Sentences with phrase «as abbess»

Harrabin did as Abbess asked (probably just to get the shrieking lunatic off of his back... time will tell) and changed the text of his article.

I like the descriptions of Clare's style as Abbess: her concern not to have favourites, her sense of the community being a family, her way of drawing all into decisions that needed to be made.

Not exact matches

The first example of one of these «holy autopsies» came in 1308, when nuns conducted a dissection of the body of Chiara of Montefalco, an abbess who would be canonized as a saint in 1881.

The nuns reported finding a tiny crucifix in the abbess» heart, as well as three gallstones in her gallbladder, which they saw as symbolic of the Holy Trinity.

So formidable is Sister Aloysius, the principal of the St. Nicholas Church School, whom the kids, her Catholic subordinates, fear, as evidenced by an early scene where the abbess» voice, like an electric charge, jolts the slumbering parishioners into a comically exaggerated alertness during Father Flynn's sermon, that we believe this woman, this nun, is all - powerful.

It is for this soaring finish that Audra McDonald reprises «Climb Ev'ry Mountain,» the breathtaking anthem that Mother Abbess introduces as she sends Maria into the world and into the von Trapp household.

The production, which is based on the play rather than the film, also stars «True Bloods»» Stephen Moyer as Maria's boss and love interest, the strict Capt. Georg Von Trapp; Laura Benanti as the Captain's fiancée, Elsa Schrader; multiple Tony Award - winner and «Private Practice» star Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess and «Smash» alum Christian Borle as family friend Max Detweiler.

As usual, Jo Abbess, you give a highly misleading analogy and, with a slight of hand, you think that has proved your point.

# 2 jo abbess As # 34 Andy Russell has pointed out my PhD is in evolutionary genetics and David Adam's is in chemical engineering.

Dammann and her partner, Nancy (Fu) Schroeder, the abiding abbess at Green Gulch Farm in Muir Beach, had long stopped being romantic partners, but agreed to stay together to co-parent their wheelchair - bound daughter Sabrina, Isabel Allende's step - granddaughter, whom they adopted as an infant — born drug addicted and with cerebral palsy, and not expected to live long.