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Donna


Definition:

  • (n.) A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
  • (2) Donna Sinclair, head of Options 4 Change, a charity working with black youths "I went to Brixton the morning after and the smell of burning, and what you could see told a huge story.
  • (3) On board Air Force One on the flight from Washington to New Orleans, Donna Brazile, the Democratic strategist, New Orleans native and former member of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, told reporters that Bush had gotten a bad rap for his handling of the recovery.
  • (4) · The Zandra Rhodes Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, London SE1, which contains works by Ossie Clark as well as 3,000 of Rhodes's own designs, is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5:45pm No: Alice Rawsthorn On a trip to Paris, the New York fashion designer Donna Karan was dragged off to the Picasso Museum by her late husband, Stephen Weiss.
  • (5) New ITV1 series Marco's Kitchen Burnout features Marco Pierre White putting three different celebrities through their paces in a busy London restaurant kitchen each week – starting on Friday with Kelvin MacKenzie, Tupele Dorgu and Donna Air.
  • (6) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
  • (7) Though she will be remembered for disco classics such as Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love, Donna Summer , who has died of cancer aged 63, notched up many achievements in a career lasting more than 40 years.
  • (8) The open letter from “Authors United” – signed by writers including Donna Tartt, Stephen King, Philip Pullman and Malcolm Gladwell – called on Amazon to stop blocking or delaying sales of Hachette books while negotiating a new distribution deal with the publisher.
  • (9) Written and directed by Gillian Robespierre , Obvious Child tells the story of Donna, a standup comedian in Brooklyn whose chaotic life is a source of bemusement to her parents, who are unable to believe that their twentysomething daughter doesn’t even know how to do her taxes (“Nobody knows how to do their taxes!” Donna retorts, not wholly incorrectly.)
  • (10) In it, her character, Donna Stern, navigates a break up, a flailing career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, ultimately, an abortion.
  • (11) Toby Young called her a "petulant prima donna" in the Telegraph, while Observer critic Robert McCrum wrote that, as "an ebullient and pioneering feminist publisher from the 1970s [it's] hardly a surprise that she should find herself unresponsive to Roth's lifelong subject: the adventures of the ordinary sexual [American] man".
  • (12) Donna Wood, an NHS nurse who volunteered along with Cafferkey to work in Sierra Leone in 2014, said she would never have put her country, her family or herself in such danger.
  • (13) We understand that the culture of the largest police force in the country cannot change overnight,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman .
  • (14) Popular technologies like wind and solar are having their support axed, whilst the more-unpopular-than-ever fracking industry keeps getting preferential treatment.” Friends of the Earth senior energy campaigner, Donna Hume, said: “It’s little surprise that the more people find out about the risks of fracking, the more they oppose it.” The latest version of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (Decc) public attitudes tracking survey, which has been running for three years, has also temporarily dropped polling on public support for renewable energy.
  • (15) Lara Flynn Boyle The break-out star of the show, who played Donna Hayward, enjoyed a patchy career in film (Wayne's World, Men in Black II), later returning to TV to appear in long-running legal drama The Practice, as well as Las Vegas and Huff.
  • (16) She gets real about bodies In Obvious Child , Jenny Slate's character Donna is frank about her ladyparts; her first stand up act begins with, "I used to hide what my vagina does to my underpants."
  • (17) Back in the UK, things went on as before until August, when the Elastica singer parted company with him and Donna Matthews in the space of a single traumatic weekend.
  • (18) The call for a UK moratorium by senior cross party MPs is a further blow to an industry still reeling from the ban on fracking in New York State in December due to health risks,” said Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Donna Hume.
  • (19) The statement – which was signed by four mosque leaders, Portsmouth city council’s chief executive David Williams and leader Donna Jones and Hampshire constabulary’s Supt Will Schofield and Ch Insp Alison Heydari – says the community is united in its condemnation of hatred, violence and racism and of Isis.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donna Fenn surrounded by Remade in Britain designs Green crush: upcycling and vintage marketplace Remade in Britain There is no such thing as rubbish, just a paucity of imagination.

Madam


Definition:

  • (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
  • (2) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
  • (3) Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
  • (4) Every now and then some rich Oga or Madam comes along in their bulletproof cars and wailing sirens, and distorts the delicate equilibrium of this body of traffic.
  • (5) The operator of attractions such as Madame Tussauds, Sea Life Centres and London Eye, had already warned in July that lost theme park revenues would push group profit below forecasts to around the £249m posted in 2014, and the firm reiterated that expectation on Thursday.
  • (6) By the end of the month – barring a physical or political earthquake – Paris will have its first Madame le Maire.
  • (7) She was now under the control of a “madam”, a Nigerian woman who worked for the trafficking rings, controlling the women and their debt.
  • (8) The ubiquity of Madame Tussauds, found everywhere from Bangkok to Berlin, may reflect the globalisation of Hollywood but each city gets the waxworks it deserves.
  • (9) Madam Ambassador, [Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf] says this is something that has been in the planning stages for months.
  • (10) Kimmel provoked ire on social media when he joked about the ethnic names of some tourists who were led into the ceremony from their tour bus, apparently thinking they were entering Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.
  • (11) "They give up their time for nothing but the privilege and honour of having their figure done," says Liz Edwards, spokeswoman for Madame Tussauds.
  • (12) Madame Tussauds museum in Amsterdam, owned by Merlin Entertainments.
  • (13) Madam Speaker, Mr Vice-President, distinguished members of Congress, I come to this great capital of this great nation, an America renewed under a new president to say that America's faith in the future has been, is and always will be an inspiration to the whole world.
  • (14) The slight and dignified Madame Bong drew confidence from the correspondent who used his physical presence to inspire calm rather than threat.
  • (15) We are all going to die, madame,” he told me cheerily one morning, while chopping vegetables.
  • (16) The accompanying marketing blitzkrieg has given us postage stamps , Madame Tussauds exhibits , themed decor from Pottery Barn and fleets of new toys , including actual droids .
  • (17) I’m bored Some of London’s most popular attractions are also its most expensive – looking at you Madame Tussauds (from £107 for a family of four), London Zoo (£84.60), London Sealife Aquarium (£136).
  • (18) At Madame Tussauds, changes in popularity mean the collection is always mutating, and some dummies go the way of all wax.
  • (19) She pursued her madam through the courts and eventually saw her sent to jail for four years.
  • (20) Those who leave Nigeria are told they will need to pay back €15,000 and when they reach Italy the madam tells them their debt is €45,000,” says Princess.

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