Sentence examples for distant mothers from inspiring English sources

The narrative, revisiting some of Mr. Irving's sturdy preoccupations -- dead children, distant mothers, New England prep schools, the friction and affection between a bright young man and his older mentor -- is full of invitations to cuteness, contrivance and maudlin excess, all of which Mr. Williams confidently declines.

Some people feel motherless because they grow up with very distant mothers, mothers who are distracted or sick, mothers who have too many children, or who start off well with mothering but then become overwhelmed or have other interests, or have a stressful marriage, or no marriage at all.

Can she confide in her distant mother?

A bullying father, a distant mother, yet Gordon was happy.

Bechdel's engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother.

Bechdel's engaging, original graphic novel explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother.

Her very difficult father and rather distant mother brought up her two children instead.

In the psychological horror film Stoker (2013), Kidman appeared as the emotionally distant mother of a troubled teenage girl.

Nixon was an actor and a musician, a romantic whose tough childhood and distant mother left him yearning for approval.

Moore also received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of an emotionally distant mother in Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980).

The family: a father home from prison (Esai Morales), an emotionally distant mother (Judy Reyes) and a teenager (Harmony Santana, in an astonishing debut) saving up for gender reassignment surgery.