"father" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Seth's father explains that he has regretted every day that he has been a harsh father to him.
- He was, as Eyman puts it (without following up on the thought), "at ease" with only one kind of relationship, "the harsh but loving father and an eager-to-learn son-supplicant."
- Lord Bristol was alleged to have been a harsh father to his oldest son, according to friends of the latter.
- Another woman, herself the child of a harsh and punitive father, recalls the day she threw a curtain rod at her toddler because he'd spilled potato chips over a just-vacuumed rug.
- Equally revealing is a rare autobiography by an impoverished Norfolk farm labourer's son, who had turned professional poacher and been disowned by his harsh father.
- She gives him a harsh, uncomprehending father who wants only a manly man for a son.
- The classic American man may have fled west after escaping from a harsh father, but this is something else.
- (His mother was distant, his father harsh, his wife neurotic.)
- Many of these visions are about Emily's sad childhood under the care of her harsh father and distant mother.
- Michael, he wrote, was a "small sensitive child - the runt of the litter with a harsh and occasionally violent alcoholic father who both ignored and abused him."
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