dadliness

Example Sentences

• "Dadliness: Bill Cole meets Elise at the school bus with Brenna and Will (top), and later celebrates mom Marianne’s birthday."
• ">>her dad for some weird reason has / >>decided she shouldn't dye her hair anymore / > / >Prolly because it makes him think he's raising chrysanthemums, not / >daughters. / Well, her hair is normally a dark brown color so what the red dye does is just add auburn highlights to it...it's not a really obnoxious change and I thought looked very nice myself. He's just exercising his omnipotent Dadliness I guess. *shrug*"
• "What are dads for? This vexed question underlies Frank Cottrell Boyce’s hilarious and ingenious hymn to dadliness and all things dadly."
• "Gradually, through coping with Florida’s tantrums and his fellow fathers’ foibles, he acquires and understanding of what “dadliness” (as he calls it) is all about."
• "He returns, but not before a funny and often profound exploration of how parents and children behave, and of the essence of “dadliness.”"
• "He was more prescient than he realized: A month later, Pitchfork — the very site that had given Wilco a 5.2 rating for committing the sin of dadliness — cleared its slate of new album reviews one Wednesday and declared it Steely Dan Day, publishing five re-evaluations of the group’s “most influential records.”"