Sentences with phrase «rich widows in»

«I have no more faith in global climate model (GCM) predictions than I have in all those emails from Nigeria advising me that I have won the Lotto, or those proposals from rich widows in Dubai who have just lost their husbands, or from the less frequent emails from my bank asking for details of my banking account.

My understanding of sociology and economics in first - century Palestine tells me there was no such thing as a rich widow in that culture.

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In Mark 12, right before Jesus observes and comments upon the rich giving from their wealth and the widow giving from her poverty, Jesus condemns the religious leaders for their pride, arrogance, self - prominence, and greed.

We like to have the best seats wherever we go, and we do devour the houses of widows — especially if they are rich, and in a mood to name our church in their will.

During the next few years Horatio bounced back and forth between Europe and Argentina, married an Argentine widow with a couple of children, operated a Chrysler agency in Buenos Aires with a rich playboy pal, who is known on the international nightclub circuit as Macoco, and worked for a time in the Argentine embassy in The Netherlands.

Dropping in to exchange gossip are Ouiser (Shirley MacLaine), the richest and meanest woman in town, and Clairee (Olympia Dukakis), an elegant widow with a sly delivery.

We meet Evelyn (Judi Dench) as the recent widow who discovers her beloved husband left her a mountain of debt; Douglas and Jean (Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton) a hapless married couple who have invested their savings into their daughter's internet company; Muriel (Maggie Smith) is a racist and longtime housekeeper for the rich who has been put out to pasture while in need of a new hip; Graham (Tom Wilkinson) is a high court judge who is fed up with responsibility and seeking to reconnect with a long ago lover; Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are the lonely hearts looking for love, or in his case, loving.

It recalls one of Sirk's most famous films, All That Heaven Allows, in which a rich widow falls in love with her beautiful gardener (played by Rock Hudson) and becomes the pariah of her rich, conservative community.

In this saga of the common - law widow of a German farmer who finds her mission in life by impersonating a dead priest, Erdrich offers a new and remarkably rich chapter in her ongoing sequence of novels about Native American life on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North DakotIn this saga of the common - law widow of a German farmer who finds her mission in life by impersonating a dead priest, Erdrich offers a new and remarkably rich chapter in her ongoing sequence of novels about Native American life on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakotin life by impersonating a dead priest, Erdrich offers a new and remarkably rich chapter in her ongoing sequence of novels about Native American life on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakotin her ongoing sequence of novels about Native American life on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakotin North Dakota.