Gatsby's father unexpectedly appears, a forlorn man clinging to the fantasy that his distant son had built up about himself.
He was a poor student, a distant son; in Lahr's words "an imagination in isolation trying to keep itself amused", who looked to the theatre as a means of escape.
Daniel24 is thus both the comedian's distant son and his exact DNA replica; he is working on a commentary on the autobiographical diaries of his original ancestor, which form the main body of the novel.
Mr. Livermore's son Jesse, who much resembled his father in the distant Boy Plunger days, arrived very shaken to make the formal identification.
Out and about during the fast I have heard snippets of tunes leaking out from headphones as people pass me in the street, music spilling from shop entrances, and the distant sounds of my sons starting to practise their instruments.
Fathers who made their fortunes outfitting ships for distant voyages begat sons who built factories, chartered banks, incorporated canal and railroad enterprises, invested in government securities, and speculated in new financial instruments.
It was true that Sextus Caesar, who was perhaps the dictator's uncle, had been one of the consuls for 91 bce; and Lucius Caesar, one of the consuls for 90 bce, was a distant cousin, whose son and namesake was consul for 64 bce.
Alwaleed has two children with his first wife (a distant cousin); his son and a daughter are now in their 20s.
When we put some distant Buddha or son of God in charge of taking care of everyone else, we let ourselves off the hook too easily.
First it brought her a hazy, enervated heaven, occupied by a distant Father and Son, and now it's brought her a strange, possibly heretical heaven, occupied by two vaguely divine men.
