Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.
This mattered, for there was also a strong connection between paternal investment and a child's nutritional state.
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The institution of private property, meanwhile, made paternal certainty a vital concern, and monogamy, particularly for women, was strictly enforced.
Rising numbers of women in work may also have eroded a paternal sense of responsibility.
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Braugher plays Captain Marcus Chaplin, a paternal yet decisive leader of the USS Colorado, the most powerful nuclear submarine ever built.
Named for his paternal grandfather, a renowned physician and philanthropist, he went to Andover and then Yale, where he excelled in math and science.
She said she prefers dating married men because they tend to be more paternal and offer a steadier source of income than single men.
Singaporeans are used to their government taking a paternal interest in what they do and think, and to its perennial campaigns telling them how to behave.
When he was about 11 years old, his paternal grandfather, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, shared memories from his service in the Pacific.
George Rathman is the Bill Gates of biotechnology...if Bill Gates would look and act a bit more paternal.
With the father gone, Vasquez said, the older brother assumed a kind of paternal role, at least where the girls in the family were concerned.
He sees Personal Capital providing a transparent, high-quality, mass-customized service for these investors and moving past the paternal, craftsman-like approach of a full-service brokerage or the assembly-line mentality of mutual funds.
His paternal grandparents, reportedly angry about a custody case involving the small boy, took him and disappeared from Indiana.
She remembers his suffering from persistent indigestion ever since Arda, her mother, who is also his paternal aunt, brought him from a nomadic hamlet during his early teens as her charge in order to facilitate his receiving proper schooling in Mogadiscio.
Firmly planted in New York City, Gale, 57, had real estate roots going back to his paternal grandfather, Daniel, who became a broker in 1922 (the Daniel Gale Agency is now part of Sotheby's).
Firmly planted in New York City, Gale, 57, had real estate roots going back to his paternal grandfather, Daniel, who became a broker in 1922 (the Daniel Gale Agency is now part of Sotheby's (nyse: BID - news - people )).
He was partly Burmese, partly Irish and partly French: his paternal grandparents came from Bourg-Lastic, a town in central France.
But those around them sense a bond that verges on the paternal.
In the movie's quirkiest detour he spends most of the evening cruising in a patrol car with two unexpectedly paternal, party-hearty cops (Rogen and Bill Hader).
Khan's paternal grandfather, Khan Faizullah Khan, was a contractor, and the British used him to build roads and the cantonment areas in the district of Dera Ismail Khan and in present-day Waziristan.
The child's paternal grandfather, Robert Green, had been on a quest to find the bodies of Shenae and his mother, Joyce Green, who also died that night.
Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.
Mr. Lane began living off and on with his paternal grandparents in Chardon several years ago, said Carl Henderson, a former Chardon police officer and Geauga County Sheriff, who lived near the family.
Historian Bernard Wishy has noted that as paternal rule in the New England household faded in reality, it flourished a good while longer in story and myth.
The second thing the team did was to introduce a genetic mutation into the genome of the young egg that allowed for the production of a growth factor, a kind of protein, that can only come from the paternal genome but is vital for normal embryonic development.
She quit the paternal United Party in 1959, frustrated that it was so wobbly against apartheid, to join a Progressive Party of 12 members that was wiped out in an election two years later.
The reason for this was that the polyandrous females suffered a far lower rate of spontaneous abortion, which occurs when genetic incompatibility between the maternal and paternal genomes results in an immunological conflict between mother and embryo.
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