Sentences with phrase «matron who»

In addition to those already mentioned, there's Davenia McFadden as the lascivious, heavyset Nadine, Mary Steenburgen as the matron who employs Tyrone's wife, played with intelligent restraint by Lisa Gay Hamilton, and best of all, Charles S. Dutton as Tyrone's good - time best friend, Maceo.

But look past some of its occasionally self - serious filmmaking and you'll see a quiet salute to equality, with Streep terrific as Katherine Graham, the pampered matron who became a scrappy feminist.

I fell in love with Maia Chance's lovely heroines, Lola (a widowed society matron who has fallen on difficult financial times after her husband's death 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After (Really!)

Pieter Dirk Uys, a cabaret satirist who often does his stand - up routines in drag, plays an upper - class «English» matron who between bon - bons confesses her enormous hatred of apartheid - and of blacks, too, of course.

Rival buyers from meat companies in Massachusetts bid against each other for the frightened cows, mooing instead of lowing — old matrons who might have been leading a barn full of milkers out to pasture every day and back but had outlived their peak productivity and now were being disposed of.

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Finally, the spectacle, often referred to, of Roman hostesses who «walk about like honourable matrons or ride on mules and following them even in high noonday, come the most prominent of cardinals and priests».

I was the matron of honor for the wedding in Rome and saw the couple off to Naples Most of the group including the brides father who was an area manager in my husbands plant sat down to a dinner in the inn we were staying.

The main event is set to witness the presence of the first lady of Kwara state, Deaconess Omolewa Ahmed who has been honoured as the Grand Matron of the day.

Guess who gets to be his Matron of Honor?

For comic relief in the film, Schindler show flirtatious interest in the prettier candidates who hunt and peck, but glumly sits back with utter disinterest when the fastest typist (a dour, cigarette - smoking, plump matron) is being tested.

She's the matron saint for cool moms everywhere, not to mention new divorcees who, after tolerating wan missionary sex with their milquetoast mates, full - throatedly take in the excitement of no - strings - attached sex with much younger, stupider men.

Enter not - so - kindly Uncle Vanya (Matthais Schoenaerts), a high - ranking Russian intelligence officer who offers to shepherd her through what amounts to a «spy school» run by the nameless Matron (Charlotte Rampling).

And Rampling's banal Matron is a figure of evil professionalism, a competent, qualified, licensed sadist who views brainwashing her students as a routine obligation more than a turn - on.

Ricci is set to play Bly, with Light playing head nurse Matron Grady who tortures Bly to the brink of sanity.

Synecdoche, New York: Like The Burning Plain, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut showcases a screenwriter who, freed from the influence of collaborators, indulges all his thematic quirks like a dieting matron lunging at a box of bonbons.

Emily Mortimer plays a young widow in 1959 Suffolk who shocks the townsfolk by opening a bookshop, Bill Nighy is her crusty neighbor, Patricia Clarkson a local society matron.

Polanski unceremoniously drops us into a beauty salon where a pampered matron takes to task our heroine, a manicurist who...

One of these matrons, Madame D., is played by Tilda Swinton, sporting impeccable old - age make - up to bring her up to an octogenarian state, who promptly kicks the bucket and leaves a large fortune and an even larger number of heirs (and estate staff) looking for what is theirs.

Besides young Tom (Isaac Hempstead - Wright), Florence deals daily with the school matron, Maud Hill (Imelda Staunton), the war - wounded Robert Mallory (Dominic West), sadistic teacher Malcolm (Shaun Dooley), and Judd (Joseph Mawle), an unpleasant groundskeeper who is shunned for having avoided service in the war.

Also on the cast list: William H. Macy as the dentist, Lauren Bacall as the orphanage matron, Jeffrey Wright as a particularly gruff grizzly, and Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as an entrepreneuring bear couple who own a candy shop and a dental - prosethetic shop, and chuckle about how they ruin teeth on one side of the street, and replace them on the other.

As Susie makes extraordinary progress under the guidance of Madame Blanc, the Company's revolutionary artistic director, she befriends another dancer, Sara, who shares her suspicions that the Matrons, and the Company itself, may be harboring a dark and menacing secret.»

Dominika is shipped off to Sparrow school where her training is overseen by the iron fist of the Matron, played by Charlotte Rampling (seriously, the cast of this film is ridiculous), who molds her and her classmates into erotic atom bombs.

I write historical mysteries set in 1900s Los Angeles because no one else was telling the story of the police matrons and female cops who worked for the LAPD back then.

Like many of her peers who established their reputations in the 1980s, Marrinon draws her references from both «high» and «low» culture, presenting a series of archetypes, intermingling soldiers, maids, matrons, ingénues, twins, travellers, intellectuals, performers, peasants and the privileged with a handful of identities ranging from Voltaire to Field Marshal Montgomery to Dame Joan Sutherland to MC Hammer.

Co-founded by Alice Denney — matron of the Washington avant - garde who went on to found the wildly successful community darling, Washington Project for the Arts — the gallery brought a wealth of influential American artists and works to the District, while garnering national attention to working artists within the city.