Mother Superior
noun
: a woman who is the head of a convent
—often used as a form of address
Good morning, Mother Superior.
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Maybe some of the blame lies with her mentor, Mother Superior Raquella, who sought to harness her rage and psychic power and revealed secrets to her that the other acolytes didn’t know.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Best Supporting Performance award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role as a different sort of formidable Mother Superior in Irish drama Small Things Like These.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
The Mother Superior insisted Warner, a glee club member, learn Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.
—Provided By Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2024
His travel documents conveniently arrive ahead of a letter from the Mother Superior (Colman) presiding over the Peruvian bear retirement home where Aunt Lucy is a resident, encouraging him to visit before her health deteriorates.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
After Grandier was executed, the Mother Superior at Loudun, Jeanne des Anges, continued to be tormented by demons.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
The hilarious scene saw Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu go undercover as nuns in order to garner information from Fisher’s Mother Superior.
—EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Casting female actors was slightly easier because there’s just the one major role for a woman, that of Vatican Mother Superior Sister Agnes.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The pair starred together in 1992's Sister Act and the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, in which Goldberg portrayed lounge singer Deloris and Smith played the memorable Mother Superior.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Sep. 2024
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Best Supporting Performance award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role as a different sort of formidable Mother Superior in Irish drama Small Things Like These.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
The Mother Superior insisted Warner, a glee club member, learn Mozart’s Mass in C Minor.
—Provided By Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber, The Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2024
His travel documents conveniently arrive ahead of a letter from the Mother Superior (Colman) presiding over the Peruvian bear retirement home where Aunt Lucy is a resident, encouraging him to visit before her health deteriorates.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
After Grandier was executed, the Mother Superior at Loudun, Jeanne des Anges, continued to be tormented by demons.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
The hilarious scene saw Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, and Lucy Liu go undercover as nuns in order to garner information from Fisher’s Mother Superior.
—EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Casting female actors was slightly easier because there’s just the one major role for a woman, that of Vatican Mother Superior Sister Agnes.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The pair starred together in 1992's Sister Act and the 1993 sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, in which Goldberg portrayed lounge singer Deloris and Smith played the memorable Mother Superior.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Mother Superior.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Mother%20Superior. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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