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Whether a melodramatic comment on art and anarchy, or a wild experiment in toxic maternalism, the film feels like a fever that just won’t break.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

It would have been easy to overdo Richard’s grouchiness, Rachel’s volatility or Sadie’s blithe, oversharing sense of entitlement, or to turn Charlie and Cynthia into cartoons of blundering dadness and high-flying helicopter maternalism.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018

Knitting’s seemingly innocuous connections with domesticity, maternalism, hearth, and home have made it a useful tool for women dispossessed of political voice.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2018

The drive for state maternalism is not primarily the work of doctrinaires, Marxist or otherwise; it is a distillation of the bitter experience of Bevan and his comrades.

From Time Magazine Archive

Esmé patted the other's head with an absurd and delightful affectation of maternalism.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge