The phrase "a distant dad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a father who is emotionally or physically unavailable or detached from his children.
Example: "Growing up, I often felt the impact of having a distant dad, as he was rarely present for important moments in my life."
Alternatives: "an absent father" or "a remote dad".
The show, directed by Erica Schmidt (who co-wrote, with Pisoni), weaves confessional passages, accompanied by scrapbook photos, with reënactments of old routines, drawing a poignant contrast between the Zen-like confidence required of a clown and the quiet vulnerability of a boy with a distant dad.
Rather a distant dad, though; for most of her childhood, she saw him only three or four times a year, on his regular visits to England (where she lived with her mother, brothers and twin sister), and during the long summer holidays at the family home in Port Harcourt, where her father lived.
The characters include a dizzy, distant dad, whose game of choice is Russian roulette; a sweet, adulterous, alcoholic mom; a steroid-hyped son and a wisecracking, free-basing teenage daughter.
The characters include a dizzy, distant dad, whose game of choice is Russian roulette; a sweet, adulterous, alcholic mom; a steroid-hyped son and a wisecracking, free-basing teenage daughter.
Not a simple task for a young man who, as a boy, found his mother dead from a brain hemorrhage and who now, at 17, lives with his distant dad, a failed ceramist who wears a ponytail and talks frequently about suicide.
Doocy, who has hosted "Fox & Friends" since its inception, in 1998, is the show's jovial, distant dad, greeting all comers with a bemused rictus.
After the teenage son's thwarted devotion to his chaotic father in How Late it Was, How Late, and the bigoted, distant dad in Kieron Smith, Boy, Kelman conveys with great poignancy the intractable silences and clumsy negotiations of intimacy between Murdo and his father Tom, both wounded by grief and loss following the death of Murdo's mother.
We, too, miss our distant dads.
They had three children, to whom a distant yet manipulative Dad was "the disengaged, silent presence, feet up in his stringy bathrobe, eyes fixed on The Wall Street Journal at the breakfast table".
I've found agency in a distant relationship with my dad and in soda water.
Mr. Kinney also played an emotionally distant divorced dad in the recent box-office hit "Save the Last Dance," a film he describes as "a kids' movie".
