"My equipment works fine with my mistress," the man said.
The French actress Ludivine Sagnier, so good in Francois Ozon's The Swimming Pool, gives a fine performance as Uday's mistress who ends up fleeing Baghdad with Latif.
Hers is not the only strong performance in Gone to Earth; Simon Wilson as the kind-going-on-milksop vicar and Michelle Butterly as the squire's straight-talking ex-mistress are particularly fine; and the whole company pull together.
"If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, then the finer art of being a mistress must be the second oldest," opens the book Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman.
Fine feathers were reserved for kings' mistresses — like Mme.
Does the mistress of her domain, the finest British swimmer for 100 years, sometimes doubt her prodigious talent?
The mistress of sly sobriety was in fine form as she played with proportions and focused on sports materials but never swerved from her concept of the colorless.
In that case all the hand-shandies and setting up mistresses during office hours is probably fine.
Seal's finest hour (though he does manage to eat his mistress at a cannibal feast) is the creation of a birth control pageant — "through sterility to culture"!
Mr. Dumas, 80, was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $130,000 in May 2001 for taking illegal gifts from his mistress, Christine Deviers-Joncour, a lobbyist for the oil group Elf Aquitaine.
The laboriousness of the show is a pity, because a generally fine cast — including Angela Meade, a vocally agile Alice Ford, and Stephanie Blythe, a booming Mistress Quickly — works hard to spice up the ensembles.
