grandfatherly

No one looked at him as anything other than a grandfatherly figure.

He raised his head again and gave her a grandfatherly look.

A grandfatherly looking man stood at the edge of the stage.

"There you are," he says, and his grandfatherly face turns serious.

Should the network pick up the series, he would assume more of a grandfatherly role.

"And I remember he gave me the sweetest, most grandfatherly smile."

He just reached out his hand in a grandfatherly way and said, "Come along, little lady.

They've known nothing else, and they see me as just a grandfatherly figure who tells old war stories."

He must have a grandfatherly air, he said, because people approach him throughout the day.

His age and soft-spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image.

He reached out and squeezed the president's shoulder in a grandfatherly gesture.

He is a vigorous politician with a grandfatherly sort of charisma.

A grandfatherly man wearing an ambassador suit took the luggage.

Even his grandfatherly smile made the prisoner's dirty face pale.

Of late, he has tried to assume a calmer, grandfatherly demeanor.

One of them was a gruff, grandfatherly old man who projected traditional American family values.

The grandfatherly expression said the grandchildren had been up to some very serious mischief indeed.

In that moment, the old man looked almost grandfatherly, and Barbara had the impulse to invite him home for dinner.

He is calm enough to sip green tea on the field and to hold grandfatherly meetings with players.

Good to see you," the duke said, beaming in a grandfatherly way.

A popular grandfatherly figure he was "a little eccentric and shy in his role as a media spokesman".

Well, a bit too grandfatherly for my taste.

"Canada can take care of North Korea," a grandfatherly farmer says.

The grandfatherly eyes looked stern for a moment.

But he's got these grandfatherly reservations about things.