Mr. de Blasio, exuding a fatherlike frustration at the rowdy scene, sought to portray his rivals as sclerotic politicians who had closed themselves off to new ideas.
Though Collins has been protective of his players, perhaps even fatherlike, at least publicly, he had not yet spoken with Bay.
"No matter what other people say about him, he was a fatherlike figure to us," she said.
Park Kyung-sin — one of the few members of the government's Internet regulatory board appointed by opposition parties, and an ardent critic of its policies — says members of the political elite feel especially threatened because they see themselves as "fatherlike figures".
And we need to protect children and stabilize family relationships, as Murphy suggests, by broadening our definition of "father" to include men who willingly perform fatherlike roles in a child's life, and who, with informed consent, have accepted the responsibilities of fatherhood.
I figured if I wasn't going to be a father, I could assume an undefined fatherlike position.
But I wouldn't change my fatherlike status for anything.
Such scenes are not unusual in North Korea, where the state media depicts the nation's leader as a fatherlike protector and calls for unconditional adoration and obedience.
Then, starting in 1999 and continuing until 2002 — as the sexual abuse scandal in the church was gaining national attention, Mr. Brier noted — Mr. Liberatore repeatedly took advantage of his fatherlike position and abused the victim.
Angry protesters, many of them women, marched on the Capitol, bearing sarcastic signs that mocked the governor as a repressive, fatherlike figure from a bygone era.
