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fo dher lee

  • s  like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective

  • Kindly, fatherly Pope John XXIII issued his first encyclical last week, and it proved to be a fatherly message of warning, hope and encouragement.
  • Over it all, Hugh Cullen keeps a fatherly eye.
  • When no signs of fatherly concern emerged, the police concocted another scheme.
News & Articles

  • Eight places to take Dad to eat this Father's Day
    If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, why waste time picking out a tie? Share good memories over good food instead. If you're not sure where to go, we've got a few central Iowa suggestions for Sunday based on fatherly flavor profiles.
    June 12, 2013 - The Des Moines Register
  • Some fatherly advice on raising five daughters
    KSL art director Tim Johnson expected a slew of boys when he got married 20 years ago. Instead, he and his wife had five girls. As part of a month-long video series in honor of Father's Day, Johnson offers some fatherly advice on living in a house full of estrogen.
    June 10, 2013 - KSL Salt Lake City
  • Warner Bros. Gives Up 'Friday The 13th' and 'South Park' Rights For Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar'
    Those who have been slavishly following any and all news bits concerning Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Interstellar —the story of a group of astronauts dealing with theoretical physics, time travel, and, because this is a Nolan movie, we’re gonna go ahead and assume that the unreliable protagonist’s love interest dies at some point and Michael Caine will show up to give fatherly advice—will have ...
    June 5, 2013 - ScreenCrave
Quotes

  • Jake Delhomme in USA Today
    That's the one point that needs to be made: this was a man off the football field,said quarterback Jake Delhomme, one of several veterans to attend the news conference. "I'm not talking in a masculine type of way. I'm talking in a fatherly...
  • Jacques Rogge in Ottawa Citizen
    When asked about Bolt on Sunday, Rogge said, "I take it with a big smile. I gave Usain Bolt what I believed to be fatherly advice. I don't want to enter into a further polemic. I stand by what I said......He is a young man of 22. He has time to...
  • Alison Eastwood in Reuters Canada
    Get a lot of sleep and take your vitamins -- kind of fatherly tips and not so much Academy Award-winning director tips,Alison Eastwood told reporters, laughingly, at a news conference promoting her directorial debut "Rails & Ties."

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