Sentences with phrase «cunning woman»

Anna, the daughter of the local cunning woman, took over her late mother's folk - healing practices, many of which involve spirals.

Later on, when I was too big to hide, they came to ask her other things, for by this time her reputation as a cunning woman with magical powers had spread as thistledown does, blown on the hot winds of gossip.

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I am a good conversationalist, you might say a cunning linguist.I am outstanding at erotic massage, and I can play a woman's body like a finely tuned instrument.

Ukrainian women are highly intelligent, cunning, and know their value.

When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman [Jessica Alba] force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.

When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman (Alba) force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.

Taking place over the course of one day, we see Shaun go from «just a mom» to a cunning and stealthy woman ready to protect her family and destroy any threat to them.

Dark and cunning, this film reveals «who the real clowns are,» which would be anyone that mistakes a woman for weak simply because of her gender.

In a cunning bit of casting, Emma Watson, forever known as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, portrays Belle, the bookish and kind - hearted young woman who doesn't fit in her provincial French village.

Sorcery, alchemy and the world of the «cunning - woman» — who walks a fine path between healer and witch — are all colorfully portrayed.

An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning.

It's easier to forgive these flaws when you consider just how captivating a world this game creates, a world that allows for so much freedom and versatility, a world with such a rich sense of history, a world filled with women virtuous and evil, kind and cunning, poor and powerful.

Growing up in Nairobi in the 1970s and 1980s, Mutu noted that representations of people in film and television during her childhood primarily consisted of white men and women, and when they were black, they didn't resemble urban African people.2 Likewise, referencing the colonialism and masculinity dominating historical and mythological narrative, Mutu has articulated that the nguva in African folklore was a cunning temptress, said to come out of the sea and masquerade as a human to «trick people,» namely persuadable men, in order to «utilize [her] power to drown people, to drag them into the ocean.»