Sentences with phrase «society matrons»

Celebrated for her portraits of people traditionally on the margins of society — dwarfs and giants — as well as those on the inside — society matrons and crying babies — Arbus was fascinated with the relationship between appearance and identity.

Fredericks & Freiser (A23) for example will show only paintings by Thomas Trosch, whose exuberant paintings of society matrons the artist rarely allows to be exhibited.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

The novelist (Crawford) meets the publisher's wife (Garson) at the home of a chatterbox society matron (Byington).

But in The First Wives Club the society matron (Maggie Smith, in the movie's most subtle performance) rolls her eyes and screws up her face in distaste because the filmmakers don't trust the audience to get the joke.

After society matron Mrs. Walker (Eileen Brennan) ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old - fashioned mores may have sealed her fate.

Her father is vice president of a steel company and her mother is a society matron.

It's fascinating to watch her morph from a cheerful, if ditzy, secretary to a glaring society matron, her condescending gaze nailing the viewer, like Eliot's Prufrock, «sprawling on a pin.»

In self - reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron.

Nevelson's personal life began in hardship and loneliness before a similar metamorphosis into that of a rich New York society matron.

However, when presented with the opportunity to marry the wealthy businessman Charles Nevelson and move to New York as a society matron rather than alone as a poor student, she did not hesitate to do so.