Sentence examples for fictional father from inspiring English sources
I'm far from the first to notice Briggs' temperamental resemblance to his crotchety fictional Father Christmas.
As for the rest of it, my guess is that however much Briggs, like his fictional Father Christmas, loves to grumble, he likes making us happy even more.
After college, Pat extracted the ultimate revenge by writing The Great Santini, killing off the abusive, fictional father in a plane crash.
In addition to promising, in a loan document, to repay the money, the fictional father also swears to keep everything in good order "and to be prepared at any time to allow the King's Representative to inspect them".
But there are also moments of wonderful spontaneity, such as the dancing-scene with Pacino, her fictional father, when her real-life niece, the little daughter of Sofia's dead brother Gio, suddenly runs into shot clutching at her aunt's skirt.
Nevertheless he's the TV doctor you would most want to visit if you ever found yourself encumbered with an inexplicably obscure illness, even if you did spend your recuperation contemplating the irony of Neighbours alumni Jesse Spencer following in his fictional father's footsteps.
My dad is great – I've no complaints – but I think even he would understand why I would choose Atticus as my fictional father-figure back-up.
And yet the experiences that O'Hara had as a child and as a young man seemed to him anything but fictional: his father dying while he was at Harvard, his mother descending into an alcoholic spiral, his own sexual and artistic awakening stranding him without a past to which he could comfortably return.
Just to be clear, that is fictional alcoholic father language for, "Please take note of this quintessential experience that can later be scapegoated for your annoyingly pouty future".
Instead, we'll know when Hollywood casting directors and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences view people of color as deserving of equal opportunities to shine when a black man in the role of a fictional caring father, son, teacher, student, doctor, author or otherwise non-racially coded character is nominated for and wins Best Actor.
Mr. Phillips depicts the fictional Arthur's father, Arthur Sr., as a phony and pretender — as a sort of combination of the con-man father in Geoffrey Wolff's memoir "The Duke of Deception" and one of the charming, prodigal fathers in John le Carré's fiction.
