Written "in the spirit of motherliness and with love", O'Connor had pleaded with Cyrus to reconsider her career's projection in the run-up to her Bangerz album launch, suggesting that the people around her are monetising her "prostitution".
Sinead O'Connor may have meant it "in the spirit of motherliness and love"; Cyrus didn't quite see it that way.
"I don't meet their expectations of optimal motherliness," she jokes.
Anne Reid invests Mrs Elliot with a smothering motherliness, and Geoffrey Hutchings is quietly hilarious as her truculent husband.
Written "in the spirit of motherliness and with love", the 46-year-old singer pleads with Cyrus to reconsider her career's projection in the run-up to her Bangerz album launch, suggesting that the people around her are monetising her "prostitution".
Is it a maternal instinct – she has four children, with four different fathers, the youngest seven and the oldest 27, and in her letter to Miley she wrote that her intentions were out of "motherliness" – that causes her to look out for younger stars?
Dear Miley, I wasn't going to write this letter, but today i've been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your Wrecking Ball video was designed to be similar to the one for Nothing Compares … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love.
But motherliness does indeed come to mind in the case of Ms. Del Ponte -- the motherliness that is the instinct to protect and nurture, the fierce motherliness of a lioness whose cubs are in jeopardy.
And they were so chilly with their son that he finds Iris's motherliness irresistible.
That motherliness need not manifest itself only in the raising of one's children; as Ms. Del Ponte's career shows, it is the quality that can make women great leaders in international justice.
Re "On War Criminals' Trail, an Unflagging Hunter" (The Saturday Profile, Feb. 9), about Carla Del Ponte, the United Nations war crimes prosecutor: You say "motherliness does not immediately come to mind in the case of Switzerland's most prominent woman".
