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You know, he may have had an ... er, avuncular , implicitly sexual and probably inappropriate relationship that was, alas, never actually, physically consummated ...
A WP front-pager reports that the newly elected president of Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid, is helping calm the country's unsettled political climate with an avuncular style.
The upstart did not just so much challenge Cosby as envelop it: In perhaps the most sustained of the winking pop-culture references for which it has become famous (and on which it came to depend rather too heavily as time went on), The Simpsons soon featured an avuncular African-American physician with a penchant for multicolored sweaters.
Sacks' writing has many charms, among them an avuncular presence, an unaffected storyteller's voice not often found in popularized science writing these days.
Ginsburg is also heard boasting "I truly am the avuncular Mr. Ginsburg," and he condescendingly predicts that "the American people will let" President Clinton "limp to the end of his term."