How To Use Doting In A Sentence
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Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy.
Heaven Lake
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It was once Britain's default shopping destination for expectant mums and doting grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nine months later - or two hours in TV drama time - she was back on the diving board, with her dreams revised and a doting dad holding the baby by the poolside, minutes after a snottery-nosed declaration that he and his gymslip mum were about to ruin each other's lives by staying together.
The Daily Record - Home
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Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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This is typical of the celebrity worship sites erected by doting fans.
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A doting couple travelled 3,000 miles so their baby could be christened in the same cathedral as his mother and grandmother.
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TWO doting penguin parents form a perfect heart shape as they bend their necks to shield their chick from biting Antarctic winds.
The Sun
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He was a doting husband and father who played a full part in domestic life notwithstanding the demands of his job.
Times, Sunday Times
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He got a headstart: his doting parents taught him to read early, to study hard, to take on responsibility for himself.
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Talking of twists, balletomanes will smile at the the doting ‘Ballet Mother ‘that appears a few times.
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At first glance, Brian seems like a normal doting father.
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The doting gran watched from the side as Jackie and Robyn splashed about in the waves then took out her camera to record the moment for posterity.
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He spent about four hours casting from various angles, without a hook, watching the trout with the eyes of a doting daddy.
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As a doting father, I bought her a $60 ratcatcher shirt.
Amongst the horses.
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He was also a doting uncle who could always be depended upon to looking after his treasured nieces and nephews.
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He was such a doting dad and my family loved him.
The Sun
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She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife.
The Sun
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She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife.
The Sun
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deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain
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Buddy's gentleness was almost childlike, verging on the ridiculous -- his doting on dogs and little children, the love letters he had written to his dead wife Momi, his devotion to Stella's ashes and the green flash at sunset, his assiduous attention to his flowers.
Beard
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He is clearly a doting father.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a real doting dad.
The Sun
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Subsequently, we are entering Empty Nestdom at the age our forebears may have been retiring from jobs -- if they had any -- and were well into doting grandparenthood.
Michele Willens: Face It: Monikerless Murmurs
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There was more than one (perhaps as many as three) little pianos over the years at Russell Square - in his palmy days, old Sedley was certainly rich and doting enough to shower his daughter with expensive luxuries.
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Death will come that afternoon, quietly, before his doting sisters return from school.
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He is a real doting dad.
The Sun
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It sounds ridiculous, but he was a doting father.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a wonderful father, doting on everything, anything, his sons did.
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For the moment she is enjoying doting on her niece and nephew.
The Sun
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Lizzie's plight was not helped by the death in the past month of her doting dad, Seamus.
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In the original, the title heroine is a sweet-natured, country lass with a dotingly protective mother, a passion for dance and a dangerously susceptible heart.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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When well-loved artists and entertainers die there are formal tributes, interviews with friends, a gush of doting anecdotage, but that's as far as it goes.
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But the doting couple are blissfully unaware that their baby is actually a GOOSE.
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L/Cpl McKee was described as a "doting husband and family man" who had showed "enormous strength" after his two-day-old daughter passed away last year.
WalesOnline - Home
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Doting dad Seb is delighted with his beautiful new daughter.
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Contrast this with today when many doting parents shout and whistle when their little darlings have performed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her doting dad helped towards the cost of the chopper.
The Sun
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Rob, 33, does indeed make wonderful, hand-made choccies, but this is no self-indulgence allowed by doting grown-ups.
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The angry young man has become the admired senior citizen, sufficiently mellowed to be a doting father.
Times, Sunday Times
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Doting mother of two, devoted spouse, Pippa Lee has a complex past.
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Again I should remind Harris that in America we don't let children decide the judicial fates of their law-breaking "doting" dads.
Andy Ostroy: Why Robert Harris' NY Times Pro-Polanski Op-Ed Is an Offensive, Self-Serving Disgrace
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That's why her doting parents sent her to drama classes, to boost her confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being summoned by a doting pet can be one of the more endearing ways to return to our senses.
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She loved and adored him but he wasn't exactly the doting husband.
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The thought of her honor, so carefully guarded, and so unhappily lost, was torture to her; but the worst was her fear that her lover had broken his word to her, which she did not believe he could ever have done unless he loved some fairer lady, and in doting fondness had suffered her to extort the secret from him.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
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I was born six months later and immediately became the darling of my doting grandmother.
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The doting father rarely so much as got out of the car.
Times, Sunday Times
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He worked, with a devoted anonymity, in the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film, cataloguing and doting on the old movies entrusted to MoMA.
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Thus this poor Irish sailor, thinking he had gained admittance to that penetralium of mystery, a haimisheh Jewish family, was reduced to dragging himself down to Whitechapel to dine Yiddler-wise with his girlfriend’s younger shikseh-doting brother who, to tell the truth, wasn’t all that keen on the pap either.
Kalooki Nights
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Quiet and unassuming, she has been doting on their first grandchild Sophie, who was born two weeks ago, while he has been preparing for the leadership battle.
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The attendant asked Sue, with the same doting, placid face, the same question.
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The doting father rarely so much as got out of the car.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is here explicitly declared that this doctrine, the obedience of slaves to their masters, are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ; and the arguments of its opposers are characterized as doting sillily about questions and strifes of words, and therefore unworthy of reply and refutation.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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From a doting bahu she has turned into a protagonist of social issues in her new television avatar.
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But in the eyes of his doting mum he can do no wrong.
The Sun
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My children are in the unusual position of having only one cousin - on the other side of the globe - and a bevy of doting, but nevertheless, childless aunts and uncles.
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Exclusive Jason Swindlehurst was a "doting" father who met his wife through TV talk show Kilroy.
Mirror.co.uk - News
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That's why her doting parents sent her to drama classes, to boost her confidence.
Times, Sunday Times
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He endeavours to convince sinners of their folly in doting upon the wealth of this world, by showing them (1.)
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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I'm a proper doting dad.
The Sun
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Bruno is a dissolute character who lives with his doting mother.
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This is perverse and foolish, he told himself; if I wanted a wife, I could make choice of a dozen; yet here am I doting on Miss Aston, who seems not to care twopence for me!
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It took me being a mom, watching him as a doting, self-sacrificing grandfather, to really appreciate all he did for me as a child.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
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Sowho are these merchants of noise, who work so hard, and so unobtrusively to dominate our attention, while hiding their malignance behind the frenzied smiles and desperate flim-flam of others who more effectively command our loyalty, respect, admiration and even doting adoration?
Have you a radio or tv?
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He frequently complimented her, playing the part of the doting husband to the hilt.
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The image of the doting mother replaced that of the domestic drudge.
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She works in a local beauty clinic, doting on people and trying to make them feel young and beautiful.
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The two doting dads have good reason to smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is dotingly displayed, like everything else, under dramatic lighting that illuminates heirloom tomatoes as if they were heirloom diamonds.
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Friends of a woman being questioned by police on suspicion of murdering her two-year-old son have described her as a "doting" mother.
The Guardian World News
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So what's a doting dad to do, eh?
Times, Sunday Times
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They are also doting grandparents to nine lovely grandchildren.
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He has been a doting dad and has been very confident with Jack from day one.
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The doting mum 's priority was leaving Poppy happy memories for the future.
The Sun
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She wore an imported gown of peachblow satin that must have been a considerable item of expense to her doting father.
Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore
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He is clearly a doting father.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘They cannot possibly compare to you,’ I said dotingly into her ear.
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Be not thy love, O heart, to one alone confined, Lest, for that one, amaze and doting thee enwind;
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
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Ah, a gift from a doting grandmother, of course.
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A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. William Shakespeare
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Doting dad Will, 22, a dustman, said: ‘It happened in the blink of an eye.’
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Catherine smiled dotingly on the little girl she had raised since that day eight years ago.
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It sounds ridiculous, but he was a doting father.
Times, Sunday Times
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You are sure to lap up the special doting treatment emanating from your mate.
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I can remember him saying as he gazed dotingly at the Cathedral.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Fourteen years later, she's a fixture at the school, a doting first-grade teacher.
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An erudite, doting wife, Eileen, who calls him darling in lovely, wartime tones, completes the cosy mirage.
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They would make good and doting parents.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife.
The Sun
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Car dealer Sajid Siddique was described as a "doting" father and police said it would have been completely out of character for him to leave his wife and three young children.
BBC News - Home
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Dr Barbara was able to switch from peremptory schoolmistress to doting mother in a way that always disarmed him.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Gary, meanwhile, says he'd like nothing better than to be the doting grandparent of Greg's sons.
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Today his family issued a tribute, through Gwent Police, to the 17 year old they described as a doting father who gave up college work to support his family.
WalesOnline - Home
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I saw a sleekly tailored, highly social downtown real estate broker feting compadres at a table in a compartment created by all those velvet draperies, and he was greeted by a doting staff as a prized regular.
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He at least adheres to that conventional notion: the doting father and husband, the man for the job.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doting dad also has the extravagant wedding ceremony to think about.
The Sun
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In fact every time he spoke of you dotingly I wanted to run screaming in the opposite direction - but no, don't get upset!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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TWO doting penguin parents form a perfect heart shape as they bend their necks to shield their chick from biting Antarctic winds.
The Sun
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In the summers his mother used to return with the kids from Limerick to her native Dublin, where he would be surrounded by his granny and a selection of doting maiden aunts.
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It's been the stock question of doting aunties for aeons.
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Her doting dad helped towards the cost of the chopper.
The Sun
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Nine months later - or two hours in TV drama time - she was back on the diving board, with her dreams revised and a doting dad holding the baby by the poolside, minutes after a snottery-nosed declaration that he and his gymslip mum were about to ruin each other's lives by staying together.
The Daily Record - Home
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‘It is ultimately up to them,’ he says, looking dotingly at his daughters.
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He was such a doting dad and my family loved him.
The Sun
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His doting parents bought him his first racing bike at 13.
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The doting mum tried to bring him round without success.
The Sun
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It was once Britain's default shopping destination for expectant mums and doting grandparents.
Times, Sunday Times
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They would make good and doting parents.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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He is a very pleasant and obliging character, and dotingly fond of little Alex, from knowing and loving and honouring all his family; and this you will a little guess is something of an avenue to a certain urchin's madre.
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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The superbaby, meanwhile, was looking up at its doting creators.
Times, Sunday Times
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No doubt they broadly wished to please her, which would incidentally have disposed the doting King in their favour.
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The two doting dads have good reason to smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before feminism, stifling your personal ambitions in favor of doting on your husband was just a drawback to being a woman.
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He was a doting husband and father who played a full part in domestic life notwithstanding the demands of his job.
Times, Sunday Times
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How did he use to hang, till he slabbered again, poor doting old man! on your silver tongue!
Clarissa Harlowe
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She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife.
The Sun
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But in the eyes of his doting mum he can do no wrong.
The Sun
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He was a doting husband and father who played a full part in domestic life notwithstanding the demands of his job.
Times, Sunday Times
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The doting mum tried to bring him round without success.
The Sun
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She then goes into full-on damage limitation mode, playing the doting mum and dutiful wife.
The Sun
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She smiled at me in a way reminiscent of a doting aunt.
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It was Graduation day at de Montfort on Thursday, with hundreds of young people wearing their gowns and colourful hoods, and dozens of doting parents taking pictures.
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Contrast this with today when many doting parents shout and whistle when their little darlings have performed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting married doesn't make you morally superior and it certainly doesn't automatically make you a faithful partner or a doting parent.
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Seventy years ago an Eton schoolmaster dotingly built his soprano wife a bijou opera-house beside the country pile he inherited on the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne.
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The doting mum 's priority was leaving Poppy happy memories for the future.
The Sun
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Spencer Brown came to my work the other day, and I talked to him for a bit, and then when he left, my coworker Chris told me I was "doting" on him the whole time.
Withkerth Diary Entry
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He tended to its every complaint with the attention of a doting mother to a sick child.
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It's like staying with a stylish, doting aunt; cocooning rather than pulsating with life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Who needs a doting husband anyway when you've got money, malls and lots of petty activities to amuse you?
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The visible tableau reveals a dutiful father and a doting son.
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It doesn’t matter what Sen. Arlen Specter says, he is still just a scared old man, willing to postulate himself before the alter of the neo-con crazies, to keep his status, money and power..willing to commit treasonous acts against his own country for the almighty dollar and comfort in his doting, slavering old age..to hell with the grandchildren…
Think Progress » Specter can’t justify escalation.
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Every few feet he was accosted by more doting women than a film actor.
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In at the birth of the peace process, Hayden remained a doting parent throughout the nineties.
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Doting mothers adored the clothes, and the long flowing curls, but their sons did not like them at all, and found them uncomfortable and sissyish.
