In 1719 he took as his mistress the ambitious Marquise de Prie.
Instead, he suggests, the maja is the mistress of the ambitious Manuel de Godoy, first minister and alleged lover of the queen.
In a society where class differences were rigorously observed and opportunities for ambitious women virtually nonexistent, a career as royal mistress, for all its liabilities, was one of the few worth pursuing.
a few ambitious ones might grow dissatisfied with being master, or mistress, of only a small domain, and they might build up… grand theories… applicable to other domains; and their imperialism kept the academic world simmering in permanent nervous conflict".
A few years after Violet's birth, the ambitious Alice moved far beyond Ernest and became "La Favorita," mistress to the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. (Got it? If not, reread, and make a chart. I did).
Ms. Danes is Maria, his loyal, ambitious dresser, who, with the help of the king's mistress, ends the long ban on female performers, thus destroying Ned's career.
A woman shot her husband to death because he was politically ambitious, did not want her to meet his friends, had a mistress, and had threatened to leave her.
One of the movie's shrewdest moments comes at the very beginning: the ambitious and smart young lawyer takes a case defending a black maid accused of stealing her white mistress's clothing.
Mistress America Director: Noah Baumbach Running time: 86 minutes Certificate: R A lonely college freshmen befriends her ambitious future stepsister, played by Greta Gerwig, and is pulled into a leftfield scheme.
