Sentence examples for fierce maternal from inspiring English sources

She showed a fierce maternal love for Miranda and lent an ardent clarity to the speeches.

And the line between fierce maternal solicitude and obsessive, homicidal madness blurs in ways that take you by surprise.

When Sam was a baby, his mother, Leslie Gordon, a physician and researcher, summoned her know-how and fierce maternal protectiveness to search for a cure for progeria.

Gill, the author of biographies of Mary Baker Eddy and Agatha Christie, takes the view that Florence's difficult relationship with her family stems from these early years of fierce maternal control, and cites Florence's letters to show how eager she was to impress her mother.

Much later, when she is "skidding" through the memories of her life while waiting to die in hospital in the 80s, she remembers how her variety of fierce maternal anxiety led her to think, watching her tender child tottering into the world, that she should really get "a spare".

Still, Fairley acknowledged that Catelyn's fierce maternal instinct had caused plenty of trouble, ultimately prompting her to make the fateful choice that sealed her own doom at the so-called Red Wedding.

Consider if your character has a maternal, caring personality or a fierce personality.

(Not an accident, probably. We are in a zoo, where the maternal sheltering instinct is regularly on display). "Fierce Kingdom" is a diabolical enactment of a mother's most tortured and catastrophic thoughts.

The Goddess appears in the work most frequently as the fierce and violent Chandi (or Chandika) and as Ambika ("Mother"), a maternal figure.

People started treating her differently: when she was thin, they thought she was fierce and nervous; now that she was fat, they perceived her as placid and maternal, although those were the last things she was.

Sand was a fierce dissenter from her society's conventions of feminine behavior, but Ms. Binoche makes her, with Musset, patient, maternal and sensible.