Sentence examples for two paternal figures from inspiring English sources

An Oliver Stone hero is often torn between two paternal figures (Charlie Sheen in both "Platoon" and the first "Wall Street," for instance), and so Jake is long on mentors, turning to Gekko after the death of the benevolent old-school broker (Frank Langella) who had been like a father to him.

Genotyping of the eight parental DNA identified six paternal SNPs (figure 1A).

Figure 2b shows that she had two paternal aunts diagnosed with breast cancer at ages 34 and 35 years and a paternal grandmother diagnosed at the age of 50 years (all deceased).

Are these paternal figures reassuring or creepy?

When Fritz's father suffers a nervous breakdown, a quartet of paternal figures take his place.

When researchers began manipulating the pronuclei by replacing the paternal version with a second maternal copy, or implanting two paternal copies, embryos failed to develop.

They no longer want paternal figures, but people who speak to the ambitions of youth.

As with Freud, maternal and paternal figures are central to his account of subjectivity.

So I say from experience, policymakers must act with moral force even -- especially -- when revered paternal figures do not.

This model contained only four additive effects (two paternal and two maternal).

After that, he grew especially close to his two sisters, becoming a paternal figure to them.