Sentences with phrase «of a father figure who»

(We learn that Duryea never knew his father and is perhaps in desperate need of a father figure who could show him the ropes, like teaching him how to drive.)

Bobby (Willem Dafoe, never better) is the property manager and something of a father figure who looks over everybody at the Magic Castle.

The novelty of a father figure who is standing in the kitchen elicits, perhaps, stories with much attention around this father, rendering narratives more elaborate.

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A great example of this blew up Buzzfeed back in 2016, when a young man in financial trouble revealed that he kept in his wallet a photo of Terry Crews — the actor who played notoriously frugal father figure Julius on Everyone Hates Chris — to help him make better spending decisions.

He grew up with a mother who has been described as an abusive alcoholic and a pill user — plus a series of stepfathers and father figures.

They are people like Spencer X. Smith, a 39 - year - old father of two in Madison who left a corporate sales job a year ago to start his own agency, where he's already earning 60 % of his former six - figure salary.

Only infantile humans who seem to need some kind of invisible «father figure» gravitate towards this ridiculous fantasy called «god»!

He was challenged on his show in 2007 by Father Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International, who observed that such a position emanating from a public figure technically fulfilled the requirements for something called heresy.

Tiggy... just because you didn't have a good father figure, doesn't mean there aren't scores of men who are wonder fathers and who are totally commited to their children.

You can claim a baseless falsehood to be true, but without any proof to even suggest that there is a magical supernatural father - figure interacting with human beings, your claims are worthless and are most likely to be the ravings of a cult member who has been brainwashed into believing.

Dorothy Day is a rather old - fashioned pre-Vatican II kind of Catholic mass - goer who could never quite figure out back in the 60s why her guests — among them, Father Daniel Berrigan — were interested in «mod» masses.

The figure of St. Anthony is a classical representation of the spirituality that flourishes in solitude; and St. Anthony is only one of the many fourth - century «desert fathers» who withdrew from society into the wilderness.

God has always spoken through one FATHER figure down through history, be it Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Peter and the successors of Peter who have the fullness of Truth.

I also think that many of the people who claim to be Christian are really just Pseudo-theists who just need that «God» father figure, and are not true devout believers who follow the Bible.

Sorry folks but your justification for some sort of father figure and heaven in the Sky is from a book written almost 2000 years ago... I would rather trust someone who has far exceeded the intelligence of everyone who is posting comments on this board...

To fully understand sixstepsrecords means to understand a decade - old movement called Passion, a metaphorical family with its own mother and father figures, four artists who really do act a lot like brothers, and a fairly obscure Old Testament tale about hauling around the Ark of the Covenant.

The ADL press release complains about «certain Church figures» who are responsible for the «Christianization of the Holocaust,» citing the canonization of Edith Stein and, earlier, of the heroic Father Maximilian Kolbe who, in a drive - by smear, the ADL implies was an anti-Semite.

If you go back 3000 years the tribe was exactly that, a small group of family / blood ties that lived together under a common father figure who like most nomadic groups often shared wives with the chief of the tribe.

To conclude, Definitely, there is a man who couldn't figure - out the exact date of his birthday but pretended to know things that only God the Father knows.

This antagonism is displayed not only toward modernist groups like Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and secular Jews, but also toward those who share the same body of beliefs and practices, but look to another father figure as their leader.

Early on, I dare say back to the point Man became self - aware, the concept of an all - knowing, omnipotent, father figure who could intervene on their behalf in their pitiful and harsh existence took root.

What emerged was a picture of a man who, for all his success and cool scientific inquiry, was a warm, caring father figure (just as his wife, Marge, whose lasagna recipe was served at Saturday team dinners, was a mother figure).

He who has been a Father figure to all and sundry at AFC and continue to be in spite of all the vehement vitriol, abrasive language and ridicule that he had so publicly to absorb and endure all last season.

Mike LayPort, who has the distinction of being the fastest roller skater in America, lives in a 22 - room mansion off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with (above, in descending order) his father, Lee, a realtor who in the mid -»40s converted the old Mack Sennett studio into a roller rink known as the Palace Arena; his mother, Vivian: his brother, Patrick, a former senior men's four - mile - relay roller - skating champion who now manages the family gift shop; Patrick's wife, Carolyn, and their children, Kathleen and Pat; his wife Donna, an artistic (or figure) roller skater; and Sam, a Labrador retriever.

All the thinking is based on «households» and there is no reference to significant figures in children's lives who may be living elsewhere (the «absent fathers» of the Riots» Commission report)-- a huge wasted opportunity.

Father's Day gives your children the opportunity to honor all of the men in their lives, from biological fathers to father - figures — like grandfathers, uncles, mentors, and even friends and neighbors who play an active role in their Father's Day gives your children the opportunity to honor all of the men in their lives, from biological fathers to father - figures — like grandfathers, uncles, mentors, and even friends and neighbors who play an active role in their father - figures — like grandfathers, uncles, mentors, and even friends and neighbors who play an active role in their lives.

The hero of the show, Optimus Prime, leader of the good Transformers who call themselves the Autobots, engenders some ideal father figure traits — integrity, patience, dignity, intelligence and even valuable positive discipline traits kindness and firmness when it came to the Autobots he led.

It was a superb introduction to AP for those parents new to this different approach to childrearing and a great reminder for those parents who are currently practicing AP — plus there were other new ideas shared; for example, the effect of involved fathers on children and families... and perhaps the most talked - about concept was Dr. McKenna's explanation of tandem parenting in which both parents are primary attachment figures instead of the long - thought family design where only one parent can be the primary and the other is the secondary.

We must struggle to put away that image of fathers who simply were food providers and authoritarian figures.

In the same way, even kids like yours, who do have an involved father, can still benefit from the experiences and insights of a caring father figure.

WatchDOGS are fathers, grand fathers and other father figures who volunteer to serve at least one day a year in a variety of school activities as assigned by the school principal or other administrator.

17:06 - Initial reports suggest the identity of the assailant is someone called Jonnie Marbles, who describes himself as an «activist, comedian, father figure and all - round nonsense.

I suppose in another place we could speculate at length about the Rev. Tillard's search among famous spiritual leaders for a father figure to take the place of the jazz musician who deserted his family when Conrad was young... but who cares really?

The fact that he is only partially successful should not detract from this skilfully narrated, compelling and authoritative account of a figure who, with his rejection of a divine, rational order to human affairs, is frequently labelled the father of modernity.

I have a history of dating guys who would be no good as a father figure.

A manly man, someone who understands his role of being a man not a bully but caring, loving kind and patient man... someone who loves children not an abuser but genuine father figure..

Joe is a sinister father figure who infiltrates a family by playing both sides of the law.

Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who doubles as Santa Claus, has settled into his home at the North Pole with his new wife, Carol (Elizabeth Mitchell), and is preparing for another Christmas when he receives a visitor — Jack Frost (Martin Short), the cold - weather sprite who has been sent to help out St. Nick by Mother Nature (Aisha Tyler) and Father Time (Peter Boyle) after making a scene at a meeting of the Council of Legendary Figures.

Surprisingly limiting itself to a single passing prison - rape joke, the screenplay (written by Reynolds himself, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) starts to fill in the outlines of an actual moral arc here, as Randall looks to Deadpool as a surrogate father figure, while Deadpool rebuffs every opportunity to play the protector — at least until the arrival of Cable (Josh Brolin, finally giving this franchise an iron - sphinctered straight man), a bio-enhanced super-soldier from the future, who smashes his way into the Ice Box intent on killing Randall.

When Dana gets cold feet about her engagement — so cold she begins an affair of her own — she moves in indefinitely with her family, and she and Ali become consumed in figuring out who their father's mistress is.

Del — who quickly becomes like another father figure to the kid, with his straightforward, no - nonsense advice — doesn't really have the well - being of the horses at heart.

According to the paper, EON «will announce the star is playing an unknown character called Franz Oberhauser, son of the late Hans Oberhauser, a ski instructor who acted as a father figure to Bond.

Wilson suffers not only from mental illness but from the 24 - hour care of therapist Dr. Eugene Landy played by Paul Giamatti, who's an abusive father figure.

This movie deals more with, duh, Bridget's pregnancy and figuring out who the father of her son is.

• Frank Langella as Sen. Richard Russell, an old - school, anti-reform Southerner who was more of a father figure to LBJ than LBJ's own father.

Paul Kersey becomes a divided person: a man who saves lives, and a man who takes them; a husband and father trying to take care of his family, and a shadowy figure fighting crime; a surgeon extracting bullets from suspects» bodies, and a man seeking justice that detectives are quickly closing in on.

If the strength of this kind of film is in its yin / yang father figures, Miyagi remains constant while Sato, who delivers his dialogue as though he's swallowed Toshiro Mifune, proves a hollow substitute for Martin Kove's terrifying Kreese.

, Art LaFleur, Kevin Pollak, Michael Dorn, and Peter Boyle are addressed as Mother Nature, The Tooth Fairy, Cupid, The Sandman, and Father Time, respectively, in «True Confessions of the Legendary Figures,» a 3 - minute blunder hosted by Lembeck — these videos have the adverse effect of increasing your respect for Tim Allen, who bowed out of the supplementary material completely.

However, underneath the rivalry between two criminal masterminds for who can commit the most heinous deeds, a separate story emerges about a boy who was denied the love of his mother (Andrews, Enchanted), and orphans who desperately crave a father figure in their lives.

The trailer for the John Curran - directed film stars Jason Clarke as Kennedy and Kate Mara as Kopechne as well as a roster of actors portraying all the WASPy figures involved in the event including Bruce Dern as the senator's domineering father Joseph Kennedy, Ed Helms as Joe Gargan, Jim Gaffigan as DA Paul Markham, and Olivia Thirlby as one of the «boiler room girls,» a group of single women who worked Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign, which ended with his assassination.