Sentence examples for remote father from inspiring English sources

Their dependable but somewhat remote father was an engineer and a salesman for General Electric.

Mr. Quaid said that the father-son dynamic had drawn him to the role of the remote father.

Under the tutelage of a remote father and a maiden aunt (their mother had died four years earlier), the sisters, together with their two remaining siblings.

She is beside herself when Ellis chooses to attend the same East Coast prep school as his stern, remote father, who lives in Washington with his new wife.

He was the only son of a hard-working, remote father who committed suicide and an adoring mother, whom Mr. Daniell adored in return.

This may all be arch, ironic parody, though the tone is straight-faced and the topics weighty -- from being a remote father to cancer tests and cremation.

After an unhappy and isolated childhood — his mother, Fanny, was off in America; his remote, depressive father, a failed barrister, was merely absent — he was generally regarded as a hopeless case.

These four new stories all take place during the narrator's childhood, and some of the material and the atmosphere will be familiar to readers of Munro's earlier ones, especially those in "The Beggar Maid": the ailing, hard-to-please mother; the remote, angry father; the childhood beatings; the mink farm that goes bust.

Williams, who grew up in luxurious but isolated circumstances in the suburbs of Detroit, situates the origins of his antic spirit somewhere between his fun-loving but apparently self-involved mother, who was a Christian Scientist and thought "everything was wonderful," and his frequently absent, remote industrialist father, who was a pragmatist and thought "everybody's out to nail ya".

Her father, "removed, remote and distant", spoke of Bengal as "a wonderful green and fruitful land", while her mother, with her "rich, warm, vibrant personality", quoted German nursery rhymes and tales of Christmas in Berlin.

Obsessed with his work and his literary status, the solipsistic David has been a remote, emotionally guarded father.