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Not only are the grandfilial relations clichés of the oldest kind, the violence inflicted on both elderly black women is played as comedy of a certain very traditional southern racist sort, and as if out of an utterly different genre than the gritty urban naturalism often invoked to justify the lavishly indulged depictions of black folks inflicting and suffering violence.
‘Baltimore as World and Representation’ « Gerry Canavan 2010
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I hope it is no breach of grandfilial piety on my part to point out that the dinosaur in the Sinclair Refining Company's logo appears to be a brontosaurus, not a stegosaurus.
An OPA Lawyer Has His Doubts, Part 2 Dan Ernst 2008
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"She's accustomed at home, you see," continues her grandfilial relation, "to dine at one o'clock or thereabouts, and tea at six."
Happy-Thought Hall 1876
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