motherly

But scoff I must: On an album slick with flop sweat, poor little Daisy comes across not as a beneficiary of Perry’s motherly encouragement but as a victim of her creative desperation.

It also showed how her motherly instincts have guided her decisions all along, and will continue.

Our conversations are devoid of motherly energy; instead they range from our romantic lives to clothes to books and contemporary art.

Then she smiled a very sweet, motherly smile.

“Bring forth men-children only,” he tells her, kneeling before her and placing the side of his head on her womb, almost as if he might wish to return to such motherly safety.