That lingering sense of grievance is one of the things that this time around motivate Mr. Biden, whose once avuncular, now grand-avuncular, demeanor masks a fierce competitive streak.
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His demeanor, almost pastoral, was somewhere between avuncular and creepy.
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In these moments, he could be surprisingly forthcoming, almost avuncular.
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He has maintained an avuncular tone and refused to ape Trump's
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So I don't think Biden's avuncular pawing is a #MeToo story.
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Frankly, I also miss Reagan's, benign, somewhat avuncular, and reassuring persona.
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ERROL MORRIS: He was avuncular, charming in his own insidious way.
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Mr. Bennett: avuncular dad or secret villain of the entire story?
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So as avuncular as he seems, I don't really have any options.
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He could be very avuncular one minute and very petty the next.
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Still, I see the appeal of his avuncular, kooky-idealistic, authentic persona.
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Most media critics also chastised Mr. Godfrey, whose avuncular image began to crumble.
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Once Barack Obama's avuncular sidekick, he has his eyes on the presidency now.
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Or found, that when he turns friendly, he resembles "a gleaming, avuncular oyster"?
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Like Biden, he presented himself as an avuncular throwback to a different era.
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His performances on television were calm and avuncular, with a touch of humor.
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In the Trump era, a majority will choose avuncular over authoritarian any day.
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"I, well, I don't really play them," I said, affecting my most avuncular tone.
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He tends to look avuncular and professorial, and is rarely shown with a weapon.
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He was also sly and avuncular, making droll, deadpan comments in his sepulchral voice.
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As Frank Rich wrote before the election, where Reagan was avuncular, Trump is autocratic.
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At fifty-nine, Johnson has tousled silver hair and a soft-spoken, avuncular composure.
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She later called him "avuncular and creepy" in his manner toward her in person.
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It's heavy stuff delivered in a warm, avuncular tone with a twinkle in his eye.
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For younger Chinese, Mao has retired to the position of avuncular founder of the country.
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Mr. Slim is often likened to Warren Buffett for his relatively low-key, avuncular style.
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"With this, we've made a lot of people very happy," says avuncular urologist James Elist.
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"They all have kind of electronic D.J. names," Mr. Byrne said with an avuncular smile.
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The character seesaws from cruel to avuncular to pervy, but we don't see the connections.
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Social media lit up with comparisons of him to an avuncular suburban father or uncle.
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Then a car did stop, a comfortable, avuncular car smelling of leather and cigarette smoke.
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O'Reilly positions himself as an elder statesman, the cranky but avuncular voice of mainstream America.
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"Don't waste a good crisis," says Scott, a bearlike and avuncular veteran of Microsoft and Disney.
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Wait: Does she mean the avuncular animator whose company more or less invented the American princess?
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His former patients remembered him as avuncular and authoritative, with white hair as he grew older.
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She seemed, as she almost always does, mellow, avuncular, benevolent, curious, and simultaneously earnest and amused.
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That said, it does no real harm to allow Johnny to express avuncular love with money.
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Mr. Dagorn has influenced countless other sommeliers, and epitomizes a kindly, avuncular devotion to his craft.
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Stan Lee, the avuncular, controversial longtime writer and publisher of Marvel Comics, died Monday in Los Angeles.
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They were more like a group of avuncular academics bringing you the results of their annual research.
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LAWRENCE WOLFE, bassist, Boston Symphony Sometimes he was avuncular, sometimes he was paternal, sometimes he was brotherly.
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JAZZ Mr. McBride plays the upright bass with deft assurance, and leads his bands with avuncular discipline.
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But he was avuncular, and he could convince Diego Maradona, and later Messi, to play for their country.
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Long suspicious of foreigners, Iranian officials — led by the avuncular-looking President Hassan Rouhani — are now welcoming them.
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"We have kids that are afraid of water," said Mr. Timricht, 93, a solidly built, avuncular kayak instructor.
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It's all overseen by a pompously avuncular Martin-as-narrator, expertly (and long-windedly) played by Jay Stephenson.
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He was scruffy and devilish in an avuncular way — more pesky wannabe than actual viable Game of Thrones villain.
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The first episode opens slowly, following the life of Howard Silk, played with gleefully avuncular brilliance by J.K. Simmons.
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That's why the great ones are soft-spoken and avuncular -- they catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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They can also lapse into the type of avuncular zinger that is as endearing as it is groan-inducing.
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He was as avuncular and courtly as his movies were hectic and bruising, and more than a bit sardonic.
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The film ultimately becomes an adventure with Lolita-like cautionary undertones, in which Georges is the creepy avuncular figure.
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In person, he comes across less like the mac daddy of disco, and more like its avuncular Mr. Magoo.
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New host Jonah Ray has a sleepy, avuncular manner that recalls the days when Hodgson himself used to host.
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The answer lies in one sentence uttered on January 21 - in his oddly avuncular monotone - by ECB President Mario Draghi.
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TERRY BRANSTAD is an avuncular, amiable man, who has been popular in Iowa, his home state for a long time.
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The daytime talk show, hosted by the avuncular pop psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw, decided to devote an episode to Kyle.
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He's wise, avuncular, omniscient, and so beloved by Stephen Colbert that he played a key role in Colbert Report's finale.
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Mr. McBride plays the upright bass with a deft assurance, and leads his bands with a sense of avuncular discipline.
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A jowly, avuncular presence, Parish was the first member of the tribe, 37 years earlier, to earn a law degree.
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An avowed pleaser, O'Neal maintains something of an avuncular presence over Mezzrow and its sister club, Smalls, throughout the year.
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Twitter, not widely used for political branding and communication in 2008, is now a window into his salty and avuncular personality.
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KFC first rebooted the avuncular southern gentleman in May on the heels of McDonald's reintroduction of a grown-up new Hamburglar.
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Only Tom Hanks manages to do anything interesting, giving his avuncular image just enough of an edge to make him unsettling.
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The boss seemed avuncular and boyish, easy to laugh and apt to joke, nibbling his nails and shifting in his chair.
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Moulded by an avuncular Italian manager, Claudio Ranieri, Leicester's has-beens and nearlies have emerged as extraordinary—and vastly undervalued—players.
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Mr. Kislyak, who became ambassador in 2008, grew to be a popular Washington insider whose avuncular style helped build many relationships.
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Woody, an old-timey cowboy doll with an avuncular persona, decides to help Bonnie by hitching a ride in her backpack.
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Promotional posters were distributed to bookstores, showing the avuncular Mr. Spanta, and billboard space and airtime were purchased to advertise it.
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We were greeted by the distillery manager, Michael Heads, a casual avuncular fellow with white hair who introduced himself as Mickey.
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The driver was an older gent, and when he spoke, to ask me where I was going, he sounded avuncular, too.
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Beau remains his friend, acting as best man when the couple tie the knot and becoming an avuncular figure later on.
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And his attitude toward Sestero slowly becomes more patronizing than avuncular, even when Wiseau can barely hold the production together without him.
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Reagan's star image was practically designed for the presidency: all twinkling avuncular eyes and an air of condescending father-knows-best competence.
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When he suggested a campaign featuring the avuncular Mr. Schwartz to counter the impersonality of the typical department store, Mr. Schwartz balked.
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In Alcott's Little Women, Jo does end up getting married in the end: not to Laurie, but to the avuncular professor Bhaer.
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What I had thought of as an avuncular interest in my career he had thought of as an unrealized act of seduction.
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"Maybe it was time to swap the rugged, frontiersman, self-made man image for that of a more avuncular statesman," he said.
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Last night, avuncular professional northerner Stuart Maconie took his listeners on a journey into the loved up heart of the UK's raving heyday.
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As Max Ritvo knows, the gap between what we want and what we get cannot be bridged by the avuncular language at hand.
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In Three Pines, her avuncular Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec, the provincial police force, excavates the town's dark secrets.
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Dreyfuss occasionally tried to play avuncular father figures in the '90s and 2000s, but he's always been a touch too prickly for that.
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"I will be brutal: We do not want tourists," said Mr. Adduce, an avuncular gentleman in a crisp shirt and thickly knotted tie.
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" Buruma also appeared in not one but two Suntory whiskey ads, as if presaging Bill Murray's sarcastically avuncular role in "Lost in Translation.
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It's not the typical chuckling or avuncular Willie Nelson song; it's haunted and morose, a minor-key existential blues without a wry twist.
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He was the avuncular "Judge Starr," leading freshmen on a pregame sprint across the field to invigorate the crowd at each home game.
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Mengele, who alternates displays of avuncular concern with chilling sadism, seems to take pleasure in watching what effect separation will have on the sisters.
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And although the musicians accompanying Pandit Krishnan Mohan Mishra failed to sync with him fully, his informal improvisations showed rhythmic spark and avuncular charm.
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Dr. Blizzard was known for a warm, avuncular bedside manner and an unusual dedication to his patients — one that in turn inspired lasting loyalty.
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The certification was not "something that we were searching for," says Borman, a self-deprecating, avuncular man with an encyclopedia's worth of forest trivia.
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Even Mr. Schiff, known for playing acerbic characters like Toby Ziegler on "The West Wing," is cast here as an avuncular guardian teddy bear.
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He says Mr. Chappelle is taking on a more avuncular role on the comedy scene these days, but still retains his rabble-rousing spirit.
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Trump also tried to argue that he'd been courteous with Zelensky -- and the transcript did show the avuncular nature that the President sometimes adopts.
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The popularity of the televised finals – this is ESPN's 25th year to air the bee – has made Bailly the avuncular, bespectacled face of the event.
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In late life, Lee was an avuncular spokesperson for superhero comics and a go-to cameo joke in blockbuster movies about characters he helped invent.
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So will future generations regard Zuckerberg as another in a short line of tech moguls who have somehow morphed into avuncular global mascots for good?
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An avuncular-looking man of 26, he had catlike green eyes, wet lips, and curly hair already balding on the vast egg of his head.
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We saw the bighearted, plainspoken statesman; the emotional, avuncular politician; and the cringe-inducing guy who sometimes overdoes it or just plain steps in it.
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But without Zebari, an avuncular fluent English speaker well respected in international capitals, the Baghdad government loses the figure most closely associated with the deal.
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Sorn, for example, imbued with an avuncular sweetness by Mr. Daily, stops to ask us his own (rhetorical) question about the fluid nature of time.
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But the current chief secretary, Matthew Cheung, an avuncular 68-year-old who is approaching retirement, has not publicly evinced any interest in moving up.
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But her avuncular bosses (Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt) keep pushing her toward new ways to support The Circle by destroying personal privacy and personal choice.
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"Most everybody voted Republican more than they voted Democrat in recent years," reflects the avuncular 63-year-old, during a recent campaign pit-stop in Mobile.
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In Rushcliffe, a 20-minute drive from Mr Boles's Grantham seat, another outspoken Tory Remainer, the avuncular Ken Clarke, has not faced calls to step down.
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In the Arabic edition, an avuncular 58-year-old Salem was pictured on the cover, frowning; in the Hebrew version, he appeared with a sleepy grin.
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Somewhere around the third season, which is when Trek shows generally find their footing (if they ever do), he turned avuncular gravitas into a philosophical conscience.
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For years, the avuncular Richman would tell the story of how he urged Larsen to take it easy, just in case he pitched the next day.
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As vice president, Biden's verbal stumbles were regularly treated as being almost whimsical—avuncular, human touches from one of the most powerful people in the world.
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Clinton dropped the avuncular tone and the sepia-toned recollections to summon whatever will and charisma he has left to push his old party back into line.
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Acting avuncular has always been his meal ticket—it is, after all, the basis of the Obama-era "Uncle Joe" caricature that underlies much of his popularity.
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One of the jokes here is that the artist, incarnated as an avuncular soul by Donald Sutherland, has no body of work — at least that anybody's seen.
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The High Sparrow maintains a prudent distance from the violence done in his name, allowing him to put on a kindly and avuncular mask of his own.
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Frank stuns a network staff meeting when he tosses out the Christmas show's trailer, which features an avuncular John Houseman reading from Dickens, and substitutes his own.
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Once Priest decides to pursue his "last score," he seeks help from his mentor in crime, Scatter, played by an avuncular but cautiously sinister Michael Kenneth Williams.
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Amid this turmoil, some fear a return to Finland Station via the avuncular shrugs of avowedly socialist leaders like Mr. Sanders and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France.
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At 22015, he could speak with the avuncular magniloquence of a professor emeritus; instead, he layers on supporting data like a star pupil seeking an A-plus.
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Whether playing the ecstatic tissue-tearing child, the photographing parent, the maidenly aunt or avuncular uncle, we are never more "literary" than we are on Christmas morning.
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Other guests are Jacob Stein (John C. Vennema), the college's avuncular president, and most prominently, Matthew Livingston (Peter Rini), a handsome billionaire whose late father founded the college.
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At worst, it could end up being a baldfaced repeat of Discovery season one, with a different seemingly avuncular white guy captain turning out to have ulterior motives.
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Dr. John Rodrigues, a pulmonologist and sleep medicine specialist of avuncular relation, recommended Dr. William C. Dement's book (widely considered a sleep research pioneer) The Promise of Sleep.
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In "David Byrne's American Utopia" — an expansive, dazzlingly staged concert — he emerges as an avuncular, off-center shepherd to flocks of fans still groping to find their way.
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The show—which doubles as an introduction to the instruments of the orchestra—is narrated by the avuncular Isaac Mizrahi and illustrated with witty choreography by John Heginbotham.
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The Doctor is a beacon of goodness, and that's why he can survive all these different permutations — an abrasive character or an avuncular character or a strange character.
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They do not see him as an avuncular pastor but instead fear that he is a deft political operator in the midst of a house cleaning of conservatives.
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Variety critic Owen Gleiberman said Bannon comes over in "American Dharma" as "an avuncular and cultivated presence", expounding on his favorite movies and chuckling about the Satan comparison.
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Unlike many avuncular critics of identity politics, Fukuyama is sympathetic to the good such politics does — above all, making the privileged aware of their effect on marginalized groups.
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Though he appeared calm and adopted an avuncular tone, Sisi's choice of words suggested criticism had stung a leader once so popular bakeries sold cakes emblazoned with his face.
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The correspondences continue: her avuncular boss, his disaffected older son (who develops a crush on the female cop), an egotistic reporter, a strange guy who helps out undocumented immigrants.
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The more his opponents caricature Mr. Sanders as a Sandinista or a Bolshevik, the more Mr. Sanders's actual similarity to 19th-century socialists makes him seem unthreatening, even avuncular.
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To unearth the secrets of Quebec City, I turned to Richard Linteau, the avuncular doorman at the Château Frontenac who has worked at the grand hotel for 29 years.
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Dave Brubeck's son Chris, who played bass and trombone in a later group of his father's, described Mr. Smith as an avuncular guru of limitless capacity and sly wit.
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"That's good, I guess," replied the guard, a tall man with a silvery beard who is known for his avuncular manner with the dozens of children in the prison.
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John Andariese, the avuncular, white-haired Knicks radio and television analyst for more than 22 years, whose partners included Marv Albert and Gus Johnson, died Monday, the team confirmed.
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A kind of near-future Frankenfirm combining aspects of Google, Facebook and Twitter, the company is headed by Chief Executive Eamon Bailey, played by Tom Hanks at his most avuncular.
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But Mr. Xi, 65, appears to be dispensing with vanity as he presents himself as a relatable and avuncular leader, part of his efforts to soften his hard-line policies.
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"He relied on, and trusted, both his rational mind and his instincts," Penny says of her avuncular detective, who is surely one of the most endearing specimens of his kind.
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There, they make themselves at home as well as can be expected with three hostile avuncular roommates and one extremely earnest tween boy — all of them dead — in the mix.
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Adonis, having proven himself worthy of his father's name and Rocky's avuncular devotion by fighting hard and losing well in "Creed," now faces a different, more complicated array of trials.
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The avuncular Biden, with a wide grin on his face, boarded Amtrak train #2166 at Union Station, bound for the station named in his honor: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Railroad Station.
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John Kasich — the seemingly kind and avuncular Governor of Ohio who defunded Planned Parenthood — is the perfect candidate if you think life is hunky-dory, but you also kinda hate women.
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I read the book a few years back and found Eggers' prose (and a few other elements) insufferable, but I could listen to Tom Hanks give avuncular villain speeches all day.
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Gustinis, as one of the only people Gevers would listen to, involved himself as an avuncular ombudsman, breezily telling the Breitmans to sit tight and give him time to broker peace.
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On a fall morning recently, Mr. Martin and two avuncular mentors, including his father, Fred, set up a pop-up smithy at the entrance to the Police Headquarters in New Haven.
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By the 1930s, the term had changed in Hollywood to refer to entertainers who played specific types: Walter Brennan as the leathery old codger, Ward Bond as the avuncular authority figure.
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His open-door vision of country, which embraces jazzy harmonies; western swing; gospel piano; pop songs; outlaw irreverence; rock drive; and a kindly, avuncular wisdom, is the city's presiding musical spirit.
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Fortner is just 24455, but the New Orleans-born pianist — who's often clad in a loose smoking jacket and fedora — carries himself with the wizened, avuncular comportment of a jazz elder.
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When Ronald Reagan ran for president, he relied heavily on the avuncular intimacy he'd created with the American people after years of appearing on their television screens, in their living rooms.
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The kindly, avuncular judge (played by an actual retired Lebanese jurist named Elias Khoury) and the officious lawyers representing Zain and his parents speak a language of reasoned inquiry and civic enlightenment.
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In the studio, making what became "Rubberband," he kept up an avuncular demeanor with Mr. Wilburn and his team of much younger musicians, even as he sometimes behaved monstrously behind closed doors.
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It's heartening to see Mr. Chan, who plays the avuncular leader of the guerrillas, demonstrating that he's still game, but you wish his energy were being expended in more consistently enjoyable pictures.
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John Andariese, the white-haired, avuncular Knicks radio and television analyst whose love of basketball earned him the nickname Johnny Hoops, died on Monday at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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Armstrong — whose four marriages never resulted in a child — proudly became an avuncular presence on the block, and bragged in a 1971 manuscript that he had watched three generations grow up around him.
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The most impressive battle of wits occurs during the interrogation scenes at police headquarters, where Maigret sheds his avuncular pose and vents his righteous anger — an explosion of rage that was Gabin's trademark.
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The release of the 131-page report by a special counsel to the state House Judiciary Committee is almost certain to further imperil Mr. Bentley, an avuncular physician and former Sunday school teacher.
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Bearing his avuncular smile, Young tools around on a scooter but jumps up to join Southern Adventist University's traveling choir in "We Shall Overcome" and again to walk onto the Lorraine Motel balcony.
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Silverman — a former Sanders supporter — is known as absurdist provocateur (she once jokingly accused sweet, avuncular, octogenarian New York talk show host Joe Franklin of raping her) and she made a serious miscalculation.
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Cronkite was "Cronkite" and even Johnny was often "Carson," but we all think of Trebek as "Alex," that avuncular, Canadian-accented presence who has been in our homes every weeknight for 35 years.
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Yet the avuncular leader with an aristocratic pedigree was still expecting to cruise to another election victory in polls due by mid-2018, maintaining his coalition's record of unbroken rule since independence in 1957.
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Go: In his touring show "American Utopia," the former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne "emerges as an avuncular, off-center shepherd to flocks of fans still groping to find their way," our critic writes.
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Both silver-haired, silver-tongued orators, who lived as avuncular bachelors and gave their younger years to quasi-monastic work for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu "volunteer" network, they sound like twins.
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It is depicted as a sunny, Day-Glo, multicultural neighborhood full of delights — flying lessons, abundant frozen yogurt — and overseen by Michael (Ted Danson), an avuncular but possibly in-over-his-head celestial being.
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The centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D), the second largest group in the Parliament, have just one remaining contender to be their lead candidate: Frans Timmermans, the avuncular Dutch vice-president of the Commission.
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Ranieri, the deceptively avuncular Italian who had flown home to Rome last Monday to have lunch with his mother, explained on the field Saturday what he said when he first met the team last July.
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In "The Politics of Authenticity in Presidential Campaigns, 1976-2008," the pollster Erica J. Seifert sees a pivotal moment after Watergate, when the electorate, betrayed by Richard Nixon, voted in the avuncular outsider Jimmy Carter.
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For all of his bumbling verbosity and avuncular artlessness, Democratic front-runner Joe Biden serves as a remarkably elegant illustration of all that ails the Democratic Party's bid to retake the White House in 2020.
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Pope Francis is known for his casual, avuncular style, but the Vatican is not accustomed to sharing top billing with Sting, who wrote the main theme of the show, as they do on the playbill.
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It was no more Mr. Nice Guy for Hun Sen, who had taken to projecting an avuncular image, especially on his Facebook page where he likes to post selfies of himself with other nation&aposs leaders.
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As for Mr Stallone, he plays Balboa as the grizzled embodiment of nostalgia—and he does so with such lunkish, avuncular charm that he has earnt a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for his performance.
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For all that Leicester Manager Claudio Ranieri comes across as an avuncular man, there is the same relentlessness from him as there is with Simeone, and the same reminders that no player is above the team.
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The avuncular Lee found himself portrayed by the city's left as the smiling avatar of the tech- and business-friendly policies that have driven San Francisco's inequality levels to be on par with those in Rwanda.
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But in time, from within and without, the DNC and the Democratic Party made it their mission to marginalize Sanders—until he was reduced to an avuncular Leftist from a bygone era whose revolution had long passed.
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"An oil that is synthetic in its chemistry won't work the same way," David Hill, an avuncular chiropractor who was formerly the director of Gary Young's Utah clinic and is now doTerra's chief medical officer, told me.
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There's Wolfgang Sawallisch, all business and precision; Rudolf Kempe, nonchalant, effortless, with the odd smirk; Fritz Rieger, steady and avuncular; and Rafael Kubelik, easily the most brilliant of them all, slightly confused and trying to keep up.
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Depending on who does the talking, Warhol was either an emotional vampire draining vital juices from the animated nut-jobs he gathered to him or a kindly, if slightly creepy, avuncular figure whose motives have been misunderstood.
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Far from the predatory mogul of real life, for instance, the MGM boss Louis B. Mayer (Stephen DeRosa) is here an avuncular presence, affectionately manipulated by his secretary, Kay Koverman (the Broadway and cabaret veteran Karen Mason).
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For the last six weeks, the two diplomats have been dancing around each other delicately, she in her trademark pointy-heeled boots, he in avuncular brogues, both trying to leverage the other to get what they need.
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Peer-reviewed journals and scientific studies edited and authored by avuncular old white men are probably the last thing on your mind; you want to know what worked for other moms, and you want to do it fast.
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"He tries to use the page to sand down the rough edges of his public image and present a more avuncular, paternal image to the Cambodian people," Sebastian Strangio, the author of "Hun Sen's Cambodia," told VICE News.
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"This afternoon 6,500 young men and women will be married and with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago they can look forward with confidence to the future," its avuncular narrator intoned.
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With the Southeast Asian nation's next election due by August, Mahathir is reworking his image - no longer the autocratic prime minister who ruled Malaysia for over two decades, he is projecting himself as the opposition's avuncular elder statesman.
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Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art After 1870, Cézanne largely stopped painting portraits for a number of years, a period during which he was mentored by the avuncular Camille Pissarro in refinements of the techniques of open-air Impressionism.
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While Girardi — acutely prepared but with a stilted personality — seemed the antithesis of the avuncular Torre, Cashman said it would be a mistake to think the Yankees would be turning toward somebody who was solely a master communicator.
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He's a twinkly eyed, avuncular guy, with a record of achievement that belies his genial affect, including service as a recon Marine — their inside joke is that they're the ones who show up when the SEALS dial 911.
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Those of us who grew up in the 1950s retain an enduring image of President Dwight D. Eisenhower as an avuncular old fellow who accomplished little in his two terms, spending most of his time on the golf links.
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Several times throughout the five-hour meeting, Mr. Trump put an avuncular hand on the small of Mr. Kim's back, although as the pair left the signing ceremony, it was Mr. Kim whose hand reached for Mr. Trump's back.
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After the adults struck a deal, Mr. Williams followed her to where she was grooming her horse, High Barbaree, Ms. Mihalevich said, threw his arm over her in an avuncular way and then shoved his tongue down her throat.
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Last year Anna Silvas, an Australian scholar, charged the pope with writing "tracts of homespun, avuncular advice that could be given by any secular journalist without the faith—the sort of thing to be found in the pages of Readers Digest".
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An avuncular image of Xi during his early years in office, which led to a folksy nickname - "Xi Dada", or "Uncle Xi" - and syrupy songs about his looks, was stamped out in early 2016 to avoid creating a cult of personality.
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Instead, the Golden Globe-nominated actor will take the mantle of the so-called "Extra Crispy Colonel," a bronze-skinned, beach-bum cousin of the avuncular Southern gentleman whom KFC dreamt up specifically to sell its "extra crispy"-style chicken.
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I didn't know what to expect before Skyping Dominic Milton Trott, author of The Honest Drugs Book – but really, his appearance shouldn't come as a surprise: a man in his fifties with a round, avuncular face and a warm Mancunian accent.
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" Though he appeared calm and adopted an avuncular tone for the most part, the former general silenced an audience member who tried to ask a question at the end of his speech, saying: "I did not give anyone permission to speak.
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Jeremy Clarkson was an ugly, shouty, offensive brute behind the wheel, but we'd grown accustomed to him in the same way that we grew to love the avuncular Des Lynam presenting English Premier League highlights on Match of the Day.
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His avuncular persona, the fact that he was for much of his career (by Senate standards) middle-class, even his personal, often creepy interactions with voters are meant to communicate an intimacy and down-to-earth quality that most politicians lack.
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Mr. Toikka, an avuncular man of 86 who rarely gives interviews (and didn't this time), has said that the birds arose from a need to produce objects that didn't require grinding, a time-consuming process that was causing a factory backlog.
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But the avuncular ambassador to the European Union, who swigged from a collection of paper cups and water bottles during hours of testimony, seemed to have made a choice: He was not going down with the ship to protect the President.
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Avuncular and masterfully idiosyncratic, he played with a nostalgic whimsy, leaping from the title composition he wrote for Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" to "What a Wonderful World" — a nod to Louis Armstrong's apocryphal birth date of July 4, 1900.
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Mr. Schwarz, a former city corporation counsel who helped revise the City Charter in the 1980s, testified for two hours in an avuncular tone, pointing to gaps in the reasoning of some council members, but stopping short of openly criticizing their pay proposal.
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Banks, who also directed "Pitch Perfect 2," is also a co-producer and co-writer and she will play the role of the avuncular Bosley, which was played by a man on both the original television series and in two movie versions.
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At first, Charlie hires an avuncular softy (hilariously portrayed by Alan Alda) to represent him, but then is convinced to go with Jay (a fearsome and funny Ray Liotta), a shark all too willing to go dorsal fin-to-dorsal fin with Nora.
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Democratic strategists close to Biden, who has been affectionately nicknamed "Uncle Joe" by supporters for his avuncular demeanor and tendency to make gaffes, say it's in his nature to stay active in politics, especially after holding elected office for more than four decades.
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He served for eight years as the vice president of Barack Obama, the most popular figure in Democratic politics, and did so with an avuncular charm that was once seen as a political liability, but has aged well under a crass president.
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Kate and her colleague Karl Allard (the avuncular actor Allan Havey, best known as the superlatively square ad man turned cartoonist Lou Avery on "Mad Men") even use an old notepad to forge backdated evidence to hide Chuck's involvement in Boyd's release.
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RUSSONELLO The blues-loving singer, guitarist and songwriter Keb' Mo' places deep-catalog R&B and blues finds — Koko Taylor's "Merry, Merry Christmas," the Louis Jordan track (written by Teddy Edwards) "Santa Claus, Santa Claus" — alongside avuncular new collaborations of his own.
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Mourinho protests that he's a kind, supportive, avuncular figure when it comes to potential talents, but the truth is he's about as conducive to nurturing youngsters as Stephen King's IT. As such, it's good to see Anthony Martial impressing on international duty with France.
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From 21989, when Voyager 21991 first shot past Jupiter, to 19843, when its twin, Voyager 21984, cruised past Neptune, it was Dr. Smith, an avuncular, gravelly-voiced astronomer, who stepped in front of the space press at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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Too bad her editor at the fictional St. Louis Chronicle, an avuncular type named Frank Curry (Miguel Sandoval), wants her to go back there and investigate the murder of one girl, Ann Nash (Kaegan Baron), and the disappearance of another, Natalie Keene (Jessica Treska).
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Brusque, avuncular, and with a reputation for being overly plain-speaking, Prince Philip has over seven decades been a formidable presence at the side of Queen Elizabeth II as she made the countless round of dinners, ceremonies and other engagements expected of the British monarch.
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The bad-boy potential of the cardigan is also on full display in HBO's "Succession," in which Logan Roy, the dark-lord media mogul played by Brian Cox, has made the avuncular shawl cardigan the uniform for his weekly adventures in corporate mayhem and subterfuge.
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Contributing Opinion writer Scrutinizing the avuncular sphinx Chief Justice John Roberts throughout the impeachment trial of President Trump, I kept wondering whether he will preserve or ransack the legacy of the framers we revere — framers like the Republican Betty Babcock and the Democrat Dorothy Eck.
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SHANGHAI — For the second time since last summer, an avuncular, graying man has stepped out of Beijing's shadows and calmed financial markets after a Chinese devaluation — but once again, his assurances came after nearly a month of turmoil and growing worry about the country's economic health.
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Mr. Xi, who will turn 19793 in June, has done more than any of his predecessors to create a public persona as an avuncular man of the people, even as he has maneuvered behind the scenes with a ruthless ambition to dominate China's enigmatic elite politics.
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" Over some afternoon biscotti, Mr. Shaffer, an avuncular man who still uses words like "groovy" and "swinging" quite sincerely, and whose cellphone ringtone plays "It's Raining Men" (the hit song he and Paul Jabara wrote for the Weather Girls), spoke about his life after "Late Show.
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Instead, the film focuses on how Warren Edward Buffett grew from the Nebraskan son of a congressman to become the Oracle of Omaha, the avuncular mascot of American capitalism who built Berkshire Hathaway into a $406 billion empire, and shows some of his warts along the way.
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"With all those voices out there on the stage, to call me 'the voice of the Met' is very odd," he said in 270, sounding about the same in conversation as when the "on the air" light was on: conversational, avuncular and warmly authoritative, but not pompous or pretentious.
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According to a letter Stritch wrote to Noël Coward, an avuncular mentor since he had tried to make her a star in his "Sail Away" a few years earlier, she didn't like the part Arthur Laurents and the composer "Stevie Sondheim," as she called him, wanted her to do.
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For many of the pope's ideological opponents in and around the Vatican, who are fearful of a pontiff they consider outwardly avuncular but internally a ruthless wielder of absolute political power, this angry moment in history is an opportunity to derail what they see as a disastrous papal agenda.
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That single line, relayed by William B. Taylor Jr., the avuncular, experienced diplomat sent back to Kiev in May by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, encapsulated the now obvious truth that Mr. Trump had little interest in the central national security strategy that his own administration published in late 2017.
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At this point the sex abuse scandal broke in Boston, and elsewhere — and the Washington archbishop became the avuncular, reassuring media point person for his fellow bishops, issuing statements of concern and condemnation that if he really feared the punishments of hell would have turned to ashes in his mouth.
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The Creeds, Louis and Rachel and their young children, Ellie and Gage, move to rustic Maine and find out their property includes a creepy burial ground for pets, and behind that, an even creepier burial ground where the loved ones interred "come back," as the Creeds's avuncular neighbor, Jud, puts it.
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Asked whether a foreigner can buy a gun (most cannot), Ted, an avuncular, moustachioed salesman, replies: "This is America, you can get anything you want," before offering a quick tour of the shop's shooting range, a low-lit room with four 30-feet lanes and a rubbish bin riddled with bullet holes.
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Mr. Wittliff's first screenplay, written in the early 1970s — in longhand (he refused to learn to type) — was "Barbarosa," based on a story his grandfather had told him, about a farm boy who is on the run after he has killed his brother-in-law and who is guided by an avuncular outcast.
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We see Winston's discovery of a beautiful fellow traveler at his workplace (a feral Ms. Wilde, in her Broadway debut), and watch their subsequent blissful liaisons in a secret trysting place (shown in simultaneous videocast); and the pair's recruitment into a resistance movement by a bureaucrat named O'Brien (a creepily avuncular Reed Birney, who here unnervingly resembles Dick Cheney).
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He is an avuncular silver-haired man with a reputation for efficiency and a liberal bent; in 2014, he issued a ruling that same-sex couples have the right to marry in South Carolina, and he was responsible for installing a portrait of Jonathan Jasper Wright, the state's first black Supreme Court justice, in the Court building.
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And yet, in recent months, and especially in the wake of his blowout win in the New Hampshire primary, there is a sense that the old verities are falling apart and that the avuncular, bespectacled Vermonter could win over a sizable chunk of the union members and minority voters who were supposed to vote in lock step for Hillary Clinton.
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In a matter of seconds, Shockie bounded up to the car, hugged himself against the onslaught of vehicles and people, and then, in a swift motion that would have shocked anyone watching this avuncular fair fellow from a distance, put his hands on the petrol cap, stuck a blade under the metal, heaved with all his might, and ripped it off.
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At one point I reached over to him and put my hand on his shoulder, a friendly gesture, casual, avuncular maybe, and then I let my hand curve around his shoulder and down his arm and, as I felt him flex his biceps, that reflexive preening, I curled my fingers around the muscle there and squeezed, feeling how solid it was.
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Through exhaustive research, Taylor discovered that the noble and modest Rainford grew up in the parish of St. Andrew outside of Kingston and, in 1923, at the age of 21 came to New York City on the call of his brother to work as photographer's-assistant-cum-protégé to the avuncular if tipsy Henry Taylor (no connection to the book's author).
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From the avuncular Bernie Sanders to the wonky policy machine known as Elizabeth Warren, what would make the left wing of the Democratic Party opt for a candidate who, despite widespread ridicule in the media, still takes a caravan of gas-guzzling SUVs on a near-daily 11-mile trek from his home on the Upper East Side to his favorite gym in Brooklyn?
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The image of Ian Buruma clad only in a "tiny scarlet jockstrap" in a dance performance may raise an eyebrow at The New York Review of Books, where he is now the editor, but he treats his old self with a sort of avuncular geniality, as though to say, "Yes, we are foolish when we are young, but oh, how lovely it all was."
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And as is often the case with the American president, even his closest aides say they are not sure which Mr. López Obrador will emerge: the avuncular leader who preaches love and morality, the leftist firebrand who skewers opponents, the pragmatist aiming for a broader development deal for the region — or the impetuous politician who seems to make it up as he goes along.
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It was in an earlier best-selling volume that Weatherford persuasively argued that the 25-year blitzkrieg mounted by Genghis and his cavalries — who, in "the most extensive war in world history" beginning in 1206, swept mercilessly and unstoppably over the Altai Mountains to their west and the Gobi Desert to their south — brought civilization, fairness, meritocracy and avuncular kindliness to legions of undeserving satrapies across Eurasia.
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The hits scored by an obscure agency on an island of fewer than three million people owe much to the missionary zeal of Mr. Peters, a voluble and avuncular man (his models call him Pops) with a shaven head and a cowcatcher smile who, besides running his modeling agency, organizes Style Week Jamaica and is host of a popular talk show on cable TV. They also underscore the economic impact that lack of diversity has had on those excluded from opportunity.
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We follow Theo over the course of the next decade or so as he goes through his Great Expectations phase (plucked out of obscurity by a remote but perhaps benevolent older woman for whose children he seems to be fated), his Oliver Twist phase (a life of petty crime and deep homoerotic friendship), his Old Curiosity Shop phase (living with an avuncular older man in a quirky but Edenic antiques shop), always surrounded by characters who are ostensibly American but speak with unmistakably posh British cadences.
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