Sentence examples for the mammy from inspiring English sources
The blowsy Irish market trader Agnes Brown first appeared on screen, played more or less straight by Anjelica Huston, in 1999's Agnes Browne [sic], the actress's shrug-inducing adaptation of Brendan O'Carroll's novel The Mammy.
McDaniel was the Mammy everyone could love.
The Mammy was "My Yiddische Mama" in blackface.
Why do I have to play the mammy?
"Margaret Mitchell glorified the Mammy figure," Skeeter reasons.
You'd have to be convinced that the mammy is real.
The "Mammy Monument" that almost went up in Washington a year after the Lincoln Memorial?
But the Mammy stereotype only exists in the playing of it and the writing of it.
Landmark Productions cannily aim this production at an under-served theatrical constituency: the mammy market.
"But no one ever asked the Mammy how she thought about it".
The mammy doll was there in the immemorial tradition of the black servant, an intended touch of exoticism.
