Sentence examples for how dad was from inspiring English sources

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He never asked how Dad was holding up, and his selfishness angered me.

His brevity registers as acceptance, a pragmatic, maybe even disappointing, shrug at life's deprivations: It's unfortunate, but that's how Dad was.

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I'm inspired to see how Dad is being portrayed in marketing now as well.

"In June, everybody talks to dads, and baby marketing is filled with how dads are unsung heroes, but the rest of year it's just moms," Mr. Allen said.

But the terror that the outside world so frequently engenders can be neutralized — by YouTube videos of dachshund puppies, Facebook updates from "friends" I do not know, Instagrammed chronicles of exotic meals I am too timid to ever try and too cheap to ever pay for, the Twitter wisdom of @KimKierkegaardashian, not to mention that one Tumblr about how dads are the original hipsters.

He always asked how my dad was, or how the project I was working on was going.

That's not how my dad was with his friends.

"I noticed that after his gigs men wearing Yes T-shirts would approach him and ask him how his Dad was," she explains.

(It should be noted, however, that the cartoonist's son Monte Schulz has complained that both the program and Mr. Michaelis's book "didn't really show enough of how fun Dad was").

I would have to explain, chapter and verse, how their dad was left to cook their tea one day while his wife, who was pregnant with their third child, took a nap upstairs.

This all sounds fairly idyllic, yet, looking back on it now as an adult, I realise just how much Dad was battling with the emotional tsunami from his catastrophic loss.

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