Sentences with phrase «society ladies»

Despite its recent growth, the society still has certain image problems — those unfamiliar with the organization tend to image its members as dusty archivists or «dotty Poetry Society ladies in flowered hats.»

Yorkshire terriers were very popular lapdogs of high society ladies as well as high - ranking political figures, with one particular dog having lived in the White House together with the Nixons.

It's very early to speculate and surmise, as the fair opened to VIPs just this morning and a good chunk of the sales will happen at tonight's ultra glitzy preview gala, but there's an air of excitement here in Dallas, land of society ladies with hair piled and pampered and pompadoured to the sky, land of the Aston Martins of robber barons valet parked in sprawling lots, land of giant bloody steaks and the cattle killed to cook them.

He makes finely tailored but somewhat fussy frocks for society ladies right in his London townhouse, where a platoon of seamstresses work for him under the eye of his sister and business partner, Cyril (an icy Lesley Manville).

The deplorable quality and lack of restraint of art, and the sentimental, feminine character of the picture of the Sacred Heart, a handsome Jesus with azure blue eyes, statues of Our Lady, dolled up with lipstick and mascara and who looks like a lovely society lady.

Around that time, local spirits industry legend LeNell Smothers nominated Gullo as a member for the New York chapter of the charity - driven society Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC).

Brooks Brothers makes a great button down — not at all older society lady as most of their clothes read.

While the premise will once again center on three friends who reunite after the suicide of their fourth friends, the women will be San Francisco professionals rather than Manhattan society ladies.

(In Spanish with subtitles) The Walker (R for profanity, violence and nude images) Woody Harrelson stars in this political potboiler about a refined male escort who serves as the gay companion to well - connected, Washington, DC society ladies till he unwittingly ends up implicated in a murder.

The legendary society lady and tone - deaf diva gets a lavish big screen biopic from director Stephen Frears, with great turns by Streep and Hugh Grant

The film tells of Reynolds Woodcock, a designer of bespoke haute couture for wealthy society ladies whose business is briskly run by his spinster sister Cyril (Lesley Manville).

Infamous spends more time in New York as well, showing Capote dining and sharing details with his magpie society ladies, played by an amazing array of familiar faces: Hope Davis, Isabella Rosellini, Sigourney Weaver and Juliet Stevenson.

Monk's wife, Hester, who runs a free clinic for abused women, draws a highly unusual guerrilla force to her husband's cause — a canny ratcatcher, a retired brothel keeper, a fearless street urchin, and a rebellious society lady.

Before his liaison with Sisi, he was having an affair with Blanche Hozier, a married society lady.

«Full of scheming whores, surly servants, simpering society ladies and smartly dressed gents, the book's as rollicking, bawdy and brilliant a yarn as aught that's come out of the Empire since Mrs. Brown sat upon the throne.

Society ladies first exhibited Frenchies in 1896 at Westminster and a Frenchie was featured on the cover of the 1897 Westminster catalog even though it was not yet an approved AKC breed.

In fact, the French Bulldog was a fashionable companion in bohemian society, favored by society ladies, prostitutes, artists and writers throughout France.

Having covered my share of society ladies during my Houston Chronicle days, I can vouch for the authenticity Sherman achieves, which I suspect has to do with the likelihood that she's sat next to her fair share of them at museum galas, giving her ample opportunities to study their icy vulnerability and their use of makeup, Botox and haughtiness to mask their underlying fears of aging and being cast aside.

It's a little like walking into a late night café that has just been abandoned by a hen party of down - on - their - luck society ladies.

Trosch's early paintings conjure a Florine Stettheimer fantasy of Park Avenue society ladies — Stettheimer being the one obligatory reference on the rare occasions when Trosch has been discussed in print - which made it a happy coincidence that his show partly coincided with the Jewish Museum's current retrospective of that also once — underrated painter.

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The first trailer for Phantom Thread, which debuted Monday, offers a first look at Day - Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, an English couturier designing for society ladies («dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock,» reads the film's synopsis) in the middle of the 20th century.

And it was that contradiction that he acted and reenacted in an ingenious multitude of variations: Sir Charlie, tipping his bowler hat, not only to portly mayors and rich tycoons and society ladies, but to children and dogs and trees and milk cows.

Their dream was that society ladies would wear their dresses and this is exactly how it should be.

This unique love story, based on a novelette by Denis Diderot and with dialogue written by Jean Cocteau, follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.

This unique love story follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.

When one of the society ladies states she could forgive Anna for breaking the law, but not for breaking the rules, we fully comprehend what a ridiculous state those in high society exist.

The other day, when I was being led into a meeting with a bishop, one of the society ladies told another, «We must get this woman into Parliament soon.

Little does he know that his cook, Verity, is using her position in his kitchen to hide from her family and her past as a society lady.

I was interested in a society lady detective and foggy Victorian London is a great setting for a mystery... Continue reading →

Marvel at what it took to untangle a snake stuck in a doorway, scaring the society ladies in the waiting room.

Marvel at what it took to untangle a snake stuck in a doorway, scaring all the society ladies in the waiting room.

Feel your heart race when a snake gets stuck, scaring the society ladies in waiting room.

Erin Graffy, historian and author of How to Santa Barbara, Society Lady's Guide on How to Santa Barbara, and Animalia, hints at the best places to see public art in Santa Barbara and explains how natural disasters have shaped her community.

In her later series with large - format color photographs, Sherman takes up such themes as fashion photography, fairytale figures, horror scenes and high - society ladies.

The different personas Sherman depicts are stereotypes; they represent a series of clichés: career girl, bombshell, fashion victim, schoolgirl, society lady, etc. — all characters deeply embedded in our cultural history.