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father image

NOUN
father figure
Synonyms


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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

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

The father image has been supplanted by the skilled technician whose head is far more important than his heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marx isn't very highly regarded as a thinker," Chiaramonte says, "but as a father image he is very much present.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he went out and voted for the man who promised him most, or who looked most like what his limited dreams felt to be a father image or son image or hero image.

From Badge of Infamy by Del Rey, Lester




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