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Recent Examples of schoolmistress
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.
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Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—Vanity Fair, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
—Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024
The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—Silvina Ocampo, The New Yorker, 11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—Vanity Fair, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmistress
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The headmistress of her school created bizarre ways to segregate her from the rest of the students, and when Kitty rebelled against these rules, she was expelled.—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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Wild Child also stars Emma Roberts and Natasha Richardson in a tale of what happens when teenage California native Poppy (Roberts) is shipped off to boarding school in England, where Richardson plays the headmistress.—
Alex Ross,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The result is teacher layoffs and less opportunity for the students who are attending public schools.—
Tinbete Ermyas,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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In 2023, Governor J.B. Pritzker, following teachers union directives, refused to renew the modest Invest in Kids program that offered several thousand low-income children an escape route from underperforming schools.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Synopsis: When a medical emergency leaves schoolteacher Amanda fighting for her life, her desperate husband Mike signs her up for Rivermind, a high-tech system that will keep her alive.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Mar. 2025
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In the new thriller Holland, the Oscar winner plays a Michigan schoolteacher and homemaker who becomes obsessed investigating her suspicious husband, played by Matthew Macfadyen.—
Benjamin VanHoose,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The search for a missing schoolmarm is the focus of an escape room experience at the Lanesfield School, a historic one-room schoolhouse in Edgerton.—
Beth Lipoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
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University deans, schoolmarms and human resources managers penned dress codes outright forbidding the garment or relegating it to certain areas.—
The Conversation,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2023
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This submissiveness in the teen-aged mistress Cassidy has found addictive, like a narcotic.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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After long being recognized as a mistress, the now 77-year-old was eager to enjoy a quieter life without the scrutiny.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
22 Mar. 2025
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See Episode 5, where the killer frames a schoolmaster’s murder as suicide within a locked room, the laughably lazy explanation for which wouldn’t appear out of place in a pantomime.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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On the other side of the room, a wooden schoolmaster’s desk is another cherished piece.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
20 June 2024
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The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.—
Patrick Frater,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2023
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His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.—
Daniel J. Wakin,
New York Times,
20 Dec. 2022
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Richard Harris and Michael Gambon previously played the beloved Hogwarts headmaster in the Harry Potter film franchise based on J. K. Rowling’s best-selling book series of all time.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
25 Feb. 2025
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Roger Perry later was cast as new headmaster Charles Parker.—
Gabriela Silva,
TVLine,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Schoolmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmistress. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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