Francine has difficulty bringing herself to make a romantic commitment to Katchoo, partly due to her Methodist upbringing and partly because of her childhood dream to become a wife and mother.

Altman had a Catholic upbringing, but he did not continue to practice as a Catholic as an adult, although he has been referred to as " a sort of Catholic " and a Catholic director.

" While she may have held such views, it has been argued that they were normal for British people of her generation and upbringing, who had experienced two vicious wars with Germany.

Ebert has been known to comment on films using his own Roman Catholic upbringing as a point of reference, and has been critical of films he believes are grossly ignorant of or insulting to Catholicism, such as Stigmata and Priest, though he has given favorable reviews of controversial films with themes or references to Jesus and Catholicism, including The Passion of the Christ, The Last Temptation of Christ, and to Kevin Smith's religious satire Dogma.

It has been said that her upbringing was quite liberal.

Helen has not had sex since her husband's death, and, due to her Catholic upbringing, which she has been unable and, to a lesser degree, also unwilling to cast off completely, she tries to thrust aside any thoughts concerning an illicit affair or a one-night stand with Messenger, who is married with four children.

In the 2000s, Webb has talked more openly about his return to the Christian faith of his upbringing and the role it has played in his music.

Among James's masterpieces are Daisy Miller ( 1879 ); in which the eponymous protagonist, the young and innocent American Daisy Miller, finds her values in conflict with European sophistication ; and The Portrait of a Lady ( 1881 ), in which a young American woman finds that her upbringing has ill prepared her against two scheming American expatriates during her travels in Europe.

She attended kindergarten through 8th grade at St Mary's Elementary School in Belleville, and has referenced her Catholic upbringing in her performances.

Because of her upbringing, Lisa always has access to the latest fashions and knows when something is in and when it is not.

Although Eudocia's work has been mostly ignored by modern scholars, her poetry and literary work are great examples of how her Christian faith and Greek upbringing were intertwined, exemplifying a legacy that the Byzantine Empire left behind on the Christian world.

Gervais has stated that his upbringing and childhood were stable and trauma-free, with a high level of honesty and openness between his family members.

" He also notes that spirituality " has been an important issue in my growth ", given his upbringing by parents of different faiths.

He has stated: " I have always been proud of my origin, which had a big influence on my upbringing.

This cultural environment has often been suggested to have informed his sense of national identity ; later in his life, when political detractors suggested that he was of Kurdish extraction, Gökalp responded that while he was certain of patrilineal Turkish racial heritage, this was insignificant: " I learned through my sociological studies that nationality is based solely on upbringing.

Avery Brooks, directing this episode, has emphasised the story as a metaphor for African-American adolescents in the 20th century and their struggles with addiction and violence, their integration into American society, and the manner in which their upbringing might contribute to these problems.

Once a father has established paternity and, if he wishes to be part of the child's upbringing, he can effectively establish his parental rights with his child by filing a parenting plan.

The civil behavior among separated parents has a direct effect on how child copes with their situation ; this is especially seen in younger children who do not yet understand their familial separation, requiring both parents to establish a limited friendship to support the upbringing of their child.

Agnes is a beautiful but tormented soul whose abusive upbringing has affected her ability to think rationally.

Tanya Grotter has an unusual birthmark on her nose, magical powers, an upbringing by " Lopukhoid " ( equivalent to Muggle ) relatives after her parents were killed by an evil sorceress Chuma-del-Tort ( the official translation of Voldemort name in Russian was ' Volan-de-Mort '), and goes to study at the Tibidokhs ( Тибидохс ) School for Behaviorally-Challenged Young Witches and Wizards.

Hewitt has sparked many controversies, notably her selection of a female job-applicant over a stronger male candidate, and her theory that fathers may not be a useful influence in the upbringing of children.

However, this may be the result of her aforementioned upbringing in which imagination and creativity were not encouraged to any degree, making it more of an environmentally instilled trait than an inherited one.

The stark contrasts of the depression-era South, against his New York City upbringing, instilled in him a passion for expressing the struggles of inequality, which is apparent in the films he directed.

Jonathan Kent himself, during his near death experience, explained to Clark's soul how being a Kryptonian he could never die, or at least, die only after much more grievous injuries than a " simple " beating: he merely accepted his death because his human upbringing instilled in him a strong sense of human mortality, and conformed to it accepting his fate.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

Gaynor's grandmother always lived nearby and was involved in her upbringing.

The religious elements in her fiction also owe much to her upbringing, with the experiences of Maggie Tulliver from The Mill on the Floss sharing many similarities with the young Mary Anne Evans's own development.

Maria Eleonore showed little affection for her daughter and was not allowed any influence in Christina's upbringing.

During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.

Sophia was absent for almost a year, 1664 – 5, during a long holiday with Ernest Augustus in Italy, but she corresponded regularly with her sons ' governess and took a great interest in her sons ' upbringing, even more so on her return.

The album was reworked and expanded under the guidance of Doug Morris and the musical talents of Steve Caton, Eric Rosse, Will MacGregor, Carlo Nuccio, and Dan Nebenzal, resulting in Little Earthquakes, an album recounting her religious upbringing, sexual awakening, struggle to establish her identity, and sexual assault.

In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that " nurture ," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits ( such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits ) in the general population of the United States.

Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.

Their mother was absent for almost a year ( 1664 – 5 ) during a long convalescent holiday in Italy, but she corresponded regularly with her sons ' governess and took a great interest in her sons ' upbringing, even more so on her return.

His mother, Catherine of Valois, was then 20 years old and, as Charles VI's daughter, was viewed with considerable suspicion by English nobles and prevented from having a full role in her son's upbringing.

Although Margaret was aggressively partisan and had a volatile temperament, she shared her husband's love of learning by dint of her cultured upbringing and gave her patronage to the founding of Queens ' College at Cambridge University.

Stevens is quite incapable of believing his master to be wrong in this, as Lord Darlington's upbringing and heritage carry a certain type of dignity that is ascended above and beyond Stevens ' own.

Although he did not share Milton's religious and political views, and seems, to judge from the free character of his Mysteries of Love and Eloquence ( 1658 ), to have undergone a certain revulsion from his Puritan upbringing, he remained on affectionate terms with his uncle to the end.

Despite his harsh upbringing and violent attitude, Riddick has been shown to have a certain knack for deduction, rapidly deducing what had happened to the original inhabitants of the mining base where he and the other crash survivors had been staying, as well as finding the creature's blind spot in Pitch Black and swiftly deducing what had caused the firefight between the wardens and Toombs ' men in Chronicles.

She didn't attend a school until she was 11 and this unorthodox upbringing enabled her to view " the normal world with a certain amount of distance and surprise ".

This geographical separation from the entertainment industry in the United States, then focused primarily in Hollywood and New York City, along with the British upbringing of original editor Reay, resulted in a certain irreverence, a deprecatory and humorous tone that permeated the magazine throughout its existence.

As a result of this practice, minorities assert themselves as the exception to the rule ; women may join in with misogynistic behaviors, and a person from a particular ethnic background and cultural upbringing may mask certain aspects of their character to intentionally conform to the majority.

His upbringing gave him a positive outlook towards the world, but in later years he learned to feel a certain recoil distrust of contemptus mundi, " contempt for the world ", a feeling which encompasses much of his mature literary work.