Sentence examples for convent from inspiring English sources

The bell tower of Moscow's historic Novodevichy convent, a Unesco world heritage site and the burial place of many prominent figures, has been threatened by a fire that broke out on Sunday night.

The inspiration was Abi's meeting with "two elderly nuns on a train to Edinburgh, returning to their convent".

Philomena, which got a gala screening at the London film festival after its world premiere at the Venice film festival in August, tells the true story of Philomena Lee's search for the son she was forced to give up for adoption in the 1950s by nuns who ran an Irish convent where she gave birth.

It is set in a convent in the west of Scotland and is an exploration of faith versus science.

Novodevichy convent was built in the 16th and 17th centuries and has survived mostly intact, remaining one of Moscow's most popular tourist attractions.

Bale plays a fictional dissolute mortician who must act like a priest to defend a Catholic church in which both a group of convent girls and a group of prostitutes shelter from the horrors outside.

When Sophie Christiansen met Enock, a 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, in a convent school in northern Rwanda last month, the no-nonsense Paralympic gold medallist was shocked by his situation.

Mum insisted on paying for me to go to a private convent because she wanted me to be educated and have opportunities that she didn't.

Richardson's parents still live in Tramore on Ireland's southern coast, where she grew up and went to a convent school.

Almost before he is out the door, Wanda informs her niece that her real name is Ida Lebenstein, she is a Jew, and her parents left her at the convent in the hope she would survive the war.

Stay at the four-star Dream hotel, a converted neogothic convent with modern design and original features (doubles from €90).