Sentence examples for emotionally absent from inspiring English sources

The plot is driven by the pain caused by fathers who are physically or emotionally absent.

The characters in these books often seem stunned and affectless, emotionally absent.

And when he was drinking, he was almost unbearable: erratic, violent, emotionally absent, impossible.

And then, Sherman said, they had an inspiration: "You could make the father emotionally absent".

It was not always like this, as Gladys continually reminds her emotionally absent husband over their nightly glasses of Madeira.

YOU were the child of glamorous but emotionally absent narcissists; your own credo is "Never take advantage of anyone".

Following the suicide of her father and being in an isolating and emotionally-absent marriage, Angela developed a shopping addiction for dolls and teddy bears that lasted 20 years.

Myth No. 2: Homosexuality is caused by a smothering, overprotective mother and an absent, emotionally distant father.

The "games" were all devised by Benjamin, who offers direction and commentary from beyond the grave via a series of videotapes that seem more reflective of an obsessively observant and caring parent than an absent, emotionally stunted one.

For a man abandoned by or who had a poor relationship with an emotionally and spiritually absent father, he can be redeemed through his own involvement in the life of his own child.

She became emotionally, and often physically, absent.