Sentence examples for paternal about from inspiring English sources

Anyway, I'm old enough to feel paternal about the current team's gallant old stars.

The multimillionaire lothario has kept paternal about Playboy, and last month announced his third marriage, to 24-year-old Playmate Crystal Harris.

Weinke, who recently became the oldest -- by five years -- of any player to win the Heisman Trophy, gets positively paternal about the fresh-faced lad who finished second to him.

ANYONE who suspects that it is close to impossible to feel paternal about atomic particles hasn't done time -- in a college classroom, a Senate hearing room, a nuclear laboratory -- with the father of heavy ion science, Dr. D. Allan Bromley, Yale's avuncular, bow-tied, rarely tongue-tied dean of engineering.

Yes, he heaped normal fatherly attention on his two children, but Dr. Bromley, a widower and three times a grandfather, can't help wax paternal about his enduring relationship with the atom, the thing he has spent decades smashing, studying and, much as he did with his mother's sewing machine when he was a boy, taking apart just to see what's inside.

A dog hook actually, nothing maternal or paternal about it.

He owns neither of them, though, saying he's very "no-paternal" about his work.

Gavin's also worked in music and fashion, and published two other photography books – neither of which he owns any copies of, due to being very "non-paternal" about his work, and just giving it all away.

When Steve was in the 7th grade, his aunt thought it would be good for him to have a male role model from the gentleman class, someone to offer paternal advice about sexual prudence & financial restraint.

Parents would not have to arrange dawn-till-dusk childcare, and paternal guilt about going back to work might be lessened, even more so maternal bitterness about feeling forced to stay home.

And an expression of distaste swept over her face recently when a New York Times reporter brought up a story, which had appeared elsewhere in print, that she had once answered a question from Mr. Bush's paternal grandmother about what she did with her life by saying, "I read, I smoke and I admire".