Sentences with phrase «mistress when»

Her favorite maid — a woman also named Julia but usually called Black Julia or Jule — often accompanied her mistress when she joined Ulysses at military headquarters.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — George Latimer is learning the hard way that karma can be a cruel mistress when you judge others with the same measure used to measure you.

Though Monash did take a mistress when work took him away from his wife (on a three - month steamboat, not a 90 - minute QantasLink turboprop) so we suppose Barnaby and he have that in common.

But the Internet is also a fickle mistress when it comes to preserving the evidence for the future.

It's Cyril who corrals the seamstresses, keeps the trains running on time, and dismisses Woodcock's muses and mistresses when they're no longer of any use to him.

Not exact matches

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

Mrs. Auld... a most kind and tender - hearted woman... on entering upon the career of a slaveholding mistress... When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment....

When discussing themes or circumstances that invite a leer or chortle, like Rubens's penchant for modeling his female saints on buxom blondes or the baroque taste for sexually charged subjects like Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (a «tug of war» between Joseph's virtue and the «gross sensual appetite» of his mistress), Schama's tone can be vexingly flip.

Their design editor has explained that he wanted to associate the magazine with the ethic of slave resistance, not just the revolt but also the pre-war period when «slaves had effectively instituted their own policy of poisoning damn - near everything that breathed... master, the mistress and the rest of the f — ing plantation Brady Bunch.»

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

And despite her name, she has proven to be a cruel mistress, especially when her power is threatened.

Like when conservatives talk about family values, and then fly off to see their mistress?

Fortune favoured them momentarily when Redan got one back ten minutes later, collecting Castillo's through ball and finishing as De Bie lost his footing, but Lady Luck is a fickle mistress, and was soon back firmly on Tottenham's side when Guehi flashed a header past the stranded Tié whilst attempting to clear a cross from J'Neil Lloyd - Bennett, and so it was 3 - 1 at half time.

To not allow his fiancee (yes, a fiancee, no longer a mistress) to sleep over at Mark's home when their teenaged son is home is an attempt to control what she no longer has a right to control.

Then, when sleep does return as a somewhat normal staple in our life, we can wax nostalgic about how cute our non-sleeping newborns were, and even contemplate having another child because we're masochists and time is a cruel mistress that tricks us into having children because we forget how tired we were.

Once a rising star in the Republican Party, Mr. Fossella's political career abruptly ended when it was revealed that he fathered a child with a mistress.

Two years ago, when Bernie Kerik's nomination to be chief of Homeland Security collapsed from a barrage of allegations about mistresses, misappropriations, mob ties, and missing nannies, Rudy Giuliani at first stood by his friend.

Our former mayor, the national disgrace known as Rudy Giuliani, sued to be allowed to bring his mistress into Gracie Mansion when his wife and their children were present.

Reading this biography one is struck by how Theresa May carefully got on with each of her Shadow Cabinet and Cabinet appointments, was mistress of her brief, and clung on it when insulted or demoted.

Yes, his parents were honest and hard working people, but Mark Gjonaj has helped many people especially himself... he moves in his mistress's family members into the building he lives in so when the wife is away the mistress's, while visiting their family members sneak into his apartment and service him... what a wonderful MAN he is and NO ONE is the wiser... Smart businessman we have here, and he wants to be our leader...

I may be the mistress of understatement when I say that I might be obsessed with burgundy at the moment.

Who cares when it turns out that Uncle Bob has been visiting S&M clubs with his albino mistress.

For example, if your Costa Rican wife asks you to argue with your parents & if you listen to her advice, maybe you won't receive your parents» money in the future; if your Costa Rican mistress tells you to divorce your wife, you probably wouldn't do it when you realize that half of your money will become your wife's, particularly when your wife is also your business partner.

We had few dates and I found out he is living with the other women, has young mistress, and told me I was his half when we spoke at first or second time as.

In the pre internet world this usually revolved around getting free drinks, my girlfriend of that time was a master (or mistress) of getting free drinks by flirting with older guys at a bar and coming back with cocktails for two when we were broke.

Sub bottom slave boy looking for a strict master or mistress to punish me when I'm bad and use me for their pleasure.

There was a time when young and beautiful girls would have to visit clubs and other uptown places to stand a chance of connecting with wealthy men seeking a mistress or sugar baby.

actually, hes going to hook up with Mistress Ford when her husbands away from home.

The war with France is nearly lost when one of Henry's officers cleverly engineers a sudden victory, but the triumphant king's health has been weakened by the costly adventure; Brandon returns from France with a mistress.

He is aided in this effort by Gordon's former mistress Myrna Loy, who has all of the film's best lines (When her protecter Baxter falls asleep on a couch, Loy complains «A few more nights like this and I'll be out of condition.»)

When they show up a day early, he's caught red - handed with his mistress, but the friends just want to eat her up.

But he's brought up short when financial ruin and his mistress's sexual dalliances lead to a violent denouement.

When newspaper publisher D.B. Norton (Edward Arnold), a fascistic type with presidential aspirations, decides to use Doe as his ticket to the White House, he puts Doe on the radio to deliver inspirational speeches to the masses — ghost - written by Mitchell, who, it is implied, has become the publisher's mistress.

Sure, when they grew up they thought the world would open up to them: they could have billions of dollars, a lovely wife, a fun mistress, and a side gig rigging treasury bids.

When Dana gets cold feet about her engagement — so cold she begins an affair of her own — she moves in indefinitely with her family, and she and Ali become consumed in figuring out who their father's mistress is.

Dave does the job and is being chauffeured back to obscurity when the President suffers a stroke (while making love to his mistress).

When properly ranked, MISTRESS AMERICA doesn't quite equal the majesty and luminosity that is FRANCES HA — but the two fictional characters could be besties.

Then, when he can't generate any passion in a co-worker (Birgitte Larsen) who's a little too willing to be his mistress, our frustrated fish out of water gets fed up and simply wants out of his harrowing nightmare.

A minute before, her character Deanna was dropping off daughter Maddie (Molly Gordon) at a sorority house for her senior year of college when Deanna's husband of 23 years, Dan (Matt Walsh), announced he wants a divorce to marry his mistress (Julie Bowen).

What happens when the mistress wants to be the wife?

My love - hate relationship with Noah Baumbach's films lurched firmly into love when Greta Gerwig became his collaborator: as star, as muse, and most importantly as screenwriter, Gerwig's contribution appeared — from the outside, at least — to help push Baumbach's works into a new class, with 2012's Frances Ha and 2015's Mistress America both perfectly - executed chronicles of the modern millennial.

When her uncle leaves his prosperous farm to her in his will, she becomes mistress of the land, relishing in her fortune and autonomy.

Gabriel loses his farm when his sheep are accidentally destroyed while Bathsheba, after receiving an inheritance from her uncle, becomes the mistress of the large Weatherbury farm at a comparably young age.

Things get complicated, however, when he discovers that his office crush, quirky elevator operator Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), is one of his bosses» mistresses.

Although Baumbach and Gerwig didn't intentionally set out to turn «Mistress America» into some kind of companion piece to «Frances Ha,» they did want to tell a story with the same sort of framework, at least when it comes to its central characters.

But when he discovers that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the company's elevator operator and the girl of his dreams, he finds himself forced to choose between his career and the woman he loves.

P.I. Dwight McCarthy (Josh Brolin) becomes the real victim when killing an innocent man, mistress Ava's rich husband, which was all part of her master plan.

Mistress America is quite a bit of fun for its first 45 minutes, but when Greta Gerwig's Brooke drags her soon - to - be-half-sister Tracy (Lola Kirke), her friend who almost assuredly has a crush on her Tony (Matthew Shear) and his dramatically jealous and paranoid girlfriend Nicolette (Jasmine Cephas Jones) to suburban Connecticut in order to confront / solicit her ex-fiancee Dylan (Michael Chernus) and his wife / her nemesis Mamie - Claire (Heather Lind), it kicks into another gear entirely.

When Brooke goes in search of $ 75,000 from a rich ex-boyfriend whose heart she broke - and brings along a make - shift entourage of Tracy and her friends - «Mistress America» goes from a light comedy to farce, but it makes the transition smoothly.

Christian Bale played Irving Rosenfeld, a sweaty conman with a ludicrous comb - over who's grafting hard to keep his histrionic wife Rosalyn (the excellent Jennifer Lawrence) and highly strung mistress Sydney (Amy Adams) happy when he falls foul of an FBI agent called Richie Di Maso (Bradley Cooper).