Sentence examples for dutiful child from inspiring English sources

Like Princess Marya in "War and Peace," who does daily battle with her father, the old Prince Bolkonsky, she is the dutiful child who must submit to the demands of an aging tyrant.

In the divided Slavenas family, from what I could gather, Brian, the last born, played the role often associated with the first child — the dutiful child who tries to please his parents and keep the peace, the child who doesn't smoke or drink, the child who never gets into trouble.

She'd come looking for me, dutiful child, motherless child, and found me not up and about and bustling around the kitchen, preparing to fuss over her and see her off to school, the way I used to, but pinned here in this chair, like an exhibit in a museum, blind to anything but the past, my past and nobody else's, not hers or her mother's, or the country's or the world's, just mine.

The core tenets of Confucianism emphasize the individual obligations towards family: being a loving parent, taking good care of offspring, being a dutiful child, and supporting siblings.

A beloved grandmother in a retirement home finds herself suddenly alienated from her dutiful children and 13 grandchildren.

The digital carrier pigeon brought questions from married people this week, and from dutiful children and copy editors in search of a reunion meal.

I had been a dutiful, religious child, but there and then I realized that the haven of true meaning, where life was rounded beyond the need for any further explanation, had been opened up, and I experienced a peace that has never quite left me, clinging to me in shreds.

He was an only child, dutiful, who loved soccer but was a poor athlete, he says, hungry for books, an avid stamp collector.

She was a very dutiful, loving only child who walked into her appointment with me hysterically crying because she did not have the money to buy her parents an iPad for Christmas.

For you, the mom who dutifully marches your child back down the hall to his own bed, time and again, because you are only able to sleep well with very clear physical boundaries in place, and your sleep allows you to be the best mother you can be, I rate you Fantastic.

But then the social pressures faced by many Indian women — to marry, to be a dutiful wife, to bear children and carry on the family line — hit her with special force, given her sexual orientation, and forced her hand.