How to Use prioress in a Sentence
prioress
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Even [Jodie Comer’s] prioress talks about this.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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There’s this evil nun, or prioress, who bloodlets the goodly, heroic Robin Hood.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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A lot of it also came from wanting to understand the prioress character and what a header of that time may have been like.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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After Robin is gravely injured, he is taken in by the sage prioress Brigid (Jodie Comer), who nurses him back to health at an island convent.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Your character, Sister Brigid, is compassionate to no end, but in the source material, the prioress character is truly evil.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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For a jaw-dropping tour de force of vocal and theatrical prowess, though, honors must go to the German soprano Michaela Schuster as the original prioress, Madame de Croissy.
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Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Oct. 2022
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The slow-burn thriller is partially based on a 17th century ballad in which the heroic outlaw’s cousin, a malevolent prioress, bleeds the older, ailing Robin to death under the guise of the ancient medical treatment known as bloodletting.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026
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For the senior members of the order — two successive prioresses and the conflicted but maternal assistant prioress, Mother Marie — the role of self-abnegation is a deep moral mystery, one that takes a lifetime to fully understand.
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Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Oct. 2022
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Just as rewarding were the women making company debuts, including American soprano Deanna Breiwick as a sparkling, crystalline Sister Constance, and American soprano Michelle Bradley, who brought both gravitas and force to the role of Madame Lidoine, the second prioress to head the convent.
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Joshua Kosman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
16 Oct. 2022
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