fatherlike

“I think the fact that I have three kids as well as the opportunity to be a fatherlike figure to other kids helps me greatly.”

Angry protesters, many of them women, marched on the Capitol, bearing sarcastic signs that mocked the governor as a repressive, fatherlike figure from a bygone era.

In an interview at his Miami office, Norman Braman, a fatherlike figure to Mr. Rubio and a major donor to his campaigns, portrayed Mr. Bush as a tired vestige of the past.

But I wouldn’t change my fatherlike status for anything.

Though Collins has been protective of his players, perhaps even fatherlike, at least publicly, he had not yet spoken with Bay.