Sentences with phrase «matrons in»

Trosch typically paints society matrons in cluttered art - filled homes, galleries, and pool parties.

Their brightly decorated carriages carry men in fine suits and society matrons in colorful dresses.

Tables of elderly black matrons in their Sunday finest buzz with neighborhood gossip, while just a few feet away union reps pass the inexpensive red wine to their wives, and elsewhere unreserved tables of strangers make nice with college students, entrepreneurs, government workers — white, black, and Hispanic — all bonding over their common hopes for the city.

Baroness Blackstone, «At the Chris Hani Hospital we went to a big burns unit where we were able to visit the wards, as well as hearing from the consultant and the matron in charge.

She had lost a lot of weight and was proud of her new size S figure, but was still dressing it like a matron in dowdy, too large skirts.

Sporting Star - of - David bling and exceptionally big hair, Kate Winslet's thickly accented Irina Vlaslov is tougher than any of these compromised men as she tightens the screws on in a way that is reminiscent of Kristin Scott - Thompson's angry - icicle matron in Only God Forgives.

Not exact matches

The depictions of Augustus himself, as the model pater familias, and various imperial women, such as his wife Livia, sister Octavia, or niece Antonia Augusta, as ideal Roman matrons, were particularly central in this respect.

Originally from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, Miss Haining made her home in the Hungarian capital, where she worked at the city's Scottish Mission School as a boarding house matron.

In June, the wife and mother of two started her own church for «traditional» witches called Disir, an old Norse word meaning «matron deities,» she says.

Milwaukee Journal cartoonist Doug Sanders lampooned those assumptions in a panel that pictured a grimly determined matron forcibly leading her bleary - eyed spouse from «Art's Bar and Grill,» as he protests, «But honey!

As the «matron of honor,» (a title that for some reason conjures in my mind the image of a large breasted woman in a peasant dress carrying an armful of babies), my duties for the week will keep me pretty busy.

It is a good thing indeed that men as well as women, young women as well as matrons, and talented older people of both sexes have also been engaged in the teaching enterprises of the churches.

As Barish points out in an amusing aside, «In an old movie comedy, an affected matron expressed her appreciation of dinner by declaring that «the fish was simply a poem»» obviously the most rapturous word of approval she could think of.&raquin an amusing aside, «In an old movie comedy, an affected matron expressed her appreciation of dinner by declaring that «the fish was simply a poem»» obviously the most rapturous word of approval she could think of.&raquIn an old movie comedy, an affected matron expressed her appreciation of dinner by declaring that «the fish was simply a poem»» obviously the most rapturous word of approval she could think of.»

As in the case of R. Hanina b. Pappi, whom a certain matron urged [to immorality].

During the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius in the middle of the second century, an unnamed Roman matron furtively became a Christian and not only left her old way of life behind but invited her husband to do the same.

Pieter Dirk Uys, a cabaret satirist who often does his stand - up routines in drag, plays an upper - class «English» matron who between bon - bons confesses her enormous hatred of apartheid - and of blacks, too, of course.

Finally, the spectacle, often referred to, of Roman hostesses who «walk about like honourable matrons or ride on mules and following them even in high noonday, come the most prominent of cardinals and priests».

I have a very clear picture in my head of Matron sitting there guarding them to make sure nobody had more than one!

I was the matron of honor for the wedding in Rome and saw the couple off to Naples Most of the group including the brides father who was an area manager in my husbands plant sat down to a dinner in the inn we were staying.

Marcella was the leading lady in the story Don Quixote and was also given to the famous Saint Marcella, the Roman matron of strength.

The previous administration set in motion a contract re-bidding process that stripped school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics of job security protections.

It is because the NHS has been a central priority since June that we have made immediate changes to improve safety and cleanliness in every hospital - beginning the deep cleaning of our wards, making provision for MRSA screening for all patients entering hospital, and giving matrons new powers to report safety concerns direct to the Care Quality Commission.

«The fact is, a safe workforce is an experienced workforce and the Employee Protection Provisions currently included in the City's busing contracts protect our most experienced drivers, matrons, and mechanics — and have created one of the safest workforces in the entire country.»

Ghana's former first lady Lordina Mahama has commended matrons of orphanages in Ghana for serving as foster parents to orphans.

Mbalu Fonnie, a licensed nurse midwife and the nursing supervisor of the KGH Lassa Ward, was «matron of nursing at KGH,» says Robert Garry, a study co-author and virologist at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

«A lot of people have turned up in hospital as a result of «Operation Western Area Surge»,» Isatu Kamara, matron of the Connaught Hospital, capital Freetown's main government referral hospital, told The Anadolu Agency.»

We've all embraced particular characters (or archetypes) in our life: the jokester, the jock, a favorite son, the beautiful stranger, smart businesswoman, a matron, maybe a criminal... the list is endless.

I'm the matron of honor in my sister's wedding and a bridesmaid in another and two are back to back.

Here's a little picture of 2 of the bridesmaids and me in the middle (matron of honor) at my best friend's wedding.

asked my best friend and Matron of Honor, upon receiving another picture of me in yet another wedding dress.

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Definitely my friends» wedding in April (I escaped being a «matron of honour»).

It's the same dress that I wore to my best friend Sarah's wedding in December, where I was the Matron of Honor.

I fell in love with Maia Chance's lovely heroines, Lola (a widowed society matron who has fallen on difficult financial times after her husband's death 121 First Dates: How to Succeed at Online Dating, Fall in Love, and Live Happily Ever After (Really!)

For comic relief in the film, Schindler show flirtatious interest in the prettier candidates who hunt and peck, but glumly sits back with utter disinterest when the fastest typist (a dour, cigarette - smoking, plump matron) is being tested.

It all hangs on one deal, the one piece of property, Tavern on the Green in Central Park, that no one has been able to persuade its owner, grande dame society matron Mrs. Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury), to sell.

She's the matron saint for cool moms everywhere, not to mention new divorcees who, after tolerating wan missionary sex with their milquetoast mates, full - throatedly take in the excitement of no - strings - attached sex with much younger, stupider men.

Rampling's character, known only as Matron, gives a speech to the class about how the West is weak, tearing itself apart with racial divisions and social media obsessions, and how it's Russia's time to step in and assert itself as the ultimate world power.

Redesignated and redesigned as a «sparrow,» Dominika learns a very particular set of skills under the cold tutelage of Matron (Charlotte Rampling, «45 Years»), before undertaking a mission in Eastern Europe involving CIA agent Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton, «It Comes at Night»).

The inimitable American actress Kathleen Freeman has been convulsing film audiences with portrayals of dowdy, sharp - tongued matrons since she was in her 20s.

In a later scene, which happens after Francine has been forced off the Paridier farm for reasons both silly and significant, the matron she's now working with receives a similar visitor, and Francine solemnly takes the woman's daughter out for a walk.

A whole section is spent in a sparrow training school, where a matron played by Charlotte Rampling instructs recruits to yield their bodies to Mother Russia and become stone cold fucking machines.

Dominika and her classmates have to strip naked and perform sex acts on strangers, all in front of each other, while Matron looks on with a disapproving glare.

At the height of her fame, Maria is asked to take part in a revival of the movie that shot her to stardom; not in her original role as ingenue, however, but as the story's duped matron.

Emily Mortimer plays a young widow in 1959 Suffolk who shocks the townsfolk by opening a bookshop, Bill Nighy is her crusty neighbor, Patricia Clarkson a local society matron.

Frears creates a matron's womb, a lonely castle, where the only thing that offers light is wrapped in a dark complexion.

Standing out in the supporting cast is Craig Stevens, a decade away from Peter Gunn, sweating cheap, desperate charm as Tierney's heel of a husband and veteran character actress Ruth Donnelly as a diner matron with a sharp tongue and a warm heart.

Marginal inspiration, at that --- that «young» inserted in the title is intended as the film's creative and commercial trump card, promising a sprightlier, sexier take on the figure more frequently depicted in her latter years as a stern, cabbage - faced matron.

Ruthie has played both murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart in previous productions, but settled for matron this time around.

Besides young Tom (Isaac Hempstead - Wright), Florence deals daily with the school matron, Maud Hill (Imelda Staunton), the war - wounded Robert Mallory (Dominic West), sadistic teacher Malcolm (Shaun Dooley), and Judd (Joseph Mawle), an unpleasant groundskeeper who is shunned for having avoided service in the war.