Sentences with phrase «honorable woman»

Though pointedly different than Meekings's version, it is traditionally said that Zhang Lang (as he was known during his time on earth) married an honorable woman, Guo Ding Xiang, but left her for a younger, prettier woman — an act for which he was...

In «The Honorable Woman,» an eight - part miniseries airing on SundanceTV, Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Baroness Nessa Stein, a British Israeli heiress whose life is inextricably bound up in one of humanity's most enduring conflicts.

On television, Maggie Gyllenhaal defines strength, leadership, vulnerability, naïvete and femininity as the lead in «The Honorable Woman,» where she plays Nessa Stein, the head of a Jewish industrialist family caught in the tangled web of Israeli - Palestinian politics.

Working on «The Honorable Woman» and with Tom Stoppard --[after that] it's hard to find something that really turns me on.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge Frances O'Connor, The Missing Allison Tolman, Fargo

Will the series be showered in the same critical acclaim that has met SundanceTV's prestige hits «Rectify» and «The Honorable Woman»?

Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge Frances O'Connor, The Missing Allison Tolman, Fargo Winner: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman

Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Television Movie Or Miniseries Frances McDormand — Olive Kitteridge Ellen Burstyn — Flowers In The Attic Maggie Gyllenhaal — The Honorable Woman Julia Roberts — The Normal Heart Cicely Tyson — The Trip To Bountiful

WINNER: Maggie Gyllenhaal, «The Honorable Woman» Jessica Lange, «American Horror Story: Freak Show» Frances McDormand, «Olive Kitteridge» Frances O'Connor, «The Missing» Allison Tolman, «Fargo»

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman Felicity Huffman, American Crime Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show Queen Latifah, Bessie Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge Emma Thompson, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Live From Lincoln Center)

Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie Jane Anderson, Olive Kitteridge Hugo Blick, The Honorable Woman Stephen Merchant, Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg, Hello Ladies: The Movie Dee Rees, Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois & Horton Foote, Bessie John Ridley, American Crime — «Episode One» Peter Straughan, Wolf Hall

Outstanding Limited Series: American Crime American Horror Story: Freak Show Olive Kitteridge The Honorable Woman Wolf Hall

Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie Hugo Blick, The Honorable Woman Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge Uli Edel, Houdini Peter Kosminsky, Wolf Hall Ryan Murphy, American Horror Story: Freak Show — «Monsters Among Us» Dee Rees, Bessie Tom Shankland, The Missing

Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show Francis McDormand, Olive Kitteridge Francis O'Connor, The Missing Allison Tolman, Fargo

Not only is the Best Actress lineup ridiculously competitive — including the many (arguably) career - best performances from majority - film actors like Frances McDormand («Olive Kitteridge»), Maggie Gyllenhaal («The Honorable Woman») and Queen Latifah («Bessie»)-- but the contending productions themselves reach far and wide in terms of the communities being represented and the stories being told.

«The Honorable Woman» spun a mightily complex tale of geopolitics, and put it in the hands of Gyllenhaal's flawed, strong but naive peacemaker, Nessa Stein.

Michael Chiklis — «American Horror Story: Freak Show» Bill Murray — «Olive Kitteridge» Jonathan Pryce — «Wolf Hall» Stephen Rea — «The Honorable Woman» Michael Kenneth Williams — «Bessie» Finn Wittrock — «American Horror Story: Freak Show» In a category full of veteran character actors getting a moment in the sun, Murray's the obvious stand - out for his relatively brief role in «Olive Kitteredge.»

Maggie Gyllenhaal — «The Honorable Woman» Felicity Huffman — «American Crime» Jessica Lange — «American Horror Story: Freak Show» Queen Latifah — «Bessie» Frances McDormand — «Olive Kitteridge» Frances O'Connor — «The Missing» There are several of these actresses here who, in any other year, would walk this: Queen Latifah's role - of - a-career in «Bessie,» McDormand's in «Olive,» and even Gyllenhaal's in «Honorable Woman» are all strong contenders to win.

For her series - television debut, she's chosen The Honorable Woman, an eight - episode SundanceTV drama about the very real, very violent, and very current troubles between Israel and Palestine.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television Maggie Gyllenhaal, «The Honorable Woman» Jessica Lange, «American Horror Story: Freak Show» Frances McDormand, «Olive Kitteridge» Frances O'Connor, «The Missing» Allison Tolman, «Fargo»

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Actress in a TV Movie / Miniseries Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman Nicole Kidman, Grace of Monaco Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley Queen Latifah, Bessie Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge

TV Movie / Miniseries Black Mirror: White Christmas (Audience Network) Happy Valley (Netflix) The Honorable Woman (SundanceTV) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Wolf Hall (PBS)

OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES American Crime American Horror Story: Freak Show The Honorable Woman Olive Kitterridge Wolf Hall

The nominees: Ellen Burstyn, «Flowers in the Attic»; Maggie Gyllenhaal, «The Honorable Woman»; Frances McDormand, «Olive Kitteridge»; Julia Roberts, «The Normal Heart»; Cicely Tyson, «The Trip to Bountiful»

That's a small detail, but it speaks to one of The Honorable Woman's primary motifs: a conscious looping back to spaces marked by the past.

In The Honorable Woman, the protagonist is 36 - year - old Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the British - Israeli daughter of an arms dealer and CEO of the company he founded, who in the first few moments of the miniseries is sworn into the House Of Lords.

The Honorable Woman is intriguing from the start, but almost in spite of itself, as everyone seems to have a dark secret and nothing is what it seems.

TV never had it so good until «The Honorable Woman» arrived on scene.

The Honorable Woman is really a thriller and, at its best, it's on a level with something like «Homeland» at its best.

If you look in Webster's Dictionary, you will find me as the definition of «honorable Woman».

For a New York Times Times Talk in N.Y.C. the Honorable Woman actress picks a simple and charming Chloë dress with a black and white pattern that mimics newsprint.

«We have every confidence that the senator we work for is an honorable woman,» said an aide to Montgomery at her office on Wednesday afternoon.

«We have every confidence that the senator we work for is an honorable woman,» the Brooklyn pol's staffer said.

I never found a decent honorable woman who wanted an affair with a married man.

And those who accuse HONORABLE WOMEN but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and NEVER (afterward) accept their testimony — They indeed are evil - doers — Save those who afterward repent and make amends.

Not exact matches

I have traveled to GTMO and have seen the honorable and professional behavior of the American men and women in uniform, who serve at the detention facility,» Pompeo said in a statement on Nov. 18.

You should meet the «honorable man and woman» who live above me and the way they model being married to their 3 children with Hate, filthy mouths, and violence.

This is, maybe most of all, a SOUTHERN film — the honorable, violent, classy (sir and mam), men - of - few - well - chosen - poetic - words, chivalrous, gun - toting, fishing, motorized - vehicle - loving, woman - idealizing - and - protecting, family - and - place - oriented, unprosperous, rural (but not agrarian) South.

Honorable men would work away their lives in hell holes to provide for women.

As to being a «conscious and honored view,» I'm sure it's conscious, but, as a woman, I find it anything but honorable.

It should make us the most just and honorable men, and the most compassionate and strong and gracious women.

If GLBTQ folk have no desire to marry in accordance with Jesus» one man - one woman directive, then the only alternative is celibacy, an honorable and blessed alternative.

Unbeknownst to us, an hour after those words were uttered, the gunman in Charleston snuffed out the lives of honorable men and women who participated in the life of their community: mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons, and daughters.

Honorable mention goes to Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol.

Does it not assume that women can not be trusted to make honorable decisions, and that only male - made laws and male - controlled funding can make women responsible and moral about their reproductivity?

And the sooner we stop fetishizing it as the core of what it means to be a mother and a woman, as some sort of sacred, higher, path for the female sex, the sooner we will see it for what it really is: difficult, necessary, and honorable work whose workers deserve dignified and decent working conditions.

And, let's face it — for some women, being the Other Woman is empowering; they're likely to ignore any «guardrails» men have erected and go head - on for them, no matter how honorable men want to be.

«Woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.