Sentence examples for mistress this from inspiring English sources

For a country whose former president, François Mitterrand, kept secret until his final years a daughter whom he had with his mistress, this is revolutionary stuff.Mrs Chirac's case is special: she was talking about her new medical centre for teenagers.

If she carries on in this vein, she will be hailed as the new Dorothy Parker, whose judgment of Benito Mussolini's The Cardinal's Mistress – "this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly; it should be thrown with great force" – remains the touchstone by which other hatchet wielders should be judged.

Between the terror evinced by JoJo and Chase, and the actual method JoJo uses to cut suitors ― which appears to be waiting until they drop the L-word, then seeing if she hates it ― love seems like a harsh and diabolical mistress this episode.

Mr. Baron, the national finance chairman for John Edwards's Democratic presidential campaign in 2004 and whose link to the scandal of Mr. Edwards's mistress this summer put him in an unwanted spotlight, died of complications from cancer, said Harrison Hickman, a family spokesman.

This being 16th-century France, her husband was allowed to have a mistress, in this case the beautiful Diane de Poitiers, who used to swim au naturelle in the waters of the Cher River, which runs underneath the castle that she helped to build.

In Mistress America, this gap has arguably never been wider.

She thought: I am Henry's wife, and I am the mistress of this house.

There is also a diffidence about Lillian that makes her the right mistress for this ladykilling but secretly gay man.

One former Twitter employee, who described Twitter as the "lucky mistress" in this chain of events, said the partnership was essentially "handed to Twitter on a silver platter".

No shortage of visiting batsmen have made a mistress of this horizon, fancying their chances of dispatching some trundler for a huge maximum, only to find their stumps flying.

Since these e-mails appear to be responsible for turning what should have been private drama into national pageantry, I think it's acceptable that the mistress, in this instance, shoulders more of the blame.