Sentence examples for maternal role from inspiring English sources

It is part of the maternal role.

Mother's Day is when we celebrate the maternal role.

Augustine is assigned the archetypal maternal role: she's a placid, silent monument.

And she's currently commuting back and forth to Berlin, where she's playing another maternal role in The Book Thief.

In their decade together, she and DeJesus built up a remarkable relationship, with Knight fulfilling a maternal role.

Burstyn followed up The Exorcist with another unconventional maternal role in Martin Scorsese's forward-thinking comedy drama.

The flipside is the quiet approval and social plaudits afforded to women who perform a nurturing, maternal role.

Throughout the movie Cali, who is meant to be precocious but whose part is overwritten, natters along, importuning Tula to play a maternal role.

Hadlow carefully sets Caroline's maternal role in context, with discussions of midwives, breast-feeding, the influence of Rousseau and the terrible loss of children.

Maura and Shelly's tussle over a maternal role was one of many examples of motherhood at the centre of the story.

It appealed to Shahrzad that the woman in question had mischievously exploited the maternal role that society allotted her in order to save young men from a beating.