Sentence examples for would madame from inspiring English sources
(The "new" Ritz, which recently reopened after a yearlong renovation, has added a fireplace butler, whose job is to offer guests a choice of aromatic woods: Would madame like a little cedar this evening? Or perhaps the pine?).
That book led to an invitation to appear on a French TV program, "a terrifying serious program about books," she recalled two years ago in an interview with Donald O'Donoghue of broadcaster RTE. "Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, 'Madame, what is your philosophy of life?' What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live.
"Madame" or "mademoiselle" can even be used to address someone in the absence of a name - "Would Madame care to be shown round the church?" a verger asks Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Recently a female minister wanted to call herself la ministre (it didn't catch on) and at one point it was suggested that if Ségolène Royal became president, she would be Madame la présidente.
His closest friend is T. A. Soong, the youngest brother in a family that included not only the girls who would become Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Sun Yat-sen but also some of the most powerful financiers (or crooks, depending on your point of view) ever to have come out of China.
In addition to Broadway legends like Gwen Verdon, Julie Andrews and Barbara Streisand, Ms. Pedi's "Forbidden Divas" included the movie star Sharon Stone ("I'd play Madame Bovary by showing you my ovary," she sings to the theme from "Rawhide"), whom Ms. Pedi has done in productions of "Forbidden Hollywood".
An entirely different variety of sad is on view in "HEIDI FLEISS: THE WOULD-BE MADAME OF CRYSTAL" (HBO, Monday at 9 p.m .. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato ("Inside Deep Throat," "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), working in their best Grand Guignol style, document Ms. Fleiss's attempts to open an all-male brothel in Crystal, Nev.
Thank you madame President".
That would suit you, Madame, wouldn't it?" She recoils, in shock, at the public affront.
They are going to destroy 27 years of work: that's what he would say.' Madame Loiseau shook her head, as if recognising the lunacy of it all.
