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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.
For the record, Chatterbox has never done anything avuncular, though it tried once in college ...
Sacks' writing has many charms, among them an avuncular presence, an unaffected storyteller's voice not often found in popularized science writing these days.
You know, he may have had an ... er, avuncular , implicitly sexual and probably inappropriate relationship that was, alas, never actually, physically consummated ...
Mighty avuncular of you, Mr. G!