Siobhan McSweeney is a standout as the Catholic school's deadpan head nun.
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The head nun, Sister Concilia, was arrested on Wednesday, The New York Times reported.
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"As one matures spiritually, it affects the process of lace making," said Sister Ana, the head nun.
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Patients with both mental and physical impairments were subject to torture, murder, and the tyrannical rule of its head nun.
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Bauer persuaded the head nun at my all-girls Catholic high school to buy us computers and started teaching us to code, an idea way ahead of its time.
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I got in trouble a lot at primary school, and I remember the head nun getting my mom up to the school and telling her I was misbehaving and that I was never gonna be any good.
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But she's plenty conscious of the other spectral presences in her life: the missing humanity of cruel head nun Sister George; the absence of her very-much-alive father, who abandoned his children; the lack of joy or light or meatball sandwiches at the orphanage.
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He then renounced all worldly pursuits and became a monk. According to Jain beliefs, he spent 11 months performing karma-destroying austerities and then attained the all-embracing knowledge – Omniscience (kevala jñāna) under a Champaka tree. He is said to have 18 ganadharas headed by Malli. Puspavati or Puspadatta is believed to be the head-nun of his order.
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Samayavayanga sutra, however, names Kumbha and Amila as the head ganadhara and head nun respectively. Munisuvrata is said to have lived for over 30,000 years and attained liberation (nirvāña) from Sammeda śikhara on the twelfth day of the dark half of the month of phālguna – phālguna kṛṣna dvādaśi. Varuna is mentioned to be his yaksha and his yakhsini is named Bahurupini in Digambara tradition and Naradatta in Svetambara tradition. Munisuvrata finds mentions in Jain texts like Uttarapurana and Tiloyapannati.
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The story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. The film opens with its heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She has an obsession with breasts and bras and can't help but stare at other girls and women, even the head nun doesn’t escape her gaze. Otherwise, her world revolves around her three friends, Ruth, Claire and Orla, who are more experienced in the ways of the world.
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Rumors spread around the school regarding Mouse, started by the school bully, Shirley (Zoe Trilling). However, the head nun at the school, Sister Gloria (Jennifer Rhodes), tries to put an end to it. However, Shirley, after getting banned from the school Halloween dance for wrestling on the tennis courts with Kurt (Ladd York) decides to have her own Halloween party at Hull House complete with Mouse and (as a prank) fake carrying out ritual sacrifice she learns from stealing a demonic ritual book from the school brain, Perry (Robert Jayne). Along with her boyfriend Rick (Rick Peters) and Z-Boy (Darin Heames), she tricks Johnny (Johnny Moran), Johnny's girlfriend, Bibi (Cristi Harris), Bibi's friend Terri (Christine Taylor) and Kurt (Ladd York) to get Mouse to go with them to Hull House, awakening a now demonized Angela.
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They start a fight in Esnault's bar, visit a brothel Albert has not entered for fifteen years, though only to drink, and cajole the shopkeeper Landru into setting off his stock of fireworks on the beach. When they force their way into the convent to abduct Marie, they are confronted by the head nun in a wheelchair, who repels them and says Marie will be released at ten in the morning. Gabriel collects his daughter then and the two are joined on the Paris train by a chastened Albert, who has once more renounced alcohol and is going to visit his father's grave inland. Albert tells Marie how in China lost monkeys creep into the towns during winter and, once there are enough of them, the people organise a train to take them all back to their native forests.
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