Her personality was characterized by energy, intellect, and a thirst for adventure which shaped her path in life.

" Her observation about the peonies ' lack of scent proved correct — just one of many illustrations of her intellect and hence of her ability to rule.

Her interiors and landscapes engage the viewer in an almost subliminal way, testing memory, intellect and habitual responses.

Her best known comedies feature quick-witted female intellect to equal the male counterparts.

Her intellect occasionally causes her to be loquacious to a fault ; in The Fall of Reach, Halsey notes that if she were to let Cortana continue with her hypothesis, the AI would talk all day.

Her husband came from an extremely dysfunctional, but talented family and he was one of the few men who stimulated her intellect.

Her starting point was the practice of " recollection ", i. e. keeping the senses and the intellect in check and not allowing them to stray.

Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

Her ambition to bring back Buffy from the dead inevitably led to Tara getting shot and killed.

Her ambition was to be a dancer.

Her ambition alienated the chroniclers of her day, who blamed her for several of the king's decisions.

Her mother, Ruby Finney ( Connie Gilchrist ), is unsure what to think of her daughter's ambition, but Ruby's friend ( and the Bishops ' servant ) Sadie ( an uncredited Thelma Ritter ) approves.

Her first love and ambition was ballet, which she studied from ages seven to seventeen.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

Her first ambition to become an actress came after seeing her mother win the " Mrs. Los Angeles " pageant for homemakers.

Her ambition was to be a doctor, but a modelling stint opened a career path into Bollywood.

Her childhood ambition was to be a nurse, but she did not have the O level in Latin it required, so she decided to become an actress.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott ( Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly ; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811 ; and Blanche part of a projected series of ' Narrative poems on the Female Character ,' 1813 ).

Her original ambition was to become a professional tennis player, at which point her headmistress pointed out to her " they'd never see you over the net ", but Paige continued to play tennis and has referred to the sport as one of her passions.

Her parents worry because Rilla seems not to have any ambition, is not interested in attending college, and is more concerned with having fun.

Her ambition was to secure the post of Camarera mayor de Palacio, or chief of the household to the young queen, a child of barely thirteen.

Her style was more like that of the male authors of her era, creating aggressive and often physically violent female characters who demonstrate powerful sexual desires and ambition.

Her grandfather had the ambition of making her a scholar ; her mother was fluent in Sanskrit and Hindi, and very religious.

" Her stated ambition is " to play all the great women's roles ...

Her early ambition was to become a High School Teacher, to teach Economics and History.

Her goal was to " become the personification of national ambition and to return to France a spirit of greatness and an awareness of its place in history ".

Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind, until the death of her father at forty-six,

Her historic voyage on the yacht Blackmore's First Lady was the result of a childhood ambition.

Her ambition to deal with the highest things was further evinced by her undertaking at different times the translation of the two contemporary continental books most famous at the moment — Strauss's ' The Old Faith and the New ' ( 1873 and 1874 ) and ' The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseft ' ( 1890 ); also by writing for the ' Eminent Women Series ' the lives of two of the most distinguished among women — George Eliot ( 1883 ; new edit.

Her ambition is eventually to be a broadcasting executive, but though intelligent and talented, she was held back early on by her extreme shyness and fear of speaking up.

Her ambition is to become a pediatric psychologist.

Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Her legs were the full, sexy kind, full bodied like a rare wine and just as tantalizing to the appetite ; ;

Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her thoughts were not discrete.

Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

Her eyes were bright with anticipation.

Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.

Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.

Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.

Her bright eyes were twinkling.

Her hair never seemed to be in place and her skirts were never quite the correct length.

Her eyes were wild.

Her dark cool caresses were sweeter than any woman's ; ;

Her eyes were smiling, too, but so sadly, and there was tiredness and infinite wisdom in them.

Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.

Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.

Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont ( died 1234 ), and Mary, who married Philip I of Namur, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.