He doesn't like hearing about the sex that much, but he doesn't get all fatherlike about it.

Doug's overtly stern yet fatherlike geniality returned.

Then we were, as it were, impregnated with the thought of God-a just God, but benevolent and fatherlike.

Fatherlike, he thought he had done enough for a bit, and would enjoy a "sunning reaction" on the summerhouse roof.