Her wayward son had sought solace in alcohol.
She regarded Melky Cabrera as her wayward son and called him "my Melky".
Near the end of "Gilead," Ames contemplates Jack Boughton, the wayward son of his friend Reverend Robert Boughton.
That wayward son of Arabia, Osama bin Laden, is a child of the oil revolution.
A wayward son of Rhode Island, I have always had religious convictions about chowder.
The Saudis knew Mr. bin Laden as the increasingly wayward son of the royal family's favorite construction magnate.
Also arriving back from war is pantomime baddie Didrich (played by Pilou Asbæk, Borgen's Kasper), the Baron's wayward son.
Her comedy is deft, but the plot seems contrived, particularly when the story of the Blaus' wayward son draws things to a falsely redemptive close.
For a drama about the wartime reconciliation of a burdened monarch (Bradford Cover) with his wayward son (John Brummer) there's a curious absence of tension.
In this respect, he resembles the forty-three Presidents he hopes to succeed, from the Father of His Country to the wayward son, Alpha George to Omega George.
He once described to his wayward son the "pain and distress,... sacrifices and sweat" he had endured to set him on the path to riches.
