fatherliness

It held, beneath the friendly fatherliness, the smooth steel of command.

A feeling of fatherliness swept over the fiftyish captain.

Julia obeyed, amused at his fatherliness, and lay back on the pillow.

When he is dispensing advice to his players, his authoritative heft gives him a fatherliness.

"You're right, I do keep Enos very busy," he said, letting a faint trace of fatherliness lace his tone.

Geriatric fatherliness.

George Bush's success in exuding fatherliness, particularly during the Gulf War, likely came from his study at the master's knee while he served as vice president.

'Geriatric fatherliness,' Eleanor said curtly.

Mr. Dennehy does a good job of conveying Daly's shrewdness and essential decency, though the film overstresses his fatherliness with the younger men.

Th child he dandled now in his arms, singing old songs of tl Punjab, and she approved of the fond fatherliness t evinced.

Nicknamed "The Living Rule" because of his austere fidelity, Rua was also known for his fatherliness and goodness.

The elder Cohen woos the boys with a confectionary fatherliness; he's alluring yet remote, a pastiche of beatnik wisdom and cowboy flourishes.

Surely that's what draws Hugh and Jacques to her, the former with his quaint notions of gallantry, the second with his debauched fatherliness.

He writes: "It is essential to remember the infant's enormous contribution to the development of fatherliness through eliciting, evoking, provoking, promoting, and nudging fathering from men."

His doubts, his questionings, his aspirations, are dealt with by Mr. Brisbane with a simple direct fatherliness with all the beneficent persuasiveness of a revivalist preacher.

There was one thing about Rockford not compatible with his air of fond fatherliness: his eyes were hard, gray slate as they looked into Hunter's and there was no mistaking their expression.

"You mean you wonder if you're the father"-she grabbed the bedstead; Frex took hold of her other arm and hauled her half-upright-"or do you question the fatherliness of men in general?"

(As Lady Macbeth says "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:" Seeing Macbeth in a fatherly perspective produces a combination of both tender and ambitious fatherliness in him.