| You begin to read his column, expecting to find something as smooth as his preppy clothes, as reassuring as the photograph's avuncular smile. |
| Readers of my diary will recognise me as a wise, avuncular figure with a keen mind and big heart. |
| Lewis, charming and avuncular, is far easier to relate to than the aloof and distant Freud. |
| He is certainly an avuncular figure, more paternal than patriarchal, yet even his faults and foibles are masculine in character. |
| Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed. |
| At lunchtime on the day of the party, the BBC's avuncular anchorman David Dimbleby introduced a montage of pop footage. |
