'I'm not the father-figure you were hoping for,' I said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slay Ride]

How do Jim's uncles each play the role of father-figure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim The Boy by Tony Earley: Questions] Reference

They killed his surrogate father-figure and went to jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [GRAN TORINO REVIEW: GET OFF MY LAWN, GOOK] Reference

It's consistent with father-figure, top-down, conservatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's the Connection?: It's Our Country Too] Reference

Kurzweil became her mentor and a kind of father-figure for her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dalia Ravikovitch.] Reference

Another character is a father-figure type named Colonel Roy Mustang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex] Reference

I lost the one mortal father-figure who had loved me unconditionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Father, Where art Thou? Part 2 of 3 | Mind on Fire] Reference

Many boys in town looked up to my Dad and loved him as a father-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Cronk: An Unusual Father's Day Gift] Reference

It was more like mother-figure A, father-figure B, uncle-figure C, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: Child of Earth by David Gerrold] Reference

We have a president who has acted as a father-figure for the whole nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2006] Reference

Maki acknowledged that a father-figure had been missing from her life, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Unlike slagging off her mortal enemy/father-figure Gordon Brown from afar then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Beresford: "Psychotic Behaviour at First Hand"] Reference

Dr. Cox didn’t turn around and fulfill J.D.’s expectations of father-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Favorite Show] Reference

I'm guessing to give Spock a father-figure instead of another big brother-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lance Mannion:] Reference

Wright's status as a father-figure comes through clearly in the pages of Trumpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors look for cause of Kennedy seizure] Reference

McMurray became a mentor to Tillman who did not have a father-figure in his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ashley Michelle Williams: A Firearm Prevention Device Saving Lives] Reference

It's clear to me that Mr. Martinez was playing the role of the "father-figure" here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing Torture] Reference

Ann, I read this dream to mean that you are being haunted by a betrayed father-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of the presidential candidates.] Reference

Heidi MacDonald called me a 'cranky father-figure' in Publishers Weekly the other day.    From Wordnik.com.  [and then there were three...] Reference

Nolan serve as a father-figure for the boys, or is his role in the family more complex?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Changed Man by Francine Prose: Questions] Reference

No one will ever be able to say that Obama threw his father-figure and pastor under the bus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"] Reference

He seems to be almost a perennial father-figure to Spike, and is often the more rational of the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboy Bebop 1] Reference

He takes well to the overbearing, violent father-figure role — he also did this in Gangs of New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Review: There Will Be Blood « Romina's Blog] Reference

I cannot help but think how she might have blossomed under the attention of a more appreciative father-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

He is the fastest human being I've ever seen, a gentleman, scholar, and father-figure to three generations of kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Also, I listened carefully the second time, but it is unclear if his current father-figure is Henry or someone else.    From Wordnik.com.  [EP Flash: Act of Devil] Reference

I found out after I met my husband also a Jesuit-educated man of honor that Dr. Gatschet had been a father-figure for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » FDL Late Nite: Who’s Your Hero?] Reference

To me, the dust of the books was a shroud containing the loss of the only father-figure who had understood what I was doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [thinking with my fingers] Reference

If you need to conceptualize a supreme being as a big, stick wielding father-figure, here to make you behave ... well, I pity you.    From Wordnik.com.  [They're Alive: Real Scientific Reasons to Believe in Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies » E-Mail] Reference

On the father-figure issue, I do think McCain was a father-figure type in that dream, and in fact, my father was also in the dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming of the presidential candidates.] Reference

In the end of LBA I the mother-figure rises and envelops Twinsen in her love when he has conquered the evil tyrannic father-figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2001-11-01] Reference

Warren Beatty, who began his life in the movies as a male beauty, has finally become, if not a father-figure in American life, at least a father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warren Beatty Shampoos the Sleazy 90's] Reference

What could be more taboo in the Britain of the 1950s than to embrace Adolf Hitler, the man the country had united to defeat, as an alternative father-figure?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: "Hitler Appointed Me His Biographer": An Exclusive Interview With David Irving] Reference

That's why the past week's debate about whether there could ever again be a father-figure anchor with Cronkite's everyman looks and sonorous delivery is an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Barol: Walter Cronkite: A Yet Further Reappraisal] Reference