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  • Also, Chabrol's The Bridesmaid is "a psychodrama of typically brisk efficiency and relaxed gallows humor."

    GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 4/3. 2007

  • The finish of the Players was dubbed the Bridesmaid Open - more media hassle - because the three players in contention all had issues.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • 'Bridesmaid'-that's you my dear, "he said to Deborah,"' shall comport herself at all times in a manner consistent with her obligation to make the Bride'-that's her, "he said, nodding at Mona, before I interrupted.

    Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids 2010

  • A very beautiful herbaceous peony known as "Bridesmaid" after having grown for a number of years in single form, in one year wherever grown suddenly became double.

    Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

  • Ever the Bridesmaid is my favourite of the contemporary tales, a romantic comedy in which the kind and sensible heroine somehow manages to retain her sanity amid a whirl of other people’s misunderstandings, delusions and manipulations on a group holiday tour of Thailand – and comes out of it with at least the hint of a possible happy ending.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Carla 2008

  • Ever the Bridesmaid is my favourite of the contemporary tales, a romantic comedy in which the kind and sensible heroine somehow manages to retain her sanity amid a whirl of other people’s misunderstandings, delusions and manipulations on a group holiday tour of Thailand – and comes out of it with at least the hint of a possible happy ending.

    Sweet Nothings, by Pauline Montagna. Anthology review Carla 2008

  • She is, in fact, the only Bridesmaid the Bride still speaks to seven years later.

    Monday greenmother 2009

  • Long enough that Bridesmaid #2 began to gesture at her half-frantically.

    Monday greenmother 2009

  • But he is there, which means that Bridesmaid #3 is there, and that is what counts.

    Monday greenmother 2009

  • Always the Bridesmaid Under the leadership of Mr. Parker, a former America West chief, the combined company since has tried unsuccessfully to strike other airline deals.

    Airlines Post Strong Results Susan Carey 2012

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