father image
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Or is he a "father image," a stand-in for a rough guy's notion of God?
From Time Magazine Archive
Jones emphasized that the king is the father image and that its most savage attacker is the queen of the opposite color.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each is expected to be a father image to a five-man group of salesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
At week's end Israeli voters were still recovering from the shock of the election; some were having second thoughts about ousting from power a party that was almost a father image to the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sublimated hatred of the father image is brotherly love.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
