Sentence examples for Distant parents from inspiring English sources

Born Roberta Joan Anderson in 1943, the only child of rather distant parents, Mitchell was 10 when she developed polio.

What binds the distant parents and occasionally cruel children appears to be a mix of duty and habit.

Speer's affluent but unappealing childhood would have interested me his sickliness, his distant parents, who employ maids in white aprons and fret about their social standing.

Liza's distracted and distant parents admonish her to act her age and stop making up tales when she tries to expose "not-Patrick" for who he has become.

What's largely new, and savage, in this memoir is the level of disillusionment Ballard came to feel during the war, about both England and his own distant parents.

Three years later, their son, Robert Drew King, was born, but according to King-family diaries they were emotionally distant parents.

Others blame distant parenting and then over-protective parenting.

Meleagris gallopavo is the wild turkey native to North America, the distant parent of the forty-six million thateys that will be eaten across the country next week.

From there, the message was sent to a distant parent or other relative, whether she was working in the city or fighting a war on the other side of the world.

In a different case, perhaps with an older child, a more distant parent or a greater showing of grave risks to the minor, the agency might consider such a claim.

And the play, directed by Steven Yuhasz, floats several intriguing themes: a child's craving for approval from an emotionally distant parent; the similar ministries of pastors and psychiatrists; the challenge of faith in a God who lets bad things happen.