Sentence examples for dutiful brother from inspiring English sources

If Mr. Sandler's George Simmons is a recognizable type — the insecure, rebellious, egocentric and libidinous son — Larry Gopnik could be his self-effacing, dutiful brother.

After his violent death (which happens fairly early in the novel), his devoted, dutiful brother, Subhash, marries his pregnant widow, Gauri, and brings her to America in hopes of giving her a new start in a new country.

The lives of gay men, dependent on social networks and lovers, can't be justified in terms of the proliferating nuclear family, so he has to be turned into a dutiful brother and uncle above all.

Although the word "abdication" is not mentioned in the exhibit's wall texts, the fact that the glamorous Edward VIII gave up the throne for Wallis Simpson and handed it to his dull and dutiful brother was the making of Mr. Beaton as a court photographer.

And so with the tale of the boy who wastes his inheritance but gets a feast from his father, while his dutiful brother doesn't; or the one about the weeping whore who is worthier than her good, prim onlookers; or about the passionate Mary who is better than her hardworking sister Martha.

When he unintentionally kills her after a failed seduction, Byrne enlists the help of his dutiful bookkeeper brother, John Lee Bowmann), to dispose of the body, and keeps quiet as John comes under suspicion of murder.

Instead of applying himself to his lessons, like his dutiful older brother, Wilhelm, he roamed the woods, collecting herbs and insects; his parents nicknamed him, not altogether kindly, "the little apothecary".

Many in the region hope that China, like a dutiful big brother, will shepherd North Korea back into the fold of peaceful nations, instead of letting it wander around with weapons of mass destruction in hand.

But the dutiful little brother had promised David that he'd stick with Southpole for five years.

His rival, Flawless, is a dutiful son and brother but becomes disillusioned by success and is torn by his ambitions.

His father, Mayor Johnston Green Gerald McRaneyy), considers him a black sheep, and so does his more dutiful and sanctimonious brother, Eric Kenneth Mitchelll).