Word: filially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...five stories reveal a highly developed sense of time, place and filial bonds. An apparent mismatch between an English-speaking woman and a French- speaking man in Montreal suggests the dissociations of Quebec life. The Business Venture is set in Mississippi and strikes a similar note through the unlikely partnership of a white woman and a black man in a dry-cleaning service...
...root, Hockney is popular because his work offers a window through which one's eye moves without strain or fuss into a wholly consistent world. That world has its cast of recurrent characters -- friends, lovers and family. Hockney's portraits of his parents, in particular, are full of unabashed filial devotion, and through repeated drawings and paintings he has given the portly form of his friend and promoter Henry Geldzahler an abiding recognizability: one knows that stomach like the knob of Mont Ste.-Victoire. And then, inseparable from Hockney's skill and lack of pretension, there is his candor about...
...gravest sins of the imperial brats are committed against China's tradition of filial piety. When little Minmin's parents asked their only son to empty the family chamber pot, he poured out only a third of the contents. "I've done my part," Minmin said. "You're responsible for the rest." Some single children have even threatened to commit suicide if parents do not meet their demands. However, most do not have to resort to such extremes. Pampering is built into what is called the "four-two-one syndrome" -- four grandparents and two parents, all doting on an only...
...basic insight, plainly influenced by the revisionist scholarship of Bruno Bettelheim, is that at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents and children. Almost everything that goes wrong -- which is to say, almost everything that can -- arises from a failure of parental or filial duty, despite the best intentions...
When Pierre Samuel du Pont IV told his father that he wanted to go to law school, Pierre Samuel du Pont III was baffled. Du Ponts, after all, did not become lawyers, they hired them. Twelve years later, after du Pont had finished law school and fulfilled his filial obligation by working in the family business -- the country's largest chemical company -- he went back to his father. He was restless: one of his more memorable company tasks was assessing whether du Pont should manufacture peanut butter and jelly in an aerosol can. He wanted to try his hand...