Back home, wives who at first seem passive and subservient are formidably powerful mothers and homemakers, driving their children to scholastic success through  examination hell.  
Mothers are deceitfully hard on their children.
Their wives are meek and do not discipline the children.
And it was just twenty miles from me.
Two old men are walking arm in arm.
People standing next to their bikes.
It's not something that you can traverse.
A couple is hugging.
The gravy is covering the meat.