André Cloete (Jaco Muller) is an alcoholic young adult who is self-destructing quickly due in part to his emotionally absent but strictly religious father.

Mr. Brooks implies that leaders who are emotionally absent and concentrate only on reason and logic make bad decisions.

A father may have been a good provider but was absent emotionally from the child's life.

They function more like forensic evidence, markers left behind by the dead, the lost or the emotionally absent as proof of their existence.

The characters in these books often seem stunned and affectless, emotionally absent.

"It deals with a universal theme, a child's search for an emotionally absent father," Ms. Redgrave said yesterday before going into a preview performance.

Certainly it didn't come from his mother, a dental assistant, or his emotionally absent father, an engineer who was lobotomized because of an aneurysm before Mr. Hawley was born.

She was a chemical addict and my dad was emotionally absent and offensive.

Lee's mother was prone to a nervous condition that rendered her mentally and emotionally absent.

Men have been writing for decades of the "father hunger" caused by having a father who was physically present but emotionally absent.