Example Sentences

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And then Cruz released a statement confirming the trip, and noting that it was motivated by fatherliness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2021

In a recent Times profile, she worried aloud that her book doesn’t do enough to capture Jobs’s one-of-a-kind fatherliness.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018

From the early days of the Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only Oona survived O'Neill's catastrophic fatherliness, which seemed to consist of a month of misleading warmth and charm followed by years of neglect, or hostility.

From Time Magazine Archive

He felt a pleasant thrill of fatherliness and protection.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge