| She shines as the materfamilias who has passed her navel-gazing tendencies to her daughters. |
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| On visiting the Ancestral Perch last weekend, the pending ethics upgrade of our electricity was discussed with the materfamilias. |
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| But she is materfamilias to the dozens of other chefs who are rapidly turning vegetables into, as it were, the cash cow of the cookbook trade. |
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| It focuses on the relationship between materfamilias Diane and her daughter Love, two strong-willed, articulate women, whose bond is strong but fraught with conflict. |
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| In Mr. Konchalovsky's film Jill Clayburgh plays a Manhattan journalist who treks into the deep Louisiana bayou to interview relatives, among them a flinty materfamilias played by Barbara Hershey. |
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| It tells them that the famous materfamilias of American experimental theatre is really a timid, fragile sort of person, and of course they want to please her. |
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| Camille served as materfamilias to the group of troubled boys — there were no more than 4 to 6 fighters in residence at any one time — teaching them manners and how to do laundry. |
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| The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion. |
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