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The self-discipline, nurturance, and confidence required to build a trusting relationship with their equine partner gave them new physical and emotional strength and enabled them to embody the ideal of white womanhood: middle-class, self-controlled, and maternal.—Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025 At the same time, male protagonists in dragon-riding fiction by authors like Jane Yolen, Christopher Paolini, and Cressida Cowell often reflected traits like nurturance, kindness, and empathy long associated with women.—Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025 For my character, her organizing principle is nurturance.—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024 Van Gogh had unchained it from its age-old funereal associations and reinvented it as a tour de force of emotional connection and nurturance.—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 11 May 2023 Fragrance brings joy and self-nurturance.—April Long, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2020 Hank’s father is a famous literary figure, which makes Hank the junior to a senior who offered nurturance and support to other writers but not to his own son.—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023 The discovery of a covert unity and nurturance among separate trees acquires a special resonance against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic.—Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021 For all society’s talk of love and nurturance, under Keiko’s gaze its core value is revealed to be a cheery willingness to serve others 24 hours a day.—Stephanie Hayes, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2020
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