Sentence examples for was a distant figure from inspiring English sources

He was a distant figure to me.

Watch here Michael Quercio: He was a distant figure.

"He was a distant figure," Quercio says of the Three O'Clock's time on Paisley Park.

Dickey's mother drank heavily, and his father, a machine operator on a construction crew and a night watchman at the county juvie, was a distant figure.

"He was a distant figure," Michael Quercio of the Three O'Clock told me of his single encounter with Prince, his label boss and a man he believes had been inspired by the music he and a handful of other bands had been making in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

His mother was a distant figure, and their relationship was always strained.

TO most moderns, Guillaume de Machaut is a distant figure, familiar only from textbooks.

Yet if her father has been a distant figure, her life clearly revolves around her status as his daughter.

TO MOST Australians, the governor-general is a distant figure performing the ceremonial functions of a head of state.

The Melville of the novel's third-person "Passages" narrative is a distant figure, particularly when he meditates on his writing.

Moyes has also proved insular, even with those in his inner circle, with his coaching team not always sure what his thoughts are, and he can often be a distant figure to those who work at the club's Carrington training complex.