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Recent Examples of schoolmistress
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.
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Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
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Tim Parks,
The New York Review of Books,
28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
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Silvina Ocampo,
The New Yorker,
11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
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Vanity Fair,
Vanities,
28 Mar. 2017
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
The inspiration for Jean Brodie was a charismatic schoolmistress called Christina Kay.
—
Tim Parks,
The New York Review of Books,
28 July 2020
The home above was empty, except for the small cry of a little girl (who had just received a good-night kiss but didn’t want to go to sleep), and the shadow of a hoop skirt, like a black devil in a perverse schoolmistress’s ankle boots.
—
Silvina Ocampo,
The New Yorker,
11 July 2019
Usually, one schoolmistress declares her love to another and is rebuffed.
—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2018
FacebookTwitterPinterest 1/12On a walk with school-mates and a schoolmistress, London, 1957.From Bettmann/Getty Images.
—
Vanity Fair,
Vanities,
28 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schoolmistress
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Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Green plays Miss Peregrine, the headmistress of a hidden school that protects children with unusual abilities.
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The decision comes after several parents and teachers expressed concern about AI.
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The classroom reflects the Academy’s inclusive model for students, teachers, and families, and also lays the foundation for continued collaboration between Roborock and Miami Lighthouse.
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Meanwhile, Krakow portrays protagonist Elizabeth Thatcher, who leaves behind her privileged life to become a schoolteacher on the western frontier in a coal mining town in 1900s Canada.
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Burnham has said that his Catholic schoolteachers helped shape his political consciousness.
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No ruler-wielding schoolmarm can impart the urgency of learning the way hunger can.
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This, to Newsom, is being strong; the right are the fainthearted schoolmarms now.
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On the other hand, Dunaway and her tart-talking sidekick, Brenda Vaccaro, seem to be having the time of their lives as mistresses of the shades of darkness (their ramshackle abode is a funhouse Ghost Train ride festooned with skeletons, spiders and tattered netting).
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The Paradise actress guest-starred on the series in 2007 as Tony Soprano's mistress.
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In Silber’s revival, the wise schoolmaster Mr. Lundie is Widow Lundie, and the town flirt Meg Brockie is a pub owner pushing middle age.
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The struggle inspired a young Newcastle schoolmaster named Thomas Spence to develop the world’s first basic income proposal.
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The series is devised and curated by poet/singer-songwriter/teacher Darius Degher who, along with poet-pedagogue Marit Anderson and local arts impresario Michael Schmitt, hosts the readings, according to a news release.
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Captain İsmet, Detective Kenan, and pedagogue Aysun uncover dark truths hidden in the town’s silence, where fear and guilt protect the killer.
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Taran Chun, former headmaster at a large private school system in Hawai’i, did not list at least three years of public school classroom experience or equivalent instructional experience.
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As the school grows, Solum said, the board hopes to hire a headmaster.
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“Schoolmistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schoolmistress. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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