Nearby, Mariam, a sprightly woman of a certain age, was chain-smoking.
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So how do I reconcile with being a woman of a certain age?
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That's what happens, sometimes, when you age out of being a woman of a certain age: You end up as camp.
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It was very hard for a woman of a certain age, which was 62, to get a wonderful role like this.
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I am a woman of a certain age who chose not to have children, and who has made my career my priority.
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Between games his counsel of choice is a woman of a certain age, wearing an expression of deep concern and a hijab.
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Her kid is gone, her husband left her for a man, and as a single woman of a certain age her relevance is fading.
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It's enough," said Stefania, a woman of a certain age who repeatedly referred to Prime Minister Renzi as a "bravo ragazzo" -- a "good boy.
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For our project on the future of movies, she says Hollywood has a new attitude toward her ("a woman of a certain age and demographic").
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In many ways she is the typical Broadway audience member: a woman of a certain age, affluent and highly educated, living in suburban New York.
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An ode to Blanche McClanahan played Blanche Devereaux, a sassy woman of a certain age who wasn't afraid to display her affinity for men and sex.
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When an appealing candidate, "a Moroccan woman of a certain age, who stresses her twenty years of experience and her love of children," presents herself, Myriam rejects her.
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Painter claims her birthright as an artist, a black woman, and a woman of a certain age at a time and in a cultural milieu that ignores all three.
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Stenka plays Frau Rasch or Ms. Rasch (she has no first name), a working woman of a certain age, who comes home, alone this night as on all others.
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If the powers that be don't find there is anything valuable or interesting in a story about a woman of a certain age, those films aren't going to get made.
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But if you're an Asian-American woman of a certain age, chances are Yamaguchi might also have been one of the first Asian-American women you saw being publicly celebrated.
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Instead, the former Eurythmics singer is matter-of-fact about being a woman of a certain age — 64 — and thus someone who has begun to look backward rather than forward.
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In the book's afterword, he relates a dream in which his translator imagined him as "a high-class woman of a certain age" in a kimono shop in the early 1900s.
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" As for why she decided to take on the role, Hamilton added, "I felt there was a world of richness I could explore and then rock it as a woman of a certain age.
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Like Annette Bening's resilient matriarch in Mike Mills's recent and delightful "20th Century Women" (which shares some thematic similarities with "The Commune"), Anna is a woman of a certain age coping with uncertain times.
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"Maybe it takes a woman of a certain age to say, 'I know how to fight, I know how to win and that's exactly what I'm going to do,' " Warren said in New Hampshire.
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So the fact that people are calling me, a woman of a certain age and demographic, to sit down on studio films — which have not been my bread and butter — there's definitely a paradigm shift.
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A FRENCHWOMAN'S GUIDE TO SEX AFTER SIXTY (Greystone, paper, $53), by the psychotherapist Marie de Hennezel, immediately catches your attention because the cover shows a woman of a certain age glancing coquettishly over the bedsheets.
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It might sound creepy for a 45-year-old mother of two to follow a 22-year-old on Instagram, but as a woman of a certain age, I need to keep up with the youth.
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You may think you have her figured out: A woman of a certain age sits at a garden table in the waning hours of a Brooklyn Sunday brunch, reading a book while she finishes her meal.
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So, whatever comes out of me has all those elements of me in it: I'm black, I'm a woman, at this point I'm a woman of a certain age, which also has issues related to it.
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Personal Health As a woman of a certain age who consumes a well-balanced diet of all the usual food groups, including reasonable amounts of animal protein, I tend to dismiss advice to take a multivitamin supplement.
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I wondered, as I stared longingly: Why do I, a woman of a certain age, still have a penchant for glitter, decades after I should have outgrown a 7-year-old's yearnings for sparkly dress-up clothes?
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Davis is trying to get a record made, rather than doing another tired residency, but her manager is attempting to hold her back for fear that the public doesn't want a record from a woman of a certain age.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "The People to Listen To on Abortion," by Renee Bracey Sherman (Sunday Review, May 21): As a woman of a certain age, I can assure you that abortions were always done, long before Roe v.
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Here's how it could go: Some day in the future, it's routine for every young woman of a certain age—for argument's sake, let's say 21—to undergo a procedure to snip off a piece of tissue from one of her ovaries.
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Ms. Williams likes Ms. DeVos's designs (she wore one to her May 2016 wedding) because Ms. DeVos is "a woman of a certain age and her pieces are mature without being old-ladyish," she said, looking not the slightest bit old-ladyish.
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I Was Misinformed When one is a woman of a certain age, there are an increasing number of funerals to attend, and thus my friends and I are dealing with a wrenching and difficult question: When it is O.K. to hit on the widower?
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" Nancy Opel, who plays Bobby in the show — bedding the male ensemble, wrestling with a hormone ring and singing a ballad from a bathroom floor — said by phone that she was drawn to the idea of "a woman of a certain age who's actually embarking on romance.
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The biggest laugh he ever got, he once said, was in a 1991 episode of "The Golden Girls," when, as a recurring character known as Uncle Angelo, he presumed incorrectly that he'd be taking Blanche, the randy woman-of-a-certain-age played by Rue McClanahan, to bed.
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All I knew was that I, a woman of a certain age who's had her share of trials and challenges, was standing at the doorway to Tiger's Nest with a dizzying view of cliff, forest, valley and sky before me, and my true love of 30 years by my side.
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In a recent article in The New Republic, the critic Miriam Bale has described the way Ms. Huppert, in Paul Verhoeven's "Elle" — a film about a Parisian woman of a certain age that is as lurid and aggressive as this one is calm and thoughtful — assumes control over the character and her story.
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I like to wear a men's Puma T7 tracksuit, which I copped after seeing it in so many sharp F. E. Castleberry instagrams, but my dream ensemble would be the one I saw on a chic gray-haired woman of a certain age at JFK waiting for a flight to New Orleans: Exquisite silk top and bottoms from For Restless Sleepers with Gucci Princetown velvet slippers.
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For those who aren't up on their British crime classics, French is the wealthy woman "of a certain age" whose employment of a young male escort is the focus of the trial referenced in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, the TV adaption of which premieres today on Acorn TV. Like Sex and the City's infamous Ms. Jones, French oozes glamour, makes no apology for her delight in carnal pleasures, and seeks to live life on her own terms.
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She's good and funny as a woman of a certain age, reduced to mewing kittenishness in Cruise's presence.
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The song when originally recorded by George Formby enjoyed a successful release on 78rpm. It was released on Decca Records (F5569) on 29 May 1935. The song also appeared in Formby's 1939 film Trouble Brewing, in which it bore an additional verse. It tells the tale of a tawdry, West End-based woman of a certain age, full with alcohol and shoplifted goods, trying to earn a living in a Soho night spot, where she is "Fanlight Fanny the frowsey night-club queen".
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In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river. "Why not take up gardening?" he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
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Late Spring and Early Summer are startlingly different. In the second, Noriko takes advantage of a conversational opening [about marriage] to overturn the entire plot... she accepts a man [as husband] she has known for a long time—a widower with a child." In contrast, "what happens [in Late Spring] at deeper levels is angry, passionate and—wrong, we feel, because the father and the daughter are forced to do something neither one of them wants to do, and the result will be resentment and unhappiness." Ebert goes on, "It is universally believed, just as in a Jane Austen novel, that a woman of a certain age is in want of a husband.
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Monty consoles Phoebe, and concludes that since he cannot be with Sibella, she would be the perfect woman to be his countess when he becomes earl. As a woman of his own generation, she does not stand before him in the line of succession, and is highly sympathetic to the plight of his mother. There are other women who do come before Monty in the lineage, including Lady Hyacinth D'Ysquith, an unmarried woman of a certain age, who devotes herself to philanthropic causes, primarily with the aim of bolstering her own social position. Posing as a member of the Foreign Office, Monty encourages Lady Hyacinth to travel first to war-torn Egypt, then to a leper colony in India, in order to dispose of her.
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