Sentences with word «grandfatherly»

Mao seems to many an almost charming, grandfatherly figure.

All there really is in these cases is people; no invisible magical grandfatherly types need apply.

Ages range from the white - haired grandfatherly man to several young people in their late twenties.

I want to be able to cut and paste this five years from now and say how wrongedy - wrong he was, writing this all over when an even more grandfatherly Hancock says he was in favor of the eight - team Playoff all along.

The drugstore chain is a relative unknown outside its home of Quebec, but there, the founder is a familiar, grandfatherly icon who, along with his youngest son and current CEO, François, was inducted into Canada's Marketing Hall of Legends last year.

• Grandfatherly Wisdom: Sharing special times with people you love makes the experience even more special.

Bob Russell, offering what Cameron called «grandfatherly advice», suggested that the PM «abandon the Carlos Tevez approach».

McDonald, a blunt talker with a freighted gait who wears grandfatherly suits and is fond of noting his working - class upbringing, was on several short lists of Republicans who might vote yes.

John Foster Dulles lurked dangerously behind the kind, grandfatherly facade of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom the Soviets knew to be ill with a heart condition and increasingly detached from day - to - day affairs of state.

What do you get when you mix a frizzy - haired, grandfatherly chemist with his younger, cackling, explosion - loving sidekick?

The group is run by a committee, but one man emerges as its spokesperson: Jose Manuel Mireles Valverde, a white - haired, grandfatherly doctor who doesn't apply the Hippocratic oath to cartel members.

The lone exception is an establishing scene in 1942 (when Hitler chooses a secretary), where he appears almost grandfatherly.

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.

Self - described as «wolfish,» this pack is led by grandfatherly Semyon (Armin Mueller - Stahl), who's disappointed with his ineffectual son Kirill (Vincent Cassel) and looking to replace him with a surrogate heir.

Perhaps the industry's worst - kept secret (other than Sergio Marchionne's grandfatherly enthusiasm for v - neck sweaters) is the Ford Focus ST — the hyped - up, hi - po hot hatch we Americans finally get our hands on since the death of the SVT Focus in 2004.

These paintings are not portraits per se but rather vignettes, archetypes of maternal love, childhood simplicity, or grandfatherly affection; they often evoke an earlier and more humble way of life.

What you see here is a self - righteous guy with a pack of associated whiners ambushing a soft spoken grandfatherly Senator in the mold of Ronald Reagan.

His one friend is Katie, the quick - tempered single mother whom Daniel befriends, becoming a gentle, grandfatherly figure to her two kids Though he is as innocent as a child when it comes to the web, he shows he can fix up their dilapidated flat, and give them savvy tips on keeping it as warm as possible.

and even a little more grandfatherly (Tom Hanks as Walt Disney!).

Highly unlikely that happens with Buffett, both because of his legal rights and his grandfatherly gravitas.

They take his grandfatherly demeanor at face - value.

The founder managed to retain his grandfatherly image even as he repeatedly locked horns with provincial and industry authorities over issues like the number of pharmacies he could own and what the chain was allowed to sell on Sundays.

It doesn't matter how sound the argumens for evolution are, you think that some grandfatherly space fairy created everything.

The scene was a very attractive one — this grandfatherly figure seated with a crowd of children gathered around, against the magnificent backdrop of St Peter's.

By the twentieth century, as traditional Christianity appeared too divisive to be an acceptable public religion and liberal Christianity began to drift into a grandfatherly dotage of moralism, scientific method emerged as the senior partner in the integrative project of establishing a national culture.

This does not mean taking an anthropomorphic view of God as a grandfatherly Being who exists somewhere «out there» in space.

I love that there's a place for a grandfatherly academic type in the ranks of managers, alongside the suave, charismatic Mourinhos and the granite - wrinkled Fergusons, and whatever brand of devout monk Pep Guardiola is.

There was a community pool, tons of kids, the iconic grumpy, old couple that lived across the street, the grandfatherly next door neighbor who became a family member, & tons of kool - aid stands.

Dr. Mayer Eisenstein comes across as a grandfatherly physician, a pat - on - the - knee practitioner who delivers babies at home and who's more likely to recommend chicken soup than an antibiotic.

Cuomo provided his party with a badly needed 45 - minute break from reality, a chance to reaffirm their commitment to the cause and to believe — even if just for a passing moment — that they might yet convince Americans that their grandfatherly president's recovery was a mirage.

Einstein's manner, his grandfatherly warmth, gave science, and physics in particular, a human side, which we have lost over the century.

Look, I don't watch much TV (except maybe American Idol) but I bet I've seen that grandfatherly, smiling face of Dr. Neil Clarke Warren, the eHarmony founder, at least fifty times in the last year espousing how easy it is to meet that special someone.

Beatty's hip - hop politico is over-the-top — but how else to parody the down - home verbal stylings of a Bill Clinton, or the grandfatherly ease of a Ronald Reagan?

His future is actually bright, until his grandfatherly boss (Donald Sutherland) dies seconds after proclaiming Kurt the heir apparent.

But given that all these stars save for Dunn were at a grandfatherly stage of life age-wise when they were up for the award, sentiment probably played a larger part in their nabbing a statuette than did playing a dad.

Thanks to being in tune with how kids will react to the various products in MacMillan's catalog, Josh quickly rises from desk jockey to bigwig, impressing his grandfatherly boss (Robert Loggia) and raising envy in co-worker Paul (John Heard).

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.

Gwenn is perfectly cast as the man in the red suit (at least I assume it's red since it's really a shade of gray with the original black and white print), bringing a grandfatherly warmth and genuineness to the role.

Ah, the grandfatherly Buick Enclave — a staple at local golf courses and all - you - can eat buffets.

The whiskery face and bristly eyebrows give the dog a grandfatherly appearance.

The spot was a newspaper ad, where a grandfatherly type of gentleman with a fishing cap on his head had a whole bunch of distracting writing around his picture.