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The character he seems most like is Sandy Cohen, the statesmanly patriarch of the 00s teen-dramedy The OC, one of television’s greatest-ever dads.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2020

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's great handbook of statesmanly dissimulation, has been studied long and passionately by Benito Mussolini�on his own confession.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was received as the most statesmanly document of his administration.

From Time Magazine Archive

His recent article: The Crisis and the Political Parties, is the only statesmanly declaration in several political generations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The measures he proposes are all of a vigorously repressive kind; they are such measures as belong to a military occupancy, not to a statesmanly administration.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund