Sentence examples for distant dad from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We, too, miss our distant dads.

His words defied the stereotype of the stern disciplinarian and distant breadwinner dad that, to this day, haunts many a memoir of childhood – but times are changing.

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".

(Nick doesn't want to end up like his distant, unloving dad).

Sometimes it's because they want to be closer to their kids than their distant 1950s dads were to them.