Sentences with word «schoolmistress»

Marjorie, a breathy schoolmistress from Devon.)

We don't see enough of Minnie Driver these days, but she delivers a typically warm, committed performance as a kindly if undisciplined Welsh schoolmistress putting on a rock opera version of The Tempest in 1976.

But within the space of a year, this illusion of ordinary days is shattered by the deaths of three innocents — a charming schoolmistress from «the north,» who captured every male heart only to take her own life without apparent reason; an angelic eight - year - old girl, who is strangled, her body abandoned by the canal; and the cherished wife of the local policeman, who dies in labor while her husband is hunting the little girl's murderer.

Familiar fairy tale tropes — such as a noble white horse, a strict schoolmistress, a haunted house — invite the viewer to fill in the blanks and enter an emotional experience with the character, blurring the lines between lived experience and fantasy.

Her options were schoolmistress or doctor; she accepted the latter.

Designers like Agnona, Bibhu Mohapatra and Thierry Mugler sent down the catwalk a few impressive items, like the knit jumper with furry shoulders, schoolmistress - like lace blouses and futuristic tops.

When 14 - year - old Mable Riley leaves home for Ontario in 1901 to assist her schoolmistress, she prays for adventure; she finds it when she meets a radical suffragist in the conservative farm town.

MARY ALMOST WEPT WHEN she learned that her first duty as a schoolmistress would be to evacuate her class to the countryside.

She reacted rather like a schoolmistress on Valium, initially asking «why», to which I replied it was a limited edition set of artist cards.