Word: patriarchally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homer isn't bright, but he loves his brood. The poor patriarch is so dull witted that he probably couldn't count to 16 if he used all his fingers and his toes. But he is a faithful husband, and if he often derides his kids, he will do anything -- go skateboarding off a cliff, defy his boss, buy Lisa a pony -- if the tots scream loud enough and if Marge gives him a lecture...
...Bowdren's patronizing polemic against her personal pet peeve--the "militant feminist" RUS--possesses as much (if not more) partisan preachment, presumptuous pretermission puerile posturing, political paranoia, psychosocial projection, pseudo-pro-gressive prescription and propagandistic pabulum as any pro-nouncement I've ever heard pro-claimed against "patriarch, phallocentricism and other thaings that start with...
Hitler called the democratically elected Weimar government weak, referring to its again patriarch. Paul von Hindenburg, as "the old gentleman." Last week, Zhirinovsky said the Russian government is "in its final agony," suggesting that President Boris Yeltsin is sick and due for retirement...
Jeremy Irons as Esteban, the patriarch of the Trueba family, ages from 20 to 70 over the course of the film. His acting improves in the film's second half, as his character grows from that of an impressionable young man in love to a domineering landowner and father...
...banks of the Amur River in Russia, archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old depictions of tigers carved by the Goldis people, who revered the tiger as an ancestor and as god of the wild regions. In Hindu mythology the goddess Durga rides the tiger. And Chang Tao-ling, a patriarch of the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, also mounts a big cat in his quest to fight evil and seek the essence of life. In the English-speaking world nearly every schoolchild who has ever studied poetry is familiar with William Blake's attempt to frame with words the tiger...