mother superior
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Emily Watson plays the manipulative mother superior who slips Bill an envelope of cash to buy his complicity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
Bryant, one of the first to challenge that imbalance, became a mother superior to any number of young artists, including Hammons.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
The nuns feed about 2,500 migrants once a day – rice, beans, eggs and bread – thought donations are scarce and local traders often try to gouge prices, said Sister Bertha López, the mother superior.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2019
Afterward she quietly told her mother superior, who allowed her to avoid other meetings with the priest.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2019
“The mother superior would never believe me. It’s a nest of lapsed bats here. But I wanted you to know the truth.”
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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