Sentences with phrase «motherless daughter»

Having said that, there is no firm evidence that somewhere in the mess of the Spanish Civil War Bethune did not meet a woman and did not have a child, and the novelist must be allowed some leeway to carry out his craft - even though this particular device seems to cause Bock to come unstuck with some critics who feel that in failing to return to his motherless daughter Bethune is all too human but not sufficiently humane.

Also, because your daughters are close, you can see firsthand how much not only the motherless daughter will miss during these important years in her life, but also how much the mother will have missed.

Like I said, that one statement in that book (Motherless Daughters is the title if you're interested) really hit home.

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May God bless her family, especially her daughter who is now motherless.

The film makes much of the fact that WWII created a nation of fatherless sons, but there were fatherless daughters as well, not to mention motherless ones and a female perspective on the era is sorely missing.

Now, after nearly a decade of work, Bennett has completed a mature and moving masterpiece about the indelible bond between mothers and daughters and what it means for motherless girls to grow into women.

That daughter left motherless — dead before that child hit the third grade, the grade she would soon be teaching again.

In what the publisher has described as «Lethem's first genre - bending detective novel» since Motherless Brooklyn, a Brooklyn woman searches for her best friend's daughter throughout desert communities in California.