earth-mother

The older generation to which I have finally become assigned, was brought up to think of Canada as a land of unlimited natural resources, an unloving but rich earth-mother bulging with endless supplies of nickel and asbestos, or, in her softer parts, with the kind of soil that would allow of huge grain and lumber surpluses.

Canada, not Iran or China, the major threat to a peaceful, stable World? 2009

Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), who in a neat twist finds his immortality reversed, and scrappy earth-mother Gwen (Eve Myles) — are reunited to battle a global conspiracy, recruited by a mortally injured yet undying CIA agent (a tiresomely bullheaded Mekhi Phifer) who pledges to get to the bottom of this mystery if it kills him.

Roush Review: Breaking Bad and Other Weekend Picks 2011

The older generation to which I have finally become assigned, was brought up to think of Canada as a land of unlimited natural resources, an unloving but rich earth-mother bulging with endless supplies of nickel and asbestos, or, in her softer parts, with the kind of soil that would allow of huge grain and lumber surpluses.

2009 December 16 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Even though she has sung false music to me, and kept my feet solid on the ground, and drawn my star-roving eyes ever back to gaze upon her, she, the conserver of life, the earth-mother, has given me my great days and nights and fulness of years.

Chapter 21 2010

All goddesses of the earth-mother complex had some connection to fertility and death — for example, those in the myths surrounding Coatlicue, the great mother-goddess who gave birth to the sun, moon, and stars.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

It's a lifestyle that doesn't lend itself too well to being some sort of earth-mother herbalist.

...um, Hellboy? Witches? Conan? wendigomountain 2008

And look at Patricia Krenwinkle, a.k.a. Katie, a flower-child earth-mother just like Flo-Ann who squatted with us that wonderful summer on Cape Cod.

John Waters: Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship, Part 1 of 5 2009

While Digger men might have found this version of earth-mother femininity alluring from a distance, they would have recoiled from Gaskin's suggestion that "men are supposed to be really chivalrous and ... knightly and help [ 'ladies'] ... to do that."

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

The world in My Latest Grievance revolves around the precocious but strangely likeable Frederica Hatch the only child of Dewing Girls College houseparents and professors David and earth-mother wife Aviva.

My Latest Grievance 2007

Conservatory (1988) is one of a number of tributes to Frida Kahlo, who is placed in an imaginary setting among the decorative background materials, together with Tlazolteotl, an important and complex earth-mother goddess from the Aztec pantheon.

Miriam Schapiro. 2009