The phrase "maternal embrace" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to describe a hug from a mother to her child or another close maternal figure. For example, "The young girl basked in the warmth of her mother's maternal embrace."
Its maternal embrace had an almost narcotic allure.
And yet, underneath her energy and drive, there is something poignant about Calle, something lost, as if she remains a daughter eternally in search of a maternal embrace.
Kore-eda is certainly at ease amid child actors, and there is no forgetting the look on Keita's face, glimpsed over Yukari's shoulder, as she gathers him in for a true maternal embrace.
"Me, Myself & I" focusses on a pair of identical twins and on the role of the maternal embrace — or the frustrating lack of it — in shaping a sturdy personality.
But in the movie's own terms, all of it — the monsters, the storm, the maternal embrace and the possibility of triumph in the face of adversity — is equally real.
Facing her is a multiracial quartet of fierce, naked boys 8 or 9 years old, each standing on a chest-high pedestal and holding up his right hand in a traditional power gesture as if to challenge and separate from the woman's maternal embrace.
As long as the fan is kept on, a young mother might manage to increasingly love her baby, the maternal halo embracing them both.
The concept of bio-demographic variables in literature embraces maternal fertility behavior (biological factor), number of children ever born (CEB), and sex of the head of the household (Nattey 2008; Nure Alam et al. 2011).
However, challenges remain and further improvements are required with a more holistic approach, embracing maternal and child health (MCH), nutrition and wellbeing.
Appropriate policy initiatives embracing maternal and health professional education, provision of functional phototherapy units and bilirubin monitoring devices are evidently warranted to prevent or significantly reduce the unrecognised contributions of jaundice to neonatal mortality in Nigeria as well as the related morbidity and disability among the survivors.
Her knack for steering her own publicity means that the actress is now seen, not as a satanic vixen, but as a maternal icon, with an embrace wide enough to encompass all the unlucky children in the world.
