Sentence examples for paternal fondness from inspiring English sources

Matthew Marsh's Robert, seen in flashback, is never obviously raving, but instead is subtly mercurial, concealing a bullying insecurity under paternal fondness.

"Tut, tut, Critobulus," he thought, in a manner that his superego confused with paternal fondness, yet which his turbulent id identified with pederasty.

But if Mr. Cuarón -- who has an 18-year-old son, Jonas, at Vassar -- harbors a paternal fondness for his raucous young horndogs, he leaves us free not to share it.

Mr. Hemingway picked up his father's fondness for angling, though he got next to no paternal piscatorial tutelage, and went on to fish most of North America's great trout streams, as well as working through the Nature Conservancy and other conservation groups to preserve wild areas.

Paternal love!

That fondness shines through.

Their fondness for it….

"AN INORDINATE fondness for beetles".

There was fondness in it.

It did not indicate fondness.

I was paternal.