Mr. Wells's work, set in a cemetery, explores the unresolved yearnings of fatherless sons.

He plays Dad to her fatherless son, and thinks the pathetic Terry is beautiful even though her flesh-toned glasses leave red ridges on her nose.

The United Talent Agency represented the film, which also has religious overtones: Ms. Huston's character believes her fatherless son is the Second Coming.

I'd encountered such misplaced loyalty once before when the mother sweetly dominated her fatherless son into a psychiatric ward in a catatonic state.

II the protagonist goes to see Bill's friend Estaban, who runs Acuña through the strength of his Acuña boys, the fatherless sons of the women he pimps.

His interest appeared genuinely paternal, arranging for her fatherless son, Howard, to attend the Chester Military Academy located near Philadelphia.

And she'd even managed to retain her self-respect, telling herself she was only doing it in order to bring up her fatherless sons.

Move, you flaming fatherless son of a spavined goat!

Tupac Amaru Shakur, the fatherless son of a female Black Panther, was as haunting and complex a figure as Cobain.

But the author actually makes Strange and Quinn think about what they're doing, and makes the connection between male promiscuity and fatherless sons.