Sentences with phrase «by women of a certain age»

Is a leather skirt one of those fashion pieces that should not be worn by women of a certain age?

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Many younger women who disapprove of abortion nevertheless do not want the legal option to be closed off because they realize that circumstances may conceivably arise in which they might need to exercise the abortion option, but beyond a certain age threshold there is probably diminished empathy with less «analytical» younger women, who should now, their elders conclude, be compelled by the State to carry an accidental pregnancy to term.

But others thought and expected they'd be married with kids by a certain age but didn't find a good partner, as Melanie Nokin details in her new book Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness.

I was never one of those women who expected to get married or have kids by a certain age.

This wear ethnic dress is not only preferred by young girls but also women of certain age groups like to wear Anarkali dresses as it suits them all leaving the age limits.

Images of granny in her rocking chair with knitting needles have been replaced by the reality of stunning, active women «of a certain age» all around us.

She plays Mrs. Erlynne, a single woman of a certain age who shocks high society by living casually off other women's husbands.

That rather sad fact, which is not uncommon, is one of the reasons that Johnson and Koch are proud that a festival run primarily by women regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.&rwomen regularly includes films with women directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.&rwomen directors — seven this year, including «Toni Erdmann» — along with features that focus on female characters such as «Jackie,» Kelly Reinhardt's «Certain Women» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.&rWomen» and Kelly Fremon Craig's coming - of - age comedy «The Edge of Seventeen.»

Much of the movie revolves around how women of a certain age are forgotten by society.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Previously embodied by Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Bancroft, Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor and Stockard Channing on stage and screen, Regina has become canon for women of a certain age — and the chance to play the main antagonist excited both actresses.

Army of One's romantic subplot illustrates why King of Comedy was better off not being weighed down by a half hour of scenes featuring Rupert Pupkin's arbitrary love interest (played by, I du n no, Maria Conchita Alonso) about how, as a woman of a certain age who's been banged around by life a bit, she's lucky to have a good - hearted, if someone eccentric ambitious young show business striver like Pupkin in her life.

Repeatedly people just figure she must have a lot of cats, being a single woman of a certain age and certain shape, and the sad, frumpy tourist cover identities and costumes she is given by her superior (a dry Allison Janney) feel like one small dig after another.

And finally, for those looking for a lighter read, Nora Ephron once more taps into the thoughts and concerns of «women of a certain age» with I Remember Nothing (Nov. 9), a follow - up to the major bestseller I Feel Bad About My Neck, while Vicki Myron returns to the subject of her beloved «small - town library cat» with Dewey's Nine Lives (Oct. 12), a collection of stories about and inspired by Dewey.