| Many men still think about fatherhood in terms of the paterfamilias, or traditional father. |
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| The sweet sounds of the banjo are replaced by the elderly paterfamilias, who starts to play a mouth organ. |
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| On being asked how they did it, the paterfamilias commented that it was the inevitable result of coming from two covenanted peoples. |
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| It was bad advice that would have put everyone through the grinder in the name of protecting my rights as paterfamilias. |
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| That he is a Mormon, a professor, and a paterfamilias adds spice to his mischief. |
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| Beneath these specific demands, however, and colouring all of them, was a passionate desire to destroy the authority of the paterfamilias. |
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| In the old civic code, the wife was nothing but an accessory to the work of the citizen and paterfamilias. |
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| Like women and slaves, children were the property of the paterfamilias and could be sold or abandoned, as girls often were. |
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| At the heart of the Roman family was the paterfamilias, the father of the family. |
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| He's a garrulous paterfamilias who has somehow picked up the incongruous metropolitan affectation of a cigarette holder. |
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| There is a law of persons, or the family, which reflects Roman family life, with the paterfamilias, the wife and children, and the slaves. |
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| The paterfamilias or head of the family had the right, in theory at least, to execute summarily any member, including in primis his slaves. |
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| The current movie is about a family named Baker, of which the paterfamilias is a small-time college football coach, and the mother is a homemaker. |
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| I know that this is changing, particularly among the better-off and better-educated, but many a Bulgarian father, it seems, is still rather like the paterfamilias of old. |
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| Siva, the paterfamilias, is not present, but his picture, often along with that of other deities, is portrayed in the decorative designs above the image. |
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| In fact I think it's kind of cute, in a Victorian paterfamilias kinda way. |
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| The old image of Dickens, fostered by his surviving family, as a benign paterfamilias and as a man piously wedded to Victorian domestic virtues was thus tarnished. |
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| Laurier found himself in the role of the wise and dignified paterfamilias intervening to put down flare-ups in a quarrelsome family. |
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| Is there a paterfamilias who has suffered more than I have so that this garment of sanctifying grace will be able to regain anew its purity? |
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| The genius of the paterfamilias was honored in familial worship as a household god and was thought to perpetuate a family through many generations. |
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| Late in the film, we discover that the paterfamilias has a gay brother. |
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| Finally, nostalgic for his happy Chicago childhood, he turned his drama department into a surrogate family with himself as benevolently beaming paterfamilias. |
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| It is, on the business side of its paterfamilias, a criminal family. |
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| Motilal, the Nehru paterfamilias, had his suits made in Savile Row. |
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| My little one, when a paterfamilias buys new clothes for his child, he makes him say thank you and strongly advises him to take good care of them, because it is the fruit of many sacrifices. |
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