Sentences with phrase «elderly widowed father»

Paul Jesson gives a lovely performance as Turner's beloved elderly widowed father, who is content to live with him as his manservant and factotum, and has relapsed into what Turner shrewdly identifies as the false persona of a «dunce» — despite the fact that he taught Turner to read and write.

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Leigh, meanwhile, explores Turner's life unburdened by any sense of purpose other than an intense, contagious fascination with this man, his work and, increasingly, the inevitable, slow, irresistible trudge towards death.We observe Turner's fondness for his elderly father; his sexual relationship with his meek housekeeper (Dorothy Atkinson); his rejection of his children and their mother; his arms - length acceptance by the lions of the Royal Academy; his late - life relationship with a Margate widow (Marion Bailey); and the mockery of the crowd when his work turns experimental.

So when, in 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father - in - law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he'd led a double life as the 5th Duke, no one could dismiss her claim.

It just means she will most likely get the amount that your father would have been receiving assuming her own benefit is a spousal ie based on his SS benefit amount, or that her benefit is lower which is usually the case for elderly widows.