Sentence examples for maternalism from inspiring English sources

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maternalism

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The treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.

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"I don't like maternalism or paternalism in a corporate setting as the name 'Mother Merrill' " — the nickname employees use — "implies.

It was at the Mary Elizabeth tearoom that we discovered new maternalism creeping into drink.

The dissonance between this grossly sexual behavior and Smurf's jolly maternalism creates a kind of camouflage, both on Smurf's part and Ms. Weaver's.

She suggests that, given the overbearing associations of "paternalism", the more caring term "maternalism" should be adopted to describe the way governments promote vaccination.

Ten years later, sitting in a solicitor's office, my maternalism did indeed seem primitive to me, almost barbaric.

"As that descent took its course the illusions and the dreams of 1945 would fade one by one – the imperial and Commonwealth role, the world power role, British industrial genius, and, at last, New Jerusalem itself, a dream turned to a dank reality of a segregated, subliterate, unskilled, unhealthy and institutionalised proletariat hanging on the nipple of state maternalism".

The New Yorker, August 10 , 1935P. 7 It was at the Mary Elizabeth tearoom that we discovered new maternalism creeping into drink.

By Katherine Sproehnle and E. B. White The New Yorker, August 10 , 1935P. 7 It was at the Mary Elizabeth tearoom that we discovered new maternalism creeping into drink.

As a woman, those she treats expect her to possess a comforting maternalism lacking in her male counterparts.

That beleaguered mother in "The Others" is tormented by phantoms and she is also, herself, a ghost, with a streak of Medea-like monstrosity underneath her fierce maternalism.

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