The phrase "distant man" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a person who is emotionally, physically, or spiritually distant or detached from others. For example: The distant man seemed to be lost in his own thoughts and kept to himself.
A regular caner – an austere, distant man".
I remember him as a kind but somewhat distant man.
He was a cool and distant man, the kind who could understand wit but not humor.
In the final shot, she runs hopefully toward a distant man on a beach.
Hoffmeister, a prickly and distant man with poor health, takes a keen interest in his new employee.
Each book presents a chilly, distant man with phenomenal intuition about how to sell what was hot.
Calculations suggest that the clump of dark matter associated with cluster of four galaxies is offset in space by a distance of about 5,000 light years, equivalent to about 50,000 million million kilometres – a distance that would take Nasa Voyager spacecraft, the most distant man-made object, some 90 million years to travel.
Instead, Jane's longing for difficult, distant men propels her to Austenland, a strangely underpopulated English theme park staffed with actors and decorated with stuffed animals.
Janice, deep in Sauternes, thinks "of how much like Harry Nelson was, defending presidents.... Why do they do it, care so about those distant men?
But just to put the season of vaudeville firmly behind us, let's contemplate the choice that awaits: two confident, intelligible, no-drama, rather distant men, each of whom seems to have overcompensated for bigot-arousing origins (Obama's race, Romney's religion) by being rational to a fault.
What is the most distant man-made object?
