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  • (Anthony Tommasini relates the famous story of her landing the role of Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, as much a Napoleonically deft flanking maneuver as a prima donna's ultimatum.)

    En elle tout séduit Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • And to donna's point, you know, I would just have to point out that President Bush, obviously, along with other leaders from the United Kingdom, the United Nation, many other places, did believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

    CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009 2009

  • (Anthony Tommasini relates the famous story of her landing the role of Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, as much a Napoleonically deft flanking maneuver as a prima donna's ultimatum.)

    Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • (It's a Monday.) "I call them 'prima donna cakes'," says Lou, "because the prima donna's gotta get his chocolate chips."

    MIGHTY MICHAEL 2007

  • 'You know, Victory,' he drawled pointedly, 'you are fast developing a prima donna's temper.'

    The Secret Virgin Mortimer, Carole 2002

  • Every eye in the opera house turned to Justin, even the shocked prima donna's.

    Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

  • But what I meant by saying that a mere writer has no place in a prima donna's life was that, whereas my work is more or less a hobby, and my little bit of

    The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

  • Doubtless this result would have been much to the prima donna's liking, but she had to submit.

    Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

  • The young man joyously assented, and soon an elegant equipage was bearing him swiftly towards the prima donna's apartments.

    Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

  • But the successful prima donna's face wore a not altogether happy expression, though when she spoke the sad look went out of it; only when in repose it was always there.

    Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence Maud Ogilvy

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