Sentences with phrase «as a housekeeper while»

An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

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His mother had to work as a housekeeper to feed the family, while Charles worked in a blacking factory: one of the lowliest jobs in Victorian Britain.

We meet Evelyn (Judi Dench) as the recent widow who discovers her beloved husband left her a mountain of debt; Douglas and Jean (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton) a hapless married couple who have invested their savings into their daughter's internet company; Muriel (Maggie Smith) is a racist and longtime housekeeper for the rich who has been put out to pasture while in need of a new hip; Graham (Tom Wilkinson) is a high court judge who is fed up with responsibility and seeking to reconnect with a long ago lover; Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are the lonely hearts looking for love, or in his case, loving.

While Rene keeps in regular contact with Therese and Michi counts down the days until his return with an advent calendar, Dennis struggles to get over his losses, even as he is shown generosity by Olga (Sally Hawkins), a Russian housekeeper for vacationing dentists.

The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

Most, like The Housekeeper's Daughter, were banned by authorities at one stage for «offensive obscenity», as it was classified, while others fell foul of sedition or blasphemy rules.

While the main responsibility of a housekeeper is to clean, organize and maintain a proper appearance of a property or residence, it is also pivotal that housekeepers be able to communicate effectively with both their employers, as well as outside contractors.