Sentence examples for paternal gesture from inspiring English sources
The Vatican said that "through this paternal gesture, the Holy Father wished to demonstrate again his deep concern for all those who have suffered sexual abuse".
Those philanthropic, paternal gestures are completely alien to us.
In a gesture of paternal tenderness combined with the umph of a furniture mover on the last landing, Lenny Addamo, Rocco's owner, lowered the 90-pound dog into the waiting arms of Jodi Richard, who was already submerged to her shoulders in 87-degree water and ready to right Rocco adroitly as he started to roll and submerge.
Well, except one, when one of his actors, holding a kayak paddle, turned to him and said, "Daddy, are you going on the water?" (Reply: A churning arm-rolling gesture, as much paternal as directorial, that wordlessly said, "Get out there already!") Lee got out there, too, on a thirty-foot-long platform that looked like a dock being kidnapped on the backs of three canoes.
"He was paternal to me," says Motion.
Cheeks made the extraordinary gesture of suddenly appearing like a dream at her side and slipping a paternal arm around her shoulder while he began a duet.
Chris Henry Coffey does paternal well.
Cue escalating paternal warfare.
