grandmotherly
Adjective
Meaning
Like a grandmother in age or manner; kind; indulgent.
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"Bass was relentless in her courage and in stepping out and stepping forward but she also always showed up with a hat on, and representing almost a grandmotherly presentation," Mangin says.
At the same time I was fascinated by the contrast of Mrs. Bush's grandmotherly, benign, pearl-clad public image with the fierce lioness I had just encountered.
He looks up at a pair of waitresses facing him across the Formica, both of them white-haired and grandmotherly.
In an end credits scene, Carol's life has really changed, as she too has morphed into an elderly person that resembles Mrs. Claus' mythical grandmotherly look.