doting

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• He was a doting and loving father who read the Lord of the Rings books aloud to his children each night before they went to sleep.

• Her strict but doting father sent her to elite private girls’ schools and Smith College.

• He is also said to have been a good father and now a doting grandfather.

• There are the doting mother, wild brother, and distant father.

• The Moscow regime is denying them a chance; a chance at an extraordinary life with doting parents in a wealthier country.

• Even her husband, a gruff French surgeon who is more “Tiger Mom” than doting dad, thought the email was a bit curt.

• Put another way, they are what every doting parent wants their precocious toddler to grow up to become.

• Xenie had small need for these things in the lonely life to which she found herself condemned by her foolish, doting old husband.

• For what else did she stand at the head of her class, and had doting parents paid three years' tuition?

• Everybody but the doting old Duchess knew him to be a bully, a coward, and a knave.

• Once he sat doting beside her at twilight on a bench of the wide gallery while his sister, near by, kept guard over their talk.

• She merely consented to make him useful, much as she might a convenient and altogether but uninteresting grandmother.