Sentence examples for barmaid's from inspiring English sources

In the bar, for example, the audience first hears the barmaid's side of a conversation in which she mentions a fellow at the bar who keeps talking to her.

Her boss at Sugar Moon Investigations gives her another chance, but the barmaid's suicide is only the tip of a nasty case set in the underworld of greed and corruption that flourished under the infamous Boss Pendergast.

Vlaminck made the work in 1900 and inscribed it with "19" at the lower left, completing the date by creating a visual pun of the barmaid's breasts that can be read as large 00's.

What resonated within me most about this overanalyzed Manet wasn't the obvious trick of painting a mirror image: the barmaid's sad gaze at the creepy rich guy (Manet himself?) ogling her sadness while the dissipated frolic in the background.

Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels ("Dead Until Dark," plus seven more), about a Louisiana barmaid's passion for a handsome revenant named Bill, were bought by six million people, and generated the HBO series "True Blood," which had its début last year and will be back in June.

For instance, we can imagine all kinds of things about Manet's barmaid from the context, historically, sociologically, of the scene he paints of her, and we might even try to imagine what she is thinking about, but Manet cannot, by definition, be an expert on the vicissitudes of the barmaid's emotions, because she does not exist outside of his painting.

"You didn't tell me that," says the barmaid, like, what's the big secret?

In 1996, she had a role in Stephen Poliakoff's Frontiers, and played a club barmaid in Dennis Potter's penultimate television series Karaoke.

Standing alone behind the glove counter, she's as vulnerable to the male gaze as the barmaid in Manet's The Girl in the Folies Bergere and the movie frames her in a series of images that emphasise her loneliness and isolation.

Except that the subject is Ensor's sister, it might be just what Manet's barmaid of the same year is dully staring at.

It was in Zurich that Joyce wrote much of Ulysses, and Jury's features in that book in the chapter entitled "Barmaid in Jury's".