Sentence examples for proper father from inspiring English sources

These are not stiff and proper father figures.

At age 83, shortly after fulfilling a lifelong dream of obtaining a college degree, my proud and proper father had triple-bypass and valve-replacement surgery and was never the same, emotionally or intellectually.

If you can accept the premise of Judd Apatow's movie — that Alison would not just keep the baby but ask Ben to become a proper father, with his share of responsibilities — then there is much to relish here.

Particularly high marks go to Daniel Greenwood as Alexis, the foppish noble who sets the plot in motion; Kimilee Bryant as Aline, Alexis's amenable fiancée; and Keith Jurosko as Sir Marmaduke Poindextre, Alexis's sternly proper father.

Deli is struggling to get a foothold in Britain and to be a proper father to his saturnine teen-age son, Ashley (Emmanuel Idowu), who disdains his father as both soft and square.

Stewart is bemused by the fact that his 'tirelessly proper' father not only seemed to have had a more adventurous war than he ever admitted but had also been court-martialled in its dying days.

It's Jessup's finest act of heroism, because he fears the trauma his very proper father-in-law would face if his wife's affair were made public in a messy divorce.

Taj Mohammed, 20, a college student in Bajaur who is now a refugee on the outskirts of Peshawar, said that based on promises from the government that they would receive proper backing, his father and some other elders had formed a lashkar in the village of Hilal Khel.

In 1872, it was expanded to become a proper convento under Father Cabañas.

It also means that women who look after families cannot work, children cannot go to proper schools and fathers leave early in the morning and return late at night.

"Only then will we be able to do right by my father and give him a proper funeral".