A distant echo, a folk memory, of what all this once was, what we once were.

There, with the stands empty and the adulation a distant echo, his true worth will be exposed.

It was a traumatic time of not knowing, the distant echo of atrocity haunting her nights.

Many of these stories, however, contain only distant echoes of the original.

Distant echoes of a not so distant musical past could only be detected in the occasional appearance of sparse chords played on a polyphonic synthesizer.