How To Use Filial In A Sentence
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The contrast between runaways and filial daughters in family composition and financial conditions indicates a likelihood that the girls' motives for entering prostitution varied according to family conditions.
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Is it because filial daughters are more bound to filial ideology than runaways?
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The emerging generation are more and more impervious to standard school indoctrination, less ready to give up their seats on buses, less respectful and filial.
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‘I don't know whether to speak to Abner,’ the other proceeded unfilially, ‘or the great Penny first.’
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He is both an insider and outsider, in filial and affiliated bonds with his home and his present, and he is connected to the various sectors of Vietnamese society and to the Westerners through a principled ethics.
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An impoverished call forth a filial son.
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The recent riots across Britain, whose origins many believe lie in an absence of either parental guidance or filial respect, seem to underline a profound difference between East and West.
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Reconstructing new filial duty of pluralistic society and emphasizing that it is possible to open up to Christianity.
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Fortunately, at least the Spanish Church has issued a nice communiqué in filial support of our great Benedict XVI.
Cardinal Cañizares on Liturgical Reforms, Summorum Pontificum
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In her search for her missing husband, the woman demonstrated loyalty to her husband; however, since her discovery of the body exposed her father's crime, she also acted unfilially.
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‘You don't really know what's going on, if it's a parental relationship, filial relationship, or if it's something more sinister,’ he says.
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he has filial rights because he obtained letters of legitimation from the king
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For example, it teaches filial respect, marital fidelity, nonviolence, and cooperation.
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Theirs was a complex relationship, alternating between filial indulgence and collegial rivalry.
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Je voudrais, seulement pour un jour, retourner à Rome prier sur la tombe de Jean Paul II pour lui exprimer toute ma reconnaissance filiale pour son pardon", ajoute-t-il.
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In truth few have worshipped at that altar and gone forth into chosen ways unmindful of her history, unimbued with her love, or untrained in stating facts — those readily correlated by one and all — such as it has been the effort here to record, some possibly through filial affection a little tinted but in the main void of any intent at exaggeration or misrepresentation.
The University of Virginia
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He felt that her friendship for him was mixed with a sort of filial respect.
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In the filial generation, haplosis occurs as a result of nuclear dissociation to produce uninucleate spores infectious to larval mosquitoes.
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In a traditional Chinese family filial piety is rigidly observed.
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‘Most of our cinemas centre around filial bonds and we should indeed cherish our family values and sentiments,’ he observes.
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There is a carefulness which is inconsistent with confiding prayer to God, which excludes the spirit of filial supplication.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: I. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Practically Explained.
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A newborn from a so-called precocial species -- one that isn't utterly helpless without its parents -- learns to recognize its parents 'traits in a process known as filial imprinting.
Informed Reader
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It is a scene too brimming with filial trust and desire to be dismissed as cliché, which is why it is played out in myriad households around the world.
G. Roger Denson: Women's Art of Renewal: Carrie Mae Weems, Vanessa Beecroft, Sharon Lockhart, Catherine Opie and Lisa Yuskavage
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The wonderful solidarity of domestic life is an important factor in the Chinese career, for centuries of ancestor-worship, in spite of their arrestive tendency, have strengthened the bonds of family union and filial obedience by insisting on the supreme sanctity of blood-relationship.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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The most ambitious aspired from a filial to a fraternal relation with the image of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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If he is remembered at all, it is as the domestic monster in the unfilial literary classic, Father and Son.
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The son has diligently researched his father's life, and recounts his career with clarity and objectivity, mixed with filial respect.
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Despite her filial devotion, Moore did not leave college expecting to spend her adult life with her mother.
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The last thing to be neglected is to observe the filial piety.
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The pull of journalism was incessant, but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor.
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Then later generations built the Memorial Archway of "Family of Five Generations" to praise the harmony, the loyalty and the filial duty.
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In Korean American communities, the marriage bond has in some ways become stronger than filial piety.
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With never a hint of anything to fill the place of the much-discussed attribute we call filial instinct in the young of human kind, the black-and-gray pup conceived the greatest admiration for his father.
Jan A Dog and a Romance
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And his son Alexis did not appear to be boasting at school of his father's appointment, as in filial duty he ought to have done.
COUP D'ETAT
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As early as Spring and Autumn Warring States period, great ideological and educator Confucius advocated Kindheartedness and filial piety.
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I don't know whether to speak to Abner," the other proceeded unfilially, "or the great Penny first.
The Three Black Pennys A Novel
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It is true that the subjected church does not lose its parochial rights, yet its dependence on the parish priest of another church and its administration by a vicar has led to its being included loosely under the designation filial church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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In addition, nitrogen metabolism increases the molar ratio of amino nitrogen released to filial tissues.
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The Home Secretary took umbrage at the suggestion that his son had told him what to do, as opposed to taking a filial interest in his work.
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In cartoons she often appeared vulnerable to foreign threats, or as the daughter of John Bull, balancing a continuing filial duty to Britain with a growing independence.
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The filial piety is an accomplishment point of departure to promote personal morals.
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filial respect
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That was unfilial conduct, Mencius said, but compared to not getting married at all, and having no offspring, that was not important.
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Either is possible, because the disheartening news about unfilial children still alerts me to the possibility of the son turning his back on his mother.
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`parental' and `filial' are converse terms
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As much as any other mother would, she was concerned greatly for her son, and her son in return, was filial and respectful to her.
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Morton, half speaking to himself; “here is a poor peaceable fellow, whose only motive for joining the conventicle was a sense of filial piety, and he is chained up like a thief or murderer, and likely to die the death of one, but without the privilege of a formal trial, which our laws indulge to the worst malefactor!
Old Mortality
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Allow me to bend the protocol, Your Beatitude, so that now, towards the end of this address, I may turn my grateful and filial thoughts to you.
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She did not mention his transformation, and was disingenuous enough to agree with the King that the Prince had behaved most unfilially in departing without permission.
In Brief Authority
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Finally, many Australians still felt filial ties to the mother country, so that it would, on the one hand, be the proper fulfilment of duty to aid Britain, and on the other, it would be a chance to gain recognition and approval for Australia.
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He beat in me the duties of loyalty and filial piety.
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He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture.
Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis
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He published by subscription a small edition of his father's works in 1747, but selfishly and unfilially omitted several of the best of them.
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This is why filial love and paternal love have been poetized, why the family is styled holy.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The last thing to be neglected is to observe the filial piety.
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The doctor under her hands became a dignified and not unornamental figure-head to the concern, in whom she took a certain filial pride.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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If there was anything filial in anyone's feelings, it didn't show on the surface.
JADE ISLAND
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As this dependence on the mother church may be of various degrees, the term filial church may have naturally more than one signification as to minor details.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Through skits, TV show send-ups, songs, kids' rhymes and humorous choreographed sequences, the play illustrates many of the ways mothers and daughters drive each other nuts, before concluding on a note of filial appreciation.
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Women were, strictly speaking, not allowed to fulfill the highest ideal of filial piety, an ideal that was ironically grounded in the virtue attributed to ideal womanhood - the maternal instinct to care and be cared for.
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XXI 15, sui quali grava un eccesso di memoria e un igienico distacco, comprovante che non c'è niente di piú filiale e amorevole che uccidere il padre; di quei libri perduti e riconquistati, decorati con ogni possibile segno di tenerezza, come il Virgilio Ambrosiano allestito dal padre ser Petracco, «michi subreptus» nel 1326 e «deinde restitutus» nel 1338 apud Avinionem sottoscrizione autografa del foglio di guardia del codice Ambr.
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005)
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In the filial generation, haplosis is by meiosis to produce spores infectious for a copepod intermediate host.
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Meanwhile, ballerina/modern dancer Vivian becomes a potential love interest for Wil, and secrets, guilt, filial ties, and honor all come to a head with one another.
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Once they even forced him to fall back on filial emotion.
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Parents also begged the girls not to reveal the parents' involvement in the indenture to the police, and accused the girls of being unfilial if they did.
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The filial hero varies this a little, when "disembowelling" the Algerine commander, by requesting the
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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People believed that filial piety was the first of all kindnesses.
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She writes, ‘It is easy to see transracial love plots as imaginings… in which romantic love rather than filial servitude or force guarantee the willful submission of the colonized’.
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An impoverished family can call forth a filial son.
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After a time, Chen Shou was recommended as filially pious and incorrupt16 by a powerful admirer, the influential official and literatus
Empresses and Consorts
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In an act of filial generosity, he ordered April to be renamed for his mother.
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A person is not good to the parents, we will criticize him to be unfilial .
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a certain young married lady, when she managed to shirk her rather filial duties to her husband, who was much about the verandas, purblindly feeling his way with a stick, as he walked up and down, or sitting opaque behind the glasses that preserved what was left of his sight, while his wife read to him.
Ragged Lady — Complete
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Her son unfilially doubled, and, Eve having chicane -- a tragedy which her partner evidently seemed to consider could have been avoided by the exercise of ordinary common sense -- Peter and his partner, despite Peter's best efforts, won the game handsomely.
Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
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'But, Sir! but my father!' cried Camilla, hanging over him, and losing in filial tenderness her personal distresses; 'if your manner of living is altered, and my dear mother returns home and sees you relinquishing any of your small, your temperate indulgencies, may it not yet more embitter her sufferings and her displeasure for the unhappy cause?
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Lady Mar gazed with a weird frown on the lovely form of Helen, as she wound her exquisitely turned arms around the earl in filial tenderness.
The Scottish Chiefs
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When followed by l the history of f was like that of c and g: the result for all three was a palatalized l which soon began to be represented by ll (approximate to li in English "filial": flamma, Span. llama, clamare, Span. llamar, etc.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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As early as Spring and Autumn Warring States period, great ideological and educator Confucius advocated Kindheartedness and filial piety.
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He beat in me the duties of loyalty and filial piety.
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This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter, whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861.
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Greece and Rome while thy country was fighting for its life; "and then he added, most unfilially," I notice thou art not staying in Sezchuan, but art here in Shanghai, in the centre of things.
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
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'Yes, Sir,' cried Eugenia, 'your kind task is now completed with your vanquished Eugenia! her thoughts, her occupations, her happiness, shall henceforth all be centred in filial gratitude and contentment.'
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Even Châteaubriand most unfilially classes him and
Among My Books First Series
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Besides, the rule prevents the sacrifice of life to which filial affection might expose a generous youth, who in his conscience may condemn his father's conduct.
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Shucks!" cried Absalom, unfilially; "ye'd aheap better be a-studyin '
His "Day In Court" 1895
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Eleanor could not absent herself neither; she tried that; her father would have her there; and there was Mr. Carlisle, as much at home, and sharing with her in filial offices as a matter of rule, and associating with her as already one of the family.
The Old Helmet
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Faculty who object to the decisions of clerical leaders can seem unfilial.
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Devoted and filial, he was his mother's favourite child.
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In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
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These filial organs are enclosed by a maternal seed coat, derived from one or both ovular integuments.
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Unfilial that, due to reasons of work, I could not go back and accompany him through this last time.
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Most vital of all, as a smotherer of human development, our system takes the Indian child away from home (confessedly, the farther the better), for more convenience of the instructor, and teaches him not only without, but practically against, the filial and human affections.
The Indian of Commerce
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In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
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Our filial relationships, ruled by generational authority and following a pecking order based on seniority, are very Chinese, too.
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If the former, she might have filial reservations; if the latter, why not name him?
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Even girls without a good relationship with their parents forgave them and accepted their indenture as a filial duty.
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The older brother's lack of filial virtue is stressed likewise by his unfilial attitude towards his mother's death, and his killing of the dog, which, of course, is his mother in another guise.
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At least some of them must have experienced a bit of filial affection that they had been longing to get when he said he was to be treated like their son.
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Mencius, a Confucian master even said: ‘There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.’
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Morris Bishop wrote a measured reply to Bruchési, Bonnault, Vigneras, and others, referring to them as “some Canadian historians who have been treating the Father of Canada most unfilially, giving him, in fact the lie.”
Champlain's Dream
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Even the relationship between Fowler, who is from England, and Pyle, hailing from New England, ought to be seen as in some sense a filial one (from England to New England).
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Walpole the father made Walpole the son drink too much, that he might not be unfilially sober while his father was unpaternally drunk.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
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She has, moreover, her intervals of sternness, when she boxes ears; now in case of her father, unfilially, and anon in more righteous conflict with her step-mother's wicked lover.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
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Another tells the story of an old man deserted by his unfilial daughters and which has some similarity to Shakespeare's ‘King Lear’.
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With filial loyalty you listened to those counsels and now you can direct young farmers toward courses of professional and syndical training which will equip them later on to fulfill their noble task with competence and with the assurance that they are equal to their social responsibilities.
Farming Model of Human Effort
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The love triangle between the elder characters was mirrored by that of the younger - a tangled web of secret liaisons intermingled with filial duty.
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Your filial goodness, Sir, affects me: but, with the consciousness that must have accompanied the words, would not that, to so nice a discerner, have been to own, that I thought the tender emotion wanted an apology?
Sir Charles Grandison
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If Lear is played too old and too enfeebled to continue to do his job, then the play becomes a tragedy of old age and filial lack of attention, which is not the full play.
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Indeed, he had previously stipulated with his mother that he was to manage matters his own way; for though he readily allowed his general inferiority of understanding, and filially submitted to the guidance of his mother on most ordinary occasions, yet he said, "For getting a service, or getting forward in the warld, he could somegate gar the wee pickle sense he had gang muckle farther than hers, though she could crack like ony minister o 'them a'.
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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It is most infamous and intolerable oppression!" said Morton, half speaking to himself; "here is a poor peaceable fellow, whose only motive for joining the conventicle was a sense of filial piety, and he is chained up like a thief or murderer, and likely to die the death of one, but without the privilege of a formal trial, which our laws indulge to the worst malefactor!
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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Still, however, he flattered himself that ere long, to her youthful mind and native chearfulness, tranquillity, if not felicity, would imperceptibly return, from such a union for exertion of filial and sisterly duties: that industry would sweeten rest, virtue gild privation, and self-approvance convert every sacrifice into enjoyment.
Camilla
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In a traditional Chinese family filial piety is rigidly observed.
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The filial photo, on the other hand, is an acid nightmare of lime green and putrid pink.
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Shucks!" cried Absalom, unfilially; "ye'd aheap better be a-studyin '
His "Day In Court" 1895
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I remember seeing him in his 60s, a big, six-foot-tall man, his balding hair completely gray, waiting on his 80-year-old mother with filial solicitude.
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Parents also begged the girls not to reveal the parents' involvement in the indenture to the police, and accused the girls of being unfilial if they did.
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But erskine it's hooves not shinto be filial it betrayal! delay or contribute may innkeeper some vintner on divisor! cardinal a zoo may alphameric the beef
One Friday morn as we set sail
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Rakshabandhan Rakshabandhan-a sacred tie of Love & Purity Symbolizing purity in thoughts, words & deeds This lays down certain proprieties -- of moralities To adorn the wrists of soul-soul as brothers Thus upholding the doctrine of universal fraternity Not to forget the filial concern shown by the sisters for brothers; Brothers safeguarding the honour of sisters dear Providing them a defensive Armour clear Professing their undying sincerity and loyalties
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I am told that in China, filial piety is important.
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Both she and her son attracted far less vitriol from ancient historians than their immediate predecessors, though like Elagabalus the new emperor was said to be very much under the thumb of his mother.85 Such filial meekness earned Alexander the appellation in literary sources of Alexander Mameae, “Alexander, Son of Mamaea,” a reversal of the usual convention whereby a Roman man would be recognized by the name of his father.
Caesars’ Wives
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The first theme struck in this new Gospel is that there was tension in the filial relationship.
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Again filial gratitude silenced all but itself, and sleep, the softest she had known for many months, soon gave to oblivion every care in
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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His desire to impart Confucian values of parental love and filial duty overrides the need to make a spectacle of death and destruction.
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Tender and affecting was the parting between the mother and daughter, as Matilda, with tears of filial affection, bade her farewel.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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His father would accuse him of neglecting his filial duties.
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His father would abuse him for callously neglecting his filial duties, but he would live with that.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Finally, many Australians still felt filial ties to the mother country, so that it would, on the one hand, be the proper fulfilment of duty to aid Britain, and on the other, it would be a chance to gain recognition and approval for Australia.
