father image
Example Sentences
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If Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many habitual debtors prefer to extricate themselves with the aid of one of the credit society's important specialists, the financial counselor, who is part psychologist, part father image and part accountant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jones emphasized that the king is the father image and that its most savage attacker is the queen of the opposite color.
From Time Magazine Archive
At week's end Israeli voters were still recovering from the shock of the election; some were having second thoughts about ousting from power a party that was almost a father image to the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
He develops according to the Oedipus hypothesis the desire to get away from the father or the father image.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
