The phrase "a distant man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is emotionally or physically removed from others, often implying a lack of warmth or connection.
Example: "Despite his impressive achievements, many found him to be a distant man, rarely engaging in personal conversations."
Alternatives: "an aloof man" or "a detached man".
In the final shot, she runs hopefully toward a distant man on a beach.
Talk of love and family ties from a distant man who drives away in a luxury SUV, leaving them covered in dust, is hardly inspirational.Thus the contrast was striking on May 5th, when Mr Modi turned up by helicopter to campaign in Amethi.
Harry, the athlete, was more to his father Dan's liking, but Dan was a distant man who led a rough life and died at 47. 'Just to give you a little taste of who they were, my dad actually was a bag man, picking up money for the gangster Myer Lansky, and eventually he became a bookie himself.
A regular caner – an austere, distant man".
Born in Rouen, Mr. Hollande's father, Georges, a doctor, was an angry, distant man who was faithful to Marshal Philippe Pétain, the chief of the Vichy state, disliked de Gaulle and despised what he called "the Resistants of the last hour".
Mr Reagan's empathy with ordinary people was never, like Bill Clinton's, a matter of genuine human warmth; in many respects he was a rather distant man and president.
The father, an alcoholic and an emotionally distant man, was triumphantly "cured" in less than two years — which made Stossel feel, he says, "like a schoolchild whose younger sibling has just sped past him in the accelerated class".
"He's a very distant man," Sacha Trudeau, his 25-year-old son, said in the television documentary.
Each book presents a chilly, distant man with phenomenal intuition about how to sell what was hot.
According to his wife, Don Mosher returned from Vietnam a cold, distant man, and her own compensating warmth is streaked with resignation and thwarted love.
It's hard to say exactly how it affects you... except in my father's case, he was a very distant man – night after night I saw him very drunk on cheap wine and I felt embarrassed about him and I didn't understand what had happened to him," he says.
