avuncularly

It seemed that where Runne was concerned some things could only be said avuncularly.

He put his hand warmly over Kady's and smiled avuncularly.

But the moment passed, and the interrogator strode in, smiling avuncularly at his prospective victim.

"Though not overmuch for you, boyo," he scolded Koro avuncularly.

"I wouldn't want you to think a gentleman of L'ven can't be generous," Daniel said avuncularly.

Charles M. Dutcher, the president under whom the building was constructed, gazes avuncularly from a portrait in the first-floor board room.

'Hypnosis,' Dr Joyce says avuncularly, smiling.

'Keep still, idiot,' Yossarian advised Clevinger avuncularly.

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.

Mr. Cochran was ubiquitous in the past week, not only reaching over the lectern avuncularly to the jurors, but absorbing, diverting and defusing the prosecution's accusations of misconduct against him and his colleagues.

Before a crowd of 200 or 300 onlookers, he explained to the couple his Government's proposal for 25-year interest-free loans for new homeowners, and sent them on their way, saying avuncularly, "I wish you happiness and your own home, that's the most important thing."