Example sentences for: patriarchal

How can you use “patriarchal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Most of his art expresses a clear moral point of view," writes Peter Sutton, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and the world's leading authority on de Hooch, "above all of the values of patriarchal Dutch society and their celebration of domestic virtue."

  • This kind of picture has one of two thrusts: It either sides with the suffocated housewife who, like Ibsen's Nora, strives to break free of a repressive patriarchal hold, or it demonizes a culture that tempts men and women to put their own gratification before their responsibilities as parents.

  • Sun Ra saw himself as a charismatic leader who would deliver his followers through patriarchal discipline.

  • According to the catalog, Simpson's pictures of women staring blankly underscore that they are "unheard in a racist, patriarchal society."

  • Of course, many framers of the Declaration were slave owners and most, if not all of them, were patriarchal heads of households.


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