ladyship

Example Sentences

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“In the early stages of 'Almost Famous,' there was talk about casting her ladyship Meryl Streep as Elaine Miller, the mother of the young rock journalist, Brad Pitt as Russell Hammond, lead guitarist in the band Stillwater, and Natalie Portman in the role of band aid Penny Lane,” James Andrew Miller said during the first episode of "Origins: Almost Famous Turns Twenty."

From Fox News

Earlier this year, when Michelle Obama’s post-First Ladyship memoir, “Becoming,” was No. 1 on the hardcover best-seller list, Kamala Harris’s “The Truths We Hold” débuted at No. 4.

From The New Yorker

So hire it out, and then let Melania blithely ignore the performative aspects of first ladyship.

From Washington Post

Had she not embraced the position of Flotus, with performative and formal duties that far exceed the UK equivalent’s, we should not, for instance, have her new book, in which the stalling of her own promising career, so that her husband’s could flourish, surely confirms that whatever its sporadic benefits, first ladyship is all wrong.

From The Guardian

“This is unique, like so much of this presidency,” said Dr Jean Harris, a political scientist at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania who has studied the evolution of the first ladyship.

From The Guardian