How To Use Sapphic In A Sentence
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Playing a Type A-plus-plus lawyer who's finally learning to acknowledge her sapphic side, she is brilliantly funny and adorably vulnerable.
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Japanese macaques are a kind of Scottish monkey now living in Japan where they've developed strong sapphic preferences.
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Only a short time ago, such a call would have been greeted with bewildered questions about what exactly anapests, sapphics, trochees, cretics, dactyls, amphibrachs (my favorite), and alcaics were.
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Why you toss in a little "sapphic experimentation" between two of the leads!
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I'm going to do what I call my sapphic sampler platter - it's monologues about being reared in Michigan by feral republicans - becoming a major irritant of the moral majority - and if that's not enough I will explain the following terms: teaser bitch, standing heat and the formal come.
Mark Maynard
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He also notes that the sapphic story line here won't be his last - his upcoming summer novel from Bantam, A Fistful of Rain, features a lesbian lead character.
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In places the characterisation is thin: Rovena, in particular, strays too close to a stock projection of male fantasy – a beautiful supplicant with sapphic tendencies, yet who ultimately remains obedient to one man, always offering herself up to him smelling fresh after prolonged bathroom preparations.
The Accident by Ismail Kadare
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She also played the sapphic Dr. Kitty in the play Last Summer at Bluefish Cove.
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But given the magazine's strict lesbian content regs, we might not see another sapphic spotlight for 30 more years.
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He knows the difference ‘between a tribrach and a molossus, a sapphic and an alcaic’.
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Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced.
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They're posh girls who talk like lads down the boozer about boobs and bums and can't resist giving them a poke and a prod in a giggly, sapphic way - all very private school changing rooms.
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Reviewers and critics paid Swinburne the compliment of identifying him with Sappho and praising his talent as Sapphic.
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Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
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The sapphic act is that: a performance that is part of heterosexual foreplay.
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Other measures, used with more or less success, are the iambic scazon, [123] the chorianibic, the glyconic, and the sapphic, all probably introduced from the Greek by Catullus.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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In Catullus, he sets himself a new and fascinating challenge: he tries to imitate in English all Catullus's meters - sapphics, hendecasyllabics, iambics, choliambics, even galliambics.
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Having bracketed the term, the author reverts to the word ‘lesbian’ in describing these Sapphic moderns throughout the text.
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The challenge is to win the fight to be ordinary - not to be forced into the role of camp court jesters or brazen sapphic hussies.
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Maybe she learned more crime because prison can be a crime school, and maybe she explored some of the more sapphic parts of herself, but in terms of repentance or reform, that's just not Nancy.
Weeds' Jenji Kohan: Nancy's Family Will Rebel in Season 7
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A couple of years ago I wrote a poem for the hot season, in a very rhythmic form called a Sapphic stanza.
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There's a post-Spice Girls sense of short-skirted girl power about the project, which Clarke admits was tailormade to keep the lads 'mags readers on board but which I found increasingly grating; can scenes of sapphic exhibitionism really be passed off as female empowerment?
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
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Bonus points to Ben for having his sister sing it, making it sapphic.
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Among the hardy perennials, quatrains and sonnets, we encounter such exotic metrical cultivars as sapphics and cretics.
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Indeed, these adolescent, spinster, perhaps sapphic women wrote journals, lyrics, fantastic tales, and stories mediated by the spirits who guided their pens.
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She was a lyric poet who developed her own particular meter , known as sapphic meter.
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The book casts a flirtatious eye towards sapphic chic and the aesthetic imperative to get dolled up.
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As many as 1,200 sapphic travelers sign up for one of Olivia's offerings.
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The sapphic stanza, which Sappho uses and may have invented, has a strong caesura, as do her other lines.
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But the mayor of one of the Greek island's cities took a British tour group to court in September to block 100 sapphic sojourners from indulging in a stay at a local resort.
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Later, he was taught to turn English verse into alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.
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According to the Speccie he knows the difference ‘between a tribrach and a molossus, a sapphic and an alcaic’.
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The original version seems to have included some poems, which may explain why Sappho, an ancient Greek poet from whom the term sapphic is derived, is mentioned on the cover although none of her work appears inside.
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Those who have followed her career since her sapphic turn in The Hunger will most likely be surprised to see her singing and dancing in 8 Women, since she usually plays very serious roles.
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The following conversation occurred after the recent spattering of sapphic portrayals in the diva world.
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The sapphic circuit: why is the gay male circuit a bit past its prime while women's events are just heating up?
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Another is that I thought it reimagined Aphrodite, her presence, in a Sapphic way.
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While the industry and early audiences alike are abuzz with stories of her graphic and sapphic love scene with Black Swan costar Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis has just one word to describe reports that alcohol was involved: "False!
Mila Kunis Talks 20-Pound Weight Loss, Sex Scene With Natalie Portman
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It took five more years, a label change to Atlantic, and the teasingly sapphic hit ‘I Kissed a Girl’ before the Denver-raised New York resident began to set the record straight.
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The Chinese refer to sapphic love as ‘polishing mirrors’, a term that reflects the fact that female homosexual practices are largely limited to the rubbing together of similar parts, rather than actual penetration of the body.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
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As far as womanscaping, she says, ‘there is a cadre of lesbians who like hairier women, the she-bears of the sapphic world.’
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With them Horace not only introduced the various Sapphic, Alcaic and Asclepiadic lines to Latin but he set the carmine/ode and lyric agenda for the ages to come.
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It may share Shakespeare's penchant for combining vulgar humour with intellectual high-mindedness, but this drama of sapphic intrigue in late 19 th-century New England is somewhat over-written.
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Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy".
An Open Letter to John C. Wright
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Other measures, used with more or less success, are the iambic scazon, [123] the chorianibic, the glyconic, and the sapphic, all probably introduced from the Greek by Catullus.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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In other words, the Sapphic lyric refuses the chronological unfolding of time and instead endlessly repeats the activity of looking back to the past even as it predicts its own future rewriting.
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It's an appropriate venue for the show's vaudeville-burlesque revivalism with a sapphic flavour.
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The challenge is to win the fight to be ordinary - not to be forced into the role of camp court jesters or brazen sapphic hussies.
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They may have chosen Lesbos for its Sapphic connections, but I doubt any of them are planning to read poetry this holiday.
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If Sapphic love lurks in eroticized irregularities, as Lanser demonstrates, I am also struck by the association between sapphism during the period and certain marked enthusiasms, as in the gardening of the Ladies of
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_
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Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced.
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Cue the video for "Not Myself Tonight", the lead single from Aguilera's fourth album, Bionic, which finds the diminutive Aguilera in a bling gimp outfit, getting all sapphic.
Christina Aguilera: Bionic
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Surprisingly, given the straight male interest in lesbian couplings, sapphic commercials are still rare.
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And neither do my Gucci Sapphic suedes and slip-ons.
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I don't know a more seductive syncopated rhythm than that of the Sapphic stanza with its three long lines and one short one.
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Rebecca, in my opinion, is the greatest artist of the Sapphic arts around.
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If playing Ensign Ro Laren in Star Trek had already cemented her place within that community, then joining Battlestar Galactica as the steely Admiral Helena Cain – complete with a complicated sapphic storyline featuring an undercover Cylon agent – sent her popularity through the roof.
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