Sentences with phrase «madwoman in»

I'm grinning like a madwoman in a shopping centre food court, exiled from my home by the cleaners, shivering because I was so busy getting the Sprogs ready for school photo day — «No, Sprog 1, you can't wear the uniform with charcoal stains all over it; I said the FRILLY socks Sprog 2» — that I forgot to bring a jacket with me.)

I've spent the last couple of weeks working like a madwoman in our backyard.

To this end, we engage with the writings of feminist scholars Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose landmark work, The Madwoman in the Attic, critiques the image of the female monster as a creation of the male - dominated Western literary canon.

I thought, too, of the fire that consumes Miss Havisham's musty interior in Great Expectations, and Shiota does appear to identify the artist with the madwoman in the attic.

The Vampire Chronicles novelist Anne Rice also endorses the series, saying, «I remember reading Jane Eyre in the Classics comics and how much I loved the details and seeing the madwoman in the attic in those little panels and seeing the whole novel play out.

Novelist Anne Rice states from a recent PW Comics World piece, «I remember reading Jane Eyre in the Classics comics and how much I loved the details and seeing the madwoman in the attic in those little panels and seeing the whole novel play out.

Setterfield's erudite first work of fiction has all the hallmarks of a classic gothic novel, including the creepy ruined house, long - kept secrets, a madwoman in the attic and a dabbling of ghosts, Set in present - day England it has drawn comparisons to novels by the likes of Daphne du Maurier, Wilkie Collins and Charlotte Bronte.

Dark and Stormy Night is a conglomeration of decades of «old dark house» clichés into a single film, where the greedy relatives of an eccentric millionaire (joined by two hardboiled reporters, a couple of odd servants, a madwoman in the attic and a frustrated cabbie who just wants his 37 cents) gather for the reading of the will.

-- Sandra Tsing Loh, author of The Madwoman in the Volvo «[This is] a love story — between Jillian and her rock star husband and also between a couple and their new son.

Not exact matches

I've been making fruit - nut raw snacks like a madwoman for months now, but how have I never thought to throw in my Sunwarrior?

I'm presently surfing that site like a madwoman,»cause if St. Kitts is where we end up in January, I want to know all about it!

I used stevia in this drink, since I've been burning through sugar like a madwoman the past couple weeks, but feel free to use whatever sweetener you like.

When the day calls for you to run around like a madwoman or the temperature outside starts flirting with the heat wave record, a sweater can be suffocating even in the most arctic of A / C tundras (that's right, even bird - boned, lizard people overheat sometimes).

This is the kind of movie where a madwoman's outburst leads her to throw a mug that just happens to be filled with gold sparkles — which can then be photographed cascading down on all the adorable loonies, in slow - motion.

One character whose previous appearances in the films have been tantalizingly brief, Helena Bonham Carter's sexy - Goth - madwoman Bellatrix Lestrange, gets a moment worth remarking in this chapter.

His current partner, Helena Bonham Carter, plays the Red Queen here, and she's the best thing in the movie — a petulant, imperious madwoman.

In about 1995, a friend of mine bought a 993 - series Carrera 4 for his wife, who drove it like a madwoman throughout the winter.

You've had a chance to read about The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell and Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye in our April issue — but wait, there's more!

Seen as an outcast and a madwoman, she is sent to the country, where she falls in love with Sab, a freed slave, and continues to write about equality for slaves and for women.

There is an expansive body of scholarly work that interrogates cultural representations of evil or morally ambiguous lawyers, but our line of inquiry in this article will trace the metaphor of the female madwoman or monster as it circulates within representations of women lawyers in popular film.

Although Gilbert and Gubar concentrate their analysis on representations of madwomen and monster - women found in classical literature (much of which pre-dates the emergence of popular film), we submit that literature is a foundational antecedent to popular culture writ large, and thus provides fertile ground for exploring the origins of female madwomen and monsters and how they function as a narrative strategy in popular films about women lawyers.

The cliché of the «evil lawyer» has such traction in the popular imagination that, in some ways, popular culture seems to be haunted by «madwomen and monsters.»

The terms «monster» and «madwoman» are semantically similar in that they both constitute the language of misogyny designed to denigrate women who rebel against the «strictures of patriarchal society.»