Sentence examples similar to old courtesan from inspiring English sources

Colette's novel is a short and apparently simple chronicle of a love affair between a 49-year-old courtesan, Léa de Lonval (Ms. Pfeiffer), and a handsome, vain and rather frivolous young man named Frederick Peloux Rupert Friendd), whom she prefers to call Chéri: the erratic course of their explicitly casual and seemingly danger-free liaison is pretty much the whole story.

Herself a former courtesan, Charlotte solicits Léa's help with Chéri, a 19-year-old who's cultivating his dissolution.

Her plans are cut short when she is approached by a former courtesan and arch rival, the barb-throwing gossip Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), who encourages Lea to teach her disaffected 19 year-old son - a bon vivant nicknamed "Cheri" (Rupert Friend) - a thing or two about women.

The subjects shift as well, from old-school courtesans to mid-century transgender bohemians in Paris to the prostitutes on the forefront of San Francisco's gay liberation movement.

His tendency to accentuate individual expression is demonstrated in such pictures as The Old Man and the Courtesan and The Money Changer and His Wife.

And what makes them different from previous intellectual courtesans to the politically powerful?

A longstanding victim of change is the old profession of the devadasis, the temple courtesans once honored as divine bearers of fecundity.

Enter Chérie, played by Rupert Friend, who is the 19-year-old son of her rival, the retired courtesan Charlotte Peloux Kathy Batesstilltill known to her by the pet name she bestowed upon him when he was a baby.

The former president is still a courtesan to public opinion.

How could we be, with a civilization that is so many times older than the West?" Wong appeared alongside Marlene Dietrich as a self-sacrificing courtesan in Sternberg's Shanghai Express.

The fastidious Jacob is both fascinated and repelled by the teeming street life he sees around him: "gnarled old women, pocked monks, unmarried girls with blackened teeth," chanting street urchins, unscrupulous merchants, expensive courtesans, the smells of "steamed rice, sewage, incense, lemons, sawdust, yeast and rotting seaweed".