Sentence examples for the kept from inspiring English sources

The house of Celine has long revolved around the idea of the kept woman.

Wild animals ran roughshod over the place, reaching in and stealing food from the enclosures of the kept ones.

Still, most of the ladies at Bendel's believed the kept woman to be a species on the decline.

The story centers on Magda, the kept woman of a Paris banker in the 1850s, and Ruggero, the earnest young man who falls for her.

Though Roth was a genuine working-class kid from a real slum, he was, in his own eyes, a degenerate — the kept man of an effete bourgeoise.

For the kept woman, the answer seems to have been easier to come by than it was for the boy who gazed at her.

For others, the lines are clearly drawn between the keepers and the kept, and inmates' praise for the warden is just part of a bigger game.

To measure the predictive power of the model, cross validation procedure contained the following: parts of the data were kept out of model development, the kept-out parts were predicted by the model and predictions of the kept-out parts were compared with the obtained actual values.

That picture of Margaret Thatcher after her resignation – leaning forward from the back of her car, the kept-back tears shining in her eyes – was the one that stuck with us: Mrs T in defeat, but putting the pluckiest face on things.

Andy stayed in the immaculately well-kept apartment building and played the role of the kept-boyfriend.

(Jan 5 , 2016 In short, on these matters they behave more like the 'kept' press of some autocratic regime that the vaunted "Fourth Estate" in the American Republic.