Word: filially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...course, Chelsea's other redeeming qualities are heralded throughout the Newsweek article as well: her academic abilities, her filial devotion. But she had those qualities three years ago. It's just that no one noticed them then. Is the media so shallow that it judges by appearance first...
...thriller sometimes creaks in its joints as it adds an amoral aide (Judy Davis), a canny cop (Ed Harris) and a Secret Service agent (Scott Glenn) as weary as the one Clint played in In the Line of Fire. But Eastwood is less interested in political corruption than in filial care; the warming, nicely played relationship of the burglar and his lawyer daughter (Laura Linney) is the source of the film's absolute power. It's a sweet pleasure to see a fatherly smile crack open that Rushmore face...
...very common that women have no rights in the villages. You're not supposed to speak out because it's against filial piety and tradition. That's the way it's been since the Qing dynasty...
...details to mask their desire to dip freely into their family's $14 million estate -- shrunken by spending binges, attorneys' fees and other costs to $800,000 -- without the interference of their controlling parents? Or were the comfortable years the brothers spent in Princeton, N.J., an elaborate lie, a filial cover-up for the sodomizing and death threats by their parents? And if the jurors believe the tales of abuse, would they then allow the victims of such abuse to plead self-defense and escape the full penalty of the law for using violence on their violators...
Like most other younger U.S.-born Asians, Thongthiraj feels at home in American civilization. Even so, she is not willing to forsake her special heritage. "There is something in the Asian family that promotes success," she acknowledges. "Parents feel you have to get established. They push a filial sense of duty and a message to fulfill parental expectations. What I do reflects on my family...