Sentence examples for as a harassed from inspiring English sources

The script certainly never passes an opportunity to slip in a schoolboy double-entendre, such as a harassed housemaster who rather inevitably declares: "I wish I could get my hands on the choir's parts".

McCardell's early tenure at Townley was marked by frequent blowups with Geiss, a man Time magazine once described as "a harassed veteran of Seventh Avenue's fashion campaigns". Geiss wanted her to copy Paris, or at least stick with classic styles.

The same year he starred with his wife and Yolande Donlan in a hit stage comedy, To Dorothy a Son, as a harassed father-to-be, and he played a similar role on screen in Father's Doing Fine (1952), the first film for which he received star billing.

Over on Sky, Playhouse Presents began a new series with Marked, starring Stephen Fry as Father Christmas and, rather more incredibly, Kiefer Sutherland as a harassed suburban husband, unemployed, secretly burdened by debt and soon caught up in a sliver of a plot to murder a cuckolded friend's rival.

Miranda Raison looks too young to be plausible as his equally ageing Juliet, but there are sharply-defined cameos from Tom Bateman as a harassed stage manager, John Shrapnel as a mutinous old pro and Zoë Wanamaker as a hilariously soused theatrical Dame.

Darcy Blakesley is good in her brief scene as Henry and Charlotte's daughter, as is D.J. Lapite as a harassed stage manager.

What had read as bravely pared-down and splendidly single-minded turned out to be very plain food plonked on a plate as if by a harassed mum.

On Dec. 22, Nassau County District Court Judge Sharon Gianelli found Guillen, 33, not guilty on all charges -- misdemeanor assault and resisting arrest as well as harassing a police officer -- brought against him by the Nassau County District Attorney's office.

In the past, Brown has inevitably encountered cruel commenters, with one going as far as harassing her on a daily basis.

This power is often thought to be obtained and derived either from gender or from formal status in the workplace, but it may also play a role in situations where there is no apparent power over the victim, such as a patient harassing a doctor.

Once, a man she described as a harasser told her that "I should get married quickly before I lost my looks".