Nurse Ratched

For example, we refused to adopt the industry's condescending protocol for air rage -- all that speaking levelly to angry passengers and pressing hidden buttons to call security, like Nurse Ratched in the asylum.

Air Peter 2008

It's strange that 70s feminists came to use the term "matriarchy" as synonymous with "rule by women" as the Nurse Ratched character might symbolize.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Ann Althouse 2006

In the famous words of Nurse Ratched, the treatment might be said to do the work of the sleeping pill, the electric chair and the torture rack.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

While McMurphy's conflict is with Nurse Ratched, one of his confidants is "Chief" Bromden, an imposing Indian who suffers from schizophrenia and appears to be a deaf mute.

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She's the political equivalent of Nurse Ratched, and when you're dealing with the company woman incarnate, the only way to keep order in the commune is to silence those that don't play by the rules.

North Dallas Thirty 2008

Since leaving ER, her best acting work has been in Britain, as Mrs Bennet in the ITV series Lost in Austen, and as Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater in the West End production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Home | Mail Online 2009

Since leaving ER, her best acting work has been in Britain, as Mrs Bennet in the ITV series Lost in Austen, and as Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater in the West End production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Home | Mail Online 2009