Word: avuncular
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Unlike the avuncular caricature of his later years who left his hair unshorn, helped little girls with their math homework and was a soft touch for almost any worthy cause, Einstein is emerging from these documents as a man whose unsettled private life contrasts sharply with his serene contemplation of the universe. He could be alternately warmhearted and cold; a doting father, yet aloof; an understanding, if difficult, mate, but also an egregious flirt. "Deeply and passionately [concerned] with the fate of every stranger," wrote his friend and biographer Philipp Frank, he "immediately withdrew into his shell" when relations became...
Mirza Tanovic is an avuncular, mustachioed host of My Home, a half-hour show on Bosnian television. In plaid shirt and flak jacket, he tells viewers how to fix up their houses after years of war damage, offering tips on repairing bullet holes and replastering walls to disguise shrapnel scars...
...They seem to me to always reflect their previous experience," says Epps, who has served under seven deans of the College." Fred Jewett was chair of admissions. He was avuncular...he would be open and weigh things, and was really known for his wise judgement...
Mirza Tanovic is the avuncular, mustachioed host of "My Home," a half-hour show on Bosnian television. In plaid shirt and flak jacket, he tells viewers how to fix up their houses after years of war damage, offering tips on repairing bullet holes and replastering walls to disguise shrapnel scars...
...pictured above is not a moody, gaunt rock star. He is an avuncular, moonfaced country star with a rather inspired makeup job. But in the tradition of actual moody, gaunt rock stars like David Bowie, GARTH BROOKS has assumed an alter ego named Chris Gaines. Brooks will play Gaines in The Lamb, a film to be released next year. To create buzz for the movie, Brooks will release an album of greatest hits from Gaines' 15-year career. In fact, all the songs on the album are new. "We wrote songs to sound like they came from different periods," explains...