Sentence examples for paternal duties from inspiring English sources

It would be a welcome break from his paternal duties, his first in months.

Plus it had taken the pressure off the more traditional paternal duties, which could scare Robert blind.

But then sometimes I would hear his voice from behind the tree booming with some advice.' To suggest that Brian Close, Somerset's captain in 1974, took on the paternal duties when Richards arrived in Taunton aged 22 might be stretching the truth a little, but Richards is quick to acknowledge the debt he owes the bald old blighter.

But when a female does show up, the male glass frog forgets all about his paternal duties, climbs up on her back, and spends the next few days in the thrall of mating.

In replying to Parr, Godwin expresses regret that he had not appealed to the still more persuasive case of Brutus executing his two sons — a striking example, and a republican commonplace about justice trumping paternal duties.

Yet in suburban London men with lower-middle-class jobs seldom expressed these concerns about long-lasting paternal duties.

Placing Saul's labors as a Sonderkommando and his engagement in the uprising equally under the sign of paternal duty and Judaic piety, Nemes smooths over the confrontational challenges of Lanzmann's work.

Of course it would be a little premature to suggest that the arrival of wives and girlfriends – and the effects of Jimmy Anderson's flying visit home on paternal duty – has had any more than a circumstantial connection with the fear that English eyes have been less acutely on the ball since arriving in Perth.

Once, in the late 1940s, while we were living in suburban New York, he attempted to fulfill paternal duty by taking me to a game in Yankee Stadium, but he was bored far past his considerable powers of expression.

Not because he is fleeing paternal responsibility, mind you, but because he wants to fulfill the basic fatherly duty of keeping his impending child safe by capturing a major threat to his well-being.

Acerbic, cranky and totally believable, Stanley doesn't hide his resentment about his paternal and financial duties.