Sentences with phrase «by grandfatherly»

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Stone was never great at domestic scenes to begin with, but lately his films have been hobbled by a weirdly grandfatherly indulgence of young people in love as some kind of redemptive force.

Better are docus on Bernard Herrmann's score (facilitated by Steven C. Smith, Herrmann's biographer) and Ray Bradbury himself, who, in his grandfatherly way, relates how he came to write the novel in nine days and, serendipitously, serialize it in issues 2, 3, and 4 of a fledgling magazine called PLAYBOY.