Word: filially
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...Book. Since then, taking with her everywhere the filial shadow, she has done over 200 TV shows, a Broadway play (Late Love with Arlene Francis in 1953) and three movies (she was Dean-o Martin's fiancee in Who's Been Sleeping...
...next election, they soon reappeared on the public payroll, the father as a $20,000 a year commissioner, and the son, with the sense of humor that is peculiar to Massachusetts, as chairman of the civil service commission. Apart from the unusual warmth and trust of the parental-filial relationship, neither of these gentlemen has any particular qualifications for office, any office; certainly no more than the judge who was once a lawyer who knew the Governor or the commissioner who is a defeated legislator. The Governor can be given the power to suspend all indicted state officials...
...same violent mood serves him well later when he emits a shriek of triumph after the play scene, when he offers more-than-filial embraces to his mother, and when he mimics the affected posturing of Rosencrantz in the recorder scene...
Spacious Way. John's filial pleasure in being provided with a new, ready-made family was unaffected, as was his delight in the spectacle of his father-in-law and stepmother-in-law having dramatic lovers' quarrels in their 70s. The new family was huge. There were nine children in all, and the sense of size was enhanced by their spacious way of life. They lived in a huge baronial mansion on New Haven's best street, had an estate in the New Hampshire hills consisting of a great central house and several flanking cottages to take...
...searches for means of escape, but can find none. Religion? A cardinal can only repeat banalities that have no relevance to Guido's plight. Filial loyality? His father is dead and he remembers how his selfish mother castigated him in his youth. A white-clad girl (Claudia Cardinele) tells him that she wants to bring order and cleanliness into his life; he finds her complete innocence no better than escapism. Finally he turns to thoughts of suicide (prompted by a diabolical character who springs up at his side several times during the film.) After he rejects self-destruction, he accepts...