Mothering Sunday

noun

British.

1. Laetare Sunday.

Mothering Sunday

/ ˈmʌðərɪŋ /

noun

1. See Mother's Day

Example Sentences

In a statement, released through Cambridgeshire Police, his mother said she did not know why she had not heard from her son on Mothering Sunday.

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On Sunday, a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, surrounded by her children and reportedly taken by her husband Prince William, was posted, along with a note signed “C,” in honor of the U.K.’s Mothering Sunday.

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True to modernism’s great subjects — sex and death — “Mothering Sunday” centers on the costs of their repression, as well as their annihilating, liberating properties.

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“Mothering Sunday” neatly embodies all the promises and pitfalls of literary adaptation.

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Husson films “Mothering Sunday” in extreme close-ups and quick, epigrammatic shots, jumping back and forth in time to Jane and Josh’s meeting “before the boys were killed,” and forward to the 1950s and beyond.

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