Sentence examples for paternal bonds from inspiring English sources

There were Duncan McCormack III and IV, shooting together to strengthen frayed paternal bonds.

Sandler plays the hideous man-child who impregnated his teacher as a kid and is now forced to forge paternal bonds on the eve of his estranged son's nuptials.

Re "Paternal Bonds, Special and Strange" (June 15): From a Darwinian perspective, it stands to reason that the more involved a father is in his child's life, the greater the child's chance of reaching adulthood and prospering, especially in species with complex social interactions.

Weak paternal bonds breed dysfunctional relationships in families and society as a whole.

Through a set of mysterious circumstances, a violent damaged man is forced to undertake the protection of a young girl with whom he eventually establishes a paternal bond.

But an almost paternal bond has grown up between Sanfur and Razi, which Razi's boss becomes increasingly worried might sabotage the ambush that is intended to prevent Ibrahim from carrying out another deadly attack in Jerusalem.

Their version of the box includes breast pads to encourage breastfeeding, a brain-developing children's book by a Canadian author and a "Crib-Side Assistance" resource for fathers to encourage paternal bonding.

When he wrote about it at Telluride, A. O. Scott said the film "blends academic satire, classic Jewish humor and an almost Shakespearean sense of the tragic potential of the paternal bond".

"Expecting men to take an active role in their partner's pregnancy and attend the birth of their children can deskill them as potential fathers and damage paternal bonding," states your article, reporting a study by Dr Jonathan Ives and Dr Heather Draper.

Mr. Cedar, aided by a brilliant cast (notably Shlomo Bar-Aba and Lior Ashkenazi as professors in furious competition who happen to be father and son), blends academic satire, classic Jewish humor and an almost Shakespearean sense of the tragic potential of the paternal bond.

The obsession with Nazism and the Holocaust that unfolds in Apt Pupil is the result of the paternal bond between Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander and high school student Todd Bowden.