Sentence examples for maid than from inspiring English sources

One woman, the complaint stated, was told to clear away lunch plates and "made to feel more like a maid than a paraprofessional".

During a Guardian investigation in January, a reporter posing as a would-be client was told it would cost more to hire a Filipina maid than a Sri Lankan because they were regarded as better workers.

To objections that a man could run faster, she is supposed to have replied, "You have not one man to spare; a woman will not be missed in the defense of the fort" and " 'Tis better a maid than a man should die".

By the mid-nineteen-thirties, McDaniel was finally able to support herself solely through her screen work, and it was then that she delivered what is probably her best remembered punch line: "I would rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than be one".

"I'd rather get paid seven hundred dollars a week to play a maid than get paid seven dollars to be one".

Between the awkward length, the color and the sparkles, she looks a bit more French maid than Golden Globe host in Antonio Berardi.

'Nother thing... she was Magnolia, Chrysanthemum was another.... MILLIE: And you've done the jewels.... Crystal, Pearl, Opal! Anyone who has spent time around black performers knows that little has changed, except that now they're less likely to play maids than misunderstood prostitutes or thugs.

And Fellowes would rather repeat dumb stories about conniving maids than seriously examine the idea that the "Downton" way of life might actually need to change significantly if the whole group is to survive.

After fleeing the island for Spanish Harlem to escape a revolution, she chooses to become a maid rather than try to rise above her mother's station.

Janet McTeer, too infrequently seen on screen (though she's also in the forthcoming The Woman in White) is astonishing as the painter, and Mia Wasikowska adds more heart to the dimpled maid role than it requires.

Here is his main point, which one can find amid a tangle of suggestions that something doesn't add up (why a maid rather than a "cleaning brigade?") and flattery: This morning, I hold it against the American judge who, by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other.