"distant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To them the government was like a distant and unyielding father.
- It's as if only in dying can Arthur make up for the distant father he was when his children were young.
- A son attempts to find common ground with his distant father through spiritualism.
- This individual probably suffered a difficult childhood, with a cold, controlling mother and a distant or absent father.
- Again, the main character is a young man growing up in a thinly described German city, with an emotionally distant father.
- "Many of them have had absent or distant fathers."
- Timothy turns out to be not only an emotionally distant father - stuck in his books - but also a cheating husband.
- Homosexual men are the environmental product of a strong, overbearing mother and a weak, distant father.
- Married to Hannah and a distant father to their three children.
- He was, moreover, a distant father to his seven children.
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