| 单词 | convent |
| 例句 | He wishes her to go into a convent, but she won’t hear of it, and after a touching appeal, is about to faint when Roderigo dashes in and demands her hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, in truth, I am thinking how much this convent is like a prince’s court,” I say, then hasten to add, “A place I have read about in books.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I am free to leave the convent grounds if I wish. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “They’re sending a van there to take all the girls to the convent.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He wondered how a girl with a Muslim name had ended up in a Catholic convent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m in an awful convent,” she said, disengaging herself and flopping down on the floor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, he had to get Bri to St. Benedict’s before the bus left for the convent, and it would be a long walk there from the school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Alex felt his throat constrict at the idea that Bri might never leave the convent, that he might be sending her away from home forever. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I go to the arched windows of Mother Ermentrude’s chamber and peer out into the night There, wooded hills, lit by the moon, slope gently beyond the convent walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I surprise even myself, that I would dare to dispute with a priest during the Mass. Five months of convent life have, in their way, furthered my education, if not my humility. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Outside the narrow window of my convent cell, leaves of linden and oak turned gold and brown and red and fell to the ground with every gust of wind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I might just first mention that, in place of a photograph of herself, Sister Irma had enclosed, without explanation, a snapshot of her convent. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “A white-haired man came to the gate bearing this letter, as he said, ‘for the young traveler who had sought aid at the convent.’ Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Granny’s dearest wish is to reenter a convent and pray for Knife’s soul before it’s too late. She really loves him.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think it’s cold like this at the convent?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z One day Mother Ermentrude, seeing me studying intently, asks me to help tutor the girls of the convent school. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is not easy, I have heard, to gain entrance to the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She left the house for the first time at the age of twelve in a coach and horses that had to travel only two blocks to take her to the convent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She buckled him in and continued chatting to the pilot, telling him about the convent and how glad she’d be to get back. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So, late that night, they knocked on the convent door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a convent of thousands of Sun Maidens, such a selection was the greatest of honors. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I saw us walking slowly, silently, toward a far, verdant part of die convent grounds, where suddenly, and without sin, I would put my arm around her waist. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But since the sister had told him they’d be sending a schedule for phone calls to the convent, Alex had checked the mailbox daily, always finding it empty. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z But why commit me to a life of cold, forced chastity behind convent walls? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I thought the old stone convent was falling down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The convent never solved their problems, only magnified them a hundredfold. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is your sister dead? My poor boy, I thought she was safe in a convent.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She was grabbed by the police while trying to leave the convent. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It is also possible that Father Zimmermann caused you to stop matriculating for the reason perhaps that your convent lacks funds to pay the tuition. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z With special dispensation from the Vatican, she took her vows and entered a convent in Madras as a trainee novice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At the convent school, I helped the nuns with one last polishing before all the students came back. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a year of her joining the convent, her father began to receive puzzling letters from her in the mail. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s one of the things I do penance for all the time. Except that no one at the convent listens to me like you do.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “She spends her time at the convent,” he said. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew restless and unhappy in the convent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, but the pilot was going to take me back to the convent after the wedding. I told him to expect us.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, I went away to Inmaculada Concepci6n, and all the country people around here thought I was entering the convent. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The young woman spent her time studying with the nuns and went so far in her training that she asked to become a nun herself and remain in the convent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the woods around the convent must be all manner of roots and wild berries and plants unknown in Denmark. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Matt tried to imagine what she was doing, but he knew nothing about convents. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, we still don’t have anybody playing Our Lady in our play. You should try out. When I was in the juniorate, the prettiest girl in the junior convent always played Our Lady.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think Mami and Papi would want you to be safe, at a convent with holy sisters looking after you?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z And Esperanza, if Matt knew anything about the woman who wrote A History of Opium, would descend on the convent like a fire-breathing dragon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember when I told you the story of Beatrix,” she said, “the nun who ran away from her convent? Remember how the Virgin Mary stood in for her?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the pictures she’d Scotch-taped to the walls were of TV stars, good-looking guys that Alex was pretty sure wouldn’t be welcomed at a convent, no matter how open-minded the sisters might be. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Schooled in a convent and raised on a modest horse ranch just outside of Salinas, where her father was a lawyer, she had once been named Lettuce Queen at the annual Salinas Lettuce Festival. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I would continue my course for St. Emilion as I had planned, a convent being the only refuge for a woman in my condition. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was difficult to imagine an entire convent of women as lovely as Chasca, but her words were right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It's one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, a convent from the fifteenth century, and the address Ollie gave me is on the same street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then I will take a new path, join the convent as a nun, and become pure again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z St Emilion is now secure under his patronage, and the convent prospers as a result of my commerce with the local merchants and farmers, so Mother Ermentrude and the bishop are pleased. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t surprise him if, after high school, Bri entered a convent. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z My third student was a nun of the order of Sisters of St. Joseph, named Sister Irma, who taught “cooking and drawing” at a convent elementary school just outside Toronto. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She wanted them locked up like nuns in a convent, she was always so afraid. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I have delivered the babe on a pallet in the bakery, for it is the warmest place in the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had been educated in a convent His name, said the messenger, was thought to be Galahad. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bus leaves for the convent on Thursday afternoon,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z And then Maria was off with her new ideas and the arguments she’d had with the morals instructor at the convent. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He said Patria could go away to a convent school if it wasn’t one just for becoming a nun. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of nuns were strolling on the lawn of the convent and staring at us kind of funny. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The Vampires were terrible, desiccated women who entered the convent because they hated themselves and thought that by surrendering their lives to their redeemer, this self-hatred would turn to something good and palliative. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z May I ask again when your visiting days at the convent are? Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z If she had gotten involved as a witness after all that had happened, I knew her mother would’ve shipped her off to a Tibetan convent for ninety-six years. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “There’s a small convent in upstate New York,” Father Franco said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Like a generous patron, Mother Ermentrude has made every book in the convent’s great library open to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Our priest heard there was a convent upstate that was taking in teenage girls. Bri left Thursday.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Biology — another thing her mother wished Theresa hadn’t learned at the convent school. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Father Franco told me about a convent upstate that has its own farm,” Alex said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The bishop acknowledged me to be a widow and allowed me to remain at the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z May I be free to plan to visit you at the convent next Saturday afternoon, July 6, between 3 and 5 o’clock in the afternoon, dependent upon the schedule of trains between Montreal and Toronto? Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It is not a sister clad in convent linen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z At the convent, when I mop, I hang my uniform on a wire hanger in the nuns’ closet and slip on my old brown shift, in which I feel comfortable and almost invisible. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry I ever came home. I should have stayed at the convent and died there.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z So many died that the tumbrils used to cart thieves to the gallows were repurposed to carry orphans to the monasteries and convents. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Though I follow the rules and routines of convent life, Angelina will not allow me to abstain from meat, as the sisters do. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She told her father that if he ever mentioned marriage again, she would take the first train out of town and return to her convent as a novice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her convent is a place of chaste simplicity, with none of the luxuries whispered of in some nunneries: eating from gold plates, drinking wine, entertaining men, and neglecting the hours for prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I really don’t think the mother superior wants an eejit at the convent,” Emilia said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother informs us that Count Durufle is en route to the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The convents have been decimated,” Father Franco said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In a far comer of the convent park we heard laughter, and when we looked we saw one tall, strong boy waving a flat stick, and all around him little boys jumping. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But the hurricane warning has emptied people out and ghosts, from when our school used to be a convent, are filling the halls. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z So I tell him about my life at the convent, its simple routines and pleasures. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One-ninety Howard Avenue turned out to be just across the street from a big convent, and there were a lot of trees and stuff and nuns running around the place. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t you see? Your father would have destroyed any message she sent. But you can contact her now. Your convent— where is it?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When Madame Villeneuve set off from the coast to visit Paris, she left Pauline in a convent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Your daughter has been chosen to be a Sun Maiden. She will be a member of the Acllahuasi, the convent of the Sun Maidens!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Dad reached over and picked up his convent catalogues, but he couldn’t put any enthusiasm into them, and he finally tossed them down again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I am supposed to commit to recovery like a nun pledging body and soul in a convent. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Galileo remained close to the girls both geographically and emotionally, and often visited the convent; surviving letters between Galileo and Maria Celeste give a close insight into his later life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It also took no great figuring to see that to deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns was no way to endear herself to her peers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Not only did she not know any science, but any attempt to put some in her head would be a losing fight against the years of her convent upbringing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Virtually in the same breath, I asked if she were allowed to have visitors at her convent. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I tried to visualize the day I would visit her at her convent. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He imagined the convent girls dressed in fine clothes, like the bridesmaids at Emilia’s wedding. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was never permitted to leave the convent walls except on the occasion of her parents’ death. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know what the convent looked like, but he made up a description to entertain the little boy.“Its a castle on a hill,” he said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “More than anything, she hates criminals. She was raised in a convent, you see. She told awfully interesting stories about her childhood.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Therese’s illness oppresses the convent like a heavy blanket laid over spring’s green floor. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was from the convent, and it said, “Family members may call Briana Morales on Thursday, July 14, at 4:00 PM.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Since Hamlet’s birth we have lived in a stone cottage near the convent gate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z So I said, “I’m sure you’ve learned a lot of cuss words they don’t use up in the convent.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She had entered a convent in Mozambique, where she spent many happy hours listing people’s sins and praying for them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Did he then command me to a convent for my safety, not to hide my shame? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Both she and Emilia had been sent to a convent to turn them into proper young ladies. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We take the hill up Tatarska like it’s nothing, and I ask the man to pass the house and stop around the corner, near the convent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Why was she being sent to the convent in Sacred Sun City? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “I haven’t heard anything from my friends at the convent,” Father Franco said apologetically. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The convent had become one of Dad’s most frequently used threats. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of us walked as one to the Acllahuasi, the Sun Maidens’ convent, and the air was full of the fresh, earthy smell that a strong rain leaves. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Alex sent me to a convent this summer, and even though the sisters were very kind, I prayed day and night that I could go home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This frightened Francie into believing that hair grew on the faces of all nuns who entered the convent at a tender age. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Ipe went to Madras and withdrew his daughter from the convent. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But this bishop serves Count Durufle, who is our convent’s chief patron and a morally scrupulous man.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The nuns closed themselves up in their convent for their yearly mortifications in honor of the crucifixion of their bridegroom and Lord, Jesus Christ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know she’s too young to be a postulant, but there’s got to be a convent somewhere that she could go to.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Durufle is said to be outraged, for the convent's reputation is at stake. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Well, this might surprise you, but I have been known to say a choice word from time to time. And I don’t live in a convent.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z On this wintry morning, a rumor flies through the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A heavy silence, more fearful than pious, engulfs the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When he was thirteen, his parents had paid to send him to a Catholic convent so he could enter the priesthood. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In one convent that we visited in Seville, for example, icons of haloed saints and a crucified Christ hang under ceilings with intricate patterns of inlaid wood. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The snow-covered, forested landscape of the convent is photographed to suggest an ominous frontier that offers no refuge from marauding outsiders. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The convent was a timeless space; the institution found comfort and righteousness in routine and uniformity. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z While Gra was witnessing these events in the convent, her father was making desperate attempts to get her and her schoolmates away from the frontline. Toby Litt: My grandmother was a war reporter at 14 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Murasaki subtly shows us that these women, unless they have the backing of a powerful man or enter a convent, are lifelong victims in a patriarchal world. The Radiant Prince Comes to Fifth Avenue 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Whether staying overnight, enjoying a quiet convent garden or indulging in a taste of pastry or confections from smiling nuns, a European convent may inject a peaceful energy into your travels. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z They knew each other as children — orphans in a convent! Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z The earliest is a 1659 view of a convent in Pernambuco by the Dutchman Frans Post, the first landscape painter in the New World. New York Art Galleries: The Virtual Experience 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The institute also exhibits intricately detailed items that indicate the Arab world’s Christian heritage, including icons from Syrian and Lebanese churches and convents, amid the Muslim prayer rugs and other Islamic treasures. In Transit Blog: Arab Institute in Paris Reopens Exhibition Rooms With Lavish Displays 2012-03-23T10:00:54Z At her first convent, Suzanne is subject to torture, interrogation and ostracism. ‘La Religieuse,’ a Culture War Casualty of 1960s France 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Sister Act Musical comedy about a murder witness who hides out in a convent, based on the 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Jan. 21-28: Orson Bean, 'Pirates of Penzance' and more 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z In the convent, God may be watching, but Verhoeven’s gaze trumps all. Cannes Film Festival: The Director of ‘Showgirls’ Takes On Lesbian Nuns 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Originally named the Capital Children’s Museum, the institution opened in 1974 in a former convent on H Street NE. New National Children’s Museum will finally open Nov. 1 after a delay 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He enrolled two daughters in an elite convent school that would only admit children of European ancestry. LACMA purchases long-lost masterpiece, once kept under a couch 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Pérez ingeniously deployed her warm, vivacious soprano as a Blanche who could hide in a convent from the world but not from herself. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z There she began to go to church services at a local convent. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z A. My mother was raised in a convent orphanage in Italy, so she was a reformed Catholic. Drag Queens Reflect (Grrr) on the Christmas Season 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Certainly the Mother Superior of St. Veronica’s convent school is aware of her place in history. | 'The Divine Sister': No Doubt, Not a Typical Singing Nun 2010-09-23T02:03:00Z It was my first notion that the girl was being won over in front of her charges, that she was a prize for the convent. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z She moved to New York City in 1998 with $75 and a vague plan to rent a room in a Filipino convent. For Nicole Ponseca, Filipino Recipes Call for Banana Leaves 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Joanne had grown up unhappily in a Southern California convent school, and Capote had been abandoned by his mother to Alabama relatives. Joanne Carson's Capote-edited memoir chapter still in limbo 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z In the afternoons, on the industrial side of the island, I made a habit of looking in the shop windows, the glass figurines inside garish and dappled, some green like the convent nursery’s walls. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Marked Andante religioso, the “Méditation” is played as the title character ponders giving up her life as a courtesan to enter a convent. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z She grew up in Madrid, the youngest of six siblings, and was educated in a convent primary school and a secular state secondary. Why I wrote the sex manual I’d have loved as a teenager 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Fancy staying in a converted convent or an old post office that’s been given a new stamp of style? 20 of Europe’s best new hotels and hostels for 2018 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z But the sale is opposed by the order of nuns who own the convent. Judge Says Katy Perry's Convent Sale Appears to Be Invalid 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He points to similarities in style, to the way faces and figures emerge from shadows and to the still life elements included in the painting – which was probably commissioned by a local church or convent. Vel?zquez masterpiece found in Yale basement 2010-07-01T11:30:00Z The former convent kitchen is now the wine bar, and the chapel is a meeting room. In St. Francis’ Hometown, a New Kind of Pilgrim 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Sally seems headed for a life in a convent, too — until worldly temptations interfere. New in Paperback: ‘Sticky Fingers,’ ‘Lea’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The architectural historian mused on whether it would next pass to "the electricity board, the coal board, a lunatic asylum, a convent, school, a sanatorium or a museum?" Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z And it compelled the Poor Clare’s nuns to open a convent here, providing aid. On Ireland’s southwest coast, history-rich Kenmare is the gateway to County Kerry 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Her newfound fame precipitates a crisis of faith and she leaves the convent to continue her career as a pop star – but with every change comes complications. Clip joint: nuns 2012-11-14T15:27:04Z I went to a convent school, very strict, and the time I was growing up it wasn't cool to be an indie kid. Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010-07-01T19:30:00Z In 1945, she was in Poland when a nun took her to a remote convent in a frozen landscape. Film-maker tells story of Polish nuns’ secret pregnancies after mass rape by Stalin’s troops 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The hallucination concept worked best in the seduction scene—the part that actually does happen in the convent. ‘The Demon’ Review: Obsession and Seduction 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z “She escaped to a convent to be able to pursue her painterly passion more freely.” In Transit: Showcasing a Portuguese Artist Working in Paris 2011-04-08T10:00:04Z In August, just as the walls of the convent began to pulse with the sun’s heat, Allegra received a visit from the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a thin man with feminine cheekbones and burning eyes. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z In the summer of 1859, a desperate nun in the Roman convent of Sant’Ambrogio sent a letter to her kinsman, a bishop in the Vatican. Nuns gone bad: Why you should read this lurid tale of a lesbian nun sex gang 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z She went to convent school and was a confident, outspoken girl. Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Well, obviously I knew it wasn’t real but the Playhouse used to be a convent school and people there say her ghost still haunts the place. A very Derry Halloween: a carnival of frights, fireworks and parades 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But Voichita is now contentedly living the life of a novice nun at New Hill, an Orthodox convent. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z Watching it, you fall in love with the girls, their parents, even the brutally withering Sister Michael, who runs their convent school. Derry Girl Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Yes, we have a harsh sense of humour’ 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z But Spanish sculpture mostly stayed put in the churches, monasteries and convents it was made for. With Splendor and Saints, Hispanic Society Shows Its Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Defying hospital protocol, Mathilde slips away to the convent, where she discovers a pregnant novice in the throes of labor. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Part Three When her fourth birthday came, Allegra had been at the convent for nearly a year. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The production lacks tautness in key spots, including the convent scene, where the acoustic quality of a voice-over undercuts its intended effect. Review: In ‘Little Thing, Big Thing,’ a Nun, a Criminal and a Social Conscience 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z She made a tremendous impact in her multisectional final scene, in which Gemma sings of entering a convent, then reacts with horror to Tamas’s crime in a final cabaletta of despair. Opera Review: Donizetti's Birthplace Revives His Bel Canto Gem,' Gemma Di Vergi' 2011-09-20T12:00:07Z But, he adds, “the convent girl is still there, always.” Movie Review: ‘Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me’ Goes Backstage With a Legend 2014-02-20T22:58:17Z Ms. Miller’s Deloris hides out in a convent under the name Sister Mary Clarence and turns its choir of nuns into the talk of late 1970s Philadelphia. The Week Ahead: April 17 ? 23 2011-04-15T14:13:52Z In Domet’s charming debut novel, four girls named Guinevere are bound together by coincidence at the Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent. More fine fall fiction 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z This week, Leonardo investigates a case of alleged demonic possession in a convent. Da Vinci's Demons: forget historical accuracy and marvel at Leonardo 2013-04-27T05:00:00Z What sins would get you kicked out of a convent? Aubrey Plaza: “I’m way more boring that people would hope” 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Men are virtually absent from the narrative, as they are in convent life, making marginal appearances when they’re temporarily required, not really missed in most instances. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z The visual symbolism of Lorca's play, in which the house itself takes on the appearance of a prison, a convent and an asylum, is also lost. The House of Bilquis Bibi 2010-07-27T01:01:00Z Through careful maneuvering she secures the nuns their own well-situated convent after one nun in her flock becomes pregnant and commits suicide. | 'Vision': A Multitasking Nun in Medieval Germany 2010-10-12T22:37:00Z Their dogged investigations extend from a dive bar in Tulsa to a dazzling glass mansion perched high above the hills of Los Angeles to a hushed convent near the Mexican border. Book review: ‘The Burning Room,’ by Michael Connelly The convent was too large to light in entirety. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z So our meeting is scheduled for 8.30am on the pavement outside the converted 17th-century convent where he lives in a rented studio for the 10 or so months it takes to edit each film. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z An eighty-year-old wooden convent building, located close to his home, had shaken like a tent, but was still standing. Back to Fukushima: “It was all very apocalyptic” 2013-05-28T17:18:00Z But you’ll also find her unearthing and editing what she calls a “treasure chest of gorgeous music” from a 17th-century Mexico City convent. Gallery Concerts’ ‘Strike the Viol’ presents two concerts of English music from the 1580s to the 1680s 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The Alsatian town of Colmar has mostly been known for its old-world charms: canals lined with half-timbered buildings, and an art museum, housed in a 13th century former convent, noted for Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Verlaine is so plucky that he drives upstate in his vintage car and walks right into the convent, where he meets Sister Evangeline. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z While I embraced every aspect of being a nun when I joined the Sisters of Mercy, a Catholic convent in Providence, Rhode Island in 1965, aged 18, my life before might not have suggested it. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z “Little was known about the training school,” Keegan explains, but the laundry service provided by the convent is first rate — used by all the area restaurants, wealthy households and priests. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The novel, newly reissued by New York Review Books Classics, follows the fortunes of an English convent named Oby from its founding in the late 12th century through 1382. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Amalfi was full of British expatriates, so an estate agent suggested Ischia, where they went and camped out for a couple of years in a converted convent. William Walton obituary 2010-03-24T18:21:00Z At convent school in Hastings, "poverty, chastity and obedience were the rules of the nuns". Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z Strict rules govern the community's interaction with the outside world, so Büttner was unable to film inside the convent walls. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z When I was 13, I entered the convent’s monologue competition. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Nora settles in as a seamstress and prepares for marriage while her sister is enthralled by her new city’s delights, until she abruptly leaves to join a convent. New in Paperback: ‘Rising Star,’ ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z There is something of a tradition of films set in monasteries and convents or, rather, two traditions: one sentimental and pious; the other bracing and meditative. Of Gods and Men ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z A lot of people were surprised when I entered the convent. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The teenage Sally’s sheltered, almost cloistered life is blown apart on the train trip she takes from New York to Chicago on her way to enter the convent she has decided to join. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z As the Mother Superior, she talks about the outside world being shallow and empty, whereas within the convent people look more deeply. Another view on?Sister Act 2010-08-29T21:16:00Z Quintessential Beane touches include the run-down convent’s being eyed by “two bachelors who deal in antiques” and a reference to an all-black version of “Funny Girl,” the Barbra Streisand musical. A Doctor in Just About Every Theatrical House 2011-04-26T21:59:23Z I also went to an all-girls convent school, so the cleverest person was a girl, the sports hero was a girl, the class clown was a girl. Lisa McGee Found it Hard to Say Goodbye to Her ‘Derry Girls’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Such elegant, sundry decoration sanctifies her social station, while signaling all the worldly splendor she is about to give up as she heads into the asceticism of convent life. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It’s not a convent any more and the city’s archbishop is now trying to sell to Perry, who will put down $10 million in cash. Katy Perry’s feuding with nuns!: The real “Bad Blood” in this beef has nothing to do with her “sinful” songs 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z We were running out of time, and I needed to have Allegra back at the convent for lunch. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The convent is dedicated, with a wink from Warner, to the patron saint of prisoners. The Nuns of Fiction: Experts in Affliction and Awe 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z “It’s calmer. She’s going to the convent and he’s going to fight the war, and it’s all like: It’s OK, these are our fates,” Dupuis said. Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ arrives at Met Opera in original French 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z That avocado grew in the garden of a convent. Cuba’s forgotten champ 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Another collapse — this time of a steeple — occurs in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “The Corner That Held Them,” a novel that immerses readers in the daily life of a 14th-century English convent. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The hotel was a hospital before it was a hotel, and a convent before it was a hospital, and it shares the city’s mildly haunted air. Love and Cartagena: Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez Dreamed Here 2010-04-29T22:16:00Z Her father died when Carmen was young, and she was sent to a convent school, where the rules, censorship and silence, as she put it, nearly flattened her. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The story ends with Reyes’s ingeniously managing to leave the convent. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The nearly 500-year-old city is cradled by three volcanoes and filled with colonial-era mansions, churches and convents, many with orange and yellow facades. What to Do in Antigua, Guatemala 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z In “Flowers of War,” Bale portrays and American posing as a priest in war-torn 1930s China who tries to defend convent girls and courtesans from the invading Japanese army. Christian Bale Roughed Up in Failed Attempt to Visit Chinese Activist 2011-12-16T16:21:49Z In "Nasty Habits," a satire of Watergate applied to the politics of a convent, both Meara and Stiller appeared. Jerry Stiller, "Seinfeld" and "Hairspray" actor and comedian, dies at 92 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Police said officers spotted her March 1 writing the letters "T" and "A," with a heart symbol between them, in red ink on the side of a Manhattan building that houses a convent. Keith Richards daughter's case set for dismissal 2011-04-21T17:16:04Z She quit the convent and joined the newly created gay-liberation movement. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z It wasn’t unusual for a sister to be outside of the convent walls, but I knew the brown habit was still conspicuous, as was the skipping, beaming four-year-old in uniform beside me. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z A somber marble staircase is decorated with an ornate wrought-iron railing made from the frame of a bed from an Italian convent. 2010-01-21T06:29:00Z After being threatened with exile to a convent, the female protagonist voluntarily becomes a nun to escape her suitor. Music Review: Monteverdi’s ‘Ballo Delle Ingrate,’ With a Different Spin 2012-06-04T22:24:09Z The buildings around the convent were a pastiche of gray, cream, and flesh-colored bricks and plaster; the streets were irregular and winding and smelled of thick peasant soups. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z After an uncondoned party at the castle leads to a number of her father’s subjects being slaughtered, she’s packed off to a convent — Our Lady of Unlimited Chastity — for punishment. Review: Matt Groening Enters the Netflix Age With ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Benedict, the first pope to resign in six centuries, has been living out his retirement in near isolation in a former convent in the Vatican gardens. Two popes attend gathering of the wise and wrinkled at the Vatican 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z It had always been my intention at the convent to be nobody, to go unnoticed, to punish myself until I could no longer feel the weight of my dead child in my arms. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The heroine died in a convent — now converted into a hotel where we stayed. The Nobel-Winning Economist Who Wants You to Read More Fiction 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z At the convent Danny learns that being “in seclusion” is not nearly as romantic as it sounded when Maria, as played by Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music,” experienced it. Theater Review: ‘Tiny Bubbles’ at the Medicine Show Theater 2012-07-29T21:23:37Z The gravity of past destinations pulled me around familiar corners and brought me to my old apartment building next to Santa Cecilia, the centuries-old church and convent. My Rome: Still a Classic Beauty 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z When he was in a gang, he spent his days loitering outside the local convent school waiting for the posh girls to come out for break. Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot 2011-01-19T21:31:00Z “One was ballet, the other was a convent.” ‘Break Pointe,’ a CW Reality Show About Ballet West Dancers 2012-05-29T22:07:57Z Led by the abbess, Elizabeth, the group of three slowly grew, so that by the time I visited, the convent comprised six nuns and one novice. A Glimpse Inside the Secluded World of a Georgian Convent 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Educated in a convent, she was intelligent and highly rebellious. Che Guevara’s brother: ‘Ernesto must be pulled from his pedestal’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z I think about how, if admitted, I would leave home and live in a dorm at the Carmelite nuns’ convent. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z You went to a convent school as a child. Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done' 2012-12-16T00:05:12Z But the convent remains chaotic, and more disasters follow. Review | In ‘A Thousand Acres,’ I killed Lear’s wife. A new novel has better plans for her. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Sort of a “Full Metal Habit,” the movie chronicles her initiation into convent life, which coincides with the Vatican II reforms. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z She escapes by getting arrested, assuming the identity of a dead cellmate and being sent to a convent, from which she is dispatched as a maid to Empress Eugénie at the Tuileries Palace. ‘The Queen of the Night’ review: The girl who sang her way over the sea 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Her parents split when she was 6, and at 7, her mother sent her to boarding school at a Reading convent. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z This was reflected in how the sisters lived in their respective convents, the series reports. "The Turning": The dark side of Mother Teresa's order, according to nuns who left 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z The convent have no idea how she became pregnant; accused of infanticide, Sister Agnes proclaims that the baby was a result of an immaculate conception. Clip joint: nuns 2012-11-14T15:27:04Z Her parents, both Roman Catholic, sent her to convent schools, from which she was expelled for eccentric behavior. Leonora Carrington Is Dead at 94; Artist and Author of Surrealist Work 2011-05-27T03:30:06Z The 102-room hotel will open its doors in 2021 in a restored 17th century convent with a rooftop pool and bar offering dramatic views of the coastal city. Luxury Hotel Brands Expand to South America 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z In antiquity, the vaulted space accommodated public functions, in the 16th century it was incorporated into a convent, and in the 1930s it was used for produce and flower markets. In Transit: Another Historic Roman Site Hosts the Party 2010-11-22T11:00:00Z As Miriam, a onetime matriarch who grew estranged from her family and turned to the convent in middle age, Ingvarsson delivers a finely tuned performance that toggles between personable, commanding and distressed. Review | This ‘Agnes of God’ is blessed by a holy trinity of actors 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z I’ve come to the convent on Good Friday, just two weeks before the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, which is this week. Perspective | I had never seen Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper.’ A quick visit left a lasting impression. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Brought up in Somerset, she boarded at a convent, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin in Dorset, but was not much of a student: "I was a slow-mover, an underachiever." 'My life was chaotic' 2011-08-20T23:05:34Z Manon, we learn, is bound for a convent on the orders of her parents, who are alarmed by her fantasies of wealth and her shallowness. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z Fittingly for quarantine, I’m reading “The Martian,” by Andy Weir, and Dylan Meconis’s graphic novel “Queen of the Sea,” about a young girl living with a convent of nuns on a remote island. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Given the strictures of the culture, an ambitious and intelligent woman might well find convent life both fulfilling and frustrating. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z He breaks his vows and rushes off to the convent only to find her on her deathbed. Music Review: George Manahan Conducts ‘Thaïs’ at Manhattan School of Music 2012-12-10T22:50:19Z Thérèse Voise is a novice in a rural French convent, about to take her final vows when her parents are killed in a car accident. Review: Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘When You Read This Letter’ Is a Vexing Noir 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It was the nuns in nearby convents who perfected the recipe in the 15th century, which eventually made its way to the town pastry shops. T Magazine: Tasting Notes 2012-05-15T15:00:48Z The current president, Marie Taylor, is a former nun who spent 35 years in a convent. Quilts With a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Honest or not, the symphonic result seems to me unrelievedly hostile and rebarbative in manner, even the music associated with Renate's entry into a convent being far from unshadowed in its tranquillity. Review: Baleful Prokofiev yields to dazzling Tchaikovsky at Seattle Symphony 2010-11-12T20:16:00Z Perry is not a party to the lawsuit, but the “Roar” singer met with the nuns in May to try to convince them she would be a good owner of their beloved convent. Judge To Consider Fate of Convent Katy Perry Wants to Buy 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Commissioned for the convent of Corpus Christi in Mexico City, the work’s inspiration was as much political as devotional. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z A little later, staying in a convent on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, I picked up a book from the library shelves. Possessed by shades of Greene 2012-06-01T21:50:01Z Born on the Lizard peninsula, Ray was educated at convent school and then trained at Chelsea College of Art and Middlesex Polytechnic, graduating with a first-class degree in scientific illustration. How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z The sisters are not allowed to leave the convent or receive guests and only communicate with visitors through a grill. French nuns in music deal get death threat-report 2010-07-29T17:40:00Z His team will first use ground-penetration radar to search for hidden tombs under the convent. ArtsBeat: A Plan to Dig Up the Bones of a Suspected Mona Lisa Model 2011-04-05T17:56:16Z She knows that the abbess in charge of the convent will probably not allow her to leave. Review | In ‘A Thousand Acres,’ I killed Lear’s wife. A new novel has better plans for her. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The convent is chronically short on funds and engaged in disappointing negotiations with the local bishop, who refuses to consecrate their hillside church because of something to do with infrastructure-they’re supposedly expanding–and artwork. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z O'Brien was educated at a convent, where she fell in love with a nun; for Christmas, she bought her, devotedly, a pair of pink, striped bed socks. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-09-29T23:05:14Z Like many unwed mothers in 1950s Ireland, Lee was forced to work in convent laundries while their children were put up for adoption, usually taken by well-off American families. The real-life Philomena meets pope, says all is forgiven 2014-02-06T16:07:13Z Also, I now went to a very English convent school and my incredible vocabulary made me quite the clever clogs. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z He had intended it for a convent in Cádiz, where all the port jobs were escaping from his hungry hometown. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z She entered a convent when she was a young teenager, taking the name Sister Maria Celeste. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z Vita returns from the convent at Christmas to find her parents dancing. Review: Sisters Plot Their Escapes From ‘Napoli, Brooklyn’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The Jaffa Hotel opened to guests in August, and shortly after, The Chapel bar — housed in the convent’s original chapel hall — became the site of nightly dance parties. Jaffa Is Tel Aviv’s Unexpected Luxury Hotspot 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z But Ms. Trussoni does engineer an early scene in which Evangeline slips away from the convent, heads for the nearest town, sees Verlaine through a window and goes to meet him. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z A few days later, the nun is found stabbed to death in the cellar of the convent. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z By 17, she had booked her first four film roles, including a clamshell-born Venus in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” and the convent girl Cécile in “Dangerous Liaisons.” Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Needless to say, in this version, she does not wind up in a convent. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z The many Renaissance palaces and loggias, as well as 24 churches, six convents and 2,851 stone steps, are all remnants of its heyday. On Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, the sleepy city of Sibenik shakes things up 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The author, an ambitious, soon-to-be-lovestruck art historian named V. A. Verlaine, has been commissioned to find out whether Mrs. Rockefeller and the convent’s abbess had a correspondence. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z And her hour-long film Presentation Sisters follows the daily routine of five elderly residents of a convent. Tacita Dean chosen for Tate show 2010-12-14T16:24:13Z He played a large role in creating botanical gardens at the former Santo Domingo convent in Oaxaca, and he founded art galleries and art centers in historic buildings at several sites. Mexicans mourn painter Francisco Toledo, defender of culture 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z About a decade ago, Sister Monica Clare said, convents and monasteries were wary of social media, but they have come to see it as a potentially powerful tool for spreading their message. Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The religious scholar Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z She plays the strict Reverend Mother of a convent in the 60s, struggling to deal with the Vatican’s loosening of a system she’s devoted her life to. Melissa Leo: 'Things we would call abuse on set? Happens all the time' 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Their debut album, "Voices - Chant from Avignon," will feature an ancient style of the Gregorian Chant which the nuns at convent sing at least 8 times a day starting before dawn. French nuns to sing on Lady Gaga label 2010-07-25T12:06:00Z He was the photographer for a book about a young nun and convent life. George Barris, Photographer Who Captured the Last Images of Marilyn Monroe, Dies at 94 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Their mother, Mary, was raised in a convent, lost a son in infancy and became dependent on morphine. Jane Kaczmarek, 'Long Day's Journey' and the dark role that's a complete departure from 'Malcolm' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Learning that Sally is on her way to join a convent, this monster insists on acquainting the young woman with all the hideous aspects of sex. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z A four-star stunner within a convent dating back to the 17th century, the hotel offers a blend of modern amenities nestled in a historic environment. Come for the mushrooms, stay for the ham: This unsung corner of Spain is home to fabulous food 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The 31-room boutique hotel, located two blocks from Leon’s central square, was built in the traditional Spanish colonial style on the site of a historic convent. Life after wartime: Nicaragua transitions to adventure tourism 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z And in 2005 she completed Presentation Sisters at a convent in Cork: a muted collective portrait of the few nuns left and the domestic rituals with which they filled the days. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z The role of Madame de Croissy, the prioress of the convent, has often been the province of artists in later stages of their careers. Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z At the convent she meets young Sister Constance, an endearing chatterbox. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z Meanwhile, the convent in Vermont offers a parallel story in an entirely different register. J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ is this year’s best book about family 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z The farm, run by Noah Link, stands on the site of an abandoned convent. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Two years later a Guinness advert claimed that "36% of strippers have a convent education," admitting in the next breath that this was a made up statistic – but didn't it feel true? "Benedetta" is the latest in a history of sexy nunsploitation that dates back to Enlightenment 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z There also are scenes at an airport, on city streets and in and around a convent that looks as large and grand as a cathedral. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Originally called the Capital Children’s Museum, it welcomed generations of visitors to its H Street NE location, a former convent, from 1974 to 2003. The long-awaited National Children’s Museum hits another snag, delays reopening 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z When Mathilde returns to the convent, he accompanies her, and they work as a team to deliver the remaining babies. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Three nuns hard at work at their convent look up to discover that the sky is falling … ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Founded in 1245, it was the home of Beguines, a group of women who lived pious lives without being part of a convent or monastery. Belgium’s beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z And I heard myself say, “A documentary in a convent in Soviet Estonia.” Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z In real life the singing nun left the convent, but not with a boyfriend. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Their holdings, largely amassed by the anti-abortion activist Joseph R. Stanton, had been kept in the order’s convent in the Bronx, with limited access for scholars. How Do You Tell the Story of Roe v. Wade? 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Like other Sicilian pastries, cannoli were at one time made and sold by convent nuns as a way of supporting their religious life, though the pastries are now an Italian bakery staple. Nobody doesn’t like cannoli — unless they’ve had a soggy one 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z She entered the convent in 2009 and spent a period of time working with young people in Brazil. Singing nun Sister Cristina Scuccia wins Italian 'Voice' 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “Your worst enemy is your body,” Benedetta is told when she arrives at the convent as a child and must exchange her fine silks for a scratchy sackcloth shift. Falling Back in Love With Cannes 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Rompope reportedly was invented in the convent of Santa Clara, in Puebla. Say adios to eggnog, and embrace Mexican drinks for a feliz navidad 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Some nuns housed him in their convent near the Spanish Steps. The Cinematography of Darius Khondji 2012-07-15T00:23:01Z It is Sister Evangeline’s job to receive and answer the convent’s mail. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z The child, who later became famous as Mabel Mercer, was raised by her grandmother at first, while her teenage mother toured, then by convent nuns. Review: ‘Mabel Madness,’ a Singer’s 20th-Century Journey 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Nathaniel was raised in Lahore, Pakistan, the daughter of an Air Force officer and an English professor, and educated in a convent school. Avoiding Sectarian Violence to Tell a Story That Refused to Go Away 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z She was sent to convent and finishing schools, only to escape or be expelled. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Just next door to the Espacio Torner is the Parador de San Pablo, one of several hotels in town that are housed in former convents. Overnighter: Modern Art Amid Ancient Stone in Cuenca, Spain 2011-01-28T19:55:00Z On the way, we stop off at the wild grounds of a Catholic convent on the south-western edge of the city. Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Soon the convent gardens would be tilled under and planted with lettuces and herbs that could withstand the late frosts. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z And Mr. Martinoty amusingly charts the rejected Donna Elvira’s decision to enter a convent, so that by the Epilogue she wears a nun’s habit. Opera Review: In Austria, Stellar Cast Makes Strauss's 'Frau' Shimmer 2010-12-22T13:28:52Z The story of a teenage girl forced by her parents into a nightmarish convent, “La Religieuse” is based on Denis Diderot’s 18th-century epistolary novel. ‘La Religieuse,’ a Culture War Casualty of 1960s France 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The startlingly beautiful Leigh was born Vivian Hartley, an only child raised first in India and then shipped off to convent school in England. Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s Turbulent Relationship, Retold With Compassion 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the great Rosalind Plowright is an utterly riveting Princess, the cruelly unforgiving aunt who wreaks havoc when she visits the erring Angelica in the convent after ignoring her for seven years. Singers, not spectacle, at heart of Seattle Opera double bill 2013-05-05T17:27:55Z It’s the convent laundry that provides the setting for some of McDermott’s most vivid and arresting descriptions. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Sister Act Stage musical about a murder witness who hides out in a convent, based on the 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. The week ahead in L.A. theatre, Jan. 14-21: 'Shakespeare in Love,' 'Cabaret' and more 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The show’s message was not so much a chic convent with sky blue dresses as that most elusive of qualities: beauty. Fashion Review: At Givenchy, Sweet Tranquility 2012-10-01T18:52:38Z There’s a certain sadness to visiting a tourist area off-season, like roaming the hallways of a school during summer vacation; the grounds of the convent were entirely free of visitors except for us. High in the Mountains and Monasteries of Georgia 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Born in Britain, Armstrong studied English at Oxford, spent seven years as a Catholic nun, and then, after leaving the convent, took a brief detour toward hard-line atheism. Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps” 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z I wanted to cut myself off from everything outside of the convent walls. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z At 9, Van Damme was packed off to England to study in a convent school. T Magazine: A Passage to India 2014-05-08T17:37:58Z The spurned only child of a wealthy couple in 19th-century Seville, Spain, who weren't blessed with a much-desired male heir, she is sent off to a convent school at the age of 10. 'Conquistadora': an ambitious woman's conquests in 19th-century Puerto Rico 2011-07-27T19:36:05Z Mr. Busch portrays the Mother Superior in a convent of many secrets, rather in the vein of Rosalind Russell at her grandest. Theater Talkback: What a Drag 2010-09-30T16:29:00Z The first stop for our project was the convent in Maubara, a seaside village an hour west of the capital, built around its largest landmark, an 18th-century Dutch fort. Timor-Leste: what it's like to travel in a land without tourists 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z María later abandoned the children, and the two sisters were placed in a convent. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Maxine did her first few years of schooling at a Roman Catholic convent because it happened to be next door to the house; she finished at local public schools. Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z You’d be hard pressed to find a warmer place to spend Christmas night than Nonnatus House, the fictional London convent where the nuns of “Call the Midwife” practice their craft. What’s on TV This Week: Kennedy Center Honors and ‘Insecure’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Only in emergencies were men, even priests, allowed within the clausura, or convent interior. Nuns gone bad: Why you should read this lurid tale of a lesbian nun sex gang 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Early in the 20th century, five British nuns are sent into the Himalayas to establish a school, hospital and convent in a decrepit mansion perched on a cliff. ‘Black Narcissus’ Review: Nuns, Mountains, High Passion 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z Sister St. Saviour also gets Annie a job in the convent laundry, where she and her daughter will be safe and cared for. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Minimal set pieces descend from above to suggest convent walls, a chapel or, in the gruesome final scene, the Place de la Révolution. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z "I knew a young girl who entered a convent after reading Sade's works, and because she had read them." Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z Even with all the structure of the convent, she had no person or place to hold on to, only the routine she was coming to learn. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The convent sits at the highest point of Ste-Marie, where it inculcates a species of virtue that tends to dwindle into convention. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z In the end, of course, mutual respect and warmth develop — and Delores turns the convent chorus into a rousing soul-music choir. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z The show is about a nightclub singer on witness protection who hides from the mob at a convent. Another view on?Sister Act 2010-08-29T21:16:00Z The basilica, in turn, became a church — Holy Mary of the Miracle — then a convent and a prison. Overnighter: Near Barcelona, Gems From Ancient Rome 2011-06-03T19:03:42Z When the opera begins, Manon is a girl — like Butterfly, she is only 15 — on her way to a convent. The Met’s Herculean Task: 4 Operas in 48 Hours 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z But she also subtly reveals Manon’s desperation: a young woman whose father seems to have come on hard times is destined for a convent, yet quivering with desire. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z To honor the general and his men, local nuns from the convent of Santa Monica prepared a meal using fresh apples, pears, peaches, walnuts and pork. Sweet, Salty, Sour — and Part of Mexico’s Soul 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Ai constructed the piece "Straight" to be installed in a former convent on Giudecca island in the Venetian lagoon. Correction: Italy-Biennale-Weiwei story 2013-05-29T15:50:20Z This chance meeting led Büttner to create her 2007 piece, Little Works, a short film about life in the nun's west London Carmelite convent. Andrea B?ttner: the habit of art 2011-03-14T22:00:01Z All of these products they sell at the convent, and at a store in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic. A Glimpse Inside the Secluded World of a Georgian Convent 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Who is locked up in the convent that conveniently and ghoulishly doubles as an insane asylum? Movie Review: ‘Consuming Spirits,’ an Animated Film by Chris Sullivan 2012-12-12T00:01:20Z Almost as notable are the four elaborately carved palaces surrounding a courtyard; that section is called the Nunnery Quadrangle because of its resemblance to a convent. Travel a bit farther in Mexico to get closer to age-old Mayan ruins 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Seven has been living in a convent for years. The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore - review 2012-07-27T08:00:00Z Besides leaving her time for her hobby, convent life lets her avoid the reach of an omniscient A.I. that humanity has embraced as a benefactor and constant companion. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Cervantes' bones went missing in 1673 when building work was done at the convent. Madrid begins search for bones of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes 2011-07-25T18:17:06Z What a brave and ambitious young French doctor discovers in a Polish convent in 1946, where many of the sisters are pregnant, is more than a melodrama of female suffering and solidarity. “The Innocents”: A powerful fable of rape and rebirth in a Polish convent 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z She hid for two years in a Catholic convent, where she said she was beaten by other girls because she was Jewish. Régine, Whose Discotheque Gave Nightlife a New Dawn, Dies at 92 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Naturally, the Dutch director’s latest, set in a 17th century convent, was not going to be suited to the History Channel. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z “Black Narcissus,” Powell’s exquisite 1947 drama about a group of nuns who open a convent in the Himalayas, will screen at 7:30 p.m. Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell films at SAM 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The convent priest's solution was to perform an exorcism. 'Beyond the Hills has no obvious villains': Cristian Mungiu 2013-03-07T17:35:43Z Even inside the convent walls we felt the threat of typhus and malaria, the stress and strain of political turmoil. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z In Boccaccio's Decameron, priests, convents and piety are mocked even more harshly than they are in The Canterbury Tales. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z It works fine as the convent and as the midcentury cocktail lounge, but you’d think the men were living in the back rooms of some sleazy blue-collar tavern. Theater Review: ‘Tiny Bubbles’ at the Medicine Show Theater 2012-07-29T21:23:37Z The convent was “not an orphanage,” Reyes writes, but a workhouse where the girls toiled for 10 hours a day doing embroidery, tailoring and laundry. An Artist’s Childhood, Etched in Trauma and Abandonment 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z When corporate bad guys show up at the convent in search of the film, Larry swoops in and saves Sister Martha. Review: In ‘Little Thing, Big Thing,’ a Nun, a Criminal and a Social Conscience 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z When a band of soldiers returns to the convent while she is there, her quick thinking saves the nuns from another harrowing round of assaults. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z We stopped at two others, which are once again functioning as convents. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z Now she is channeling her finely edited high-low sensibility at Wait and See, the boutique she just opened in a former convent near the Duomo. | Wait and See Boutique 2010-10-07T20:55:00Z She was twenty-two, and only a few years out of her convent boarding school. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z To find convent accommodations, try an aggregator such as www.monasterystays.com or www.paradorsofspain.com. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z When a giant meteorite lands near the convent, the abbess goes the way of the Wicked Witch of the East and Gunch suffers a fatal attack that she miraculously survives. ‘The Collision’ and ‘The Martyrdom’ Review: A Nun Ahead of Her Time 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z A silver chandelier made in Galway around 1740 for a Dominican convent has come to Chicago from the Winterthur museum in Delaware, where it has hung in a Maryland period room from the 1730s. Irish Artifacts and Provenance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Set in a former Carmelite convent across from the street from Old San Juan’s cathedral, El Convento is one of the most atmospheric hotels in town. 36 Hours in San Juan 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “I sent you there with a purpose,” he says when a group from the convent returns with Alina on one of these occasions when they were supposed to deposit her elsewhere. Beyond the Hills: A Neorealist Exorcist 2013-03-08T13:00:06Z Ms. Price grew up “no style heroine,” wearing a bottle-green wool uniform and Benetton jumpers to the local convent school in Dublin. The Oscars Just Happened, and This Stylist … Stayed Quiet 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Was entering a convent, he was asked, such a bad result? Paris, home of the avant-garde 2011-03-26T00:05:47Z Police say she wrote the letters "T" and "A," with a heart symbol between them, on the side of a building that houses a convent. Keith Richards' daughter due Thursday in NY court 2011-04-21T10:16:04Z Walpole plays the titular Agnes, a 21-year-old novice nun suspected of giving birth at her convent, then strangling the newborn and discarding the body in a wastebasket. Review | This ‘Agnes of God’ is blessed by a holy trinity of actors 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Widowed in her mid-30s and childless, she never remarried, pursuing instead a peripatetic, religious life as a guest in convents all over Italy. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Its historic center, a Unesco World Heritage site, is one of the largest in South America, with 40 colonial churches and chapels, 16 convents and monasteries and picturesque plazas. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Quito, Ecuador 2011-09-15T20:00:00Z Stritch was 21, just out of convent school and called upon to feign a sophistication she didn’t feel. Love Elaine Stritch? Thank the Parts She Didn’t Get 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z She was educated at convent schools and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her acting career onstage in the George Bernard Shaw play “The Apple Cart” in 1953. Sylvia Syms, Versatile British Actress, Is Dead at 89 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Formerly a 16th century Dominican convent, this luxurious and welcoming hotel is close to the zócalo and the Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Francine Prose’s Oaxaca: An Immersion Course in Mexico’s Delights 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z She died sixteen years later, alone, in a Spanish convent. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z But this Mary never seems to fully retreat into a reality-denying haze, even when she’s recalling her happy days as a convent girl. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Expelled from multiple convent schools, Wertmüller abandoned her studies at 16 for a drama college, where she became immersed in the Stanislavski tradition. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But the ultimate dream of the family is to convert an old convent, at the time of my visit inhabited primarily by pigeons, into a theater and restaurant. Travel: Olive oil in Paciano, Italy There is some risk, she said, that the birth mother is living in the area and planning to kidnap Allegra from the convent. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The sisters are neither allowed to leave the convent or receive guests and only communicate with visitors through a grill. French nuns seek chart run after record deal 2010-07-25T21:48:00Z His mother committed suicide in the 1950s, after which Una spent some time at a convent’s orphanage. This Novel Recounts a Haunted Sibling Relationship in Epic Verse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z At the convent across the street he launches into an impromptu duet with a nun, who like his father, who died in 1988, is from the Apulia region of southeastern Italy. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z Back in the convent for a while, she prostrates herself on the stone floor, apologizing for sins that she hasn’t committed. 'Ida,' by Pawel Pawlikowski: A Film Masterpiece 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Jenny Agutter, who plays Sister Julienne, the matriarch of a nursing convent, may have achieved national-treasure status in the UK but she is little known in the US. PBS seeks Downton-esque Brit hit with Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge 2013-03-29T17:04:00Z Largo Everything about this stylish den, which opened in a former convent in January 2010, made for a hopeful first impression. Choice Tables: Lisbon?s Culinary Golden Age? 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z In the last room of the exhibit is Bocanegra’s staging of “Dialogue of the Carmelites,” a nineteen-fifties opera based on the story of a French convent where the nuns are executed by anticlerical French revolutionaries. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z First, the researchers will use ground-penetration radar to search for hidden tombs inside the convent. Hunt is on for remains of possible Mona Lisa model 2011-04-05T13:36:55Z Elsewhere in the season, the actor Kathy Burke will direct Mary O'Malley's comedy Once a Catholic, which is set in a convent girls' school over the Christmas period. Adrian Lester to reprise role of Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet at the Tricycle 2013-07-02T14:12:12Z She hid in a convent, where she was beaten. Régine, Whose Discotheque Gave Nightlife a New Dawn, Dies at 92 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Her cap firmly set on Jesus, Yvette, pausing only to perform her first miracle, makes her way to a convent in Jericó, Colombia, where, indeed, she becomes a bride of Christ. Edmund White’s High-Octane Saga of Twin Sisters and 1950s Texas 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Its heroine was a spirited 9-year-old trapped in a repressive convent school, and her experience spoke to Ms. Callil, who had suffered a similar upbringing. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z In 2002, I was asked to officiate a wedding of family friends in Tuscany, where a few dozen American guests stayed in a fourteenth-century villa that had once been a convent. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z In the late 19th century, Bismarck waged his 'Kulturkampf,' a culture war, against the Roman Catholic Church, closing down every Catholic school and hospital, convent and monastery in Imperial Germany. Diocese clarifies bishop's remarks on Obama 2012-04-19T17:20:00Z But aides have said he would probably go to a convent in his native Argentina rather than stay in the Vatican as Benedict did. Pope wishes Rome luck on Olympic bid but jokes 'I won't be around' 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The region is also exploiting raw materials: a considerable inventory of abandoned factories, Art Nouveau mansions, convents and churches just waiting for a second life. Next Stop: Art Takes Root in Fertile Soil in Spain 2010-02-27T04:27:00Z Anderson was a sophomore in musical theater at Pace University in New York when she was discovered and thrust onto the world stage as a postulant at an Austrian convent. 'The Sound of Music' at the Ahmanson is fresh and lively 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z What nobody knows, however, is exactly where within the convent complex they are to be found. Madrid begins search for bones of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes 2011-07-25T18:17:06Z In the end, he watches helplessly as Renata, now in a convent, is subjected to a brutal exorcism, even as her fellow nuns succumb to her demons. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z He is now more like the nun with a racy past who lectures the rest of the convent about the meaning of sex: not much fun for anyone. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z The newspaper said the nuns had informed the police and asked them to keep a closer eye on the convent. French nuns in music deal get death threat-report 2010-07-29T17:40:00Z She was, in his estimation, forever the naive convent girl and the sophisticated artist— qualities that made her an ideal interpreter of Broadway song. Elaine Stritch: All the best lines at this memorial were hers 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Nowhere Ending Sky finishes when Meta is packed off to a convent boarding school, still admiring her father, still skirmishing with her mother, on the brink of adolescence. Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer – review 2013-07-13T07:30:01Z Instead, they reportedly favor the Hollister deal because it would keep the convent open to the public. Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Roxane retreated to a convent and only after many long years and on his deathbed does she discover that it was Cyrano all along who spoke for Christian. 'How the French Invented Love': 900 years of living, loving and liaisons 2012-11-14T20:37:07Z One day, a young nun appears and pleads with Mathilde to make an emergency visit to a Benedictine convent to save the life of a sister who lies gravely ill. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The rounded boulders of the Incas’ central sanctuary, Qoricancha, became the foundation of Santo Domingo, whose convent courtyard encloses the temple’s tapered niches. Hiking to Machu Picchu past sacred Inca peaks 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z When the city started to swing, the former convent girl joined in, albeit mutedly. Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z In the past, many rich Europeans sent a daughter or two to a convent to live with nuns, where they excelled at needlework and baking — skills still practiced today. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Christina was desperately unhappy in the convent to which she was taken, and managed to escape; for a while she lived rough on the streets. My 700,000 children 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Spencer, a veteran accompanist, is self-effacing at the keyboard, but he adds pleasing touches, such as a tolling bell in “Die junge Nonne,” about a monastic novice fearful as a storm passes over her convent. CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “It was a December of crows,” she writes just before introducing us to the convent of the Good Shepherd nuns. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Even women in convents could have a vibrant sex life, if they played it right. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z King Henry VII gave the bishop of Ely permission to kick them out and take the convent for the college. Rowing for Jesus, and other activities for a Parents’ Weekend abroad 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Were you thinking of those days when you wrote about Annie’s experiences at the convent? John L’Heureux on the Mystery of Grace 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z When the convent was rebuilt late in the 17th century, his bones, along with others who were interred there, were moved. The long-lost remains of Miguel de Cervantes have been found 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z On the way, they hole up at a former Catholic mission, where she reunites with the Goan priest who trained her “to be white” as a young girl at convent school. Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z GA I’ve heard that there are some cemeteries near convents in which foetuses have been discovered. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z I realized that even if someone were to take Allegra from the convent and offer her a better life, I could not be entirely happy. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z It’s a region known for its bewildering number of churches, convents and monasteries. Driving Russia’s Revived Golden Ring 2012-08-31T19:01:44Z “Sister Act” isn’t, certainly, the only conventional convent farce to strike theatrical gold. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z His burial place was a tiny convent church no larger than the entrance hall of an average house. Hunt on to find Cervantes — Spain's great writer 2014-04-28T13:03:27Z Curry is fearless as the chain-smoking Martha, a former Catholic who abandoned religion after her sister died at a convent. Review | This ‘Agnes of God’ is blessed by a holy trinity of actors 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Whether staying overnight, enjoying a quiet convent garden or indulging in a taste of sugary blessings from smiling nuns, a European convent may inject a peaceful energy into your travels. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The story of a set of nine, late 17th- or early 18th-century diamond rings from a Spanish convent is similarly suggestive. ‘Treasures and Talismans,’ at the Cloisters, Puts Rings on a Pedestal 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The convent was not a place of peace; it was a place of noise, an almost-holy sanctuary carved out in the heart of Bagnacavello in Northeast Italy. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Founded in the early 20th century, the convent creates slick multimedia marketing campaigns and released a self-help book last year, “Millennial Nuns,” with Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Living the #ConventLife 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z After that opening, "Bovary" shows us Emma's comparatively happy days being educated with other girls in a convent school, a refuge she leaves for a marriage arranged by her father. 'Madame Bovary' lovely but as constrained as Flaubert's heroine 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Several years ago, an amateur historian discovered a death certificate showing that Gherardini was buried at a convent in central Florence. ArtsBeat: A Plan to Dig Up the Bones of a Suspected Mona Lisa Model 2011-04-05T17:56:16Z They then drew parallels to “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” which follows a convent of Carmelite nuns pressured to renounce their vocation during the French Revolution. Using deaf actors, Victory Hall Opera continues to push boundaries 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z She was sent away to a convent school in Galway, but didn’t attend college. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z In this weird half-morning, on my way to New York for Mike’s memorial service, the bus passed what must have been a convent of some sort. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z The family spoke English at home, and both Mr. Dawson and his sister attended convent schools that had been established by the British. Cautionary Climate Tales That Give People Pause When They Press Play 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Twin sisters from Texas set off on starkly different paths, one to an aristocratic life in Paris and the other to a convent in Colombia. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The hardworking women of the Nonnatus House nursing convent in London are back for a ninth season. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and ‘Beef House’ 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The artist Anish Kapoor, whose current installation at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris was vandalized this month, will show some of his work at a Modernist convent designed by the architect Le Corbusier. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The family was Catholic, and Kate, the youngest of three, attended convent school; home, meanwhile, was vibrant with the Celtic singing and sayings of her Irish mother. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The story centers on a young woman, played by Belgian actress Pauline Etienne, forced by her family to enter a convent, where she suffers harassment. Mother superior role for Huppert in Berlin film 2013-02-10T17:08:09Z Gregory Cowles, Book Review Preview Editor In this political climate, I considered revisiting “The Nun,” Denis Diderot’s scathing classic about an innocent teenager forced into a convent and systematically corrupted there. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Religious Fiction 2012-05-31T17:00:23Z The boulevard, which follows the course of a stream that was eventually diverted, was home to convents and monasteries before the anticlerical riots of 1835 destroyed many of them. In Spain, Searching for Ancestors, Dry Wine and Calm Seas 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Whatever terrors are running through the Good Shepherd convent remain largely buried beneath a code of silence enforced by fear and sealed with the presumption of holiness. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z It was also where she discovered that before a teacher named Sister Mercedes had entered the convent, the nun was known as Ivy May Bolton, one of Bertrice’s favorite childhood authors. Bertrice Small, 77, Writer of Risqué Romance Novels, Dies 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The Black Death arrives, and the steeple collapses, but little else happens in this novel’s 14th-century English convent. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But his life unravels after taking one look at the sensual Manon Lescaut, who arrives in town with her overbearing brother on her way to a convent. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z He realized that as a 16-year-old out of convent school, I knew nothing about art. Tales From the Warhol Factory 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Sister Act Musical Theatre West presents the stage adaptation of the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg comedy about a murder witness hiding out in a convent. L.A. theater openings, April 3-10: 'Dry Land,' 'Shelter' and more 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z At one point in its history, it housed a convent where the bodies of dead nuns sat in a stone chamber, their decay reminding the surviving sisters of the transience of life. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The tone is steadfastly lucid and reasonable, even when the plot covers such melodramatic terrain as the seduction of a young novitiate in Sister Juana’s convent by a Spanish grandee. London Theater Journal: Firebrands 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z We soon learn that this enigmatic young woman is the orphaned Harriet Brandt, age 21 and newly arrived from an Ursuline convent in Jamaica. Review | Sure ‘Dracula’ is great, but don’t overlook Florence Marryat’s ‘The Blood of the Vampire’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z But it is thought that the nuns in Las Huelgas, a Cistercian convent for noblewomen in north-central Spain, enthusiastically flouted the rule. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church - Review 2011-10-25T22:00:50Z The area around the convent is not an easy place to live. A Glimpse Inside the Secluded World of a Georgian Convent 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z I was sent to study at a convent of the nuns of the Sacred Heart. Graciela Iturbide talks about going viral, L.A. cholos and shooting Frida Kahlo's bathroom 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Then, 75 years after Coecke's death, came "The Triumph of the Eucharist," a group of 11 monumental and nine smaller tapestries woven in Belgium for a royal convent chapel in Madrid. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The first women in my family to get college degrees were my aunts, who did so courtesy of the convent. I slept with the enemy: Here’s what an unlikely romance taught me about racism, Donald Trump, and our cultural obsession with male rebellion 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Eleanor's having phantom contractions, Coop wants in on the baby action and Grace makes a break from convent school in a surprising way. TV highlights 11/12/12 2012-12-10T20:00:02Z Cervantes was buried in the convent after dying at his home nearby in 1616. Madrid begins search for bones of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes 2011-07-25T18:17:06Z Nuns often share communal houses in the communities where they work, rather than living in convents. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z The quartet presents "Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas," polyphonic works created by rebel women in a Spanish convent in a time when such musical activity was forbidden. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z Around Europe, particularly in Spain and Italy, convents provide tranquil and often economical sleeping quarters. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z But a swashbuckler demands swordplay, and William Hobbs’s fight choreography delivers, with sweaty brawls in the likes of a laundry, a tavern and a convent. ‘The Three Musketeers,’ the Richard Lester Treatment 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Esther is the fictional representative of a real-life event, the 1996 abduction of a convent’s worth of Catholic school girls by an outlaw group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls’: surviving suffering in Uganda 2014-03-26T19:50:24Z At 8.30am exactly, the convent gate creaks open and he strides out into the summer sunshine. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Though the story is based on a one-act vaudeville play about a count and a band of knights who infiltrate a convent, the French libretto alters and expands the story. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z Anna is an attractive young woman training to be a nun at a Catholic convent. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z By an accident of timing, the plague that threatens the convent and the surrounding areas feels more immediate – and dangerous – than the lingering shots of naked novitiates. "Benedetta" is the latest in a history of sexy nunsploitation that dates back to Enlightenment 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The observatory is part of the Welsh entry to this year's Venice Biennale, and will be shown for six months in a former convent. Bedwyr Williams: why I'm taking a space observatory to Venice 2013-04-14T17:00:01Z The narrative begins as a young Manon is being taken to a convent by her father. A Soprano Has a Goal for Her New ‘Manon Lescaut’: Don’t Cry 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Determined and largely self-taught, she joined the viceroy’s court, but then entered a convent in the 1660s, seemingly because a religious lifestyle offered more opportunity for creativity and scholarship. At Gala Theatre, a 17-century ‘house of desires’ with modern sensibilities 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z We will memorize your texts… I realized I had been making the case in my mind for weeks, imagining a life with Allegra as my own outside of the convent. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Mr. Schreiber confided that when he first read the script, which ends with most of its principal characters dead, exiled or sent to a convent, he found it charming and light. Liev Schreiber, the Reluctant Rake 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The Ruscum, by the way, is produced at a convent by Cistercian nuns, who in addition to vineyards have orchards and gardens, which they farm organically. Orange Wines: A Genre With a Large Gray Area 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Historians are not sure why the Puebloan ceremonial chambers were built in the middle of the convents, or why one was square. A monumental journey through New Mexico 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z For her own protection, the police hide her in a convent where she masquerades as a Catholic nun. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z It’s then, while Furlong is making his rounds with a delivery of coal that he meets a young woman trapped in the Good Shepherd convent. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The only way into the convent was through the kitchen door. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The pop star wants to purchase an eight-acre property in Los Angeles, on which the nuns’ convent happens to be sited. Two Nuns Want to Stop Katy Perry From Buying Their Convent 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The eight-day Miguel de Cervantes 400-Year Tribute Tour begins in Madrid; a Cervantes expert provides background on the author and his works and takes travelers to the convent where he is buried. Celebrating Cervantes in Spain; Lodging (and Art) in Marfa 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z She is a sort of wimple-free nun, the Smile Mart her convent. ‘Convenience Store Woman’ Casts a Fluorescent Spell 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z On the rare instance that a documentary film crew gains access to a convent, the results can be illuminating and, for the viewer, far more peaceful than intimidating. ‘The Sisterhood’: R U there, God? It’s me, without makeup. For centuries, most of Toledo’s almond-fruity-sweet mazapan was made at local convents — but with the dwindling population of nuns, it’s become difficult to get it directly from the source. Europe’s convents offer tranquillity — and treats 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z After her carriage is attacked by mobs burning with revolutionary fervor, Blanche tells her father she has resolved to enter a convent. Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z There are indoor and outdoor chapels for Mass; crucifixes hanging in hallways; and photos of Mother Angelica, who is retired from the media and lives in a convent in north Alabama. US-based 'Pope TV' to zero in on papal selection 2013-03-12T17:32:08Z We never heard much about it, you see, in that convent of mine. Toby Litt: My grandmother was a war reporter at 14 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The British writer Iris Murdoch’s fourth novel , THE BELL, is set in a lay religious community just outside the walls of an Anglican convent. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Ebony Magazine to Young Chefs 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z A forestry professor showed me the library, a convent beautifully restored. In Portugal, uncorking some unexpected culinary delights 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z He attended a Catholic convent school in York, which was bombed in early 1942, killing several of the nuns and his fellow pupils. John Barry dies aged 77 2011-01-31T09:37:55Z And Logo airs back-to-back “Sister Act” movies, for five hours of Whoopi Goldberg’s convent antics and musical comedy. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Orphan Black’ and ‘Sister Act’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Little is known about Hildegard’s background except that she attended convent schools and briefly worked as a nanny. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Eleven years later came “Small Things Like These,” her haunting account of a coal merchant who discovers a girl imprisoned in the shed of a Catholic convent. How a bestselling Irish writer changed the way we read (and publish) short fiction 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z In a victory for Katy Perry, a Los Angeles judge announced Wednesday that she intends to block an effort by nuns to sell a Los Feliz convent to a competing buyer. Katy Perry fought for a Montecito mansion in court. The verdict is in, and she likes it 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z But one bone, from the grounds of an early Franciscan convent in the heart of modern-day Mexico City called Bellas Artes, yielded DNA matching a breed of cattle found only in Africa. Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z It soon transpires that, as a teenager, Lorna's baby was taken from her after she was forced to attend a convent. Gaslighting and shame: Uncovering the stories of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z “Many of the early monasteries and convents took vows of silence, but that did not include singing, bells or gongs,” he said. A sound bath in one of L.A.'s oldest churches will take you to a higher plane 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Footage released by Greek police showed officers imploring a reluctant group of nuns chanting hymns to evacuate a convent, and another of police screaming "lets go" as towering flames closed in at a timber yard. Wildfires continue in Greece as EU allies send aid 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z She entered a convent as an undergraduate at Notre Dame of Maryland University but eventually left both institutions, completing her bachelor’s degree at Fordham University. Pioneering breast cancer surgeon Susan Love dies at 75 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z After two years at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, she entered the convent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in New York City. Dr. Susan Love, Surgeon and Breast Health Advocate, Dies at 75 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The series is set in the fictional Irish town of Kilkinure, where local women have been campaigning for the state to recognise that the convent was a former Magdalene Laundry. Gaslighting and shame: Uncovering the stories of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z They stored the items at the convent next door before relocating them to proper art storage weeks later. A fire tore through Mission San Gabriel. Its museum now tells a more inclusive story 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z At the age of four, she was sent to a local boarding school, and at nine, to a convent school in England. Obituary: Ann Leslie 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Across Europe, the continent that nurtured Christianity for most of two millennia, churches, convents and chapels stand empty and increasingly derelict as faith and church attendance shriveled over the past half century. In Europe’s empty churches, prayer and confessions make way for drinking and dancing 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Recently, many Armenians have been joining weekly protests, linking arms and singing nationalistic songs below the window of the patriarch who now stays cloistered in his rooms at the convent. Controversial land sale puts Jerusalem Armenians on edge 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Manougian has barricaded himself in the Armenian convent, unwilling or unable to be seen publicly, according to residents. In Jerusalem’s contested Old City, shrinking Armenian community fears displacement after land deal 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Six hundred residential buildings, a kindergarten, a school and a convent were flooded, and 900 people had been evacuated, he added. Villagers survey flooded homes and wait for help after Ukraine dam breach 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Its renovation is tied up in bureaucratic red tape, while the nuns studying in Rome are still housed at a convent a 90-minute commute away. Vatican questions how priest moved $17 million meant for missionary work into investment fund 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Peasants in the countryside went further, attacking churches, convents, and the estates of the nobility. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z After becoming orphaned as a teen, she went to a convent school to be educated, but she eventually returned to her family’s estate and married her neighbor Manuel Padilla, an influential politician with progressive views. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Along the Silk Roads, merchants established monasteries, convents, and shrines, bringing Buddhist traditions into China. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z |
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