And yet an inspiring final story featuring a rankled, ailing father and his distant, studious daughter — the most fraught and realistically rendered of the collection — emotionally endorses their imperfect endeavor.
According to court documents filed by the plaintiff, Ellyn's parents were distant from their daughter.
Sometimes it is neglect that can make you distant from your daughter.
Ms. Rogoff searches for her father's past -- and the depths of his quietly passionate but distant personality -- in "Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier".
Still, the land here exerts a pull that the prospect of life in a distant town nearer her daughter does not.
Hilary had died in 1991, when Josephine was only one year old, so she was not even a distant memory to her daughter.
And rarely is there a performance as riveting as Sarah Lancashire's as Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant raising her emotionally distant grandson after her daughter's suicide.
I hope our conversation will become a distant memory for her daughter, but I have little reason to believe that her formative years won't be defined by hardship.
What we don't hear anything about is his estranged daughter, his distant relations with his mother and his siblings or the desperate chasing of women he engaged in before he met his second wife, Frances Howard.
The hero Randy "the Ram Robinson Mickey Rourkeke) is a professional athlete far beyond his prime, his marriage a distant memory, his twentysomething daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood) long estranged and despising him.
