Sentences with phrase «turn of mistress»

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Praised be thou in peace, 0 Lady of the West, The Mistress that turns herself toward mercy!

Learning of the plan, the jilted wife (Julianne Moore) tells the mistress - turned wife Maggie (Greta Gerwig): «Have the decency to leave him and face the fact that you poisoned my life and my children's life and probably John's life, with your own selfishness.

He has turned the debate on an iconic right of centre policy (inheritance tax), stymied plans for a 2007 election, prised open important new debates on tax complexity and green taxation and even managed to win the favours of the Prime Minister's erstwhile mistress, Miss Prudence.

These mobsters, mistresses and their surrounding Broadway types — especially Dianne Wiest giving one of the greatest ever Oscar - winning performances — are a hoot to spend time with, as are the New York crazies that populate Deconstructing Harry, a film that sails along nicely until it turns into a curiously wooden (hah hah, right!)

Frances Ha used its quick cuts like punchlines; Mistress America does plenty of that (it's quick, coming in under 90 minutes) but also stages a bravura, extended farce sequence in the Connecticut suburbs that turns its snappy dialogue into a symphony of wit and movement.

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.

Another refreshing aspect of Baumbach's Gerwigification is that both Frances Ha and Mistress America are primarily about the relationship between women (though Baumbach points out that Margot at the Wedding also turns on the frayed bond between sisters).

Racing around Rome in a flashy sports car, wearingsunglasses after dark and ducking the paparazzi at every turn, he juggles theattentions of his leading lady (Nicole Kidman), his wife (Marion Cotillard) andhis mistress (Penelope Cruz).

It is left to Johnson and Dornan to rescue what they can from such sexual oblivion and whilst Johnson is a revelation as the innocuous student turned sexually curious mistress, Dornan struggles to connect with dual characteristics of Grey, failing to strike a balance between charismatic businessman and sadistic Dominant.

The sexual tension between a curly - haired, side - whiskered Doc and the former prom queen - turned aspiring hippie starlet - turned kept woman is palatable, and fuels the fiction, yet, as any respectable PI, Doc meets a lot of available ladies throughout, whether he beds them or not: Jena Malone (a classic California blonde with a sordid heroin past), Reese Witherspoon (a hard - as - nail but o so classy deputy D.A.), Maya Rudolph (too sexy to be «just a receptionist»), Hong Chau (an employee of the «Chick Planet» massage parlour, who warns him about the Golden Fang gang), newcomer Sasha Fenway (as Japonica Fenway, a poor little rich girl who can't find enough mischief to commit), Yvette Yates (as the hot Chicana maid who thrusts her butt in Doc's direction while serving drinks to her mistress), Joanne Newsom (as the elusive Sortilège) and the fabulous Jeannie Berlin as Doc's I - know - it - all formidable auntie.

Mere months after her breakout role opposite Chris O'Donnell in «Circle of Friends,» Minnie Driver briefly turned up in «GoldenEye» — playing Russian gangster Valentin Zukovsky's mistress and unglamorously warbling Tammy Wynette's classic «Stand By Your Man.»

Jill turns out to be a shrewd, resourceful amateur sleuth, and Kirke (Mistress America) proves again to be a low - key but clever actress; there's a funny scene of Jill imitating another, ditzier personal assistant to learn the whereabouts of a potential suspects.

Penned by Eric Singer, the film will tell the true story of a famed financial con artist (Bale) and his mistress / partner in crime (Adams) who were forced to work with an out of control federal agent (Cooper) to turn the tables on other con artists, mobsters and politicians.

Nerissa knew about the conception of the baby and felt she was doing a «good turn» to her mistress by eliminating the baby and hopefully perishing the trauma associated with the pregnancy and birth.

Recent exhibitions organized by the PMA include The Mistress and the Muse: Selections from the Isabelle and Scott Black Collection (2017); Artist's Choice: Photographs from the Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder (2017); Of Whales in Paint: Rockwell Kent's Moby - Dick (2016); Unbound: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (2016); Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange (2016); and Georges Braque: Surface and Space (2016of Judy Glickman Lauder (2017); Of Whales in Paint: Rockwell Kent's Moby - Dick (2016); Unbound: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (2016); Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange (2016); and Georges Braque: Surface and Space (2016Of Whales in Paint: Rockwell Kent's Moby - Dick (2016); Unbound: Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (2016); Duncan Hewitt: Turning Strange (2016); and Georges Braque: Surface and Space (2016).

If both characters self - consciously construct elaborate rituals by taking turns to portray master and servant while their mistress Madame is away, then Mirren, who similarly flits between two different social classes to self - consciously construct her own personal identity, is seen taking turns in Mellor's paintings to act each side of the power divide.

He calls her a «mistress of innuendo» and says that, when innuendo failed her, she turned to non-existent evidence.