in lontananza

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “in distance”.

Prepositional phrase

in lontananza

1. in the distance
   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 9, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     ... il poster creato da Shepard Fairey e intitolato HOPE, con una versione stilizzata in rosso, bianco e blu del mio volto che scruta in lontananza, divenne all'improvviso onnipresente.

     ... Shepard Fairey's graphic art poster, titled HOPE, with a stylized red, white, and blue version of my face staring off into the distance, seemed suddenly ubiquitous.

     (literally, “... the poster created by Shepard Fairey and titled HOPE, with a stylized version in red, white and blue of my face searching in the distance, became suddenly omnipresent.”)