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Example sentences for: patriarchal

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Of course, many framers of the Declaration were slave owners and most, if not all of them, were patriarchal heads of households.
Walker makes History painting, that musty patriarchal fossil, seem like the most seditious and vital new idea of the 21 st century.
"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."
An ironic one, too, given Paz's record as a critic of Mexico's addiction to patriarchal power.
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.