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Rossum, who plays Fiona, the sexy yet mother-like eldest sister to a large, working class-at-best family, told Vegas Magazine that her love scenes with co-star Justin Chatwin are one of the best parts of the show.
Emmy Rossum Talks Sex Scenes And 'Shameless' Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Father-like, he tends and spares us; well our feeble frame he knows; were expunged and replaced with the atrocious mother-like God gently bears us (that is the gist of it – I am going by memory).
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These may include people like Dawn Goehring (whose dog is named Miss Ellie), or the stage mother-like Dane Andrew (an actor whose dog, Rascal, has won several trophies as the world's ugliest dog).
George Heymont: The Irrationality of Love and Art George Heymont 2011
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These may include people like Dawn Goehring (whose dog is named Miss Ellie), or the stage mother-like Dane Andrew (an actor whose dog, Rascal, has won several trophies as the world's ugliest dog).
George Heymont: The Irrationality of Love and Art George Heymont 2011
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Mother As Goddess/Meeting with Goddess: The ultimate trial is often represented as a marriage between the hero and a queenlike, or mother-like figure.
Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama Christopher Cocca 2011
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Rossum, who plays Fiona, the sexy yet mother-like eldest sister to a large, working class-at-best family, told Vegas Magazine that her love scenes with co-star Justin Chatwin are one of the best parts of the show.
Emmy Rossum Talks Sex Scenes And 'Shameless' Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Mother As Goddess/Meeting with Goddess: The ultimate trial is often represented as a marriage between the hero and a queenlike, or mother-like figure.
Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama Christopher Cocca 2011
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Naomi, six years older than Mimi and eight years older than I, had been assigned a mother-like role in relation to us.
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It embarrasses me and I feel inadequate as a comforting mother-like figure.
The Crying Game Ms Robinson 2008
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Despite the liberal-feminist dogma, Americans want to see a loving First Lady who supports her husband, but also is a mother-like figure to the public.
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
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