Perhaps his unflappable nature stems from an upbringing on New Zealand's west coast. |
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I know it is a strange viewpoint, Mama, but I suspect it is a result of his background and his upbringing. |
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Which brings us to your upbringing in the bombed London which seems to reappear in a lot of your work. |
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He said that the upbringing of children should be a private matter for parents. |
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That way, the child gets to have a normal life with parents who would give him or her a good upbringing. |
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She said that he had experienced a difficult upbringing and had been in care for much of his youth. |
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Tyson has been heavily influenced by his childhood, his upbringing, his mother. |
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Jane had a strict upbringing and she never developed a close relationship with her parents. |
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I was a very happy and healthy baby and had a normal upbringing, in fact, with lots of nurturing. |
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Most of this was due to her parents, her controlled upbringing and her feelings towards the disease. |
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Priestley is reluctant to say what he will bring to it from his own upbringing in Vancouver. |
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He prefers not to dwell on his parents' deaths, but he talks freely about his upbringing in Falkirk. |
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In the end, it all comes down to the importance of family and a good upbringing. |
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Best of all last night was that although Alicia gave a bit of a sob story about her upbringing she didn't focus on it as much as last week. |
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Maybe there is something that is soothing for McCall about returning to the area of his upbringing. |
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The future welfare of the society is closely interwoven with the brightness of the child and its careful upbringing. |
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I'm glad now that I had a strict Jesuit education and upbringing, including all the nagging neuroses about self-control and vanity. |
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Lama's upbringing was a far cry from his current life as an animal rights activist. |
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But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige. |
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But little children who are so filled with anger and fury that they commit cold-blooded murder are not the products of a healthy upbringing. |
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Jeff, who idolizes his mother, insists on emulating the conservative upbringing of his youth. |
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She looks hopeless, but probably had the kind of privileged upbringing where she had professional ice dancing lessons every day. |
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Apparently Colin wants his close family to be involved in the birth and upbringing of his child. |
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Understanding something such as a random act of violence is difficult for Gerald, because of his cloistered upbringing. |
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Her subject was her own upbringing, given voice in complex pieces dealing with domestic claustrophobia and repression. |
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And like his nephew, in upbringing he was clearly taught the value of humility and decency. |
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Her work drew upon her own stifling upbringing and unhappy marriage to a chronically unfaithful husband. |
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Bamberg is the furthest possible remove from the world of Nott's upbringing in Solihull, and then as a choral scholar at Cambridge. |
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Her unusual exorbitance results from an eccentric upbringing that openly accepts and welcomes transience. |
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Most Americans fit into a mold defined by the dominant racial and cultural trends of their upbringing. |
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She felt the girls needed some sort of religious upbringing and Judaism seemed to be the most sensible to her. |
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Balancing out his chauvinistic upbringing is the right half of his brain, his feminine side. |
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My gran and grandad gave me a brilliant upbringing and I felt successful at school even if I failed. |
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Born in Bristol on 29 July 1932, Hodges had a comfortable middle-class upbringing, qualifying as a chartered accountant. |
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He would neither pointlessly defy nor helplessly flee the real monsters of his upbringing. |
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My father is an Arab, my mother a Gujarati Khoja with a memsahib upbringing. |
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Does the hands-on father who cooks for three vegetarians and three carnivores feel his upbringing is paying off? |
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I feel somehow justified in blaming this utter lack of sporting ability on my upbringing. |
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I wonder whether there wasn't a point at which they kicked against their upbringing, as most teenagers do? |
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It's an upbringing she remembers fondly, even though she can't begin to place where her calling towards music came from. |
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Scott called himself an atheist, but he believed in a type of karma, leftover, puritanical guilt from a strict, Protestant upbringing. |
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The profile of the basic kind of person who suffers from kleptomania is that of somebody who has had a chaotic upbringing. |
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Karen becomes responsible for Jacob's upbringing and becomes his godparent. |
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Though they share nothing in upbringing, they have already found that they have a workaday attitude to showbiz in common. |
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We are individually shaped by our fortunes and misfortunes, by our upbringing, by the labyrinthine patterns of our hates and pleasures. |
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He invented an alternative biography about working-class roots, an upbringing in New Mexico and hopping boxcars across the country. |
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The Onion A.V. Club recently spoke to Yoakam about the state of country music, his upbringing, and his lifestyle as a Renaissance man. |
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He experienced a deeply weird upbringing, living with his mother and many stepfathers in a run-down trailer. |
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Her gift for profanity does not a thing to camouflage her upper-class upbringing. |
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It starts to dawn on you that the only reason you profess the religion you do is because of the influence of your parents and your upbringing. |
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Assu draws his inspiration from his friends, family and mixed-cultural upbringing. |
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Yet behind the lace curtains and gentility, his upbringing was anything but ordinary. |
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Women, it can rightly be said, are custodians of the social status that we all enjoy in that they play a major part in our upbringing. |
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Chris uses the rough hewn descriptive quality of stencils to depict scenes from an urban upbringing in Baltimore. |
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Being a conservative talk show host is a logical extension of his upbringing, notes Pendleton. |
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But Marek Kohn's book is written in the belief that the upbringing of scientists and their attainments in science are crucially intertwined. |
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In a surprisingly candid autobiography, he reveals how his upbringing shaped his writing. |
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Two brothers and a sister, big Irish family, you know, a lot of extended relatives and cousins, and now just a wonderful, idyllic upbringing. |
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All details of his upbringing, training and education are to be guided by the preceptor. |
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But that is as much to do with her Yorkshire upbringing as long months spent puncturing parliamentary prattle. |
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It was the final stage of the journey and despite his tough Brooklyn upbringing he was tense and nervous. |
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Her upbringing by her foster family in the Czech Republic had taught her not just Czech, but how to read the Russian language. |
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His was not a pampered upbringing, but he did grow up with a sense of entitlement and self-importance because of his family background. |
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The boys had obviously gotten a pretty strict upbringing both at home and at school. |
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Many times in school, kids had tormented her because of the sheltered upbringing, and she always proudly defended it as necessary. |
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Most people try to put at least some distance between them and their parents, particularly if they've undergone a strict upbringing. |
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Independent and a true free spirit, it was clearly her transient, urban upbringing that gave her this hunger for success. |
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By this time a woman in early middle age, she has created a new life for herself, far from the scenes of her miserable upbringing. |
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It was a strict upbringing in which rules were sacrosanct, orders were obeyed without question and everyone knew their place. |
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He never lets his characters off the hook, no matter how much their characters have been shaped and determined by their upbringing. |
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She was devoted to her family and had a great fondness for the traditions and customs which were part of her upbringing. |
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James Sette's mother may well have had a strict and difficult upbringing, but at least she survived to have a life. |
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She had a nomadic upbringing courtesy of her father, a Mexican writer, and her mother, an American photographer. |
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She's very involved in her children's upbringing and she encourages them to be free spirits. |
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He remembers his African upbringing fondly, at least up until civil disturbances began to intrude on his world. |
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The contributive effects of upbringing to such a reaction cannot be ruled out, so let me also state my own background. |
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I think it's been a bit of a misquote because I've never thought of my upbringing as being oppressive in any way. |
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Of course, this led to some derogatory comments being made about our upbringing and fitness for mixed society. |
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Jackie sometimes claims he had an inferiority complex, a cultural cringe, another legacy of dyslexia and his Scottish upbringing. |
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But in the end, their decision was indubitably made easier by the more cavalier attitudes of their postmodern upbringing. |
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Are you going to believe someone who has dedicated their silver-spoon upbringing and life's work to making as much money as quickly as possible? |
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He broke an unwritten rule for Aberdeen players in being unabashed about his fanaticism for Celtic during his Dumbarton upbringing. |
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Why attack them for being bludgers when they are providing the upbringing of our young people who are the future of this country? |
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Both fell in love with a man who had suffered a lonely upbringing by distant and undemonstrative parents. |
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She said it was the very happiness and stability of her upbringing that spurred her to investigate her personal history. |
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The interview with the maestro is long-winded and unedited, as he rambles on about everything from his directorial technique to his upbringing. |
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Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing. |
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She is no outsider, but a talented draftswoman whose upbringing in a family of steamfitters afforded her familiarity with the milieu of pipes, valves and boilers. |
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My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. |
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Moreover, there is this tiny but significant possibility that all this is driven by nothing else but my desire to run constantly afoul of my middle class upbringing. |
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It was a typical Southern upbringing complete with not one, but two debutante balls. |
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His exposure to the women's lib movement in university combined with his ultra conservative upbringing made enjoying XXX-rated entertainment a personal challenge. |
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Nor was it one they tended to trace back to some residual force of upbringing, like that upwardly mobile impulse so often attributed to immigrant families. |
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At that, the conversation turned to people's home towns, everyone trying to outdo each other on the smallness of scale or the restrictiveness of their upbringing. |
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But the background information about Yao Ming's upbringing is fascinating. |
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At the same time though, I am a white male from a suburban upper-middle-class upbringing. |
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The effect of non-secular, religious and segregated education is very destructive on the society as a whole, and on our children's happy, normal life, and upbringing. |
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Harding attacked her routines with a resilience and tenacity that reflected her training and upbringing. |
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I'm sure part of this is due to standard male upbringing, which requires you to endure injury without visible distress unless you're a big girl's blouse. |
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I grew up in Matthews, North Carolina, and saw it as a very normal upbringing, so I crave normalcy and a slower pace. |
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The roots of his biliousness can be traced to his upbringing as the eldest of four sons to Jim and Eileen, an Irish crane driver and his wife, in north London. |
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Considering your multiethnic upbringing, what are some ways in which you look at this country differently than other players? |
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He's gone from an evangelical upbringing to religious blasphemy. |
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Is it the place of a judge to decide what sort of upbringing the daughter will have? |
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I had the classic upbringing in the yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. |
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No matter how noble your intentions, your upbringing shows true. |
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American universities seem to radicalize more middle-class Arabs than did their upbringing in the Middle East. |
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Perhaps it was her upbringing in the slums of Dundee, where squalor and drunkenness were a sad part of daily life, that made her more able to cope. |
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It was my first encounter with a particular kind of reality, which my religion, my upbringing, and the callowly romantic cast of my mind had declared obscene. |
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One day your mind will be liberated from the horribleness of your masochistic Puritan upbringing and you will revel in proper laziness, like in Europe. |
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Perhaps the most staunchly aligned with her early spiritual upbringing is Harris, who credits her mother's Comanche faith with helping her find a sense of identity. |
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Dunn focuses on the upbringing that formed the young women's characters. |
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Would it be fair to say that your cultured upbringing and classical education provided a window on the world about which he had only read and imagined? |
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Each of us observes the world and the people with whom we come in contact through a lens refracted by our own upbringing, experiences and prejudices. |
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This is not such a stretch, considering Ranaldo's upbringing as a Deadhead who got turned on to alternate tunings through Joni Mitchell and Neil Young records. |
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From the age of eleven you were responsible for his upbringing. |
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She came to execrate the hypocritical values of her upper-class upbringing. |
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Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. |
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As lifelong Detroiters, Seoul and Linder share a similar upbringing in the world of electronic music. |
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A lot of that goes back to their upbringing in boarding schools. |
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It appeared that students did not understand the roles that their own upbringing and biases played in constructing their def inition. |
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Craze shops, cooks and chats in front of a concrete landscape and his food refects the multi-culturalism of his upbringing in West London. |
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For all their collectivist upbringing, in other words, these kibbutzniks followed dreams that were distinctly private and idiosyncratic. |
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Through her upbringing, Mildred's father had carefully programmed her to expect very little from life. |
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But James in describing the slam-bang of her upbringing has given us every reason for her turning out crazy, vengeful or anti-social. |
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A major theme in much of Austen's work is the importance of environment and upbringing in developing young people's character and morality. |
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His upbringing and childhood experiences were typical of the working class environment of that era. |
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This, along with Thomas Bigg's assistance to the family following Charles' death, helps explain the educational upbringing of the children. |
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The only information about Yermak's upbringing comes from a source called the Cherepanov Chronicle. |
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As a result, Londoners speak with a mixture of accents, depending on ethnicity, neighbourhood, class, age, upbringing, and sundry other factors. |
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He had the upbringing of a Gaelic noble on the Stewart lands in Bute, Clydeside, and in Renfrew. |
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Morel is a major turning point in his autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers, a work that draws upon much of the writer's provincial upbringing. |
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The lady in charge of his upbringing was Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy, whose ancestors had residual Lollard connections. |
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He was given an extremely rigorous upbringing, and was deliberately shielded from association with children his own age other than his siblings. |
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Life in the big city was a far cry from his upbringing on a quiet, small farm. |
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She also wrote metaphorically of Jesus in connection with conception, nursing, labour, and upbringing, but saw him as our brother as well. |
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Working as a prison officer has given Roy Oakley a politically uncorrect view on upbringing. |
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McWilliams also questions the idea that nonindustrial farms offer animals a more natural upbringing. |
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My nonchurchgoing flippancy and oddball upbringing were greeted with eye-rolling incredulity. |
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Despite her proper upbringing, we found her manners to be terribly abrasive. |
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Edward became king in 1042, and given his upbringing might have been considered a Norman by those who lived across the English Channel. |
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A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk. |
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Beryl Fletcher, The House at Karamu An autobiographical account of New Zealand feminist author Beryl Fletcher's upbringing in an old kauri villa with a one-roomed school. |
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Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. |
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I do not believe that every judgment about Cameron should be based on where he went to school, or his privileged upbringing, or the fact that he is a chinless wonder. |
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Gary Hart rebelled against his Nazarene upbringing and adpted a high-risk self-image of the kind many Americans like to see in escapist movies, but not in presidents. |
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Tantra has painted geometric colour shapes overlaid with two giant golden palms, creating an ambiguous imagery that reflects her Balinese origin and Western upbringing. |
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A year later, Mary Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. |
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Apart from his disciplined upbringing, a rectory fire which occurred on 9 February 1709, when Wesley was five years old, left an indelible impression. |
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He is guarded with the details of his upbringing because he thinks that he will be able to turn them into cash at some later date with a book deal. |
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The size of the middle class depends on how it is defined, whether by education, wealth, environment of upbringing, social network, manners or values, etc. |
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His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way. |
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The boy's viewpoint believably shows his marginal upbringing by an anarchist father as they run from Sweden, to Denmark, and, finally, into Copenhagen. |
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Edward had a normal upbringing for a member of a royal family. |
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Mackintosh took his inspiration from his Scottish upbringing and blended them with the flourish of Art Nouveau and the simplicity of Japanese forms. |
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This emotional distress eventually led him to question his theological upbringing, causing him to reject election and to accept universal salvation. |
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Much like the nostalgic scent of Sunday dinner, Italian Bred will remind audiences of their own unique upbringing and unforgettably humorous childhood memories. |
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Gwydion often spoke about his difficult upbringing with a family living in near poverty, while he was sent to a number of traumatic boarding schools. |
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In other respects too, Stevenson was moving away from his upbringing. |
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