Sentences with phrase «as matron»

My first Woman's Day cover was Liza Minelli's wedding to David Guest, with Michael Jackson as best man and Liz Taylor as Matron of Honour.

Apart from the duo, the incredible cast that supports them includes Mary - Louise Parker as Stephanie Boucher, the American traitor, Jeremy Irons as General Korchnoi and Ciaran Hinds as Colonel Zyuganor, Charlotte Rampling as the Matron of the secret school and Matthias Schoenaerts as Dominika's shrewd and manipulative Uncle Ivan Egorov.

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.

There is always a vicious instructor, and that task falls to the extremely marvelous actress Charlotte Rampling as the Matron.

Also worthy of mention are «Sparrow's» secondary characters: Jeremey Irons's («High Rise») portrayal of General Vladimir Korchnoi is believable, Schoenaerts is exceedingly creepy and remorseless as Vanya, and Rampling as Matron could give you nightmares.

Rampling's character, known only as Matron, gives a speech to the class about how the West is weak, tearing itself apart with racial divisions and social media obsessions, and how it's Russia's time to step in and assert itself as the ultimate world power.

I drove to Naples, which was only a two hour drive and got to spend two days there with some of my bridesmaids as well as my matron of honor.

It is a good thing indeed that men as well as women, young women as well as matrons, and talented older people of both sexes have also been engaged in the teaching enterprises of the churches.

Not exact matches

The depictions of Augustus himself, as the model pater familias, and various imperial women, such as his wife Livia, sister Octavia, or niece Antonia Augusta, as ideal Roman matrons, were particularly central in this respect.

Originally from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, Miss Haining made her home in the Hungarian capital, where she worked at the city's Scottish Mission School as a boarding house matron.

Milwaukee Journal cartoonist Doug Sanders lampooned those assumptions in a panel that pictured a grimly determined matron forcibly leading her bleary - eyed spouse from «Art's Bar and Grill,» as he protests, «But honey!

As the «matron of honor,» (a title that for some reason conjures in my mind the image of a large breasted woman in a peasant dress carrying an armful of babies), my duties for the week will keep me pretty busy.

as if to play the roles of best man and matron of honor.

As Barish points out in an amusing aside, «In an old movie comedy, an affected matron expressed her appreciation of dinner by declaring that «the fish was simply a poem»» obviously the most rapturous word of approval she could think of.»

As in the case of R. Hanina b. Pappi, whom a certain matron urged [to immorality].

Dirk Uys, an Afrikaner, does an «Afrikaner» matron as well as a merciless rendition of every verbal and facial tic of the State President, whom he can uncannily resemble.

«I did not even give a thought to whether or not the dress was breastfeeding friendly as I was completely obsessed with the fact that I was going to be the MATRON of Honour and -LSB-...]

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.

Baroness Blackstone, «At the Chris Hani Hospital we went to a big burns unit where we were able to visit the wards, as well as hearing from the consultant and the matron in charge.

Ghana's former first lady Lordina Mahama has commended matrons of orphanages in Ghana for serving as foster parents to orphans.

«A lot of people have turned up in hospital as a result of «Operation Western Area Surge»,» Isatu Kamara, matron of the Connaught Hospital, capital Freetown's main government referral hospital, told The Anadolu Agency.»

Redesignated and redesigned as a «sparrow,» Dominika learns a very particular set of skills under the cold tutelage of Matron (Charlotte Rampling, «45 Years»), before undertaking a mission in Eastern Europe involving CIA agent Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton, «It Comes at Night»).

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.

Lawrence, the director, conjures compelling evidence for Dominika's dual allegiances — her growing relationship with the American agent feels convincing, but the punishingly brutal regime of Charlotte Rampling's stern matron throws doubt into the mix as Lawrence, the actor, is put through the wringer.

At the height of her fame, Maria is asked to take part in a revival of the movie that shot her to stardom; not in her original role as ingenue, however, but as the story's duped matron.

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.

Under the tutelage of the unforgiving Matron (Charlotte Rampling), Dominika joins the latest class of «Sparrows,» a group of men and women taught to use sex as a weapon, and Dominika is a quick learner, not afraid to use her brains, brawn and other assets.

Ivan's bosses include a bespectacled, professorial - looking Jeremy Irons as General Korchnoi, Ciarán Hinds as the extremely dour Colonrel Zyuganov, and Charlotte Rampling as the martinet, Rosa Klebb - like «matron» at the school for seduction where Dominika is enrolled after her ballet career crashes to a halt.

Standing out in the supporting cast is Craig Stevens, a decade away from Peter Gunn, sweating cheap, desperate charm as Tierney's heel of a husband and veteran character actress Ruth Donnelly as a diner matron with a sharp tongue and a warm heart.

As Dominika puts it, «a whore school» — the titular Red Sparrows run by the brutal «Matron» (Charlotte Rampling).

Marginal inspiration, at that --- that «young» inserted in the title is intended as the film's creative and commercial trump card, promising a sprightlier, sexier take on the figure more frequently depicted in her latter years as a stern, cabbage - faced matron.

When her uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) unwittingly draws her into Russia's political and dangerous underbelly, Dominika finds herself in a catch - 22 and either be eliminated by the state or be trained as a «sparrow» and master the arts of sexual manipulation in a school run by Matron (Charlotte Rampling).

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.

Sporting Star - of - David bling and exceptionally big hair, Kate Winslet's thickly accented Irina Vlaslov is tougher than any of these compromised men as she tightens the screws on in a way that is reminiscent of Kristin Scott - Thompson's angry - icicle matron in Only God Forgives.

A, B and C reappear as versions of the same woman at different stages of her life: C as a dreamily calculating ingenue; B as the disillusioned and hardened matron; and A, no longer demented, at the finish line, «the point where you can think about yourself in the third person without being crazy.»

A, B and C reappear as versions of the same woman at different stages of her life: C as a dreamily calculating ingenue; B as the disillusioned and hardened matron; and A, no longer demented, at the finish line, «the point where you can think about yourself in the third p

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.»

Day - Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a sought - after dress designer in 1950s London whose clientele — comprising mostly wealthy matrons — see Woodcock's creations less as pretty dresses than a crucial part of their female armamentarium: «I feel like it will give me courage,» one of his customers says of an evening gown.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

The cruel tutelage of the Sparrow Matron includes numerous instances of sexual violence and degradation, as in - between lock - picking workshops, certain students are even asked to give up their own gender identification to complete their lessons.

Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron become locked in a bloody battle for survival.

The confidence with which she moved into the world as a black middleclass matron suggests to me that she thought herself married to a light - skinned black man.

You can get revived on the surface for a percentage of your wealth, at which point the matron - like robot will offer you some tidbit of advice as to how to avoid a similar fate in the future.

Celebrated for her portraits of people traditionally on the margins of society — dwarfs and giants — as well as those on the inside — society matrons and crying babies — Arbus was fascinated with the relationship between appearance and identity.

However, when presented with the opportunity to marry the wealthy businessman Charles Nevelson and move to New York as a society matron rather than alone as a poor student, she did not hesitate to do so.