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Recent Examples of mother superior
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.
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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
Smith also appeared as the strict Mother Superior in Sister Act, as the elder Wendy Darling in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, A Room With a View, The First Wives Club, and Tea With Mussolini.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Highlights of Smith’s career in the ‘90s include Sister Act, as the disapproving Mother Superior who becomes an unlikely ally to Whoopi Goldberg’s Reno lounge singer while she is being sheltered in a convent from her mobster boyfriend.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
Smith reprised her role as the Reverend Mother, aka Mother Superior, in the sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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
Smith also appeared as the strict Mother Superior in Sister Act, as the elder Wendy Darling in Steven Spielberg’s Hook, A Room With a View, The First Wives Club, and Tea With Mussolini.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Highlights of Smith’s career in the ‘90s include Sister Act, as the disapproving Mother Superior who becomes an unlikely ally to Whoopi Goldberg’s Reno lounge singer while she is being sheltered in a convent from her mobster boyfriend.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
Smith reprised her role as the Reverend Mother, aka Mother Superior, in the sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mother superior
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Smith reprised her role as the Reverend Mother, aka Mother Superior, in the sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas have joined the cast as the new characters of The Reverend Mother, a smiling, guitar-playing nun who runs the Home for Retired Bears, and Hunter Cabot, a dashing and intrepid riverboat captain who offers to help the Brown family on their Peruvian adventure.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 16 Sep. 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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The torch was then handed over from the high priestess to a torchbearer, beginning the long journey which will span over 3,000 miles as the torch makes its way to Paris for the start of the 2024 Olympics on July 26.Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
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Under Macron’s presidency, which began in 2017 after his surprise victory as a 39-year-old political novice, France has sought to reclaim its place as a global center of culture.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
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The appeal of visiting them will be obvious to serious ornithologists, but even novice bird-watchers or anyone who simply loves spending time in the great outdoors will appreciate these bird hot spots.David Escribano, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Mother superior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mother%20superior. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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