The phrase "a remote man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is distant, either physically or emotionally, or someone who lives in a remote area.
Example: "He was known as a remote man, often preferring solitude over social gatherings."
Alternatives: "a distant man" or "an isolated man".
"He was a remote man who did not show emotion.
Even in Vienna, Mr. Kaufman said, his father had been a remote man.
The unpredictable scene transitions are particularly clever: an emotional moment turns oddly into a song; a remote man suddenly whispers so a scene becomes impossible to hear.
Anil finds herself paired for the investigation with a government-selected archaeologist named Sarath, a remote man 16 years her senior.
Mr. Tyree is a remote man with some idiosyncrasies that suggest he may have some emotional problems of his own.
(Dalby: "[He was] a pedantic, remote man with whom co-operation was difficult". Awdry: "To Dalby, one engine was very like another..
The strange character for Mr. Walken this time around is Carmichael, a shy, remote man — much like the actor himself — who has been searching among corpse dealers for his left hand ever since it was hacked off 47 years earlier.
She assumes the role of the Lone Eagle. A. Scott Berg's "Lindbergh" (Putnam), an 800-page biography done with the Lindbergh family's cooperation, portrays Lindbergh as an emotionally remote man who insisted that his wife cry in private after the death of their first son and who ignored his wife for much of their marriage.
A spoiled child, Zelda was doted upon by her mother, but her father, Anthony Dickinson Sayre (1858 1931) —a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of Alabama's leading jurists was a strict and remote man.
Melanie's British husband, Stephen, is a remote, dismissive man who knots his ties and laces his shoes with alienating efficiency.
To me, it was memorable because the image I had of a remote, intellectual man was quickly dispelled in his brief talk.
