We all know that strange remoteness into which one wakes from out deep sleep.

There is a strange remoteness and fascination about it.

There was a strange remoteness in his look, and they seemed very far from each other.

It struck her that there was a strange remoteness about him, almost as if he belonged to another world.

Indeed, the exaltation of her mood seemed to lift her above her surroundings so that she felt a strange remoteness from her companion.

"You would know." Her expression and her voice were both growing distant, taking on a strange remoteness even though Rione stood beside him.