"Broken Horses" director Vidhu Vinod Chopra said in an email interview that he envisioned the character of Hench as "enigmatic, sinister and fatherly at the same time".
The child's parents were separated, and Oswald thought that the boy, the same age as John F. Kennedy Jr., needed more fatherly attention.
Wise and unassuming, he goes about his fatherly and professional duties in the same calm, balanced manner.
The concepts could be simple ones, as in Lev Kuleshov's famous experiments: the same close-up of a man looking into the camera could equal "fatherly love" when juxtaposed with the image of a baby, or "empty stomach" when juxtaposed with the image of a loaf of bread.
Agape, Greek agapē, in the New Testament, the fatherly love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God.
Africa, it seemed, was the savannah, "the silence of fatherly mountains and the slow grace of brown rivers".
"For North Koreans, it's part of the rhetoric to thank the fatherly leader.
He wants Kiev to return on its knees, like a prodigal son, to the fatherly embrace of the empire.
On actual news broadcasts, the male anchors are the older, stodgier fatherly figures, often paired with younger, cuter female types.
As Ms. Aziz recalls it, his concern went beyond the standard fatherly protectiveness.
