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How can you use “distancing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I was compelled to pay strict attention (for four or five hours at a time) to setting, lighting, music, gesture, singing, pace of over-all presentation; to this or that role's performance, costume, formal distancing from the audience (Noh) or Globe-like intimacy with the audience (Kabuki); to traditional methods of men's playing women's parts, audience's anticipation and shouted recognition of favorite plays and actors and moments, tone of voice, etc.
They should "pull a Sister Souljah," loudly distancing themselves from a cultural figure on the far right, and start oozing compassion (one way to do this: "heartwarming stories about children with fatal diseases").
On Meet the Press , Joe Klein says that when he asked Gore why he feels so strongly about distancing himself from President Clinton, Gore referred to his struggle to break free of his father's shadow when running in his first race for Congress.
According to Nickels, who was distancing himself from the group by this time, "Atta was just too strange."
The Journal and NYT also note the Feinstein reaction, and go on to note that the ranks of distancing Democrats include such party bigfeet as Dick Gephardt, Thomas Daschle and Lee Hamilton.