Sentence examples for strange mistress from inspiring English sources

However stranger things have happened – Holga, for example – and the market is a strange mistress.

To be a celebrity mistress is a strange status, Ms. Mallory said, adding, "I think we should have a union".

;"In Strange Company" The Master and Mistress take Lad on their annual fall camping trip to the mountains for two weeks.

Just a tad further to the right on the political spectrum, Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in Strange Land nonetheless made their conservative author a key figure of the counterculture.

And then comes this fanciful remark: "With crews always male, or overwhelmingly so, the ship becomes a strange plait of feminine archetypes – wife, mother and mistress".

She and John begin a strange kind of Oedipal affair, with Julia as the mistress and Aunt Mimi the wronged wife.

While waiting for the Master and Mistress to wake up, he follows a strange scent through a neighbor's house, leading to his being blamed for destroying a room in that house.

The fact that LA Noire has no prominent women at all except dead ones and the lead character's mistress isn't an accurate reflection of history, it's deeply strange.

In Australia, the endearing Aboriginal child narrator comments on his English mistress's feeling of being overwhelmed in her new setting: "This land has a strange power".

And let's be fair to Andrew Young: he wasn't just given money to pretend that he'd had an extramarital affair with his boss's mistress; the mistress actually moved in with him and his wife ("the kids awakened to find a strange lady in the house").

The images are so strange -- an apartment in which walls are covered in dead butterflies; the hero talking to footage of his mistress being murdered, and having her answer -- that the movie begins to make sense not narratively but poetically, and as an expression of Mr. Suzuki's defiant nose thumbing at narrative convention.