How To Use Avuncular In A Sentence
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At that point, Schmidt put an avuncular hand on Page's shoulder and brought him back to the real world. Now, with Page as CEO, that hand is less likely to be there.
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Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
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It wasn't the faux avuncularity we've come to expect from Stewart on "The Daily Show" but there, of course, he's playing a role.
October 2004
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He began to talk in his most gentle and avuncular manner.
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On Thursday night, the avuncular Jackson couldn't inspire his team to do the same.
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He denies feeling more paternal towards the dancers these days, but owns up to " avuncular".
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The playwright, who at 48 is 15 years Lane's senior, has an avuncular attitude towards the actor, who in turn looks at him with obvious respect.
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He is often described as ‘avuncular’ - even by hard-hearted business writers - which the dictionary defines as ‘kind-hearted and cheery’.
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My foolproof/proof fool method as a child: memorize the definition of "avuncular," since it was the last question on the Wechsler.
"Is it possible to prepare for Intelligence tests?"
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Sir Lewis' avuncular features mask a hard-nosed businessman unafraid of putting financial exigency before personal sentiment.
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Calmly, patiently, even avuncularly in "After the Hangover," I quote the obituaries for conservatism, pausing to note the obvious: The conservative corpse has arisen again.
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“What I hear you saying, my dear,” Aaron began avuncularly.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
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Harry Lucas was to all of us who knew him a mentor, a tutor and avuncular friend.
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In American literature and film, this is where innocence is set, in small towns among old-fashioned American types: the avuncular family doctor, the aproned fellow called Pop who runs the diner.
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A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class.
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He is certainly an avuncular figure, more paternal than patriarchal, yet even his faults and foibles are masculine in character.
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Ken, the avuncular pot-bellied politician with a preference for suede shoes, small cigars and pints, turned a few heads when he and his gang of 12 swept into the Mare.
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But he was very friendly in a slightly bumbling avuncular sort of way.
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The avuncular Yorkshireman with the cloth cap and the polite twinkle was just a front.
Times, Sunday Times
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The joys of the story -- Aang's impish capriciousness, Katara's valiance, Soka's buffoonery, even Uncle Iroh's avuncular charm -- have all been el […] (author unknown)
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He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
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Towards the end of on uncharacteristically orderly day, the avuncular former dictator once again grabbed center stage, accusing his American captors of mistreatment, beatings, even torture.
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Johnson will explore what a cholera outbreak in the nineteenth century can tell us about solving the long term challenges we face in the twenty-first century. which sounds interesting enough, so along I roll to see the talk introduced by Brian Eno (charming and tweedily avuncular), in his capacity as co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, devoted to taking the 10,000-year perspective on things.
Brian Eno and Steven Berlin Johnson are a pair of clueless twats « Squares of Wheat
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He was labelled ‘Sunny Jim’, but he had a fierce temper, and his patience, despite his seemingly easy-going avuncular manner and soft West Country drawl, was easily frayed.
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Lewis, charming and avuncular, is far easier to relate to than the aloof and distant Freud.
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I think he brought a kind of avuncular approach to "World News Tonight," but I never thought he had a really serious gravitas that he brought to "World News Tonight," and maybe that was just because of who he is, maybe that was just his personality.
CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2009
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That is, the dwarf was silent but a sight to marvel at, while the sword told of battles, answered questions in excruciating detail, and harrumped avuncularly at exclamations.
Operation Luna
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An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness.
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Perry gives us Reagan and Bush combined, but with their efforts to hide behind avuncularity and goofiness abandoned.
Paul Slansky: The Imminent Overness of Sarah Palin
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It seemed to flow from who he was, and mimicked the style of a particularly witty and avuncular friend.
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You can see this rumpled, avuncular figure making a big media hit.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has ‘cult leader’ written all over him: a friendly Nebraska drawl, intent eyes, an avuncular air.
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The evening news programs and their avuncular anchormen, in particular, fulfill a quite significant function.
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An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness.
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The avuncular Yorkshireman with the cloth cap and the polite twinkle was just a front.
Times, Sunday Times
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But while Norton's lavish tribute may well have had a certain avuncular motive, it's evident that the fervor and clamor of young Kipling's balladry stirred the old Brahmin to his bones.
Who Was Kipling?
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Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
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The roles of the kindly professor and Santa Claus were tailor-made for Liam Murphy, whose avuncular presence must have been very reassuring for the children at the outset.
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The former justice minister is known as an avuncular and soft-spoken man who quit the cabinet in the early days of the uprising and immediately joined the rebels in Benghazi.
Rebels and Gaddafi forces battle in eastern and western Libya
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Ken, the avuncular pot-bellied politician with a preference for suede shoes, small cigars and pints, turned a few heads when he and his gang of 12 swept into the Mare.
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A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class.
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Once there was a golden era when all crime was prevented by a clip round the ear from a stern but avuncular local policeman.
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McMahon, best known as the avuncular second banana to Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show," died at age 86, also in dire financial straits after profligate spending.
Undefined
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Apart from anything else, his avuncular visage is no good at all for t-shirts and Warholian silk screens.
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He was now playing the role of disinterested host and avuncular mentor.
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A droll, unassuming man with a handsome gray beard, Baker has the manner of an avuncular, absent-minded professor who has left something behind on the way to class.
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The avuncular Sam, understanding how much they like each other as well as the ambitions that are driving them both, urges them to be civilized and be nice to each other.
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The TV listings call Larry King "avuncular," which describes his affability but sets him somewhat apart from his guests.
Jerry Weissman: The Art & Science of Oprah Winfrey: Part III
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He adopts an avuncular tone of voice when giving advice to junior colleagues.
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With one thick arm around my shoulder and the other making a suggestive gutting motion with the knife, he kindly and very avuncularly informed me that I better be good to his niece.
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Nathan interrupted, sounding avuncularly pleased with himself.
Dreaming of the Bones
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Whether cast as heroes or villains, Horst Tappert had an air of amiability about him that was hard to dislike, a hangdog avuncularity that put him in the company of actors like Walter Matthau and Peter Falk.
Death Notice: Horst Tappert
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He's the kind of avuncular, gentle character who could be the beloved housemaster in Harry Potter's Gryffindor house.
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At lunchtime on the day of the party, the BBC's avuncular anchorman David Dimbleby introduced a montage of pop footage.
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Silently pointing to panelled and polished double-doors ahead, he gave me an encouraging pat on the shoulder and left me, rather in the manner of a colonel avuncularly sending a rookie into his first battle.
Decider
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He long ago ditched the specs, shaved off his whiskers and now has a rather kindly avuncular air.
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He has an avuncular, precociously adult manner of speaking - like a tweedy professor with elbow patches.
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His friendly avuncular bearded figure was recognised throughout the town.
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He adopts an avuncular tone of voice when giving advice to junior colleagues.
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Little wonder that the petite, sharp-eyed Phoolan, is hurt by comparisons to the avuncular and hirsute Veerappan.
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Since he had put the point in a friendly, avuncular way, I asked him about something that had long puzzled me.
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As I understood it, that is why, in primitive, polyamorous/polyandrous societies, the avuncular relationship is so important.
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The avuncular groover, born Trevor Beresford Romeo, has picked up an OBE, an Ivor Novello, and two Grammys – not bad going since he started his DJ career pushing bass bins around on shopping trolleys when the budget wouldn't stretch to a bus ticket.
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You begin to read his column, expecting to find something as smooth as his preppy clothes, as reassuring as the photograph's avuncular smile.
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Donald Carcieri, elected for his unsurpassed avuncularity, is in the death throes of his pathetic governorship of Rhode Island.
David Segal: Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Bill To Let Gay Partners Arrange Each Other's Funerals
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When the Broadway pro learned that his young visitor wanted to write musicals, he offered avuncular encouragement and advice.
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They think it's some nice warm country with an avuncular leader who likes baseball and he runs a collective farms.
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The avuncular figure 's voice conveyed a sinister side.
The Sun
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In the two days since we learned of Cronkite's death, so much has been written about the man, about his rare tone of authority, about the avuncularity and comfort offered to couch potatoes by their "Uncle Walter," about the incredible events that he reported from moon walks to the Kennedy assassination.
Will Bunch: Walter's Choice --Cronkite's Lesson for Today's Journalists
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He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
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Outside, a golden sun warms the autumn leaves; inside, he busies himself in avuncular manner, serving tea and ginger cake in his book-lined room.
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Despite failure in South Africa Buller never lost popularity with the rank and file and the public: his heavy build and avuncular manner were seen as reflecting ‘the best English type’.
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For four decades the avuncular media pundit and cookery aficionado has made a unique imprint on Thai politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're giving birth," says the public relations maven avuncularly, "Don't force it.
NYT > Home Page
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I generally try to avoid pitch-dark, infernally hot enclosures, but now that Brown is my new best friend I find his preamble so avuncular and sweet that I almost consider it.
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The familiar avuncular figure in a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches does not seem the obvious choice to distribute condoms to truculent teenagers.
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For four decades the avuncular media pundit and cookery aficionado has made a unique imprint on Thai politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can see this rumpled, avuncular figure making a big media hit.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can see this rumpled, avuncular figure making a big media hit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Readers of my diary will recognise me as a wise, avuncular figure with a keen mind and big heart.
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I would wonder in this frame of sub-consciousness whether or not the people around me would remember me as an avuncular and benevolent person after I entered the pearly gates of heaven.
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On the contrary, she laid her head against Haso's massive shirt front and snivelled and gulped, while his great arms held her with a comfort which was reassuringly avuncular.
Paradise For Two
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Are You There God, It's Me Margaret engaged in hegemonic discourse that disrupted narratives of power; I gave the benefit of the doubt to the dumbass who thought "interpellate" and "interpolate" were synonyms; I gritted my teeth when an author dismissed the gendered meaning of "avuncular" as "deriv [ing] only from its etymology.
Xoom
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But he's just the warmest, most avuncular guy - it was a real privilege.
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It would have been so easy to be avuncular, polite and thoughtful, to play the toff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Avuncular is the word that comes most readily to mind.
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Thick-necked and moon-faced, he looked like an avuncular butcher, but behind the brawn was a scholar who spoke fluent French and German; he could talk knowledgeably of military history from the conquests of Alexander to the Arab campaigns documented in T.E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
A Mountain Of A Man
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The first one I can only describe as avuncular and earnest.
Jewschool
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He became a much-loved avuncular figure dispensing his own brand of wisdom.
Times, Sunday Times
