If he struggled up from barbarism, and still more
remotely from the lower Primates, his ideal should be to surpass man himself and reach Superman (see especially the Prologue).
Hesiod has nothing that
remotely approaches such scenes as that between Priam and Achilles, or the pathos of Andromache's preparations for Hector's return, even as he was falling before the walls of Troy; but in matters that come within the range or ordinary experience, he rarely fails to rise to the appropriate level.
The dairy called Talbothays, for which she was bound, stood not
remotely from some of the former estates of the d'Urbervilles, near the great family vaults of her granddames and their powerful husbands.
They were sounds not made by his mate, and yet they were
remotely familiar.
Neither, by their report, had his dying words acknowledged, nor even
remotely implied, any -- the slightest -- connexion on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne had so long worn the scarlet letter.
Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more
remotely the latter; and being pursuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.
I have visions of myself roaming through the forests of the Younger World; and yet it is not myself that I see but one that is only
remotely a part of me, as my father and my grandfather are parts of me less remote.
I have begun to fear,
remotely, that the day may never shine, when I shall see my child-wife running in the sunlight with her old friend Jip.
I am grieved beyond measure that I should be, however
remotely, a cause of this horror coming on you.
He reviewed his friends' marriages-- the supposedly happy ones--and saw none that answered, even
remotely, to the passionate and tender comradeship which he pictured as his permanent relation with May Welland.
Within, the young woman lay upon a filthy sleeping mat, resigned, through utter hopelessness to whatever fate lay in store for her until the opportunity arrived which would permit her to free herself by the only means which now seemed even
remotely possible--the hitherto detested act of self-destruction.
And if any discourse tended, however
remotely, to raise the idea of love, an involuntary sigh seldom failed to steal from his bosom.