Sentences with phrase «as a widowed mother»

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In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

3:35).68 All of Jesus» teaching prepares us for an examination of Jesus» actions, and his manner of relating to harlots, widows, small girls, foreign women, mothers and women made unclean through illness or incapacitated through injury.69 As Sebastian Kappen says,»....

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder - blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

A mother that becomes widowed during her pregnancy may indicate her name on the birth announcement as either «Mrs. Thomas Peterson» or «Betty Peterson.»

The widow and mother of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson faced off in surrogates court yesterday, as they continue to quarrel over the late prosecutor's estate.

The widow and mother of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson faced off in surrogates court Thursday, as they continue to quarrel over the late prosecutor's estate.

As a young woman, Laura Montoya Upegui, of Jerico, Colombia, became an elementary schoolteacher to help support her widowed mother.

Widowed in 1934, she entered films in 1937, repeating her Broadway stage role as the gangster's mother in Dead End (1937).

See it cropping up in the character of Drew's widowed mother: in a flurry of manic energy after her husband's passing, Hollie (Susan Sarandon) proceeds to improve herself by learning stand - up comedy and tap - dancing — anything that will allow for slapstick comic whimsy (in learning to fix a car, the hood falls on her and she kicks her legs hysterically), which becomes as deadly as cancer during an ill - considered eulogy at a memorial service that stands as one of the most painful moments in movies this year.

Nevertheless it's a strong opener as this scrappy pup is taken in by Apollo's widow Mary Anne (here played by Phylicia Rashad) following the death of his mother and subsequent institutionalisation.

As a Depression - era widow beating back the bank's advances on her Texas cotton farm, Field is as inspiring as mothers get — just like yourAs a Depression - era widow beating back the bank's advances on her Texas cotton farm, Field is as inspiring as mothers get — just like youras inspiring as mothers get — just like youras mothers get — just like yours.

Weaver plays Melissa McCarthy's mother in the soon - to - be-released film Life of the Party and will appear in Steve McQueen's New Regency thriller Widows opposite Viola Davis as well as the Netflix pic, Bird Box alongside Sandra Bullock.

Moss Rose (20th Century Fox Cinema Archives) is in the British Gothic mystery tradition of Rebecca, Jane Eyre and Gaslight, set in turn - of - the - century Britain and starring Victor Mature as a prodigal son returned from Canada to his now - widowed mother (Ethel Barrymore) and their country manor.

Lucia Sardo nails her performance as the conflicted widow and mother, although she is limited by a relatively one - dimensional role.

As previously reported, Streep is joining the cast as Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Alexander Skarsgard's deceased character Perry (and the mother - in - law of Kidman's widow CelesteAs previously reported, Streep is joining the cast as Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Alexander Skarsgard's deceased character Perry (and the mother - in - law of Kidman's widow Celesteas Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Alexander Skarsgard's deceased character Perry (and the mother - in - law of Kidman's widow Celeste).

As the Queen Mother, Bassett, who has played iconic women like Tina Turner, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X's widow, Betty Shabazz, didn't have to take down foes with her bare hands.

As Jackie struggles with the loss, she must draw on her inner strength to give her beloved husband the proper memorial that suits his legacy while also coming to terms with her new life as a young widowed mother of two, in front of millions of Americans at thaAs Jackie struggles with the loss, she must draw on her inner strength to give her beloved husband the proper memorial that suits his legacy while also coming to terms with her new life as a young widowed mother of two, in front of millions of Americans at thaas a young widowed mother of two, in front of millions of Americans at that.

Weeds stars Mary - Louise Parker as a widowed middle - aged single mother who suddenly decides to forge a new career as a drug dealer.

This layer of deception only complicates further their respective resentment of the father, and as the action widens to include the protagonist's widowed mother (Michelle Pfeiffer), the movie develops into a painful story of one generation inflicting its selfish compromises on the next.

Robert (as a youth, played by Anton Yelchin, Along Came a Spider, 15 Minutes) lived alone with his widowed mother Elizabeth (Hope Davis, Joe Gould's Secret, Arlington Road).

As the only legitimate grandchild of George III, Victoria is next in line to the throne after her ailing uncle, King William (Jim Broadbent), yet her widowed mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson), conspires with Conroy to keep Victoria a virtual prisoner in Kensington Palace.

Co-stars Jane Fonda as their newly breast - enhanced, widowed mother.

In Lindsay Anderson's first feature, Richard Harris grimaces and bellows as a miner hired by his local rugby team and condescended to by the club's management while juggling a difficult home life as the tenant of a widow and single mother.

Ruby Clyde is a bit of a pistol, and Stevens» wonderfully effective narration perfectly animates this 12 - year - old and a large cast of equally memorable characters as Ruby sets out to take care of herself and her widowed mother.

At its center is the «bastard» of the title, Asya, a nineteen - year - old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster.

Rawiya left her widowed mother, dressed as a boy, and apprenticed herself to a man who was traveling around all the countries of the Mediterranean for the Norman - Sicilian King Roger, recording and creating a geography of the world.

In 1909, a recent widow and single mother, Elinore Pruitt Stewart accepted a job as housekeeper to a wealthy cattleman in Burntfork, Wyoming.

British teen Stella Park (known to all as Spark) needs to escape her widowed mother's constant neediness.

I've been a wife and mother - and now I'm an empty - nester as my daughter has just started college, and I am now widowed.

I'm now in my late 60s, have MS and am partially blind in one eye while finishing up raising my 16 year old granddaughter whose mother, my middle daughter is brain injured so I deal with many different challenges every day as well as being recently widowed after being married for almost 42 years.

Born in 1934 in Bombay (now Mumbai) to a middle - class family, Khakhar earned a degree in economics at the urging of his widowed mother, working for most of his life as an accountant.

Spouses, widows, widowers, or mothers of veterans may also be eligible for this preference as a «derived preference» if the veteran is not able to use the preference.

As a widow and mother of a special needs child, I also uniquely understand the nature of grief and find it very rewarding to work with individuals as they navigate the grieving process.&raquAs a widow and mother of a special needs child, I also uniquely understand the nature of grief and find it very rewarding to work with individuals as they navigate the grieving process.&raquas they navigate the grieving process.»

Fact: «Adult children of divorced mothers are just as likely as children of widowed mothers to help their older mothers... Nevertheless, not only are adult children of divorced fathers less likely than children of widowed fathers to help their older fathers, but they also are less likely than children of divorced mothers to provide personal care.»

By contrast, the children of women who are on their own as parents, and LEFT alone — those who have no divorce stress or custody hassles undermining authority, and no financial problems or social pariah status or social worker meddling (compare widowed mothers versus welfare mothers versus struggling working single mother with young children)-- do just fine.

For analyses, marital status was collapsed into two categories: married / partnered and single / divorced (no mother identified as widowed).

As we packed them safely away together, she told me her memories of the day her mother (a widow who raised three young girls by herself in upstate New York) got them in the mail.