daughterly

It was nothing like the daughterly peck she usually gave her mother.

She had let him, although she knew it wasn't the daughterly thing to do.

Laura hugs John in a daughterly manner, which affects him.

I ought to be able to expect the same daughterly things of Lizzie that my mother enjoys from me.

She concluded with conventional remarks of a daughterly sort.

Her tone was a model of daughterly concern.

The cause of Amy's want of daughterly devotion is easy to trace.

The President-elect laughed with delight at this daughterly concern.

She, however, began driving as soon as Cora neglected her daughterly duties.

"Thank you," she said, floating his way and brushing his cheek with a daughterly kiss.

Not a sweet, daughterly desire, but he was not the sweetest of fathers.

Ironically, it was daughterly devotion that led Miss Moore to homelessness.

I stuffed myself into pantyhose and a suit and was ready to do my daughterly duty.

She eyed Mark with alarmingly keen interest, but drawn by whatever daughterly duty, swung back inside.

It's named for Ms. Sacco's mother, a daughterly tribute of sorts.

But in public, the anger and frustration get tucked away, behind avowals of ferocious daughterly devotion.

She gave him a daughterly hug.

Without forfeiting either compassion or daughterly affection, we feminist attorneys can adopt different standards from those of our mothers.

' She tries to show daughterly affection to her surly father but is bullied and repulsed by him.

But the political commentary interspersed with the stories, like medicine in the jam, raises my daughterly hackles (never mind that I too am a mother).

Joanna provides a context for the daughterly outrage in a splendidly nourished portrait of Manhattan privilege.

During her mother's attack on her father, she tried to restrain her mother as far as daughterly respect permitted.

But in this case, she said, it was Ms. Woodward whom many perceived as a victimized child, as a daughterly figure.

Mamma knew this, and the kiss Belle gave her when the dress came had a more tender meaning than gratified vanity or daughterly love.

I get on well and meanwhile privately fascinate Sir J. by being daughterly and devoted.