Sentence examples for paternal figures from inspiring English sources

Are these paternal figures reassuring or creepy?

They no longer want paternal figures, but people who speak to the ambitions of youth.

The success of Bachelor Father led to Forsythe being somewhat typecast as debonair paternal figures in several other long-running series.

For most of us, if we even had a coach at all, the paternal figures with whistles vanish from our lives once we have played our last game of high school ball.

The bass, in particular, alternates between shaking his fist at the heavens and entreating them, evoking one of the blustery but gentle paternal figures in Verdi's operas, like Fiesco in "Simon Boccanegra".

An Oliver Stone hero is often torn between two paternal figures (Charlie Sheen in both "Platoon" and the first "Wall Street," for instance), and so Jake is long on mentors, turning to Gekko after the death of the benevolent old-school broker (Frank Langella) who had been like a father to him.

After that, he grew especially close to his two sisters, becoming a paternal figure to them.

Her father, H.C. (John Cullum), is not so much a paternal figure as a supportive observer.

Just like Vince McMahon, Jay Z is that ever present paternal figure casting a shadow over the rest of the rap fraternity.

A calm, paternal figure, he calls the "Ring" the hardest and the most exciting project of his life.

He stood back and watched, there was a quietness about David but he was a paternal figure.