Sentence examples for madame it from inspiring English sources
IN 1903, when ballet had been a prolific subject of Edgar Degas for over 30 years, an American collector, Louisine Havemeyer, asked him, "Why, monsieur, do you always do ballet dancers?" His quick reply was, "Because, madame, it is all that is left us of the combined movements of the Greeks".
"No, Michael, no... .. raising a hairy paw for emphasis, "I mean who are the fucking homos in this bar who are actually watching men's figure skating!?" Now, there are plenty of sentences I've never said: (E.g., "Madame, it seems we are out of hay". "Bro's before ho's," "Will you take one more photo of me with my shirt off," etc).
Though Pigozzi's interests range narrower (from Jagger to Nicholson to Carla Bruni, before she was the Madame), it's his own connection to his subjects that give his notoriously star-driven images something more than the paparazzi-flavor.
Puzzled by the salted butter rather than the usual French unsalted variety, I asked the breakfast room madame about it.
Oui, madame et monsieur, it's just our kleine joke….
"It's all relative and for Madame Bettencourt it is just a little fraction".
But in the final analysis, Madame President, it is governments who remain the primary actors in development - and it is they who must lead.
Depending on the context, they don't like being called "mademoiselle," because it makes them feel belittled, but they don't like being called "madame," because it makes them feel old.
She walked up to me and said in French, 'Mademoiselle, I hear you are exhibiting a tapestry.' I replied, 'Yes, Madame, here it is.' And she said, 'I do not see a tapestry.' " "It became a running joke," Ms. Hicks added.
It's not surprising, with this essentially moral emphasis on "looking", that, while praising Flaubert's Madame Bovary, it's the rendering of physical detail, of setting, of what is dismissively called "description" in everyday literary language, that Naipaul cherishes and holds up to our gaze.
Madame George Van Morrisonon It's a great tale.
