Sentence examples for paternal role from inspiring English sources
He had failed in his "paternal role," and the paternal role is expected to be authoritative.
"No, I kept out of the paternal role.
Meanwhile in his professional life, coach Shane Sutton took on a paternal role.
Instead, Brodsky assumed a fond, almost paternal role with me, teasing, chiding, offering suggestions about books.
He has no choice but to assume the paternal role with Gary – with inevitably tragic consequences.
The passing of time has kicked Gekko up to grandfather level, thus creating a vacancy in the dark paternal role.
Long denied the benefits of paternal role-modeling, Luke appears to have caught the brass ring: Dad is an action-drama star who works as tirelessly to promulgate his masculine screen image as he now does to compensate for having been a missing-in-action parent.
There were paternal roles in Heartbeat (2002) and The Royal (2003), and a Rik Mayall vehicle, All About George (2005).
O'Connell, K. F. et al. The C. elegans zyg-1 gene encodes a regulator of centrosome duplication with distinct maternal and paternal roles in the embryo.
His research seeks to understand how fathers' parenting practices and paternal roles within families relate to children's early development outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
After the Second World War, however, his star waned before suddenly waxing again in a long-running TV sitcom, My Three Sons, and as a Disney contract actor, playing paternal roles in a decade of popular family comedies starting with The Shaggy Dog (1959).
