"He was very filial," Mr. Tang said of his son.
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James Corden tested the filial ties of two mothers and their sons.
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"Be filial to your parents, affectionate to your brothers and sisters," they chant.
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But the biggest reaction has been to the drama's critique of filial piety.
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In Chinese homes, the shift raises questions about family ties and filial responsibilities.
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Rooney, is not merely looking out for his younger brother from filial affection.
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And how does a hugely popular Chinese soap opera challenge notions of filial duty?
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NDiaye's novels frequently feature biracial couples, absent or distant fathers, and strained filial relationships.
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The country's filial traditions reflect this: children are supposed to look after their parents.
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Neither filial tradition nor the hukou system have proved strong enough to prevent this.
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His filial respect goes, instead, to his grandfather, Pop, whose every mannerism he imitates.
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Today he turns 18, an event that brings his filial guilt to the surface.
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Still, their sense of filial duty, deeply imbedded in their upbringing, played a large part.
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In an emerging regime featuring multiple power centers, Kushner stands for the personalized filial agenda.
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It's not a chronicle of filial revenge; it's a grandchild's testament of wonder and devotion.
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Filial sons and daughters who have abandoned emotional fulfillment in order to satisfy our parents.
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But one scene in the first episode perfectly captures the filial dog-eat-dog dynamic.
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En meses recientes, Guaidó logró tomar el control del consejo de Citgo, una filial de PDVSA.
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In return for this act of filial piety, he let me watch "Laugh-In" with him.
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Let's acknowledge the sad truth: Your mother, like many, is probably a glutton for filial punishment.
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Write your love story — happy, sad, funny, romantic, filial, platonic — in no more than 100 words.
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More generally, this attitude—mocking vapid white people, questioning the constraints of filial duty—was eye-opening.
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Filial piety, or respect for parents and older people, is a paramount virtue in the Confucian tradition.
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But lonely Shazdehpoor anchors a wide-ranging narrative, showing the enduring ramifications of filial and political violence.
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In a show of filial piety, Meiling finally gives up her pursuit and wishes her mother happiness.
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Thatcher—political, but also affective—troubled me, because it cast a cold shadow over my filial love.
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She died in 18953, collapsing as she stepped into a phaeton on yet another filial rescue mission.
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In the video, the men smoke, dance, sing — their interaction is part filial, part aggressive, part crypto-romantic.
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He told the children that they owed him "filial piety," but apparently he felt he owed them nothing.
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His relationship with Scottie is just as complicated: it's filial and sterile, but there's always something bubbling underneath it.
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Emphasizing filial piety may be a strategy for preventing defections, which have been rising in recent years, she said.
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For a culture steeped in oya-koko, or filial piety, fewer children has led to a crisis in caregiving.
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Confucius is the thinker most associated with "filial piety," the respectful care of our parents which he called xiào.
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"They Called Us Enemy" includes numerous clips of Takei's social activism, and ends on a note of filial piety.
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Told this story for as long as she could remember, their daughter developed a strong sense of filial obligation.
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ND Paper, filial de la compañía en Estados Unidos, parecía estar haciendo de todo para ganarse a la comunidad.
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ND Paper, filial de la compañía en Estados Unidos, parecía estar haciendo de todo para ganarse a la comunidad.
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As a Chinese woman, and their only child, she ought to revere the tenets of filial piety, her parents pleaded.
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Lamb's need for Murdoch's approval is the filial drama that frames the play, providing a little homoeroticism along the way.
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Cox), who separates infant monkeys (the rest of the cast) from their mothers to define the nature of filial attachment.
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What is okay and encouraged: patriotism, praises to the motherland, positive historical material, filial piety, and stories about helping the poor.
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And the men have a filial connection: acquaintances said that Mr. Bloomberg's daughter Georgina is friends with Mr. Trump's daughter Ivanka.
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Filial piety was critical in Chinese Confucius culture, and it was one manner a Manchu could demonstrate how Chinese he could be.
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Niru's father is constant in a world that's in flux, his belief in the primal importance of filial obligation a North Star.
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" Kim Jong Un, ever the filial son, is working hard to honor his father's proven business model of "maximum pressure and engagement.
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Glimpses into the origins of their friendships, or the nature of their filial piety or their love, are few and far between.
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In it, he portrays the singer as a monstrous disciplinarian for whom beatings and belittlement were the answers to every filial problem.
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I wanted the play to include that: the whole crisscross of parental love, filial love, with affection and guilt on both sides.
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Not all will share the writer's tortured filial relationships, tendency toward Protestant masochism, head full of literary ideas and rock 'n' roll.
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And yet the temples of both men are crowned with floral garlands, a unifying gesture that suggests nuptials more than filial devotion.
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It has good parts, he says: who can object to filial piety, getting along with your siblings or being close to your friends?
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Yet the potential poignancy of this flipping of filial relationships, and its relation to Shakespeare's themes, is entirely undercut by the theatrical shenanigans.
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In tales of love, chivalry, friendship and filial piety, his characters are flawed, with complex emotional histories, making them all the more appealing.
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In Taiwan, filial piety and education are widely recognized as important virtues, but young people face a tougher economic environment than their parents.
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A riveting six-month trial ensued, dominated by clashing accounts of tawdry greed and filial devotion delivered by boldface names and household help.
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The room serves as a kind of legend to the show, a stark shrine of filial devotion that is absorbed elsewhere more conceptually.
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While filial piety is a highly regarded Confucian virtue, it was also the basis for an extreme act of cannibalism-related self-sacrifice.
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Kushner now has an almost filial status with Murdoch, who turns eighty-eight this month, and numerous sources told me that they communicate frequently.
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The mix of filial devotion and resentment that Hamilton feels toward his mentor, George Washington (an excellent Obioma Ugoala), is newly and provocatively combustible.
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As the relationship between man and youth deepens, crossing class lines and age barriers, Cem begins to feel a filial tug toward his boss.
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They stayed for an extra two weeks after I left — a true act of filial love — in order to take my bridal lehenga home.
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"Black Panther's" love affair concerns an entire people, spanning several continents, proudly wearing its Du Boisian "double-consciousness" as a badge of filial courage.
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From the moment when he announced his candidacy at Trump Tower in June 2015, her actions have far exceeded the demands of filial loyalty.
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As with La filial, Stamp Book archives on each page impressions of various stamps, productively blurring the boundaries between text and image, writing and printmaking.
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Many of the movie's main themes — such as bias towards women, and the importance of filial piety — are important themes in Indian and Chinese culture.
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So when he takes stock of the gutting of the social services and education systems that made him, it's with a kind of filial outrage.
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In the opening story, a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop navigates his filial relationship with his Vietnamese father who has come for a visit.
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Let me add that, even if your grandparents think everything you have done is a matter of filial duty, they owe you gratitude for it.
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However, due to a tradition of filial piety, the role of chairman may not pass down to Lee Jae-yong until his father actually passes away.
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"We need to educate the next generation on filial piety, no matter how you show it, as long as it comes from the heart," Yuen added.
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Seierstad draws on chat logs in which the girls and their brother argue, in breezy Internet lingo, about religion and rationalism, filial duty and self-assertion.
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Confucianism, with its focus on social harmony, benevolence, discipline, and filial duty, serves as a more appropriate rubric for contemporary art's shift from politics to ethics.
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Next door, the jewelers of Chaumet were pondering the tension within a bow, a traditional gift in French aristocratic courts symbolizing both filial and romantic affection.
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STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY The Petronio company is in the third year of its "Bloodlines" project, a marvelous act of quasi-filial devotion to multiple choreographic parents.
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Eating the young of one's own species is called filial cannibalism, in case you're wondering, and it is fairly common in the natural world, especially among fish.
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If Zambra's book parodically takes on the formulaic structures of pedantic test-makers, Matías Celedón's La filial (Alquimia Ediciones, 2012) springs forth from a rigorous mechanical limitation.
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NEARLY everyone born in England after 1948 was delivered into the care of the National Health Service, and most retain an almost filial loyalty to the organisation.
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Mr. Omar, a retired electrician, was engaged in an act of filial obligation and something larger, as well: the consecration of a piece of American religious history.
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But the basis for such exquisite, filial privacy (wherein, presumably, RFK would have willingly taken a congressional contempt finding) won't reoccur — the anti-nepotism statute bars it.
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Chinese readers saw the story as an indictment of a society that values filial piety — it is expected that children will support their parents in old age.
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In fact, the fearless modernist still lived with her mother, in a small apartment in Brooklyn, in a relation that had the appearance of deep filial devotion.
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That so many Chinese retirees would leave behind their homes to live in an unfamiliar city is all the more remarkable given China's tradition of filial piety.
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Due to a tradition of filial piety, the role of chairman may not pass down to Lee Jae-yong until his 75-year-old father actually passes away.
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I think in Singapore it's still very much, I wouldn't say conservative exactly, but we're focused on other things like family, filial piety, and stories of the underdog.
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The policy especially emphasizes the Confucian concept of "filial piety," stressing children's responsibility to care for their aging parents, an expedient economic move given China's rapidly aging population.
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Though it is comedic in nature, the show also touches on more serious topics in a lighthearted way such as filial piety and expectations of traditional marriage. 3.
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In what was his first postwar work for the stage, Brecht turned his attention to Sophocles' tragedy about filial duty, civil disobedience and the tyranny of the state.
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In 315 flowery characters, it urged his subjects to cultivate loyalty, filial piety and, above all, a readiness to dedicate their lives to the survival of the imperial house.
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In other words, while Roth might've been bred for patriotism, that sentiment was retained not out of filial duty, but continually earned through his struggles against irony and cynicism.
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Channeling that into the music, he explained, was about trying to engage beyond the immediate concerns of his romantic or filial relationships, the stuff that powered the previous albums.
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The nature and extent of your filial support are going to depend on the outcome of these conversations, which will enable a clearer set of expectations on both sides.
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"The mechanisms are now changing, but there are innovative ways people are exploring, such as video connections and cash transfers, to enable this filial piety to continue," he said.
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The movie has sparked online debates about gender in China as well, he said, particularly around the importance of filial piety, another trait that India and China have in common.
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Phèdre departs with Hippolyte, who hides the truth out of filial respect, leaving Phèdre's confidante, Oenone, to insinuate to the devastated Thésée that Hippolyte did indeed seek to harm Phèdre.
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The film prepares its viewers to expect conflict between Americanized Bili, who thinks the diagnosis should be public knowledge, and her family, who see their subterfuge as a filial duty.
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And at the same time, there isn't quite enough of the filial dynamic between Galen and Jyn, and not enough weight given to the ethical and strategic problems of rebellion.
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Chinese holidays usually emphasize family union and honoring ancestors, said Haiwang Yuan, a professor of library public services at Western Kentucky University, which aligns with the importance of filial piety.
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It's about negotiating that identity as an independent woman and a daughter in a society that still places a lot of reverence on filial piety, family values, modesty, and the like.
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By contrast, Dr. Tesh said, filial infection is important for the La Crosse virus, which causes serious brain disease or death in about 72 Americans each year, most of them children.
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Developed by Confucius in ancient China, the term suggests the interconnectedness of human beings and has at its foundation the idea of filial piety, or duty toward one's family and society.
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There are concerns she returns to: the single woman who wishes not to be, the dutiful daughter overwhelmed by filial obligation, the family that is not unhappy but not quite happy.
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Or the one who, having long been a sympathetic filial ear for your very undisciplined boss, is finally being forced to talk — and realizing that your story does not sound good.
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But longstanding Confucian traditions and values — an emphasis on having a respectable marriage, giving birth to sons, saving face and filial piety — remain deeply embedded in the fabric of Chinese society.
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Meanwhile, Confucianism's emphasis on filial piety formalized ancestor worship as part of everyday life: ancestors who did not receive offerings of food and incense would become hungry and irritated in the netherworld.
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Filial piety, respect for elders, respect for scholarship and respect for traditional authority were ideals that enabled the Chinese Jews to view their heritage as harmonious with the dominant culture in China.
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She didn't consider herself part of the clan, and saw no reason to observe the rituals of filial piety, such as visiting the ancestral home on holidays and kowtowing to my grandmother.
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His mother was horrified by the suggestion: what was the point of receiving money from a rich, filial son if the whole village didn't witness you hobbling up the road to collect it?
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But for most of the play, Mr. Dodin emphasizes the lovers and the filial duty that sways them both — Ferdinand (Danila Kozlovsky) in warped ways, the teenage Luise (Elizaveta Boyarskaya) in pure ones.
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In this journey I wanted to find out how people, especially women, could find true love and intimacy, where sex is safe and fun, and personal happiness comes before family and filial duty.
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Still, buffalo are also sacred animals in Toraja, and incredibly costly investments that are traded back-and-forth to cement filial ties and the web of communal obligations that help keep villages together.
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Unable to bridge the gap in this filial relationship, Winfried departs, only to reemerge on the Bucharest corporate scene as Toni, international man of mystery, "life coach" to Ines' boss and occasional German ambassador.
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People often feel that it is their filial duty to ensure that sick parents receive curative treatment, even when doctors advise that there is no chance of recovery and the treatment will be painful.
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It's the rapport of two people who find common ground while navigating the respective limbos in which they're stuck, contending with filial duty, personal desires, and whether beautiful buildings can actually help someone heal.
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Widely referred in media as the "Dishonored Mother case", the initial sentence evoked widespread sympathy for Yu, whose defense of his mother resonated in a country where filial piety is considered a core value.
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The national embarrassment over the fuerdai has gotten so bad that the government ordered 70 Chinese heirs to attend a reeducation program to reacquaint themselves with the values of modesty, reciprocity, and filial piety.
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And so the city changes — not back to the past but into something made up of ideas from the past — of filial piety, respect for authority, traditional religions, but also privilege for the rich.
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Con un lugar entre los líderes más poderosos de la empresa china y el control de la filial de pagos electrónicos, el ejecutivo seguirá siendo protagonista de la fortuna del gigante chino de internet.
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But the Confucian parallel between the state and the family remains strong in China, and Beijing's emphasis on the protesters' youth betrays its inability to see political resistance as anything other than filial disobedience.
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Liquid Pictures qualifies as a show of new media art, but by skipping the moniker it brings to attention video animation's filial relationship with the more traditional plastic arts of drawing, painting, and sculpture.
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One Confucian text, the Classic of Filial Piety, makes it crystal clear that delivering the "utmost pleasure" unto one's parents is something that you just do, lest you be a rebel against virtue and propriety.
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Mr. Huang's public pose is based on ego, attitude and hip-hop-flavored rebelliousness, but when he makes his annual trip home for Chinese New Year in "Huang's World," he's largely the picture of filial piety.
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I don't think my father had much interest in the Regents' prayer, but I was already accustomed to his inveighings against the Supreme Court, absorbing them in the course of our sunny and secure filial romance.
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The filial conflict flares up again when Bergljot's father announces his intention to split his estate equally among his four children, with the exception of two cherished vacation cabins, which will go to the favored sisters.
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But one entrepreneur uses virtual reality software to reconcile the two, allowing people to honor Confucian traditions of filial obligation in the territory where it can cost up to $130,000 to store the ashes of loved ones.
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So the notion of parents' going out to work in a job past the retirement age, particularly in physically demanding, low-paid jobs like the food-hall cleaners' work, sits uneasily with traditional ideas of filial duty.
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Leadership analysis might give clues MORE's first visit to Russia last week reaffirmed, above and beyond the traditional friendly ties between the two nations, the young Korean leader's filial piety — a hallowed virtue in the Confucian civilization.
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Or because they were Mr Trump's children (one of whom had Mr Lewandowski frogmarched out of Trump Tower, after concluding he was no good) and doubly compromised, by a sense of entitlement and filial deference to Mr Trump.
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After she is murdered, two copies of her will are found—one favoring the son, the other the rental relatives—dramatizing the tension between received pieties about filial love and the economic relations that bind parents and children.
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Thanks to Family Romance, someone like Kazushige Nishida, who loses his family, can rent a wife and a daughter, and, thereby, the comforts of home: varied pancakes, women's voices saying "Welcome," the occasional filial poke in the ribs.
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The case attracted considerable attention because the mother and son had put down in a written contract — signed when he was 20 — what is often left unsaid, particularly in a heavily Confucian-influenced society that emphasizes filial piety.
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Most of the time, she wears an olive singlet and cargo pants; like an Amazon, she is armed with a bow and arrow, for the piercing of pesky men; and, though stirred by filial affection, she requires no romance.
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In flight from the contradictions of my childhood and fueled by a sense of filial obligation, I stowed away on a train to Marseilles and, adding a year to my age, attempted to enlist in the French Foreign Legion.
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BEIJING — A Chinese court commuted on Friday the sentence of a man who had killed a creditor who had harassed his mother, in a closely watched case that has provoked a national debate about family honor and filial piety.
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In China, where producing offspring is seen as an important filial obligation, pressure to get married and give birth can be overwhelming, so much so that people seek this temporary – and pricey – solution to appeasing their parents and other relatives.
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The older Lee has been incapacitated since suffering a heart attack in 2014; due to a tradition of filial piety, the role of chairman may not pass down to Lee Jae-yong until his 75-year-old father actually passes away.
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Mulan's motives are supposed to be tied to filial piety, but the movie's climactic moment—where she is recognized by the emperor and bowed to by the crowd—is too individualistic for a movie based on a traditional Chinese folk tale.
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"I leave my readers to judge me fairly, whether I intentionally plagiarized or as a filial daughter I wanted to stop any attempts at hagiography at the first anniversary of my father's death," she said in an April 9 Facebook post.
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Elizabeth's filial relationship with Claudia is what helps her realize that the mother she's always had is Russia; when Claudia tries to redirect that loyalty exclusively toward the KGB to depose Gorbachev, Elizabeth severs the bond by exposing the plot.
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Fitch has taken the following rating actions on Seguros e Inversiones y Filial and Sisa Vida: --Fitch National scale IFS rating of 'AAA(slv)' maintained on Rating Watch Negative; --Fitch International scale IFS rating of 'BB' maintained on Rating Watch Negative.
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Nai Nai still hasn't seen the movie (and still doesn't know what it's about), while Wang wonders how the whole notion of filial piety, that Confucian tenet of respecting one's elders so treasured by the Chinese, fits into her family's decision.
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After serving as a brand ambassador, muse and design assistant, before a break in which she designed her own children's wear line, Margherita's appointment to head up M Missoni — Missoni's younger offshoot — seems to fulfill a kind of filial destiny.
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Late last month, the Associated Press reported that a group of 216 Catholic thinkers delivered a "filial correction" — essentially, a formal rebuke — accusing the Pope of spreading heresy with "Amoris," the first time such a rebuke has been used since the 14th century.
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As his characters struggle for a larger meaning or purpose for which they can never quite find expression, it's as if Wagner himself can't seem to decide what he wants to do with his own heady themes of parental narcissism and filial sacrifice.
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In nimble prose, Cruz animates the simultaneous reluctance and vivacity that define her main character as she attempts to balance filial duty with personal fulfillment, and contends with leaving one home to build another that is both for herself and for her family.
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Errand paralysis happens to me, but it also impacts the errands I have to do for my mom as part of my filial duty (which I embrace) since she left her family, work, and friends in China to raise me as a divorced single mother.
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The decisions, made public in filings to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, effectively concluded a political, legal and filial drama that mesmerized and embarrassed Virginia, where the McDonnells were accused of a criminal bargain with a dietary supplements executive.
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In many of her eight books, a body of work that includes four memoirs, a book of poetry and an erotic novel, published when she was 85 (and which Mr. Cooper, stretching the limits of filial devotion, read in galleys), she continued that interrogation.
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Yet at the same time, Ms. Lee's hurt, the feeling of a lifetime of emotional and physical abandonment by the woman responsible for her care, resonates with viewers who may share her complicated filial emotions, even if they do not identify with her conduct.
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Fitch has downgraded the following ratings: Seguros e Inversiones S.A. y Filial : --National scale IFS rating to 'AA(slv)' from 'AAA(slv)'; removed from Rating Watch Negative --International scale IFS rating to 'BB-' from 'BB'; removed from Rating Watch Negative --Assigned a Stable Outlook.
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I suspect that there is something specific about the mammalian brain, and the specific mammalian way of forming early attachments (filial and sibling-to-sibling, to start)—of socializing, of caring about each other—that is a prerequisite for the kind of intelligence we see in ourselves.
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She died in Nice during the war; in the memoir, he insists that she had, on her deathbed, arranged to have letters sent regularly to him after her passing, so as not to worry him in battle with thoughts of her health—another beautiful and filial fiction.
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In "Being Frank," an alleged comedy set in 1992, Philip (Logan Miller) is a vaguely grungy rebel who longs to leave his small town to study music at N.Y.U. Philip has flimsy plans to suit his flimsy character — his only meaningful trait is his filial resentment.
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Una huelga de casi seiscientos libreros de lance que retiraron unos cuatro millones de libros en veintisiete países, desatada por la decisión de una filial de Amazon de eliminar tiendas en cinco países sin explicar el motivo de sus acciones, obligó a la compañía a retroceder.
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Días antes, la filial alemana de Personas por el Trato Ético de los Animales (PETA, por su sigla en inglés) había advertido que los hocicos y los paladares de los perros eran "demasiado estrechos por lo que se les dificultaba respirar", aun en temperaturas más frescas.
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Chthonic vocalist and Taipei City legislator Freddy Lim stands as a shining example to Taiwanese parents that yes, it is indeed possible to be a metalhead, a parent, and a proudly traditional, good person—a productive member of society and a filial son, long hair, tattoos and all.
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At the same time, "Zero K" opens inward to draw a portrait of the narrator Jeffrey's emotionally fraught relationship with his chilly and controlling father — reminiscent of Nick Shay's filial relationship in "Underworld," one of the few DeLillo novels to delve beneath the brittle surface of its characters' lives.
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With the help of the Cumaean Sibyl, Aeneas undertakes the frightening journey to visit him among the dead, both out of filial devotion and in order to gain a vision of his own epic posterity: the mythical descendants, culminating in the historical Augustus, who will establish the Roman Empire.
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Still, the filial (and often proprietary) attachment that Orwell's work tends to evoke in his admirers points to something else: the morally urgent yet highly companionable nature of his writing, which can leave one with the feeling of having been directly addressed by a mind worthy of emulation.
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This is especially the case for those with close relatives who need assistance and would otherwise be an enormous burden in one of the 29 states that have "filial responsibility" laws on the books that make it the responsibility of adult children to care for their indigent parents.
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" Indeed, as the Korean Central News Agency reported on Kim's tribute to his late father's embalmed body on Tuesday, the filial son and his followers reaffirmed their "fiery resolution" to do all they can "in the struggle for the final victory of the great task of the Juche Revolution.
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" In her deliberate refusal to valorize Confucian traditions of filial piety, Mizumura, who was educated in the United States but now resides in Tokyo, queries the dark contradictions in a modern Japan, where obligatory caretaking can manifest as ritualized misery, culminating in guilt-ridden, resentment-soaked "meshes of woe.
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Denislav Kasaivanov from Wilmington, N.C., loves looking back at his Mongolian-Slavic family history: For as long as humans have walked the Earth, ancestry has been a major focal point in many cultures; ranging from the filial piety of the Chinese to the 'pure' blood-line of the Habsburgs of Austria.
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They include Gladys's daughter (and Daniel's mother), Ellen (Joan Allen, who wrenchingly combines filial devotion and resentment); her psychoanalyst husband Howard (an impeccably tactless David Cromer); and Don (Michael Cera, doing confident but clueless), a young painter from Massachusetts who stumbles into Gladys's gallery one day and winds up showing — and living — there.
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How well this grand experiment works in fostering the arts and creativity in a country built on more traditional Confucian values like filial piety, hierarchy and social order will depend on the ability of the gallery's young patrons to absorb the more provocative ideas on display and synthesize them with the rest of their education.
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While I appreciated the brothers' honest tales of dealing with anxiety, filial conflict and failing equipment during their collaborations, I was less taken with a chapter in which they reproduce an early draft of one of their unfilmed story ideas, along with Jay's handwritten notes, though readers' interest in this sort of paraphernalia may vary.
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"Lightning Field" (2001) centered on the rivalrous affection between an ambitious restaurateur and her friend/employee; "Eat the Document" (2006) on the bond between fugitive Vietnam-era radicals; "Stone Arabia" (2011) concerned filial friendship, specifically that between a single-mother sister and the brother who relies on her to be the sole audience for his music and visual art.
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From the Chinese children who would "provid[e] parts of their own bodies for the consumption and benefit of their elders" as a demonstration of "filial piety" to the new mothers who grind up their placenta into rejuvenating smoothies today, Schutt's wide-ranging book manages to make cannibalism slightly less unfathomable—though I can't say I finished it wanting to taste human flesh.
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They include the clash of paternal and filial expectations, here embodied by Becker and his son, Booster (Brandon J. Dirden), newly out of prison for a racially motivated murder; and the respective needs of men and women in forging a life together, rendered by a beautifully matched André Holland, as the fiery Vietnam veteran Youngblood, and Carra Patterson, as his pragmatic partner.
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" Edmonds' omission in Fragmented also gestures towards answering the question David Marriott posed in his book, On Black Men: "Is there not a recuperative act of identification taking place with white racial fears, in whose irruptive and violent filial preservation of racial purity, sadistic fantasies of incorporation and acts of castration were repeatedly manifested in the unveiling of the black penis as a threat no longer hidden?
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Cientos de campesinos del estado de Puebla se han enfrentado este año con la filial local de Volkswagen después de que la empresa automotriz empezara a usar cañones antigranizo, un método de control del clima que no tiene respaldo científico, para evitar que se dañaran los autos; los vecinos de la planta creen que esta tecnología es responsable de la falta de lluvia que ha afectado a sus cultivos los últimos meses.
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Some of Mr. Xi's measures build on existing tools of control: The official state news agency issued an update to its style guide in July, banning the use of crude language and online slang in news reporting; internet censors shut down scores of blogs in June for their sensationalist coverage of celebrity gossip; other information channels, including school textbooks and street billboards, promote traditional virtues like honesty, obedience and filial piety, which are hailed as the foundation of a good society.
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