Word: filial
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...parents have known it all along. Jimmy's mother used to be a terrible backseat driver until, in a fit of filial exasperation, he took her around a corner flat-out just to show that everything was under control. She has since learned to relax and wave happily at friends as he tools along at 90 m.p.h. or so-though she still refuses to watch him compete...
...bare facts that Jesus went to Jerusalem at the end of his ministry, supped with his disciples sometime toward Passover, stood trial before Pilate and was crucified. Bultmann's disciples also reject, as a creation of the post-Easter church, any saying of Jesus that refers to his filial relation to God. The disciples unanimously regard the Trinitarian formulations of the early church as later, metaphysical interpretations of Christ's relationship to God, and not as anything claimed by Jesus himself...
When James received his appointment to the Gifford Lectureship at Edinburgh University, he viewed it, firstly, as an opportunity for an act of filial devotion. Immediately after his father's death in 1882 he had written his wife: "you must not leave me till I understand a little more of the value and meaning of religion, in Father's sense, in the mental life and destiny of man. It is not the one thing needful, as he said. But it is needful with the rest. My friends leave it altogether out. I as his son (if for no other reason...
Lowered Flags. There was a more material reason for the electrician to abstain from filial murder: Arab unity has been loudly trumpeted by Egypt, Syria and Iraq, but it has hardly been consummated. On the surface, everything seemed to be proceeding according to plan. Syria and Iraq lowered their national flags and raised instead the official three-star banner of Gamal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. Ministers raced from capital to capital discussing plans for merging foreign services, school systems, airlines and textbooks. Military delegations brooded over the vital amalgamation of the three armed forces. Jurists were hard...
...last short story and the one that bears the title of the book is by far the best in the collection. All of Tillie Olsen's work (as of now, four published short stories) involves to some extent fading ideals and filial misunderstanding; "Tell Me a Riddle" provides supreme poetic expression of this theme...