Sentence examples for connie from inspiring English sources
noun
Obsolete form of cony
Lawn signs for her campaign remind voters of her friendliness, simply saying "Connie!" She has been endorsed by many liberal groups, from the green Sierra Club to the powerful Brady gun-control campaign.
In 1908 Connie Mack, owner of the Philadelphia Athletics (A's), bought Jackson's contract with the Greenville Spinners for $325, but the 19-year-old Shoeless Joe, homesick for his 15-year-old wife, Katie, and embarrassed by his hayseed illiteracy, got off the train at Richmond, Virginia, to catch the first train back to Greenville.
Patrick deWitt's Undermajordomo Minor features a darkly comic mystery at the heart of the story, and in Connie Gault's A Beauty, a young woman copes with abandonment in the shabby, dusty prairies of the 1930s.
Her musical talents were brought to the fore in Connie and Carla (2004), a comedy in which she played a woman hiding from the mob by impersonating a male drag performer.
After a disappointing affair with the playwright Michaelis, Connie turns to the estate's gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, a symbol of natural man, who awakens her passions.
Constance (Connie) Chatterley is married to Sir Clifford, a wealthy landowner who is paralyzed from the waist down and is absorbed in his books and his estate, Wragby.
If Fawlty Towers were ever remade into a film version or put on stage, would she want to play Polly, originally embodied by American actress Connie Booth?
Connie Cardule told me his parents put him in a mental institution".
Indeed, as Connie Bruck points out, "the culture of MCA bore no small resemblance to the Mafia's": loyalty ruled and was rewarded, betrayal went unforgiven.This portrait is inspired less by affection than by awe.
Connie Hedegaard, the environment commissioner, made clear that she favoured this unilateral move, but European industry and several European governments are against.
He had a turf war with his climate-change minister, Connie Hedegaard (after which he sent her to Brussels, where she will be climate-change commissioner).
