demureness

How To Use demureness In A Sentence

• All Hindu women, respecting customs of decorum and demureness, refrain from drinking alcohol in public.
• demureness"/reducing the flesh on display/wearing a jacket really doesn't make sense. The Guardian World News
• Is it some kind of attempt at demureness and modesty?
• So, she hid her femininity behind demureness, read her poems with eyes downcast and scuttled back to the safe haven of domesticity.
• When you represent some part of the sprawling federal government, though, there's more to contend with than just personal demureness. State, Agencies Working Out the Details to Get Online
• After his unusual demureness in face of the star-making machinery, I'm pleased to see Philip Pullman recovering his characteristic pugnacity to defend his dark materials from the interference of the interfering Faithful: Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Philip Gets His Groove Back
• We were weeks past demureness, of secreting ourselves deep into earshotless underbrush to go to the bathroom. It Wasn't Me.
• ‘Hello Mark… ‘she said lowering her eyed in fake demureness and smiling so that her dimples showed.’
• She seems to believe that a nun-like demureness equates to mystery and depth of character and walks around with her eyes permanently downcast, a small, irritatingly sly smile on her lips.
• Her costuming focuses on tight-fitting outfits that emphasize her figure while at the same time, in contrast, a full, loose hairstyle sometimes conveys demureness.