paterfamilias

Example Sentences

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He has spent four-and-a-half seasons desperate for the paterfamilias’ attention while also hating his guts.

From New York Times

Jake is all about family — “This family is our fortress,” he intones — and he’s a stern paterfamilias with a passel of kids.

From Seattle Times

The “Latvian Lindbergh” of the 1930s, Cukurs was a charismatic aviator and paterfamilias who fled to Brazil after the war.

From Washington Post

The Smith family went silent afterward, leaving it to the paterfamilias' PR team to do damage control via press release.

From Salon

The story of an early kidnapping gone awry that led to a woman's death opens our eyes to the family's vulnerability before their paterfamilias built the fortress around them; they are human, after all.

From Salon