Sentences with phrase «aristocratic women who»

The former, in spite of writing a great book, Emile, on how to bring up children, abandoned his own and led a life of sheer hedonism, being constantly supported by wealthy European aristocratic women who were his serial lovers.

Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.

In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.

Toby wanted to create an aristocratic woman who was strong, intelligent, independent, athletic and powerful.»

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After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

Set in remotest nineteenth - century Cumbria (but shot entirely in Toronto), this old - school spooker follows the travails of a young woman who becomes convinced that her aristocratic hubby is not all he appears to be.