Sentences with phrase «grande dames»

Chambers HNW 2017 described her as «one of the grande dames of the future.

It's well on its way to becoming another Whalers Village fixture — but the «new kid» still has a ways to go before it joins the ranks of the two grande dames of Kā «anapali Beach: Hula Grill and Leilani's.

Have one meal at one of the grande dames like Voyager or Leeuwin Estate, then another meal at one of the boutique wineries such as Amelia Park — that way you see the full range of winemaking operations in the area.

Apparently aware of the controversial nature of the novel, our then children's - book editor consulted with two of the grande dames in the field.

Cover of the Year has to be Entertainment Weekly's courageous feature on the incomparable silver fox grande dames of Hollywood: Mirren, Dench, and Streep.

Thus it was hardly surprising that Inescort would specialize in playing haughty grande dames when she went into acting.

Like elegant grande dames, they rise to the sky with dignity.

Famous as the site of the 1972 break - in that led to President Nixon's fall, the complex is a grande dame of Washington real estate that has counted senators, top administration officials and a Supreme Court justice as residents over the years.

In his book and film series Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, Bishop Robert Barron tells how this unity of «rich and the poor, both the educated and the uneducated, both the housekeeper and the grande dame... kneeling side by side» impressed Dorothy Day when she was considering her conversion.

Formation counts, of course, and those early «sex - blind» perceptions at Yale (preceded by similar ones at Smith College under the tutelage of some grandes dames of the feminist movement of the «20s) have stayed with me to the extent that while my femininity qualifies my theology it does so adjectivally and indirectly.

Julia Child is the grande dame of French cooking in North America, her books are a fantastic resource for well - trained cooks as well as...

The great challenge came from our own grande dame Lillemor Jakobson, a textile designer with over 50 years of experience.

One by one, the most sought - after grandes dames in the rarefied world of couture clients — Schlumberger, Dodie Rosekrans, Béatrice de Rothschild, and more — showed up at Galliano's door.

That being said, I think it is more important for the beige item to have, or contribute, to an overall look that is more on the funky side, than the classic when older, or it very easy to look «grande dame» if dressy, or «given up» on the casual.

This season Grandes Dames, Sturdy Gals and Artsy Cousins alike can find the shirtdress of their dreams.

I forgot to ask how Grandes Dames feel about commerce, but I suspect they've eased up from my grandmother's day.

I did not understand that they were simply aspirational Grandes Dames»

Cotillion was an attempt by a local «grande dame» to nurture refined manners in a group of young teens along with ballroom dancing instruction.

It all hangs on one deal, the one piece of property, Tavern on the Green in Central Park, that no one has been able to persuade its owner, grande dame society matron Mrs. Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury), to sell.

But when Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie's ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet, moves into the home to everyone's surprise, the plans for this year's concert start to unravel.

Dunaway, a sparkling comedian, looks gorgeous, but she's amusingly decked out in an over-the-top Ivana Trump wardrobe that's just perfect for her arch grande dame role.

But director Stephen Frears sketches out her tragic backstory, and Streep in grande dame mode is not to be missed.

Every 10 years or so, Sight & Sound magazine (the «grande dame» of film publications) asks critics, film - makers and other luminaries to help them select the greatest films of all time.

In the first of several contrived plot developments, this grande dame of leafy suburbia moves in with her free - spirited, council - flat - dwelling, lifelong spinster sister Bif.

And that grande dame of the American cinema, Meryl Streep, makes the most of her cameo as a preacher's wife whose kindliness is beyond practiced.

Whereas the first novel dealt with an heiress kidnapped by hoodlums, the sequel focuses on her mentally troubled daughter (played with perverse lusciousness by Charlotte Rampling), who, while on the lam from a psychiatric hospital, is preyed upon by a clutch of grandes dames (Edwige Feuillère, Alida Valli, and Simone Signoret) scheming to get their hands on her inheritance.

Tuppence Middleton plays his wife Mary, far less of a grande dame than Marguerite.

In the end, the film is probably a little too fluffy to trouble the Oscars, but Meryl in grande dame mode could be in with a chance.

City Academy in St. Paul, Minn., isn't just another charter school that happens to be run by teachers — it's the grande dame of all charter schools.

The CT8 was set to be the grande dame of the Cadillac family.

The Ducote sisters are the true grandes dames of Athena society — intelligent, hard - working and intolerant of pretention and snobbery.

Shen's elegant watercolor illustrations round out this salute to a group of distinguished grandes dames.

Someone's killing the newly minted stars of Grandes Dames of New Orleans and reporter Paige Tourneur's on the story.

«What a beautiful grande dame, gorgeous face, love the fluffy coat and the intelligent eyes.

A true grande dame hotel that doesn't exhibit stuffiness and pretension.

This week's Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio Show broadcasts from The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, one of the great grande dame icons.

Beginning with the grand re-opening of the recently restored Alfonso XIII Hotel in Seville, Spain which re-opened on March 13th, The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts will unveil a series of large - scale restoration projects including the multi-million Euro renovation of Hotel Maria Cristina, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Spain and Prince De Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Paris, as well as the $ 55 million Euro restoration of the «grande dame» of Italy, Hotel Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Venice.

Atxen Jiménez, the gorgeous sixtysomething grande dame of Spanish gastronomy, is the magnetic star of this busy, clean - lined dining room on the... Read More

This octogenarian grande dame has never looked more beautiful — although, like many L.A. ladies, she's had some work done.

A grande dame among destination spas, this Provençal - style retreat 40 miles north of San Diego has just emerged from a head - to - toe renovation....

The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa boasts the grande dame of all Sonoma spas.

If money's no object, book yourself on the grande dame of European trains — the Orient Express.

Since its reopening, this grande dame has... Read More

Why They Like It: Guests are chauffeured from the train station in a 1967 Rolls - Royce to this grande dame Alpine resort that lies before the Lake St. Mortiz and the Swiss Alps.

Stay: It's chockablock with adorable Victorian B&B s, but Cape May also has a beautifully renovated grande dame hotel.

When the Elbow Beach Resort originally opened in 1908, it was the grande dame of Bermuda hotels — in fact, it was the island's first coastal resort,... Read More

Victoria House is the grande dame of San Pedro Belize beach resorts.

The grande dame of tourism for Oman, Muscat, which means «safe anchorage» in Arabic, is where tradition and modernity merge.

After years of shuttered decay and a seven - year rebuilding programme, Lausanne's grande dame hotel, the Royal Savoy, has officially re-opened.

Tokyo's grande dame, the Imperial Hotel has a lot in common with New York City's Waldorf = Astoria.