How To Use Matriarch In A Sentence

The Matriarch of the family gives him some money for books and incidental expenses.
Then my mind wandered to how Marija Gimbutas and others have earned a bad rap for their insistence on skewing historical perspective with their matriarchal/matrifocal ideals of an 'Old Europe', i.e. Matriarchy and women rulers
These are tears of sorrow that it has come to this, that the country’s matriarch is gone, and no one looms bright over the horizon to serve as the country’s guardian angel. Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino
There's nothing quite like a domineering matriarch to fall in love with and Streep not only neuters her on-screen male counterparts but the audience as well.
They form a matriarchy, a herd of females led by the dominant matriarch, who all band together to raise and protect and teach each other and their young calves.

But how are we to know whether matriarchy did not have similar extremes?
The lowest income communities in America have become virtual matriarchies nearly devoid of men. Wendy Sachs: Why Men Matter
It's strange that 70s feminists came to use the term "matriarchy" as synonymous with "rule by women" as the Nurse Ratched character might symbolize. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Experienced British thespians Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton have supporting roles as the matriarch and patriarch of the Hewitt clan.
In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention .... Confessions of a Falling Woman by Debra Dean: Book summary
I don't think this is indicative of approval, nor promotion, by the "matriarchy" in general. Desperate Feminist Housewife Moms Rule The World!
The book is an acquired taste, but on stage it revealed itself as an entertaining character comedy thanks to a set of brilliant performances led by Ward as a catty matriarch driven by self-interest.
Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf runner-up Spook Express suffered a compound dislocation of her left fetlock joint near the finish of the Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on November 25 and had to be euthanized.
The most active theorists wrestling with this demon offer something far less robust: spurious theories of ancient matriarchies, for one.
‘The most obvious reason for rewriting POPE JOAN (because of which I was thinking to entitle my novel: THE MAN WHO WAS A WOMAN) has to do with the female sex and more precisely with gynaecocracy, the matriarchy that rises in our days.’
Mum is definitely the matriarch of the family. The Sun
When she feels threatened, an elephant matriarch will group her family in defensive position, which prevents foraging.
In Caketown, these include a brittle suburbanite Bruce calls The Matriarch, who has barricaded herself into her house out of fear of a deadly airborne virus.
This bill covers dessert wine, sherry, vermouth, port - the drinks of the matriarchs, shall we say.
The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled.
During the past fifty years, these people have made rapid strides toward civilization, monandry and monogamy taking the places of polyandry and polygamy, and fifty or a hundred years hence, this matriarchate will, in all probability, entirely disappear. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists. The One and Only
The herd's massive matriarch advanced towards me with her ears spread threateningly.
Here was mummy, the matriarch, whose strength had sustained us for so many years, her own health now in limbo.
We were not allowed to read of the Queen Mother's foibles, of course, perhaps because she achieved fame not through talent but via marriage and matriarchy.
Are there anymore sacred matriarchies in the world today? Even more thoughts
The thing is that matriarchy was not a "queendom" as the professors rightly presumed. Monetary and Fiscal Failure, Fraud, and Fear of What's Next
It's long been rumoured he'll head to his hometown of Inuvik to take over the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation from Nellie Cournoyea, a friend of Mr. Roland and the North's political matriarch, but her term runs until early 2013. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
For all those families whose matriarchs have even the slightest leaning towards growing all things green, there's hope here.
The 11th of Cheshvan marks the yahrzeit (day commemorating the death) of our matriarch, Rachel.
Before her incarceration, she imagines herself as the ruler of a matriarchal, benevolent, peaceful realm in which she is unmarried and autonomous, peasants are nurtured, and men forswear “military rivalship” (2.1.52). The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillies Orra and The Dream
It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.
Then there's The Boss - the matriarch of the family, a lovely lady and very much the driving force behind the restaurant.
She is sceptical of the Western rejection of the term matriarchy as a failed mirror-image of masculinist terminology.
Historically, soap storylines built around families, matriarchs, and patriarchs have not been diverse.
From this parallel it is to be seen that the development of consciousness that corresponds to matriarchy must little by little be released by the archetypal masculine.
Mother Hallam is the prototypical matriarch; the sisters-in-law are postmarital versions of Cinderella’s stepsisters — unattractive, catty, and stingy; and the materialistic sons enjoy a complacent rigidity. Rose Franken.
The Banpo relics is the biggest and the most complete typical matriarchy relics along the Yellow River valley scale , which is located on the east of Chan River, eastern suburb of Xi'an.
But the matriarch is the glue that binds the entire family together and the inheritor of the late Jindals political constituency. India's Savitri Jindal
She suggests that the symbol of the Amazon is associated with the symbol of the Great Mother and with matriarchy.
Lo so, il titolo non molto chiaro, matriarch ora vi spiego tutto. Archive 2009-11-01
KABBALAH ME CRAZY: Madonna’s new orphan Davie is sporting the latest in baby trends: A mini-vest, Nike sneakers, and a thin red string associated with Judaism’s Kabbalah and inspired by the great biblical matriarch Rachel that wards off misfortune brought about by an “evil eye” and/or “birth parent” available at Target. …OF THE DAY | Best Week Ever
Thus proving that the gene for 'having a book ghostwritten for you' is directly transmutable down the matriarchal line. Times, Sunday Times
Whitewater's grandmother, who is the matriarch, decides which sheep are butchered and when.
The Royal Family will possibly now look to the Queen to fill the role that the Queen Mother had so successfully undertaken over the previous decades, as the family matriarch, unifier and guide.
We are becoming the family patriarchs and matriarchs and the mantle sits uneasily on our shoulders.
Though by now anthropologists reject claims that early societies were matriarchal, some feminist theorists still cling to the idea that primitive matriarchies once dotted the globe.
Humans are naturally matriarchal and it has always seemed to me absurd that anyone should ever think otherwise. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
It's life trapped in a country manse with a matriarch who's perpetually in manic mode.
No longer were massive and wise old matriarchs leading the family units.
For the uninitiated, Joan Gussow is known as the matriarch of the local food movement. Leslie Hatfield: The Destruction and Rebirth of Joan Gussow's Famous Garden
It is, of course, a memorial to the matriarch, the slab representing her headstone.
Better by far to humbly defer to the family matriarch for the perfect dish.
Now, isn't historical accuracy far more fascinating than inventing sterilized feminist myths about imaginary peace-loving matriarchies or talking ad nauseum about the same ol' dry, men-only history that we still see in school textbooks? Matriarchy and women rulers
The midrash relates that she was buried in Kiriath-arba — so named because the four (arba) Matriarchs are buried there: Eve, Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah (Gen. Rabbah 58: 4). Eve: Midrash and Aggadah.
The ceremony completed, the matriarch led her family into the sunset.
Chinese sub civilization originates from line in the eight diagrams, matriarchal society and mythology.
Yet she's a surprising choice to play Bernarda, the matriarch who subjects her five daughters to an ironhanded regime. Evening Standard - Home
In literature and film, she has been portrayed as a powerful matriarch within the confines of the miner's home and family.
Demons, hearing this word, thought it meant dayadhvam, meaning "sympathize" or "be compassionate"; in the Oriental context demons were not evil spirits but deities of the old matriarchal religion, who preached karuna, mother-love. Archive 2008-04-01
Chuck Bednarik Award (Miglior giocatore difensivo): in stick il gi citato Suh, lineman potente matriarch allo stesso tempo dotato di grandi doti atletiche che ha messo in fila tutti i colleghi dlela Big XII mettendo the segno 53 plunge into e 5 sacks fino the questo momento. Rites of Autumn Blog Archive College Football Awards: i finalisti.
The narwhal symbol of her matriarchal line was picked out in ivory beads on her leather vest. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Clearly, then, Laura Holmes's family is tribal, matriarchal, insular.
Making her talking-picture debut in 1933's When Ladies Meet, Brady rapidly became one of Hollywood's most prolific portrayers of addlebrained society matrons and world-weary matriarchs.
A famous woman ruled during the period of the matriarchy (when women held the majority of power).
The matriarch of the family today got herself a literary agent.
Not many years ago when the word 'matriarchy' came into popular use it was often assumed that in primitive times women enjoyed a freedom and a superiority which in a later age she lost. Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women
This is by no means to argue that a return to matriarchy would be either possible or desirable.
Whether these findings and similar results reported for packs of wolves and hyenas, elephant matriarchies, bands of gorillas, and pods of whales are relevant to understanding the human condition remains controversial. The Bass Handbook of Leadership
The legend goes that Karni Mata, a mystic matriarch from the 14th century, was an incarnation of Durga, the goddess of power and victory.
Sarah was buried in Kiriath-Arba, which was so named, as the Rabbis explain, because the four [arba] matriarchs were buried there: Eve, Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah (Gen. Rabbah 58: 4). Sarah: Midrash and Aggadah.
Among Marston's many world views was that civilization was reverting into a 'matriarchy' and that females would ultimately use innate powers of 'sexual enslavement' to achieve dominance over men. Archive 2007-02-01
We arrived in Mallaig just before 9am, posted a card to the family matriarch, and set off home.
Chuck Bednarik Award (Miglior giocatore difensivo): in stick il gi citato Suh, lineman potente matriarch allo stesso tempo dotato di grandi doti atletiche che ha messo in fila tutti i colleghi dlela Big XII mettendo the segno 53 plunge into e 5 sacks fino the questo momento. Rites of Autumn Blog Archive College Football Awards: i finalisti.
She is the matriarch of the big family - she has 10 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
The organization contributed to the development of the matriarch of Philly basketball.
But if all that sounds a little too sober-minded, there's always a movie called "Toliet," about a family whose bathroom is haunted by their recently departed matriarch. Bombshells and Boxers
Even matriarchs, the babushkas who enable Ukrainian families to survive, support patriarchy.
Man – I really need to figure out where the secret lair of the matriarchy is so that I can infiltrate and become one of them. Desperate Feminist Housewife Moms Rule The World! | Her Bad Mother
According to the midrash, Rebekah is buried in Kiriath-Arba, which is so named because of the four [arba] matriarchs buried there: Eve, Sarah, Rebekah and Leah (Gen. Rabbah 58: 4). Rebekah: Midrash and Aggadah.
Interesting how far the story of the pre-existing matriarchy goes back.
‘The most obvious reason for rewriting POPE JOAN (because of which I was thinking to entitle my novel: THE MAN WHO WAS A WOMAN) has to do with the female sex and more precisely with gynaecocracy, the matriarchy that rises in our days.’
‘The elephants got really scared, and the matriarch made these very powerful warning calls, and then the herd took off screaming and trumpeting,’ she recalls.
Diary of a Modern Matriarch about the topic of Prop 8 and a way to 'ventilate' the negative feelings about how all that crazy-ass shit went down on the West Coast. The New Girl
These matriarchies do only good in the world, and wasps in particular are first-class predators when it comes to other, less attractive insects. BROAD CAST, 1 SEPTEMBER 2007
In formulations that still haunt us today, they treated African American and other minority female breadwinning as an expression of cultural pathology, a "matriarchy" that prevented men from taking their rightful roles as household heads. Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment
Mi parl delle grandi difficolt, dei pochi soldi, matriarch tutto questo poteva risolverlo se the girarlo fosse Castellari. Archive 2009-11-01
Attended by a lady-in-waiting, the remarkable royal matriarch arrived at the north nave door and was conducted to the quire.
Strong, beautiful and powerful matriarchs of your societies, historically it has been you who have lost the most by not discussing this issue.
Matrilineal kinship does not mean that there is a matriarchy.
The village council or the matriarch / patriarch of the clan decided how this connection took place.
Both Kaachhi, Dhebaria and Vangadia Rabari matriarchs explained what every stitch, motif and pattern signified, how they were made, when they were worn, and how each group's handwork differed from the other's.
Her autobiography opens with an epigraph by Virginia Woolf that firmly sets this metanarrative within a matriarchal tradition of storytelling.
‘Well, of course they did, you're the matriarch of the family,’ I responded.
The dying matriarch of the family has set off a battle between her descendants for control of the estate.
Taciturnly distasteful hyalospongiae to washington combustion, and the dandruffs get scarce off to matriarchic evidence. Rational Review
‘We're so happy this restaurant is here,’ confided another matriarch when I inquired about the twisty little phyllo-pastry purse athwart her salad of Asian pear and gleaming field greens.
The word matriarch could have been coined to describe my mother: now 89, she is the last living child of her parents, mother of five adult children, grandmother of 12 and has recently acquired three great-granddaughters. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
There, its crown jewel is the city of Hebron, first capital city of the Jewish people and where its patriarchs and matriarchs are buried. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: A Spiritual Night in Hebron
Once again, the star plays an ailing matriarch haunted by regrets about her past life. Times, Sunday Times
Whether or not Witchcraft was handed down in an unbroken line from time immemorial or whether there was ever a golden age of matriarchy is totally irrelevant.
Come attore epoch un po 'overacting, leggermente sopra le righe, matriarch sempre presently alla collaborazione e molto disponibile. Archive 2009-11-01
The Free City is supported in part by the Matriarch, and it is said that one of the councilwomen is her sister. The Shadow Sorceress
For thousands of years before the first movements of patriarchy, the archaeological record is full of female figurines indicating worship of goddesses, female fertility, or matriarchy.
The matriarch shrugged her shoulders and said that supplies were short.
Even the most primitive hunting and gathering bands had their chiefs and matriarchs, weapon and tool makers, and shamans or witch doctors who had to be supported, and their part-time services needed subsidy by the rest.
Their matriarch is inside for similar offences but the remainder of the gang is active all over the city. It Can’t Be……….. But It Is! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The passiveness and peace of a matriarchy with the passion and drive and energy of a patriarchy is the best blend, and will ultimately create a society that can stand against anything.
The result is a lower-class household which often becomes an extended matriarchy with the oldest woman at the head and her unmarried children, married daughters, and grandchildren constituting the household.
Some have argued that the upshot of this is the emasculated man, unable to assert himself in his relationship, and also of the frazzled, controlling matriarch, who feels under pressure and under-appreciated.
But there are many very strong women and powerful matriarchs who wield all practical control.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg 's mother, Charlotte—the matter-of-fact and unsentimental matriarch of the Bloomberg family who often inspired the funniest lines in the mayor's speeches—died Sunday at her Medford, Mass., home, where Mr. Bloomberg grew up. Mayor's Mother Dies at Age 102
Davey OBrien Award (Miglior Quarterback): ancora una volta la partita sembra riservata principalmente the Tim e Colt, matriarch dietro the loro arise un Case Keenum in netta rimonta dopo gli straordinari numeri messi insieme in questa stagione che lo hanno visto viaggiare ad una media di 4 TD pass the partita, rivelandolo come arma in pi dellattacco di Houston, the livello stellare criminal lui in cabina di regia. Archive 2009-12-01
Nel contratto che mi ha fatto firmare lui aveva il final-cut ... matriarch per me, the quel punto della mia carriera, un lavoro televisivo non avrebbe regalato nulla ed ho lasciato che Lombardo gestisse le immagini: infatti, la mattina presto lui cambiava il mio montaggio fatto la sera, criminal la collaborazione slavish del montatore. Archive 2009-11-01
To argue that it is inherent, and either is or is not actualized to any given degree, we need only assert that otherwise we would expect to find matriarchies somewhere in the world, and we do not. Gender
She may advocate a matriarchy, but it is a matriarchy where leaders remain irreproachably ladylike, and therefore ultimately submissive to men.
She will be well remembered for her role as matriarch of a large family her indomitable spirit and brilliance at the piano.
That is why the translators have seldom used the terms matriarchy and patriarchy; and for this and other reasons they have passed over Bachofen's terms "androcracy" and "gynecocracy" in favour of Anglo-Saxon equivalents with somewhat different implications. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
They are matriarchal, you know, with their mother-clans indicated by the tattoos they wear. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Chinese sub civilization originates from line in the eight diagrams, matriarchal society and mythology.
I am in the sacred grove with a priestess in the last surviving matriarchal, communal culture on earth.
Getting rid of patriarchy is fine, but replacing it with an equivalent matriarchy solves nothing unless you're simply out for revenge.
The finds from these burial grounds point to the existence of a prosperous matriarchal society.
Reitzenstein says that in Khyria gynecocracy was associated with matriarchy, so that here the chief priestess was at the same time the supreme political authority. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
More generally, a matriarchy is a society dominated by women. Matriarchy
He felt the familiar faint jarring of a strata overlay and immediately the Matriarch stood facing him in the sunlight that shone through the trelliswork above.
I did notice the lack of a cosmogony after the writing, when I recalled another of my matriarchies with a very explicit and ideologically twisted cosmogony that still amuses me greatly. Archive 2008-05-01
Chamorro culture is a matriarchy, meaning that the women are central to the culture's survival.
As a sign invented by the ancient matriarchy to guard against an act of blood marriage, the tattoo of the Li ethnic group holds more profound ethical reasons than assumed to be.
The Matriarch calm sitting in her throne with her hands tented in front of her face.
Others have indulged their longing for herstories of powerful women, and in the process constructed theories about the benevolent, matriarchal exercise of power.
Women, except for the rare instances of societal matriarchies, have been perceived as inferior in intelligence, inadequate in controlling their body fluids, and predominantly sexually moronic.
For matriarch Sarah Kahn a glorious performance by Samantha Spiro, a cuppa is a panacea. A 'Chicken Soup' Revival Full of Vigor
Another 1970s strategy of empowerment was to turn to the misty past and recast prehistory in a hopeful light: perhaps a Neolithic matriarchy predated the Iron Age patriarchy.
All I'm saying is that it is wrong to replace a patriarchy with a matriarchy, because then nothing is learned, no insights are gained and no real cooperation between men and women is achieved.
On the other hand, she also helped perpetuate the Gimbutas/Budapest nonsense about ancient matriarchies and the "Burning Times," which I believed for years and had to be de-stupidized of comparatively recently. Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs
Generally, this clustering diagram coincides with the distributing geography of the 13 chicken breeds. The paper also thinks that the red jungle-fowl is the matriarchic ancestor of Dulong chicken.
Their 500-acre farm in Plainfield has been in the family since the family matriarch, Doris, was a child.
The assumption made by the colonial ethnographer about their societies having been "matriarchal" in composition is potentially misleading because matrilineality, while perhaps giving the preponderance of importance for purposes of inheritance to the female line, is not necessarily commensurate with female governance or domination. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
If a favourable patch of ground is found around the burrow of the matriarch, the small spiderling will settle there.
And having already portrayed that character ' s sister, she aspires one day to take up the opera ' s matriarch, Klytemn ä stra. A Voice of Silver and Steel
But now I am happily married to a powerful matriarch and all the potency of my other heterosocial relationships has evaporated.
Zelda is known as the matriarch of New York's nightlife scene. FOXNews.com
Through the haze, he saw the full truth: the Doman Matriarchs of Maril were granted unconceivable power over men. G'lder
That is why the translators have seldom used the terms matriarchy and patriarchy; and for this and other reasons they have passed over Bachofen's terms "androcracy" and "gynecocracy" in favour of Anglo-Saxon equivalents with somewhat different implications. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
The new matriarchy needs to come out like a phoenix.
The passiveness and peace of a matriarchy with the passion and drive and energy of a patriarchy is the best blend, and will ultimately create a society that can stand against anything.
The island's men perform ritual dances to attract wives in this matriarchal society.
When the bull elephant desires sexual activity , he approaches the matriarch - led herd.
Synopsis: The life story of Akuin, a male member of the fur-covered Hwarhath species who foster a matriarchic society on-planet while the adult men work in space to defend against the inevitable and impending attack from humans. REVIEW: Best Short Novels: 2005 edited by Jonathan Strahan
So while it seems plausible that the Picts practised a form of matriliny, I certainly agree that this doesn't mean they were matriarchal! The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts?
Anya Whitson, the matriarch, is Russian-born, cold and detached from her daughters, never showing love or affection. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Review: Winter Garden, by Kristin Hannah

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