I'm sure that I seemed at some times too remote a figure.

Several said he had been a remote figure, somewhat lacking in leadership and charisma.

Until recently his father had always seemed a remote, unapproachable figure.

On screen and off, she was a remote figure of loveliness.

So despite his enormous celebrity, he was quite a remote figure to the public.

It is inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you.

For so much of her childhood, he had been a cool, remote figure.

Many players saw Kelly as a remote, autocratic and petty figure.

Her own mother had been a remote, veiled figure whose face she could not remember.

Indeed, sick or well, Vannie was a remote figure in his life.