The phrase "a somewhat distant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a relationship, feeling, or connection that is not very close or intimate.
Example: "Their friendship has become a somewhat distant memory since they moved to different cities."
Alternatives: "a rather remote" or "a fairly detached".
And Tom Stewart, though a sympathetic and interesting character, is also a somewhat distant one.
While Lobo himself remains a somewhat distant character, Rathbone provides a vivid corrective to the "calumnious revolutionary narrative that diminishes Cuba's past".
A somewhat distant and intense figure, Mr. Wirtschafter has, according to one agent, unnerved some of the veteran William Morris agents working for him with his biting comments.
But no closing of ranks is likely until a winner has been chosen, and that remained a somewhat distant prospect tonight.
International Data Corporation and Gartner, both industry analyst firms, just released their statistics on worldwide personal computer shipments for the second quarter, and Lenovo was the top supplier, with H.P. second and Dell a somewhat distant third.
He was a somewhat distant but for all that loving grandfather to the three of my children whom he knew, and one of the last recollections I have of him being in the house where I'm writing this was of him picking up his youngest grandchild.
Mr Barak need not take sides; he has created a breakthrough in an area fraught with ill will and hostility.Mr Barak has emerged from the negotiations with his reputation confirmed as a somewhat aloof and distant autocrat, disarmingly clever and disquietingly mysterious.
But the administration came into office more concerned with European and Asian allies, pursuing a tough, somewhat distant relationship with Moscow and announcing a review of the programs.
He was still hearing the story, a steady, somewhat distant drone of words, like the sound of an alarm in another room heard from inside a dream.
Diet margarine compared to butter was consumed seven times less often when it was presented at a single, somewhat distant position in the hospital restaurant instead of multiple, centrally located and easy-to-reach positions.
This pianist — Cuban-born, now in Florida — is an imposing, somewhat distant presence in the American jazz scene.
