"Offing" is a word in ENGLISH
That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or
where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from
the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the
offing.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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