Sentences with phrase «as a maid for»
Synopsis: When her father goes blind, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) must go to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth).
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Val — a superb Regina Casé — works as a maid for a rich family in Sao Paulo.
THE DESERT BRIDE --(Chile / Argentina) Dir, Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato A middle - aged woman who works as a maid for an upper middle - class family in Buenos Aires goes back to her hometown of San Juan after decades away to visit her dying sister.
His mother had given up her job as a maid for betterpaying work at Moldex, a factory that manufactured foam for the bra cups of bathing suits.
Tia so longs to hear more of it that she takes a job as a maid for the kind, elderly Miss Hartwell who lives in that music - filled house.
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Agency - style businesses — like maid services and home healthcare, where the franchisee acts as a hub for independent contractors — are the hottest sector of franchising right now.
When he would return to Macau — roughly once a month, for a weekend — the household would buzz as maids cleaned and cooks prepared extra food.
Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..
The potential for using petroleum - based solvents such as gasoline and kerosene was discovered in the mid-19th century by French dye - works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly, who noticed that his tablecloth became cleaner after his maid spilled kerosene on it.
Incidents such as Carly Fiorina's repudiation and firing of her maid, along with Sharon Angles» campaign commercials depictions of Latino men illegally crossing the border, have helped to mobilize Latino churches for voter registration drives.
The contradiction is summed up by the presence of more than 100,000 Filipinas in Hong Kong, many of them women with university degrees, working as maids to strangers» children as a means of providing for their own back at home.
After signing a few autographs, Woods stomped to his room on the sixth floor of the adjoining Four Seasons resort, and that was where he finally vented, whipping off his sweat - soaked shirt and throwing it to the floor, where it remained as a souvenir for the maid.
Oh, I don't mean that my kids were doing that — that is what's been on the news as we followed former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's announcement of a love child with his long - time housekeeper, the revelations that former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss - Kahn allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel maid, and that former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner had been engaging in social media hanky - panky with a bunch of young hotties on Facebook and Twitter but not without lying about it first for 10 days before resigning.
items to tip maid or others with — e.g. lipsticks, items from your country, etc. — and bring lots of $ 1 bills for this purpose as well
Asda and Morrisons both portray mothers running around like demented scullery maids for weeks on end as they get ready for the festivities.
On our Maui vacation, the maids in the Ritz Carlton hung up g pants every morning in the bathroom to dry (I'd laid them out, not realizing such a fancy place had a clothing line in the bathroom) As for poop - I never had problems with the g - diaper inserts.
Ask for maid service as a baby shower gift.
In the end, go with your gut as a parent, and if you think your helper doesn't have a genuine fondness for your little one, you might want to consider looking for a new maid.
The head of the state ethics commission, Janet DiFiore, says she has «done nothing wrong,» after allegations she used her influence as Westchester County DA to obtain welfare benefits for her maid.
The comedian, actor, author and philanthropist attained his greatest fame for his role as Cliff Huxtable on «The Cosby Show,» jettisoning a man raised by a maid and a US Navy cook into a life of fame and wealth.
Because so many of its» wealthy, conservative elite hire them as private laborers, as gardeners, maids, and for other unskilled tasks.
Author Dr. Madeline Li, a psychiatrist in the Department of Supportive Care, UHN, writes that in Canada the legal responsibility to implement MAiD required creating an institutional framework for patient assessment and provision of service, as well as a plan for educating staff about engaging in conversations with patients.
As for the bridesmaid dresses, my maid of honour was really helpful and sent me a link to some mint green floor length dresses from Coast.
For example, we love the idea of putting your maid of honor in the Amsale shell pink as shown below, with your other bridesmaids in a combination of blush pink, champagne, and vanilla.
i worked as an au pair for a family in milan (taught their daughters english) and i became pretty good friends with the ironing girl (well, after getting over the shock that she had a different job than the maid...) love that dress!
Well - known bridal company Alfred Angelo has closed its doors suddenly, and is radio silent as brides and «maids try to figure out what to do about dresses they've already paid for.
As a wedding planner, I'm always surprised to find how many girls still see it as «taboo» or «unacceptable» for their maids to wear different gowns in the same hue, but these photos are proof that it definitely workAs a wedding planner, I'm always surprised to find how many girls still see it as «taboo» or «unacceptable» for their maids to wear different gowns in the same hue, but these photos are proof that it definitely workas «taboo» or «unacceptable» for their maids to wear different gowns in the same hue, but these photos are proof that it definitely works.
As maid of honor for my sister's wedding, I organized her bridal shower.
I also think that I am good hostess and I hope that my future partner will appreciate it, but he will not be interested in me as a maid and he will have a place in his heart for love, adventure and romance.
i am clean, laid back like to cook and dress sexy, hang out with friends and party, seven 6 five, eight 9 for your sissy maid 5 three, one two, and will do as told or you can punish me
The 23 - year - old mom from Florida used to earn quite less every week for working as a part - time maid.
As Leontine Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a little over-the-top with the old maid routine but still well suited for the role of the mad scientist type.
Nell Carter stars a a popular singer and Dinah Manoff costars as her maid du jour in the made - for - TV Maid For Each Othfor - TV Maid For Each OthFor Each Other.
«The Jetsons» was memorable for (apart from a nifty theme song) goofy futuristic gadgets, such as a robot maid and a car that turned into a briefcase.
Casé is dead - on as the maid torn between the family she works for, and the one to which she belongs.
The daughter goes as far as taking the guest room for herself — instead of the maid quarters — in a particularly tense moment for the maid.
As fate - or rather Brian Helgeland's hodgepodgey script - would have it, Marion (Cate Blanchett) hasn't been a maid for ten years and lives with her father - in - law (Max von Sydow) on his 5,000 acre estate.
As Annie, the disastrous maid of honour in her best friend's wedding, Wiig proves she has the chops for a leading role.
He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».
Made of Honor — Sony Pictures, 101 min — billed unabashedly as the ultimate chick flick, stars Patrick Dempsey as a guy who decides to woo his best gal pal while serving as her maid of honor for her impending wedding to another guy.
Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.
As a young man living in the mansion Collinwood, Barnabas (Depp) picks the wrong maid to spurn in Angelique (Eva Green), a witch who coordinates the death of his love and turns Barnabas into a vampire to suffer for all eternity.
Faced with the daily accounts of racism and inbred hatred, Skeeter decides to write a book detailing the African American maid's point of view on the white families they work for, with the help of Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer), who must do so in secret, or they'll be promptly fired from their homes and will never be hired as help again.
Judi Dench, as Thornfield's goodhearted chief maid, seems useful mostly for doling out exposition and pressing her lips together in dutiful silence; similarly, Sally Hawkins barely gets time to bring two dimensions to Jane's deceitful, bitter aunt.
They've served, for example, as the quintessential naive boy - scout and provincial maid in their early films and as older, more tortured versions of the same in the chapters that bookend Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs trilogy, whose ironic casting suggests a blueprint for Haneke.
The former dancer earned a supporting actor nomination for Douglas Sirk's lush 1959 melodrama «Imitation of Life,» based on Fannie Hurst's novel, as a maid whose light - skinned daughter rejects her and her black roots: «If, by accident, we should ever pass on the street, please don't recognize me.»
Nuanced applies as well to Macdonald's body of work, whether as a bereft parent in Child, a woman threatened by a hired killer in No Country for Old Men, a gangster's wife in Boardwalk Empire or, yes, even the naive maid she played in «Gosford Park.»
The time is the early»60s, the place is Baltimore, and Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is a mute woman who always hews closely to her daily routine before leaving for her job as a maid on the night shift at a government lab.
While the film was conceived as a star vehicle for Lana Turner — seeking rehabilitation after the violent end to her relationship with Johnny Stompanato — the real drama exists in the relationship between two supporting characters, black maid Annie (Juanita Moore) and her light - skinned daughter Sarah Jane (Susan Kohner).
As a progressive - minded college graduate in small - town Mississippi in 1963, Emma Stone goes about collecting testimonials for a book about the experiences of African - American maids.