Sentence examples for kept wives from inspiring English sources

He calls it the 50's meets the 80's -- because the new Park Avenue Princesses are groomed and dressed like kept wives, but they work for a living.

Not only does it seem to rationalize the considerable social pressures that kept wives from becoming writers in the first place, but it inadvertently diminishes the achievement of those women who -- against the odds and before feminism redistributed their domestic burdens somewhat -- managed to be both.

"For among men that keep many wives the wives are counted as menial.

In answers to e-mailed questions forwarded by Ms. Sasson, Omar bin Laden said his father kept his wives, and often his children, sequestered in the house.

Polygamy was a tribal custom, and his father kept four wives and had 13 children.

Demonstrating how he stayed above the situation, the man boasted about easily controlling his wife's movements and also being a reliable provider which kept his wife steadfastly faithful, unlike other marriages.

I kept my wife's sunglasses on, as if that mattered.

He kept his wife and children at a lavish home in Dubai but spent most of his time nurturing his telecom business: STC Puntland.

"He was a rather deaf old man with a beard, and he kept his wife locked up indoors, doing the chores," Mrs. Walker said.

At Bain Capital, the private equity firm he co-founded, Mr. Romney at first kept his wife's diagnosis to himself.

But the walls kept my wife out as well as me.