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father image

NOUN
father figure
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Marx isn't very highly regarded as a thinker," Chiaramonte says, "but as a father image he is very much present.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many habitual debtors prefer to extricate themselves with the aid of one of the credit society's important specialists, the financial counselor, who is part psychologist, part father image and part accountant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or is he a "father image," a stand-in for a rough guy's notion of God?

From Time Magazine Archive

For several reasons the father image is peculiarly suited to represent what has to be resolved.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe


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