Sentence examples for maternal characters from inspiring English sources

And in the play's second act, we realize that the subtext of her performance might indeed be, "When is it gonna be my turn?" It's worth noting that Mr. Silver shows more sympathy – or empathy – for Rita than he has for maternal characters in the past in plays like "Pterodactyls" and "Fat Men in Skirts".

In the greenhouse environment, we also examine the relationship between germination phenology and the maternal characters.

Model 1 was adjusted for maternal characters including maternal age, prepregnancy BMI, weight gain during pregnancy, family history of diabetes, education, and family income.

Ruffalo's easygoing persona matches the character perfectly, especially when he's playing against Annette Bening's more structured maternal character.

He has emphasised the maternal character of the church, and he says he wants a church in which the shepherds smell of the sheep.

But natural childbirth advocates often paint an idealized picture of how birth is supposed to proceed (see also Crossley 2007), and treat 'success' at natural childbirth as a mark of maternal character (see also Kukla 2008).

But her now deadly (yet still maternal) character started out as a timid child bending to the whims of her overbearing brother before growing into a military maven.

Naomi says she once "auditioned for a role called 'Cynthia/Negro woman'"; Aba is "often cast as the more mature, wise kind of maternal character"; and directors have instructed Jenny to be "more sassy" or "put more swagga' into it".

From serving as Barbra Streisand's understudy in "Funny Girl" on Broadway to starring in both the 1982 film "My Favorite Year" and its 1992 musical stage adaptation and numerous other roles, Kazan has carved out a niche as a brassy, often maternal, character actress and singer.

In contrast to these taxa in which offspring (egg) size is purely a maternal character, in mammals, the determination of the offspring size is more complicated.

Wolf [ 8] gave a simple explanation of this in the case of mammals for growth performances: "…if offspring differ in how efficiently they process milk, and this difference has a genetic basis, then the contribution of the maternal character (performance on milk production) would not be additive", or in other words, growth = milk production*feed conversion efficiency.