Sentences with phrase «as a maid making»

Why should she take a job as a maid making $ 3.25 when all she had to do was wait six months to finish her time, and she would be back in big money?

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As we consciously opt out or creatively reimagine marriage one loving couple at a time, we'll be able to shift societal expectations wholesale, freeing younger generations from some of the antiquated assumptions we've faced (that women always want to get married and men always shy away from commitment, that gender parity somehow disempowers men, that turning 30 makes an unmarried woman into an old maid).»

Nell Carter stars a a popular singer and Dinah Manoff costars as her maid du jour in the made - for - TV Maid For Each Other.

In a big production it just tends to feel lackluster, the maid robot was the same but dressed up in a sexy French number as if that makes it more acceptable.

Sally Hawkins may have a strange unidentifiable accent but as a maid named Olga to a nearby rich couple, she's one of many ethnicities that make the Manhattan neighborhood interesting.

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.

MAID IN MANHATTAN Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes make an odd couple, yet a nicely matched one, in this romantic comedy about a hotel maid dressed as a socialite who catches the fancy of a rich politicMAID IN MANHATTAN Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes make an odd couple, yet a nicely matched one, in this romantic comedy about a hotel maid dressed as a socialite who catches the fancy of a rich politicmaid dressed as a socialite who catches the fancy of a rich politician.

Frying chicken may indeed «make you feel better about life,» as one of Skeeter's maid - informants tells her, but The Help doesn't make the viewer feel anything.

Apart from the Irish - born Gambon, Bob Balaban, as a crass Hollywood producer who makes Charlie Chan B - movies, and Ryan Phillippe as his sneaky, snooping valet, are the only non-British actors in a large and eclectic cast that includes Jeremy Northam (as Ivor Novello), Alan Bates, Clive Owen, Emily Watson, Helen Mirren, Richard E Grant (in full - on sneer mode) and Kelly McDonald, as the naive young Scottish maid who gives the film its moral centre.

«Girl With a Pearl Earring» is Peter Webber's sensuous meditation on artistic inspiration, starring Scarlett Johansson in the second of her great performances this year, as a poor girl who is employed as a maid in the home of the Dutch master Vermeer (Peter Firth) and not only inspires a famous painting but also makes an unmistakable artistic and emotional connection with him — which the rigid social code of the time prevents them from acknowledging.

I know better than to approach this as anything other than the eventual guilty pleasure that it will prove to be, but putting Marc Cherry («Desperate Housewives») at the helm of a show about four maids in Beverly Hills who work for the famous while trying to make their own dreams come true...?

Tukel has assembled an enviable, rotating gallery of New York's finest character actors, including Dylan Baker as a hysterically stone - faced doctor and the lovely Myra Lucretia Taylor as Veronica's kindly maid, but they're hardly on screen long enough to make an impression beyond their allotted scenes.

Superlative work is rather expected from the likes of Davis, Stone (whom it is good to see show off her dramatic chops in a high - profile film after her excellent work in the virtually unseen — and frankly overall forgettable — Paper Man), Howard, Sissy Spacek (as her lush of a mother), Allison Janney (as Stone's cancer - stricken mom) and Cicely Tyson (as Stone's family's former maid), so perhaps making an even more memorable impression is the work by two less familiar stars.

But even more impressive is Octavia Spencer, so largely underused and underappreciated for years, seizing her big opportunity here as Davis's best friend and fellow maid, at turns touching and funny, and altogether delivering a star - making turn that I would classify as movie - stealing if it weren't for the overwhelming presence of Davis.

The boys» mother, Angela Mancilla, worked as a maid, found she couldn't make ends meet, and left for a similar job in Texas in 1957, leaving her two toddlers behind with relatives.

The courtroom drama and masterful depictions of well - researched settings more than make up for any predictability in the plot, as does his handling of a fairly common plot line of an elderly dying man leaving his entire fortune to a random fringe character, in this case, his maid.

It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.»

It makes an odd sort of sense, actually,» Clove said.Clove is working as a maid in the Finchley household while she spies on Katherine Finchley and Matthew Galloway.

-LSB-...] Soredomo Machi wa Mawatteiru: It's a coffee shop with maids, but somehow Seaside doesn't quite make it as a maid cafe, perhaps because the waitress, Arashiyama Hotori, has little interest in being a maid or even treating her customers well.

→ A maid service will charge $ 180 for a «seller's package,» which includes all standard cleaning options, as well as a good, hard scrub of the baseboards and window frames (where dirt and dust collects and makes the house look dirty).

Apart from making available every possible amenity in terms of technology - like wifi connectivity, ipod and flat screen TVs as well as a DVD library, the staff at Jeeva Saba including the cooks, the maids, the pool attendants and the guards are forever in charge of making your stay as comfortable as possible without intruding on your privacy.

Make sure to leave your cares at home when you come to Villa Corales, as it comes with a fully pre-stocked bar, a professional butler and chauffeur, daily maid service and chef.

Serenity Resort & Residences Phuket is made up of attractive and generously proportioned accommodation overlooking the eastern coast of Phuket - by far a more tranquil spot than the busy and sometimes hectic west coast.Stretching down a slope that leads to Chalong Bay, the setup is made up of Serenity Rooms, Suites, Sea View Suites, Grand Sea View Suites, Penthouse Sea View Suites, a Three - Bedroom Penthouse Sea View Suite, and fabulous H20 Pool Suites, as well as Beachside Pool Residences.You can expect twice - daily maid service, state - of - the - art in - room facilities such as flat - screen TVs and DVD players, kitchenettes and fully equipped European kitchens in larger accommodation, blackout drapes (the resort faces east), iPod docking stations, excellent storage facilities, sun beds and spacious terraces and romantic in - room and terrace dining.

Now as long as you do not put the item anywhere else the butler will wait and as soon as another mess is made he'll clean it, repair it or enertain your party guests better then the maid.

You play as an android dressed like a French maid who wields giant swords and lances, and fights weird, round little robots that essentially made humanity go extinct.

They can be important in even making the most basic work resumes, such as Chef Resumes or maid resumes.

As we consciously opt out or creatively reimagine marriage one loving couple at a time, we'll be able to shift societal expectations wholesale, freeing younger generations from some of the antiquated assumptions we've faced (that women always want to get married and men always shy away from commitment, that gender parity somehow disempowers men, that turning 30 makes an unmarried woman into an old maid).»