Gates instantly took to his avuncular role in the discussion while sipping a Diet Coke.
Public-safety campaigners lament the loss of the avuncular bus conductor, surplus to requirements on modern vehicles.
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But mixed in with his avuncular jocularity you'll often find a little dig.
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Right now, the avuncular Supachai, 52, is losing out to the diminutive, flinty Tarrin, who is a year older.
The tall, gregarious leader, who has been described at once as avuncular and ruthless, is above all a political survivor.
His avuncular tone failed to entirely blunt the gist of his message: Our graduate students pay us to come on digs.
The author is an avuncular podiatrist in New York named Murray Weisenfeld.
Jon Stewart as a mainstream broadcaster, avuncular informant of the American nation?
It is up to the new ruling authorities, led by the avuncular chairman of the transitional national council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, to balance the two.
He whirls her from one fancy location to the next, living on the slim proceeds of their success and gazing with avuncular disdain upon her incessant amours.
The German ambassador, Dietrich von Kyaw, is an avuncular Euro-enthusiast who used to cover Europe for his foreign ministry but is only one of several influences on Helmut Kohl.
His campaign posters portray him in more professional attire, in a suit and tie, just a hint of an avuncular smile around his lips and the eyes behind his rimless glasses.
Since then, the avuncular chairman has held things together.
And as Hirohito was the only plausible candidate, he was repositioned as a concerned, avuncular figure, stripped of power and of military titles but endowed with the symbols of a head of state.
Blake, who was hired by Nardelli, is more cerebral and avuncular than his old friend and defends Nardelli's strategy down the line: expansion in China, personnel decisions and the much-criticized foray into wholesale building supply.
But if Mr Brown is the favourite son, Mr Blair, despite being younger, enjoys a more avuncular role, exploiting his slight distance from the party to tease it, lecture it, and tell it one or two home truths.
"I would suspect that it's because of his position as a sort of an avuncular authority figure, your old Uncle Ted, who's sort of a gruff guy who cares about you, but he doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve about it, " Mitchell said.
What is more, the team coached by the avuncular figure of Vicente Del Bosque did so in such a magnificent style - thrashing dangerous Italy 4-0 in the final - that they have been widely saluted as the greatest international team ever to have played the game.
The geeky do-gooders like Bill and Melinda Gates and the Google boys, their avuncular buddy Warren Buffett, even George Soros with his May-December romances: put them all together and you have enough money to cure tropical diseases and spread democracy but not enough kinks to lift an eyebrow.
While deeply moved by the plight of the children, whom he patiently films with an avuncular tenderness, he focusses on AIDS as a sexually transmitted disease, suggesting, in effect, that its victims made love at the risk of death, a phenomenon not unknown, for political reasons, in his home country.
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