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Recent Examples of mother superior
Maybe some of the blame lies with her mentor, Mother Superior Raquella, who sought to harness her rage and psychic power and revealed secrets to her that the other acolytes didn’t know.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Best Supporting Performance award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role as a different sort of formidable Mother Superior in Irish drama Small Things Like These.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
The Mother Superior insisted Warner, a glee club member, learn Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.
—Provided By Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2024
His travel documents conveniently arrive ahead of a letter from the Mother Superior (Colman) presiding over the Peruvian bear retirement home where Aunt Lucy is a resident, encouraging him to visit before her health deteriorates.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
After Grandier was executed, the Mother Superior at Loudun, Jeanne des Anges, continued to be tormented by demons.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
The hilarious scene saw Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu go undercover as nuns in order to garner information from Fisher’s Mother Superior.
—EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Casting female actors was slightly easier because there’s just the one major role for a woman, that of Vatican Mother Superior Sister Agnes.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The pair starred together in 1992's Sister Act and the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, in which Goldberg portrayed lounge singer Deloris and Smith played the memorable Mother Superior.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Sep. 2024
Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Best Supporting Performance award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role as a different sort of formidable Mother Superior in Irish drama Small Things Like These.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
The Mother Superior insisted Warner, a glee club member, learn Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.
—Provided By Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2024
His travel documents conveniently arrive ahead of a letter from the Mother Superior (Colman) presiding over the Peruvian bear retirement home where Aunt Lucy is a resident, encouraging him to visit before her health deteriorates.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
After Grandier was executed, the Mother Superior at Loudun, Jeanne des Anges, continued to be tormented by demons.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
The hilarious scene saw Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu go undercover as nuns in order to garner information from Fisher’s Mother Superior.
—EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Casting female actors was slightly easier because there’s just the one major role for a woman, that of Vatican Mother Superior Sister Agnes.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The pair starred together in 1992's Sister Act and the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, in which Goldberg portrayed lounge singer Deloris and Smith played the memorable Mother Superior.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mother superior
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The disagreement surfaced in April 2023 after Olson accused their Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach of breaking her chastity vows by having an online love affair with Father Philip Johnson, a former priest from the diocese in Raleigh, N.C., per Chron.Charna Flam, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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Valya’s thinking was that, in doing so, Lila could make contact with her ancestors — namely, the late Reverend Mother Raquella, to pump her for any additional details on the tyrant/reckoning prophecy.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Nov. 2024
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This is the folding method for clothes popularized by the high priestess of tidy organization, Marie Kondo.David Pierce, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2024
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By record’s end, Garcia emerges in full command of this mercurial spirit world—a high priestess with a synth and a killer sixth sense.Suzy Exposito, SPIN, 6 June 2024
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Sheehy has been a staunch supporter of former President Trump and made that central to his campaign as a political novice.The Hill, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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John Mayer, a relative Dead novice at the time, took on the difficult role of fronting Dead & Company alongside guitarist Bob Weir, drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, bassist Oteil Burbridge, and keyboardist Jeff Chimenti.Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Mother superior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mother%20superior. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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