How To Use Feminine In A Sentence

Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
Khad's slight build and almost feminine looks gave him a delicate look.
It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad
The gowns were grand and formal, but still utterly feminine.

Also masculine females and feminine males - including butches and gay males considered to be ‘effeminate.’
In the Arabic language, a feminine pronoun is generally used in such instances.
Since the feminine is out of balance in the female body and the predominant culture, women are not receiving the nurturance they need to fuel their outer work. Wild Feminine
We have known a male mierkat so assiduous in feeding young that were quite unrelated to himself, taking to them every morsel of food given him, that we have been compelled to shut him up in a room alone when feeding him, to prevent his starving himself to death: the male mierkat thus exhibiting exactly those psychic qualities which are generally regarded as peculiarly feminine; the females, on the other hand, being far more pugnacious towards each other than are the males. Woman and Labour
This procedure is a form of critique: the photomontage provides us a critical distance to reflect on what we had been prompted to desire, whether it was a luxury product, an ideal of feminine beauty, a racial superiority, or an entire way of life. Merrill Cole: WikiLeaks and David Wojnarowicz: A Perspective from Berlin
There was the glass ceiling, the unequal pay, and while feminine qualities of leadership transformed the work world, they did so often at a cost to personal life.
What others have failed to duplicate is the appealing shopping experience found in these pleasantly feminine one-stop-shopping specialty stores.
The bows will give a feminine finish to the curtains.
And, like Rachel, our powerlifting E-4 at Hurlburt Field, as feminine as ever. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1195
The shapes are a lot more feminine, the fabrics - taffeta, silk and lace - are a lot more feminine, and there are more textures involved.
In general culture, references to women often reflect stereotyped versions of femininity with the term feminine. Wild Feminine
The French feminine name, however, is “Michelle”, and carries no diacritic. kid bitzer Says: Matthew Yglesias » Defense Subcabinet Taking Shape
Early in the film, Janice's transgressions already resonate on a specific historical level and tap into older notions regarding the feminine.
The clothes are very feminine, sunny, and quite daring at times.
As for those limitations of the "feminine mind" which render her unfit to consider the victuallage of a nation, or the justice of a tax on sugar; it hardly seems as if the charge need be taken seriously. The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
She likes men who do not hide their feminine side.
Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
This is, strangely enough, an unusual example of an abstract noun being masculine in Hebrew - most of them are feminine.
‘Some people might think it's a bit feminine,’ he says doubtfully.
One of the oldest dances in the world, belly dancing is super feminine and made for divas with belly rolls, shimmies, deep backbends and hip bumps - moves easily incorporated into modern street dancing.
Falling to the ground in a graceful crouch was a slender figure, defiantly feminine.
Her fall/winter collection features strong lines with a feminine twist: dramatic capes, dresses with surprising details, and formfitting suits in rich wines and inky blacks.
She laughed that remarkable laughter that sounds so very much like chimes, the laughter of feminine innocence, pure joy, a laugh that begins in the diaphragm, explodes through a grin and electrifies the eyes. Stop the runaway horses
But whatever the lok sabha holds in store for the bill, what we all know for certain is that the feminine face of Indian politics is slowly changing, and one can confidently believe that it could be for the better. WSJIDEBATE: Is the Women's Reservation Bill Good for India?
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Harris' theoretical commitments are designed to explain away a feminine side that perhaps even today troubles an unquiet virility.
Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.
I'm looking for a feminine watch - not leather, not too chunky and not too bling.
an unfeminine depth of voice
The current style in evening wear is soft, romantic and feminine.
There is nothing unfeminine about striving for athletic excellence.
One point that the AL makes that has been echoed through other blogs and listservs is that the term 'guybrarian' offensive: "Apparently the label librarian is actually a feminine noun, instead of librarianship just being a feminized profession. Nicole Scherer: Librarians Rarely Make the News
In the past couple of decades women have become noticeably less squeamish than men - so much so that feminine frankness has become hard to avoid. Times, Sunday Times
If you venture from "feminine" standards, you are labelled aggressive and hostile.
I've noticed a few women friends starting to dress very prettily and femininely, wearing more skirts and makeup in prettier (less drab) colors. 18th and 19th Century Country Women
Even words that to me feel neutral in English are feminine, if they describe a person or an animal, like the use of "childe" instead of "child", "catte" instead of "cat". Elisabeth Vonarburg: In the Mother's Land
They are both light and feminine, with rose top notes and a girly feel without being sweet or sickly. The Sun
‘Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go,’ said Truman Capote and suddenly we knew it was time to leave the feminine wiles of this ancient city with its masks and mystery.
It is also shifting plenty of feminine, lacy lingerie, in the kind of bright colours that go well with a sun tan.
However, focusing on having an organised, clean, tidy, welcoming, peaceful home with feminine touches is something I can do to comfort my husband and myself without any expenditure. Peace in the Storm
The epistolary art is said to be especially feminine, and the novelists and essayists are full of compliments to the sex, which is alternately praised and objurgated, as man feels well or ill. Manners and Social Usages
I find out that the word "macaca" is the feminine of the word "macaco. Archive 2006-08-01
This feminine fashion with the antique agrees with a great freedom of manners, this vestimentary behaviour lets see the shapes of the body as much as possible, does not obstruct the movements and facilitates the joys of the dance.
The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine. Divorce, American Style
My guess is that Tess represents your lost animus, the feminine side of your personality. IN A STRANGE CITY
Being a very feminine line, rounded shapes, inverted pleats, fringes, deconstructed cuts and chunky buttons feature in the collection.
Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance. Chapter I
Women's rings were displayed against blue sateen and were ‘made as feminine as possible.’
Filling the role of Fiona Belli places the player in limbo between voyeur and subject, exploiter and exploited, violator and violable, and for most players, between masculine and feminine. Critique: Haunting Ground
He was gazing idly at the baroque Italian candelabra in the painted dome above his head and reflecting how much more jolly it would have been if the posturing Loves and gilded amoretti had been replaced by lifelike models of the Board of Directors, when a subdued feminine voice in his ear startled him to attention. Sweet Danger
Her photo exhibit ‘Voices of Women’ celebrates as beautiful a wide variety of images representing women and the feminine.
Is the feminine nature generally more intuitive?
It was known that animal micro-organisms, unlike vegetable micro-organisms, after a cycle of life in which reproduction takes place by scission -- that is, by subdivision of a single body into several other bodies equal to the first, give place to _sexual forms_, masculine and feminine, which are separate, and incapable of scission, but are designed for _fusion into one another_, after which the organism recommences its cycle of scissions until it again reaches the sexual forms. Spontaneous Activity in Education
The lady's clothes seemed to fill the whole carnage, and out of this little padded box there drifted a perfume of orris, an indefinable scent of feminine elegance.
It was narcissism at its peak, but there was relevance to the German designer's strict tailoring, with peaked shoulders and scalloped hems giving jackets a feminine edge.
It's about short skirts, pretty ponytails and staying feminine, if you please.
The dress combines stylish lines with an attractive floral print for a classically feminine look.
‘For women's styles, we are seeing more feminine details, including lace and picot trims,’ he says.
The "how ya like me now" chinstroke is feminine self regard; the calf over the handlebar is a weak posture; the assbag likewise. From the BSNYC Culture Desk: Nerds and Bikes
The word lex followed by a personal name in the feminine gender (Lex The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The dress combines stylish lines with an attractive floral print for a classically feminine look.
She attributes her accomplishments to the far-sightedness of her father who not only encouraged her in academics but also stood steadfast in his support of her profession that was dubbed unfeminine.
It was a politics that rejected as falsely optimistic (if not self-interested) approaches like Stephen's, which posited women's sexual consent and consent to marry as sufficiently unproblematic, and the sexes 'common interest in revitalization of Spirit as sufficiently strong, to permit immediate resolution of sex-class conflict through communal cooperation and the sacralization of feminine nurture. 47 Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
Their real function is to provide feminine comfort and attentiveness to the beleaguered soldiers.
Sometimes, even its indeclinable adjectives had their cases: nominative singular masculine wise and accusative feminine plural wise, etc.
The magic of his evocation of the feminine apart, his portrayal of the dependent daughter and sister, the rejected lover, and the madwoman, is magnificent.
The quickly qualifying and anxiety-ridden ‘of course’ indicates that, for Irene, his masculinity has to be rapidly recuperated from any trace of the feminine.
But the flesh-coloured chiffon was covered in delicate embroidery and the revealing bodice took refuge in an ultra feminine jacket with dainty ruffling on the collar and cuff.
The monotheistic order required that the feminine should be barred from the sphere of power, which coincided with the sacred.
Her overconfidence diminishes both her freewheeling approach and self-consciously feminine subject matter.
Though women are swearing more today than before, it is still regarded by many as "unfeminine".
Just a strong, feminine look. Times, Sunday Times
His very geographical situation was sufficient to turn the mind towards him, but the particular reason for that heliotropism on the part of his feminine neighbors was that he was an easy man for a woman to ask. The Wrong Woman
We need to articulate the feminine position and explore its possibilities.
A characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek approval from others.
Conclusion The feminine infusorium vaginitis patient has the merge mycoplasma infection, It is necessary to carry on conventional the inspection, Provides the basis for the appropriate treatment.
Edith Helm spent a small fortune on her more feminine clothes.
2 One of the most suggestive formulations is Elizabeth Fay's: "If William's picturesque belongs to the valley and bower, the sacred grove is where he situates the meeting of the picturesque and the beautiful with the sublime, a meeting that transmutes the feminine into the transcendent and brings the masculine sublimity of mountains home to pasture" (184). close window Notes
Then, of all things, she'd taken up spinning and needlework and all those feminine accomplishments she'd always scorned in favor of roping and riding.
There I stand in a gown and high heels, tresses piled femininely atop my head, and yet my shoulders slump forward like a pitcher on the mound, my forehead crumples, and I become decidedly resolute as I recite my carefully composed vows: Live and Let Love
“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.” Dear Pen Pal
A cet égard, on distingue génériquement les voix en deux classes, sçavoir; voix aiguës ou féminines, & voix graves ou masculines, & l'on a trouvé que la différence générale des unes & des autres, étoit à-peu-près d'une octave, ce qui fait que les voix aiguës chantent réellement à l'octave des voix graves, quand elles paroissent chanter à leur unisson. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
And feminine beauty - unlike a painting or a gem - is perceived to have a limited life span. Times, Sunday Times
The cross represents the masculine side of his face, the nought represents the feminine side.
When done correctly, there is something very feminine about white leather. Times, Sunday Times
There came a feminine voice was feminine, soft and womanly.
Shirt dresses come in feminine silks, heels have a tough edge and leather has a utilitarian look. Times, Sunday Times
Vera Brittain talks about this, about the sense in which she sees the professional nurses as a de-sexed figure, an unfeminine, hard, uncompassionate person.
I am insisting on a bed in that room for me, and since Pumpkinpie's daybed is working so well, I am looking at a daybed of simple silver steel tubes, something I can see in a boy's room or a girl's room, really, whereas most daybeds lean towards the feminine. Blue.
She screams, she howls, and she tries to be feminine and vulnerable but I just can't buy it.
Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom. Chapter XVIII
'Moat-cock' would be prettier, and characteristic; for in the old English days they used to live much in the moats of manor-houses; mine is the name nearest to the familiar one; only note there is no proper feminine of 'pullus,' and I use the adjective 'pulla' to express the dark color. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
The sheer, subtle shade brings a feminine flush to the face. Times, Sunday Times
But if these stories are important and Tell Us Something, aren’t the stories where Draco is a girl (and follows all the female/feminine stereotypes) also important and tells us something? Queering fiction « Love | Peace | Ohana
The sublime transformed itself into feminine agency, the ability to occupy a space in an active way so as not to be utterly overwhelmed by the sublime effect of nature.
Custom and language associate the former characteristics with the feminine, the latter, with the masculine.
She wore a red tunic that didn't try to mask her extremely feminine and athletic figure and pants so short that she couldn't possibly receive a wedgie.
But being openly ambitious was considered unfeminine, and to be called unfeminine was the worst insult. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
An eclectic mix of feminine flounce and frill, with models in georgettes, net and chiffons was the highlight.
We want to show her how easy it is for her to look softer and more feminine. The Sun
They had to often wear unflattering and unfeminine clothes.
Getting clear, at length, of this crowd of feminines, "presto" was the word, and away we bowled along one of the most beautiful roads I have ever seen. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
Dressing modestly and femininely is one of the easiest and funnest (?) ways to combat it! 18th and 19th Century Country Women
Of course feminine strength, feminine power across gender isn't accorded value in the way that masculine strength and power are valorized.
Made specifically for her wedding day, the soft, feminine scent with notes of pink freesia, jasmine, and sandalwood.
Or, to couch it in different terms, between a predominately male model of politics; and a more feminine one. Times, Sunday Times
Had I dared venture into that ultimate feminine domain, Mrs C would have taken a shotgun to me - ‘This is woman's work and nowt to do with thee.’
These are delicate, feminine and subtle wines, which are designed to improve with age.
The trend has changed so radically that pretty, feminine summer dresses, hot tropical prints and sweet pastels look positively unfinished without necklaces, bangles, pendants and earrings.
Some lesbian tops also identify as daddies and enjoy playing with feminine “girl” partners. Come Hither
It concerns the characteristics that a society or group attributes to the masculine or the feminine.
Her shirtwaist was a soft, feminine shade of lavender, trimmed with lace, but her skirt was no-nonsense black. Surrender A Dream
At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings.
The conclusion of the story, in which Procne kills their son then bakes him in a pie and serves him to Tereus in revenge, is less recounted somehow, arguably because the scorched-earth emotional relentlessness it exemplifies sits so uncomfortably withinthe heart of the genuinely feminine. Divorce, American Style
Far from passively accepting objectification as a second-rate climber because of her sex, she conceived her strong feminine gender identity as an asset.
Woman's femininity – and "the eternal feminine" means simply the eternal sexual – is more apparent in proportion to her humanity than the femininity of other animals in proportion to their caninity or felinity or equinity. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
With his high voice and studly physique, he was all male, yet whimperingly feminine.
So, certainly ‘traditional definitions’ of masculine and feminine need to be re-evaluated because they are based on a faulty understanding of an illusory division amongst contraries.
Politian had used the freedom of a friend, and pleasantly, in the form of a Latin epigram, corrected the mistake of Scala in making the _culex_ (an insect too well-known on the banks of the Arno) of the inferior or feminine gender. Romola
With all of her feminine assets covered, the strands went to work tailoring a belt and draped skirt before forming leather boots with soft fur collars.
Because she's a female, and you consider it "unfeminine"? NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity'
What is her role as a mother and ultimately what is her feminine strength?
And fourth, the frightening violence of revolution is also ridiculed as a feminine loss of self-control.
Is he in touch with his feminine side? Times, Sunday Times
After a decade or so when lad culture reigned supreme, there's a new willingness among men to engage with the negatives in their masculinity, and to embrace the feminine.
A college class was discussing the fact that nouns in some foreign languages are either of masculine or feminine gender.
Even in comedic and satiric forms that suspended the stability of this dominant gender ideology, it remained particularly complicated for Romantic women playwrights to portray a body scientifically sexed as female and discursively gendered as feminine that might challenge prevailing medical accounts that devalued the female body as an aberration deviating from the male anatomical “norm.” Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
The dance floor is crowded with performers who are preening either with feminine realness or clownish flamboyance.
She was full six feet high, wore a man's great-coat over the rest of her dress, had in her hand a goodly sloethorn cudgel, and in all points of equipment, except her petticoats, seemed rather masculine than feminine. Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
The figure of fun here is the titular heroine, an ill-favored but supremely self-confident marsh nymph so convinced of her feminine charms that she sets out to land the king of the gods himself.
Female tennis players often display great feminine grace and appeal and bring a different dimension to the game.
True, she's as coy and feminine as she wants to be.
Balanchine famously declared that "ballet is a woman," but the aphorism was far truer in Degas's day, when the ballet was an almost exclusively feminine preserve of layered tarlatan skirts, pink satin slippers and ribbons.
The feminine mystique continues to fascinate both men and women.
Hull University has launched a unique mentoring project into cyberspace in a bid to bring the feminine touch to senior management jobs across Britain.
Much of what she describes as feminine seemed ludicrously romanticized or frivolous to me: sunbathing, not being able to drive in reverse. Freud’s Blind Spot
The governor says that this shows her in a feminine light, and could help her ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
But ever since women became interested in breakdancing, they've brought a new way of moving to it - more angular, graceful and fluid, and more feminine.
The Corinthian order is also very feminine in nature, characterised primarily by its ornate capitals, which sport two rows of sculpted acanthus leaves with small volutes spiral scrolls in the corners. Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
Women's clothing at that time was devoid of pockets which were considered unfeminine and unnecessary.
The women who are trying to achieve the ultimate in feminine physical perfection, ironically, look surprisingly like men.
And finally that vital feminine touch with the two British yachtswomen, Dee CAFFARI and Sam DAVIES. ISAF News
This subtle fragrance is classically feminine with a modern approach.
Studies in the workplace find that women's nonconformity to feminine stereotypes leads to negative evaluation by both men and women.
In fact, this is a very familiar problem in feminist theory: how to argue for a feminine specificity without falling into the trap of biological essentialism.
Her breasts are two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats, but living sculpture.
Dark, dandyish, dashing, brooding – it combined an extraordinary mixture of male arrogance and almost feminine beauty, emphasised by vivid clothes, peacock hairstyles and smouldering glances. Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
_neuter_ means _neither; _ from which it follows, that neuter gender implies neither gender; that is, neither masculine nor feminine. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
And without further adieu, Mr. Smith sauntered away in a saucy walk that had a distinct feminine quality to it.
The ample embroidery is influenced by Romanian blouses, again echoing the feminine qualities of woven art.
But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
The word republic comes from the Latin rêspْblica: rês, “thing” (or more broadly “the will”) + pْblica, the feminine of pْblicus, meaning “of the people.” Democracy and Republic
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 une panne une panne (pan) noun, feminine Savoir Vivre
Mixed with softer, more feminine elements, such as tiered cotton skirts and frilled shirts, this look is extremely wearable.
The feminine touch was evident throughout the house.
Prettybmay suggest a delicate feminine appearance and can be used disapprovingly of men.
The finest laces, satins and silk prints have been combined to create a functional yet flatteringly feminine treasure of knickers, bras and camis.
Its methods should encompass intuition, emotional engagement, and other cognitive styles associated with a feminine sensibility.
But the Divine Feminine, sometimes known as Shekinah, sometimes as the Holy Spirit, sometimes as Quan Yin, sometimes, even in the darkest patriarchy, known as the Blessed Virgin Mary, that Divine Feminine is a yielding, accepting, forgiving aspect of God. Dr. Susan Corso: The Morality Police and the Divine Feminine
Yet he could not shake from his brain and vision the warm recollection of those bronze slippers, that clinging gown, and all the feminine softness and pliancy of Dede in her pretty Chapter XX
They seemed abler bargainers than the men, and the play of expression on their dramatic and intensely feminine faces as they wheedled the price of a calf out of a fierce hillsman, or haggled over a heap of dates that In Morocco
This may be trochaic with anacrusis or iambic with feminine endings, but neither quite adequately describes it. The Principles of English Versification
When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. Familiar Spanish Travels
Over the back of a chair was thrown the work she had been busied with; and on the bed, almost hid by the curtains, was a pair of the prettiest little blue garters I ever saw, even in Paris, -- span-new they were, and had evidently been bought no longer ago than the evening before, -- and some other articles of feminine apparel, which I will not attempt to describe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
According to fashion dictates, she is elegantly lean in a most feminine way.
It will be observed that the masculine of the adjective is declined exactly like a masculine noun of the second declension, the feminine exactly like a feminine noun of the first declension, and the neuter exactly like a neuter noun of the second declension.
Elaine would be his anima, the feminine version or aspect of him.
It's official; feminine pretty prints are the overriding message from fashion capitals, colour is key and black is in the shade.
There was none of the vintage denim, leather or sheepskin which have popular throughout the week, but Hamilton's collection offers feminine, wearable and desirable clothes in gorgeous colours.
The New Order is an outcome of their ideas, a sort of feminine _vehmgericht_ so well as I can make out. The Heavenly Twins
Team it with a silk blouse and jeans for a feminine look. The Sun
Like the lady who commented re hats and gloves, I love the beauty of it all ... and we can reclaim our freedom to dress modestly and femininely, it's our God given right, after all - all the naysayers crow on about their 'rights', let's mount a little revolution of our own, one lady at a time. Painting Inspired Dress # 1
‘Witty things, and occasionally Anacreontic: and they have the originality which such a style must naturally possess when carried out by a feminine hand,’ said Ladywell. The Hand of Ethelberta
Although the English meter is properly iambic, often with feminine endings, line length is erratic, ranging from trimeter to pentameter, except for the two shortest lines, which appear in dimeter.
The mood Elegant and feminine meets enchanted garden. Times, Sunday Times
All photos courtesy of Lou McClelland. pétanque (peh-tank) noun, feminine Petanque - French Word-A-Day
PIE *septm̥ is grammatically unanalysable in PIE and retains fossilization of Proto-Semitic morphology i.e. the root *sab`-, the feminine *-t- and mimation leading any rational person to the simplest conclusion that Semitic contacts in Pre-IE must have existed. Enticed by a drunken thought
Beads and daisy chains are feminine touches, while rickracks, fringes, and narrow ribbons have universal appeal.
Unsurprisingly, with all the activities she was involved in, her tall figure was femininely muscular and pleasantly shapely.
It had a feminine girlish quality in the cut, but a bold, womanly quality in color.
The French fashion veteran infuses her clothes with feminine touches that lift them above the ordinary.
When we're not sensually crumbling a Flake, enjoying some feminine "me-time", we're heartbroken in pyjamas, spooning chocolate ice cream into our communal mouths. The truth about men, women and food
He offered financial support and I provided sparkling feminine company, always fitting in with his schedule. Times, Sunday Times
With his long dark eyelashes, he looked almost feminine.
To possess the intellect, the hopes, the ambitions of a man, unsoftened by any feminine attribute: this was the tragedy.
Her shoes were opened toed, and had a gold buckle over the top, very dainty and feminine.
Everything I've ever written could be said to be a hymn to the feminine.
Eight glasses a day is what her doctor recommended to her as one of those feminine beauty tricks. Times, Sunday Times
She would accentuate the feminine so as to inflame the masculine in him. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
I haven't finished Morson's book yet but am rushing to share the following, because embroidery, or sewing, is also for me a symbol of the feminine desire to create beauty in the home and for the family and because Tolstoy's reference to broderie anglaise comes as the stretto in what is to me the most beautiful scene in Anna Karenina. Archive 2008-06-01
The women who are trying to achieve the ultimate in feminine physical perfection, ironically, look surprisingly like men.
On the social level, the plays perform gender-balancing acts through an elaboration of the feminine.
Everything about them was dainty and feminine and naïve, innocent and pure, lovely and artless.
Nouell, wherein as you haue hearde, bee contayned the straunge aduentures of a fayre and innocente Duchesse: whose life tried like gould in the fornace, glittereth at this daye like a bright starry planet, shining in the firmament with moste splendent brightnesse aboue all the rest, to the eternal prayse of feminine kinde. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1

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