Crossword-Solution: PATERNALISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paternalism | n. | The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PATERNALISM | anagram | PARLIAMENTS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PATERNALISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Policy of managing affairs in a fatherly but controlling way | 1 answer |
| the attitude that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | 1 answer |
| Despotism | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with PATERNALISM (5)
This new imperialism hid its domination behind paternalism, but it still presented the imperialists as superiors and the colonials as inferiors.
The merchants were looking for new markets to exploit, but the idealist rhetoric talked only in terms of benevolent paternalism.
Roger watched him with the amused and tender condescension one always feels toward a happy dog--perhaps the same mood of tolerant paternalism that Gott is said to have felt in watching his boisterous Hohenzollerns.
The verdict of our voters which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection's sake enjoins upon the people's servants the duty of exposing and destroying the brood of kindred evils which are the unwholesome progeny of paternalism.
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.
Quotes with PATERNALISM (3)
Seeing myself or my church or my denomination as "the blessing" — like so many mission trips to help "those less fortunate than ourselves" — can easily descend into a blend of benevolence and paternalism. We can start to see the "poor" as supporting characters in a big story about how noble, selfless, and helpful we are.
But then it is easy, too easy, to sermonize about the dangers of paternalism and the need to take responsibility for our own lives, from the comfort of our couch in our safe and sanitary home. Aren't we, those who live in the rich world, the constant beneficiaries of a paternalism now so thoroughly embedded into the system that we hardly notice it?
The critical spirit rises up against itself and consumes its form. But instead of coming out of this process greater and purified, it devours itself in a kind of self-cannibalism and takes a morose pleasure in annihilating itself. Hyper-criticism eventuates in self-hatred, leaving behind it only ruins. A new dogma of demolition is born out of the rejection of dogmas. Thus we euro-americans are supposed to have only one obligation: endlessly atoning for what we have inflicted …