Sentence examples for wayward man from inspiring English sources

She stood by her wayward man (well, near him), and her poll ratings soared.

She "accidentally" burns down his house (after suffocating the family guinea pig), ruins her wayward man by means of an ingenious fraud, and sets about destroying his new lover.

Katherine's feckless mother and absent father leave her ill-equipped to refuse a quick union with a wayward man, who moves her in with his parents and spends most of his nights with another woman.

The themes of the novel -- that love alone can make someone change, that abuse from a spouse is acceptable as long as he's great in bed, that pregnancies should always be carried to term even if the parents are not ready to be parents, and the ridiculously antiquated, Victorian idea that the love of a pure virgin can save a wayward man from himself -- are irrational, unbelievable and dangerous.

For more than 20 years, Robert Boswell has written stories and novels about wayward men and women in the American heartland whose compasses could use recalibrating.

Strikingly, Democratic leaders drew parallels between Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Weiner, trying to lump them together as two wayward men obsessed with reclaiming power and unworthy of redemption, in a direct appeal to women voters who may decide the races.

Perry's movies, which are rooted in comedy but have dramatic elements, are mostly about successful, largely middle-class black women with the same issues as their white counterparts: wayward men, complex marriages, difficult children.

In this sexually candid novel, six longtime women friends gather one stormy night for a boozefest at a Manhattan loft, where they unload what's in their hearts and minds and ruminate on such matters as childlessness and wayward men.

"The government is taking measures to prohibit this behavior because the affairs have caused family problems and violence," said Paulina C. Y. Kwok, a social worker with the charity Caritas Hong Kong, who counsels the wives of wayward men.

Defoe also has Crusoe proceed toward the spiritual (or, it may be, superstitious) life of humanity, and convert from a thoughtless, wayward young man who had no interest in the meaning of his existence, to one who understands the need the vulnerable have for a personal god.

But Felix Bush shows an unmistakable kinship with the Apostle E. F., the wayward holy man he played in that earlier film.