Sentence examples for from servant from inspiring English sources

"It indicates a real move from servant to professional status," he said.

Yet Crawford's bearing throughout "Sadie McKee" is that of the born aristocrat (a visitor to the household identifies her as a "thoroughbred" before he sees her in her maid's outfit), and the film makes no attempt to dramatize her transformation from servant to mistress of her own palatial home.

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love 11.25pm, Film4 (Mira Nair, 1996) The erotic adventures of Maya (Indira Varma), who makes her way from servant girl to chief courtesan of a young lord's harem in 16th-century India; the long hours spent studying the arts of the Kama Sutra were obviously well spent.

Aside from her glamorous pumpkin carriage arrival at the ball, this poor Cinderella has no magical transformation from servant garb to ballgown; she is forced to stand haplessly on a chair in underwear when the clock strikes midnight; the all-important loss of the slipper never registers; and, most criminally, when the shoe-fitting moment comes, she is hidden from sight by the prince's entourage.

"Status" traces the changing nature of musicians' place in society, from servants to superstars.

He pointed out that the neighborhood had always supplied Midtown's reservoir of service people, from servants and hotel workers to Broadway ushers and stagehands.

Other members of the Astor household, from servants to the saintly (by Ms. Gordon's account) Buddhist grandson, Philip, began to notice gaps and irregularities.

Amid cacophonous musical outbursts from servants, breathless dance sequences and histrionic delivery, opportunities for some more piquant satire are drowned out.

Locke famously advised parents to keep their children away from servants, as they would only tell children frightening stories that would foster a fear of the dark.

As fashions and uses changed, and privacy from servants became desirable, like the later Baroque state apartments, these ground-floor rooms lost their original purpose and became a series of seemingly meaningless drawing rooms.

We sit around a bedecked table as kings and queens, as we recall our ancestors' transition from servants to freedmen and celebrate their glorious fate on that special date some 3,300 years ago.