Just ask your paternalistic (or is it 'maternalistic'?) government for what you want and they'll play Robin Hood in order to get it for you. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Does the full spectrum of "maternalistic" values actually correspond to progressive values any more or less than the full spectrum of "paternalistic" values? ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm utterly sick of the maternalistic attitude that still clings to the video game industry. ❋ Doug Lieblich (2010)
You have a much more paternalistic (maternalistic?) perspective than I do. ❋ Unknown (2010)
You have a much more paternalistic maternalistic? perspective than I do. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thanks to Curly's Corner Shop we can read that: I am just about heartily sick and tired of the “nanny state” that we are living in, the regulation, the overbearing health and safety rules, the maternalistic approach to risk, the fear of the compensation claim etc., etc., etc. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
But for a supposed servant of the people to use such a metaphor to refer to a bill that affects us all in such important ways is outrageously and offensively paternalistic or should I say “maternalistic?” and flies in the face of what the relationship between the citizens and Congress in this country is meant to be. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mark, why do you have this maternalistic sense about Israel? ❋ Unknown (2008)
But schoolmarmish, maternalistic language is equally protected, and so I exercise my own First Amendment rights in offering you a dose of that healthful, if somewhat castor-oil-flavored medicine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But its a matter of empirical analysis, and not snap value judgments such as "paternalistic" or "maternalistic" which add heat but no light to the issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She is very attractive, very charming, and almost maternalistic in her approach. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You know this is not -- the last thing I want to see is the election of a paternalistic or maternalistic candidate to office and a government that has decided that we're a bunch of idiot children who sort of cower in dark corners sucking our thumbs. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the mid-1960's he married again, but this time to a maternalistic and older childhood acquaintance from small-town Lowell, Stella Sampas, who he hoped would help around the house as his mother entered old age. ❋ Stephanie (2007)
"What everyone is really looking for is a mother," says grocery consultant Bill Bishop of Barrington, Ill. "Whole Foods assumes the responsibility of taking care of you in a somewhat maternalistic way -- everything in their store has been edited." ❋ Unknown (2007)
But she was already gone, out the door as fast as she could gracilely manage, the bewildering emotions swirling within her a disturbing muddle of growing friendship, misplaced affection, maternalistic instinct, and duty. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2004)
I'm aware that it's innate in the human infant to produce M sounds followed by soft vowels in response to maternalistic stimuli, so if you find it primally necessary to label me with something of that ilk, then let it be 'maestra. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)
