detectable, called out across the Void.

In his recent paintings and drawings, the urban landscape has become a more distant presence.

But the law is a distant presence in much of Bangladesh.