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
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  • 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.
  • Is it some kind of attempt at demureness and modesty?
  • Modern women, rarely overtly assertive, conform to traditional standards of "seductive demureness. Tom Doctoroff: Sex in China: Prudence and Prurience
  • The Quran speaks of beauty and demureness, saying that Muslim women should "lower their gaze and guard their modesty," and should not "display their beauty and ornaments. Muslim Miss USA: Progress Or Immodesty?
  • Everyone onstage was almost obediently good; it was left to Auguin's orchestra to sound reminders of love and passion beyond demureness in the pit. Anne Midgette reviews Washington National Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'

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