Sentence examples for paternalistic about from inspiring English sources

There is something paradoxically paternalistic about Bill's willingness to yield to his father's will.

"The medical field has been paternalistic about these tests," says Peter J. Neumann, the lead author of the study, who is director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center.

The majority of published studies on EOL reflect either a European or an American ethos; that is, either the physician's paternalistic approach about the patient or the patient's autonomy and self-determination about this sensitive process.

The paternalistic comments about rape by a few male Republican candidates resonated so broadly because they reflected the perception of the G.O.P. as a conclave of out-of-touch men.

Much of the resistance comes from Sarkeesian's central argument: that the "damsel in distress" trope, a recurring trend in narrative game design, can help "to normalise extremely toxic, patronising and paternalistic attitudes about women".

Yet together with paternalistic attitudes about the need to protect women from their emotionality and irrationality in the reproductive process, traditional views of women's reproductive roles have shaped law and policy.

They became paternalistic, talking about the court could consider the impact on the mother and keeping her from making a mistake.

Like all women with some public profile, whenever I appear on television, or publish an article, or take to Twitter, I am hounded by idiots making sexist, derogatory or plainly paternalistic comments about my appearance, my qualifications, my opinions or my last name (too easy, boys), book-ended by other churlish nonsense.

Instead, AAIRB officials and committee members relied on their own unsubstantiated fears with respect to mothers' responses to breast milk biomonitoring results, and a paternalistic attitude about how Alaska Natives make health decisions.

From the late 1990s onwards there has also been a gradual move away from a focus on the rather paternalistic question about whether the person with dementia should be told 'the truth' (e.g., Fearnley, McLennan, & Weaks, 1997) or not, as well as an increased acknowledgement that diagnosis is a process rather than a one-off event (e.g., Hellström & Torres, 2013).

Ouologuem's bitterness about white attitudes also appears in some of his poems, and his Lettre à la France nègre (1969) attacks the "noble" sentiments that have been expressed by paternalistic French liberals about Africa.