Sentences with phrase «gives mistress»

It's no doubt Gerwig's touch that gives Mistress America the vitality While We're Young lacks.

A former State Police investigator accused of lying to detectives about activity on his bank account, then later admitting that he was covering for the fact he was giving his mistress money to support her crack habit, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.

Former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver (D) had an extramarital affair with one woman who lobbied him about state business and another whom he recommended for a job, then tried to hide the relationships while giving his mistresses preferential access and treatment, prosecutors alleged in court documents unsealed Friday.

Not exact matches

In this and moments like it, I find myself wishing I prized politeness less and had the interior freedom to kick out my friend and his mistress» or in some way to give the moral truth that has been jammed into a far corner of my conscience some purchase on reality, some public expression.

Indeed, Nietzsche was so unrestrained in his public animadversions against the Jews that Wagner's mistress (later his wife), Cosima von Bülow, felt obliged to give him a lesson in discretion: there are indirect, coded ways of making one's point apparent.

Whoever wants to keep a little mistress must give one guilder a year to the bishop.

These unique conditions gave the Thai kings time to spend with their queens and mistresses, to hire the best cooks, and to encourage the cooks to create new dishes and improve the traditional ones.

Lloyd George's political career was virtually unique given his humble Welsh upbringing, and he relied upon the inspiration and support of his Uncle Lloyd, his bother William who uncomplainingly supported him financially, and the loyalty of his wife Margaret and his mistress Frances Stevenson.

His then mistress, Carol Shaw, gave an affidavit about their affair to a solicitor in 2000 - after being persuaded to do so by one of Blackman's rivals who hoped to see him ousted as a group leader.

Mistress of science - fiction writer HG Wells, she knew Josef Stalin, whom she once gave an accordion.

If only we could say honestly and without shame, «I engage spirituality as a hobby,» or «I want a spiritual practice that will give me some peace of mind but without any commitment or discipline,» or «I'd like to keep spirituality as my mistress but maintain comfort and security as my spouse,» or «I want to be seen as a spiritual man or woman because that will make me more sexy.»

This masters and slaves social network gives big opportunities to find mistress and fetish lovers.

A sugar daddy is a wealthy, older man who gives money, gifts, and other benefits to someone in exchange for the relationship, generally including full support or lavish spending on a mistress or girlfriend.

Unlike prostitutes who provide sex to almost anyone for a given amount of money, mistresses make ongoing friends - with - benefits relationships, and are thereforeinvited to diners, travels, and even go to concerts and shows on occasions.

These mobsters, mistresses and their surrounding Broadway types — especially Dianne Wiest giving one of the greatest ever Oscar - winning performances — are a hoot to spend time with, as are the New York crazies that populate Deconstructing Harry, a film that sails along nicely until it turns into a curiously wooden (hah hah, right!)

Something I did with Frances and continued with Mistress America was giving her space to move around in and really see her move.

Mistress America continues to play up Gerwig's gift for physical comedy, and the plot, which whisks Brooke and Tracy to Connecticut in search of startup money, gives the second half a screwball zaniness unmatched in Baumbach's work since Mr. Jealousy.

The supporting cast, including Aja Naomi King as Turner's wife and Penelope Anne Miller as the mistress of the plantation, also give amazing performances.

JT: You've said that John Ridley's screenplay gave you everything you needed in figuring out who Mistress Epps was.

She's uniquely skilled, it seems, at playing somewhat furtive observer types, given her equally impressive work in Noah Baumbach's Mistress America.

We'd be foolish not to give some sort of shout out to other terrific scenes throughout the year, like the hilarious funeral sequence in Li» l Quinquin, which had us doubled over from laughter; both the border crossing and night vision sequences in Sicario; the ending of Carol, which should get an emotional response out of even the coldest souls; the opening long take in Buzzard, a painfully funny experience much like Entertainment; the bonkers final act of Jauja; a scorching scene from The Fool where the town mayor lays into her corrupt staff; everything that happens at Mamie Claire's house in Mistress America; the intense argument between Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bissett in Welcome to New York; the tightrope sequence in The Walk, and much, much more.

Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach conceived «Mistress America» as a tribute to the screwball comedies of old, giving the movie a manic, theatrical fizz - characters running in and out of frame, dialogue coming in volleys.

Carice van Houten gives a fierce performance as Rachel, who becomes a tool of the resistance and the mistress of a top Gestapo man (Sebastian Koch).

It's almost a given that he cheats on his wife, Mary Epps (Sarah Paulson), with one of his slaves, Patsey (Lupita Nyong «o), and almost unbelievable that, when Solomon is sent by his master to a neighboring plantation, his meeting with Mistress Harriet Shaw (Alfre Woodard) is only an excuse for us to learn how female slaves spared themselves a lifetime of horrors by marrying their masters.»

The included featurette gives us a concise overview of the film's production, including outtake clips, and an interview with actress Nanette Fabray («The Band Wagon»), who played Mistress Radcliffe, in her first feature film.

Given the current media fascination with «the mistress,» this is something I need to try to tap into now, while the iron is hot.

Also, the clothes the Mistress gave her made her feel special, set her apart from the other slaves.

Mistress Amanda gave Granada a chance to rise above her slave status, at least Granada believed she did.

It ended up in the collection of famed naturalist Joseph Banks (who accompanied Cook on his first voyage) and, according to this book, was then given by Banks to his mistress, Mary Burnett a naturalist and gifted botanical artist (who the book jacket bills as the enigmatic «Miss B»)... If you enjoy intelligent historical mysteries you should take a close look at The Conjurer's Bird.

Now I must admit the English language gives the term «master» a much more powerful and commanding sound of authority than «mistress» but I want my gift infused with feminine, not masculine power.

«Like The Wealthy Barber, The Value of Simple is a great book to give to your brother, kid, friend, co-worker, or mistress who knows nothing about investing.

The summer is a fickle mistress who likes to toy with our emotions, giving us weeks with loads of news and weeks where we're begging for any tiny little update to quench our lust for videogame knowledge.

Ten years later Rosso gave a photograph of this drawing to artist and critic Ethel Fles, also his patron and mistress, marked with a cross to indicate where they should meet.

A Rosen installation featuring a script for a proposed virtual - reality program lets you be Eva Braun in the last days of life as mistress to Hitler, a role that lets you imagine giving the Führer a golden shower.

The former partner was recently convicted of stealing # 1.3 million in phony expense claims from his firm, much of which he gave to his mistress.