Robert adds, "My mother was a beautiful, intelligent, cold, and distant woman. . . .
For Mr. Ackermann had pushed his own boundaries — dressing his mysterious, distant woman with vivid colors never before seen in his vocabulary.
In a head-and-shoulders portrait called "Distant Woman" (1995) the subject's masklike face is featureless but for vacant, burning orange eye sockets.
(Rooney) 'I Am a Tree' (previews start on Friday; opens on Thursday) When an emotionally distant woman named Claire learns that she has family members she never knew about, she heads off to find them.
A distant woman's approach is a neat metaphor for a designer whose decade-plus history — since attending the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, interning with John Galliano and setting up his own label in 2003 — is the antithesis of "fast" fashion.
At a recent interview over lunch at a country club near her home here, she wore a blue-jean skirt and a cotton blouse and carried a Kate Spade handbag, projecting the image of the generally cool, businesslike and somewhat distant woman that even her friends describe as "private".
In other songs, narrators watch themselves and others succumb to druggie temptations ("Sea of Love"), wonder if they're dying ("Heavenfaced") or drift toward separation and solitude; one of the least cryptic lyrics in Mr. Berninger's catalog is "Fireproof," with folky fingerpicking over a tolling piano, in which the singer tells a distant woman, "You keep a lot of secrets, and I keep none".
Paul Lund also had a relatively decent upbringing; his mother was a dour and distant woman who left most of the child rearing to nannies, but his family was large, affluent, and well respected.
When Maggie Gyllenhaal, as a forward-thinking woman in 1880 London, voices her belief that, in the not too distant future, women will be able to have the final say about their own welfare, you listen and think, "Hmmm, apparently not yet, as far as some people are concerned".
