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Example sentences for: bonding

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When hospital staffers for some reason handed hours-old Kimberly Mays to a mother who was not hers, the mother's kin-recognition mechanisms--a k a bonding processes--kicked in.
Critics call this tear-jerker manipulative and trite, deriding its mandatory sing-along-to-Motown-hits female bonding scene, stiff-upper-lipping by Sarandon, etc.
Meanwhile, Kimberly's genetic mother, having missed years of bonding, can never love Kimberly quite like her own child, even though Kimberly is her own child.
Writer-director Joel Schumacher's ( Batman Forever ) tale of a gruff, homophobic ex-cop (Robert De Niro) who ends up bonding with his drag queen neighbor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) exasperates the critics.
Their love of their child, and their child's love of them, depends not on genetic math but on a long and complex chain of bonding, much of which they have already voluntarily missed out on.