Sentence examples for Dame from inspiring English sources
Apfel stars, along with Anna Wintour, as a New York grande dame in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York, having been a regular in Cunningham's photos for several decades, and is set to be the subject of her own documentary by Grey Gardens film-maker Albert Maysles.
Hadid, a dame of the British Empire, became the first female and first Muslim to win the most prestigious Pritzker Prize in architecture in 2004.
Von Furstenberg's life story is a biopic waiting to happen: the self-made millionaire who married into (and then divorced from) German royalty, partied with Andy Warhol at Studio 54, lost her fortune and won it again, got namechecked in a Dolly Parton song (Working Girl) and is still, at 66, having a high old time as a grand dame of New York.
The modest sound of a damehood, however – along with the righteous spectacle of a gender imbalance being corrected – still ensures that the average new dame will find the world beaming right back at this purported triumph for equality/the working classes/her grandchildren.
Dame of what?" Given "what" appeared to be the British empire, Lessing felt she should excuse herself: "When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia".
Its more impressive beneficiaries – currently the Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy, and Dame Marina Warner – return the compliment, by lending reputational lustre to official partiality and caprice.
"The thing that surprised me the most," Charlie Hebdo's editor-in-chief Gérard Biard told an audience on Tuesday morning, "was the bells of Notre-Dame that rang for us".
On 12 July, Ortega was named as the pope's special envoy to the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the first Roman Catholic parish in the Americas north of Mexico – that of Notre-Dame de Québec.
Putting a figure on exactly how "wide" the web is attracted the attention of a group of modellers from the university of Notre-Dame in the US.
On the eve of the release of a film starring Dame Helen Mirren as the Jewish refugee who won a historic battle with the Austrian government over the ownership of a great painting, an expert at Christie's has spoken of a force that is changing the shape of the international art market: the new understanding of the huge scale of wartime art thefts.
The distinction is important because the Republicans use "Democrat" as an adjective, eg "Democrat party", in a pejorative way Dench, Dame Judi not Judy Deng Xiaoping denier one who denies, as in "Holocaust denier"; there is no such word as "denialist".
