Sentence examples for dutiful father from inspiring English sources

I was the dutiful father.

Concluding with a religious theme, she said: "A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar.

George P. Thompson, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Bedford, N.Y., where Andrew Cuomo's three daughters received their first holy communion, described Mr. Cuomo as a dutiful father who occasionally sat in on classes for parents of first communion candidates.

Bo Guagua, the high profile son of toppled politician Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai, has defended his "upright" and dutiful father in his first comments on the toppled politician since scandal engulfed his family.

Ann, the loving mother who could level you with a few choice words, worked as a supervising clerk for the state's Department of Insurance, while Cosmo, the dutiful father who could defuse any situation with a joke, ran his own bleach company.

Hollywood and its celebration of grown men playing dress-up didn't align with his humble background, a childhood in New Jersey raised by a dutiful father, a WWII vet who won a purple heart but never talked about his heroics until the end of his life.

(Large families were a feature of Henri's ancestors: one ancestor, though a homosexual, dutifully fathered six children, helped, it is said, by "holy medals").Henri had a good record as a patriot, joining the Foreign Legion in the second world war after the army had turned him down because of a law that then banned the descendants of former kings from living in France.

This correlated with a theory by Paul Cantor, author of the book The Simpsons: Atomistic Politics and the Nuclear Family, regarding Homer Simpson, of FOX's The Simpsons, "that merely by being present, a dutiful and attached father can provide a meaningful influence, despite his dysfunctional behaviour and errant educational ways".

Though he professed to despise the stodginess of bourgeois life, he dutifully followed his father into medicine.

All through his teenage years, when adolescents typically rebel, and even at university, Vali dutifully followed his father's faith.

"Zusya" — in which Brodman bends dutifully to his father's and Judaism's demands, thus failing to fully become himself — is the inverse of that story.