Sentence examples for or fatherly from inspiring English sources

At the right moment in their careers he would give them the collegial, friendly or fatherly advice so as to put them on the track of independence.

This included understanding their language, the way of approach, having HSP who were younger, empathetic, knowledgeable and kind; but not motherly or fatherly.

If you're a boy, try planning a little 'man' time with your dad or fatherly figure (you could go to a football game, fix a car or even just a long drive to a park somewhere - wherever you feel most comfortable).

A winning sports team might be inspired by a fire breather like Vince Lombardi, or a fatherly presence like Joe Torre, or a diffident intellectual type like Bill Belichick.

Have you, Alice, ever felt compelled to give her fatherly – or grandfatherly – advice or told her to take care?

Failing that, he can always fall back on another earnest mea culpa or vow of fatherly maturity.

And, is it because maybe your parent's SO (Significant Other) tries to act, say in a fatherly or motherly way which you don't appreciate?

While not projecting Reagan's fatherly folksiness or Bill Clinton's feel-your-pain empathy, or even reaching the rhetorical flourishes of his own most famous speeches, Mr. Obama came across as confident and presidential, curbing his natural instincts for professorial lecturing (if not the constant hand gesturing, which proved distracting on television).

As a general rule, when you are thinking about the "advice" that Presidents ask for and receive, do not think of this as fatherly advice, or the guidance of sage old hands, or of cutting edge political intelligence rendered to a preferred president to give them a policy or electoral edge.

That night, when I walked into the dance studio where the Imps were holding their summer event, the first thing that seized my attention wasn't the two nude, middle-aged women awaiting their beatings on a St. Andrew's Cross, or the pair of fatherly, silver-haired gentlemen with smeared eyeliner in drag, or the ass-up bottoms astride the "spanking benches".

The situations generally involved fatherly importunity or condescension.