Sentence examples for maternal feeling from inspiring English sources

I imagine that she was the Spanish lady on whose thread of maternal feeling Borukhova's fate briefly hung.

"The maternal feeling", Synge writes, "is so powerful on these islands that it gives a life of torment to the women".

There seemed to be no maternal feeling of revulsion or expression of condemnation for the reprehensible deed itself, which caused horrific deaths and grievous injuries to innocent Israelis.

Johanna's maternal feeling — all of it — was held in reserve for the yet-to-be conceived son she hoped would secure her claim to his father's princedom.

Ms. Good, for her part, is less convincing when the script (by Mr. Hall and Darin Scott) calls for deep maternal feeling than when it requires theatrical displays of seductiveness or brass.

At night the neon signs light up the sky – the egg-laying Irma hen is best – and since we rescued the big old trees on the corners, I have developed an almost maternal feeling for that spot.

Regarding Mercedes' maternal feelings for Bobby, she stated, "Mercedes feels that when she's getting closer to Riley, she can bond a bit more with Bobby as well.

Nonhuman species feel physical pain, loneliness and anxiety; they have consciousness, memory, maternal feelings and social hierarchies.

So it was easy to have maternal feelings".

It being Plath, maternal feelings are not quite what you expect.

Later she will have difficulty developing maternal feelings for the infant.