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There’s also a concern about acting as if your son were a source of shame, a secret to be hidden from the paterfamilias.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
In a sense this is a classic family drama: the struggle over the paterfamilias’s legacy, complete with allegations of late-in-life changes to the will.
—Benjamin Soskis, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
Schumer’s actions as paterfamilias of Senate Democrats are often informed by his New York sensibilities.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
Andy Garcia plays the paterfamilias in this 2022 remake of the 1991 remake of the 1950 comedy.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 June 2022
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
In a sense this is a classic family drama: the struggle over the paterfamilias’s legacy, complete with allegations of late-in-life changes to the will.
—Benjamin Soskis, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2022
Schumer’s actions as paterfamilias of Senate Democrats are often informed by his New York sensibilities.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2022
Andy Garcia plays the paterfamilias in this 2022 remake of the 1991 remake of the 1950 comedy.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 June 2022
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“Paterfamilias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paterfamilias. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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