father image
Example Sentences
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They speculated that perhaps Jackie needs a "father image."
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
Or is he a "father image," a stand-in for a rough guy's notion of God?
From Time Magazine Archive
At 65, Chairman-Mao Tse-tung is at once China's emperor, pope and father image.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of one thing she was unhappily certain: there was nothing of the beloved father image in Will Kennicott.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
