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  • r  in a paternal manner
    he behaves very paternally toward his young bride

  • Handing out cash prizes he exhorted the winners paternally: "Don't make mixed marriages.
  • The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an .
  • New York's volcanic little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia is paternally proud of his neat fleet of silver streamlined, street-cleaning trucks, which bear the adjuration: Our City .
News & Articles

  • Watch: Have a Happy Father's Day Care of Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Tony Danza In The Latest 'Don Jon' Clip
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the folks behind his directorial debut "Don Jon" have a gift for you this Father's Day: A new, paternally-centric (and Redband, so in case you're working this Sunday - it might not be safe for it) clip from the film, where the title character (Gordon-Levitt) introduces his new girlfriend (Scarlett Johannson) to his dad (Tony Danza). Check it out below. "Don Jon" is being ...
    June 16, 2013 - indieWIRE
Quotes

  • Takako Konishi in Los Angeles Times
    It's good to hear their formal condemnation of rape, but I fear our politicians are just behaving paternally,said psychologist Konishi. "They single out American soldiers because they see this as a matter of Japanese property being...

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