Sentences with phrase «work as a maid»

The contradiction is summed up by the presence of more than 100,000 Filipinas in Hong Kong, many of them women with university degrees, working as maids to strangers» children as a means of providing for their own back at home.

A 2005 study found that 95 percent of women smuggled from Romania to Germany believed that they would be doing legitimate work as maids or factory workers.

Synopsis: When her father goes blind, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) must go to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth).

Val — a superb Regina Casé — works as a maid for a rich family in Sao Paulo.

Longoria, always incredibly committed to showcasing the diversity and potential of the Latino community, is the Executive Producer of «Devious Maids,» Lifetime's hit one - hour dramedy that follows the trials and tribulations of five Latina women who work as maids in Beverly Hills, currently going into its third season.

In New York, Julia (Mila Kunis) has started working as a maid at a hotel after struggling to find a steady job.

The odd - man out in this group is Olivia (Jennifer Aniston), a former school - teacher who now works as a maid.

She gets a job working as a maid in a wealthy neighborhood, but when Christina is offered the opportunity to come home with a much bigger paycheck, she finds herself employed by a local drug cartel.

THE DESERT BRIDE --(Chile / Argentina) Dir, Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato A middle - aged woman who works as a maid for an upper middle - class family in Buenos Aires goes back to her hometown of San Juan after decades away to visit her dying sister.

The film opens with Lena (Cara Gee) working as a maid.

The boys» mother, Angela Mancilla, worked as a maid, found she couldn't make ends meet, and left for a similar job in Texas in 1957, leaving her two toddlers behind with relatives.

Twenty - two - year - old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen.

Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home.

For a while it appeared he would never be solvent enough to bring Viola, then working as a maid, and baby Cha - Cha to join him.

But she has cut ties with the Greyhill family, for whom her mother, Anju, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, once worked as a maid.

It makes an odd sort of sense, actually,» Clove said.Clove is working as a maid in the Finchley household while she spies on Katherine Finchley and Matthew Galloway.

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Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..

The potential for using petroleum - based solvents such as gasoline and kerosene was discovered in the mid-19th century by French dye - works owner Jean Baptiste Jolly, who noticed that his tablecloth became cleaner after his maid spilled kerosene on it.

A leveling of occupations is reflected in Luther's writing: «Even a small work, even a maid cooking and cleaning, must be praised as a service to God far surpassing the holiness and asceticisms of all monks.»

To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal - Mart salesperson.

One a week maid tops, do your own shopping and cooking after work just as we do before kids.

My grandmother was a domestic servant, who worked as a lady's maid below stairs.

Left to play chef, chauffeur, teacher, nurse, maid, special events coordinator, and correctional officer, many moms feel like they're always running out of steam - especially if they work outside of the home as well.

i worked as an au pair for a family in milan (taught their daughters english) and i became pretty good friends with the ironing girl (well, after getting over the shock that she had a different job than the maid...) love that dress!

As a wedding planner, I'm always surprised to find how many girls still see it as «taboo» or «unacceptable» for their maids to wear different gowns in the same hue, but these photos are proof that it definitely workAs a wedding planner, I'm always surprised to find how many girls still see it as «taboo» or «unacceptable» for their maids to wear different gowns in the same hue, but these photos are proof that it definitely workas «taboo» or «unacceptable» for their maids to wear different gowns in the same hue, but these photos are proof that it definitely works.

The 23 - year - old mom from Florida used to earn quite less every week for working as a part - time maid.

Casé is dead - on as the maid torn between the family she works for, and the one to which she belongs.

Living in equally abject poverty nearby is the Jackson family, headed by patriarch Hap (Rob Morgan), a preacher and tenant who labors over the 200 acres he will never own, and his hard - working wife Florence (Mary J. Blige) who plows the fields, raises her children, and works as Laura's maid.

This sibling comedy follows sisters working as hotel maids in the California city of Fresno.

Kim is offered work as a live - in maid - housekeeper in a private chalet in St Anton.

In this Will Smith helmed autobiographical drama, Newton plays Linda, Christopher Garner's (Smith) bitter and increasingly alienated wife who works as a hotel maid.

Faced with the daily accounts of racism and inbred hatred, Skeeter decides to write a book detailing the African American maid's point of view on the white families they work for, with the help of Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer), who must do so in secret, or they'll be promptly fired from their homes and will never be hired as help again.

This formulaic, frothy British teen comedy stars Felicity Jones (ITV's Northanger Abbey) as a working - class waitress who is taken on as a maid in Bill Nighy's luxury ski lodge.

Nuanced applies as well to Macdonald's body of work, whether as a bereft parent in Child, a woman threatened by a hired killer in No Country for Old Men, a gangster's wife in Boardwalk Empire or, yes, even the naive maid she played in «Gosford Park.»

I know better than to approach this as anything other than the eventual guilty pleasure that it will prove to be, but putting Marc Cherry («Desperate Housewives») at the helm of a show about four maids in Beverly Hills who work for the famous while trying to make their own dreams come true...?

Faraday knows the estate from his own childhood, when his mother worked there as a maid herself.

Anderson drinks in the stylish townhouse where much of the film takes place, framing a spiral staircase in worshipfully low angles as Reynolds's maids, seamstresses, and models ascend it each morning to commence in the ritual of their work.

He's there on business, while she works at the hotel as a maid.

There is a sequence with a maid and a butler in the final third of the film that to some extent works as a comparison to the more complicated lives of the rich characters, but it feels tacked on and simplistic (if not condescending) relative to Renoir's film.

Superlative work is rather expected from the likes of Davis, Stone (whom it is good to see show off her dramatic chops in a high - profile film after her excellent work in the virtually unseen — and frankly overall forgettable — Paper Man), Howard, Sissy Spacek (as her lush of a mother), Allison Janney (as Stone's cancer - stricken mom) and Cicely Tyson (as Stone's family's former maid), so perhaps making an even more memorable impression is the work by two less familiar stars.

And the meager nomination tally won't merely be a fault of the Academy, either, as there certainly wasn't a wealth of baity work available for people of color this year, a year in which the only high - profile part that recent Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe can boast is, yes, a maid — in a Brett Ratner movie.

His mother had given up her job as a maid for betterpaying work at Moldex, a factory that manufactured foam for the bra cups of bathing suits.

Young girls, virtually children, are lured with promises of proper jobs as nannies, au pairs, and maids to work for wealthy European families.

Instead of becoming a working girl, she is taken in by Dr. Damien Cole as a maid - of - all - work in debut novelist Eve Silver's beguiling Gothic tale, Dark Desires...

But then she learned it was illegal to sell liquor without a license and she started working full - time as a maid, cleaning two hundred hotel rooms a week.

Jefferson's relationship with Sally probably started in 1787 or 1788, while she was working as his youngest daughter's maid in Paris.

In an attempt to escape her not - so - innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley — a wide - eyed and feisty young Irish girl — takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella — the «missus.»

He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city.

The various jobs I hold are: mommy, wife, writer, site admin / webmaster (I own and run The Official Jeaniene Frost Fansite), graphic artist (cover art / author promo work), chauffeur, maid, tech - nerd, waitress (or as my daughter likes to call out while eating dinner — SERVER!)

It's not actively bad, and certainly good for a chuckle, but seeing this comedic take on a cafe, and the life of the plucky yet dense heroine, Hotori, who works there as a maid, I was reminded that most of the slice - of - life we see here these days tends to be 4 - koma style.