In this regard, the pivotal character is Jenny's English teacher Miss Stubbs (a fine Olivia Williams), an attractive woman beneath her prim,
spinsterish glasses, garb and stern attitude.
The result is a constant sense of
spinsterish outrage fostered by panic & laziness, & fended off only by a relatively comfortable life ...
There is excellent support from Julie Legrand as the
spinsterish butt of everyone's humour and Natalie Grady as a bolshy maid.
In The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966), Cass gives her life of
spinsterish drudgery in New York shape and meaning by translating herself into "Catherine," whose late husband "General Cornelius Olsen ...
BY ALL means relish watching that oddly
spinsterish little Delia Smith when she reappears on BBC2 this coming Monday.
In addition to the marvelous, alert-eyed Redgrave, who glides about like a battleship, commandingly crowned in regal hats and brandishing a walking stick, reliable support comes from Cumpsty as the most jovial and sympathetic of cads, a sharp departure from his darker roles in Michael Frayn's "Democracy" and "Copenhagen." Enid Graham keeps a judicious hold on the
spinsterish priggishness of Constance's concerned sister Martha, while Meisle strikes the right note of drollery as self-absorbed flit Mary-Louise.
Though he has expanded the ending, changed the period in which it is set from Edwardian times to just before the second world war and introduced several new characters, the core plot of two genteel,
spinsterish sisters whose world is turned upside down by a young man they find washed up on the beach by their Cornish cottage, remains.
to be living alone" [19], feels that "I was now old enough to become fussy and
spinsterish if I wanted to" [11-12], and tells Everard Bone that "excellent women" "are for being unmarried .
The sweet surprise is Amanda Plummer's
spinsterish Sonya.
A wealthy widow is bumped off by one of her house guests (or is it the lippy butler?), and an idiot detective is assigned to sift through the tweedy colonel, smarmy Frenchman and
spinsterish niece in search of the killer.
Given that women, aside from
spinsterish Leontine, are frowned upon in Hermocrate's domain, the pair pass themselves off as traveling philosopher Phocion and his valet to gain access.
In Faithful Handmaid, we learn that Fanny, unmarried and decidedly
spinsterish, described her new position as almost a lifelong mission.
Not a young woman, she had a certain
spinsterish reputation (she was a Baptist Sunday school teacher), so I assumed she was just embarrassed by the topic.
Lyricist Francesca Blumenthal, who has already created a notable homage to "Queens," now salutes "Acapulco," where a
spinsterish Fitzgerald signs up for a tour of Aztec ruins and seduces the tour guide.
Mr McCowen, fussy,
spinsterish and irritable, plays Ms Thorne's former husband with immaculate style.
