You have to be demure, but don't be too demure.
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Being "demure," I think demure is probably not the worst, not the worst thing that you've heard.
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When the big firms came calling for interviews, we were advised to wear foundation, blush, a suitably demure lipstick shade, and suitably demure nails.
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"[The clothes] are very classic and somewhat demure," she said.
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I looked at her, she was pretty — pretty and demure.
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Her friends are, of course, quiet and demure, she joked.
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Go with a demure all black and gold look instead.
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The photos are demure: no genitalia and not many breasts.
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Miss Teenage Illinois planted a demure kiss on his cheek.
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A raccoon sports a satin negligee and demure bridal veil.
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It wasn't that the women were totally demure Wednesday night.
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Its once demure profile is now punctuated with eye-catching skyscrapers.
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All of these women have been ostensibly demure yet outwardly feminine.
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The green above, and this more demure black and red affair.
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She thought it could be a demure commentary on environmental issues.
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These heroines reject the centuries-old trope of the demure woman.
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A demure Cuban tree frog, intensely green, clings to a branch.
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From the white dress to the slow reveal, it was quite demure.
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While McEntire twirled in her dress for photographers, Lasuzzo was more demure.
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De Havilland's public persona was that of a demure and beautiful ingenue.
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Women dress up or come as they are, appearing formal or demure.
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I have just listed all the demure clothing items in the store.
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"She was like your sweet Southern grandma, unassuming and demure," he said.
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" Ms. Demure of Objet d'Émotion said, "Nadia is developing her brand awareness.
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These pockets aren't a demure surprise either – they're puffy, three-dimensional, and unapologetic.
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Perched high on her shoulder was a demure nosegay of white rose buds.
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I tried to be demure, but actually I was looking forward to both.
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It still looks angry and muscular, even in its more demure silver colorway.
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Restrained and short, it ends quietly, with some demure plucks in the strings.
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Her birthday outfit, Baguette's that is, was a demure pink dress and pearls.
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And robotic, clinical, or demure descriptions are bound to be a boner killer.
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Her normally calm, demure deportment doesn't preclude from swinging with a moderate pace.
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Religious pluralism requires accommodation of the demure as well as the less inhibited.
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But don't let that demure strand of pearls trick you into underestimating her.
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Despite Mr. Currin's reputation for eroticism, his portrait of Ms. Lawrence is demure.
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The bride requested a demure dress that covered her neck, back, and arms.
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I also want it to be demure and tasteful…not too provocative or novelty.
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A daughter is expected to be "demure" and "help with domestic chores," says Hashimi.
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They've perfected their demure half-smiles and subtle pouts for their red carpet appearances.
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Ms. Kelly is Martha, the demure insurance claims adjuster who tries to befriend him.
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The descriptively titled Travel Backpack has a demure look and a surprisingly functional design.
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So the 2018 sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, has enormous (but demure) shoes to fill.
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Girls shouldn't be raised as demure while boys get to be assertive, he says.
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I became the soft, silent, and demure daughter that my mother wanted. Makeup. Check.
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We found in China users who like a very, um, demure type of individual.
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But Mr. Trump is reluctant to trade in pitchfork populism for something more demure.
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"—there are a few red lumps in the glass—she says, fake demure, "Strawberries.
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PG: You weren't being demure, like Lana Turner, getting discovered at the lunch counter?
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As the sample I quoted above should show, the stuff was really laughably demure.
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Aiken kept it demure in this black evening gown packed with different design features.
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Nadal stayed relatively demure during the match, but celebrated exuberantly once it was won.
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Her expertly manicured nails are a shockingly bright pink, her toes a demure white.
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She turns around and looks over the seat to face me with a demure smile.
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Instead, grab a demure maid's outfit (no sexy Lindas please) and a three-piece suit.
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Ganni is bright, it's demure, it's flouncy, it's lean, it's a wrong-right minimalist mishmash.
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Chamomile frequently faded out, too demure for many spirits, and orange-blossom water overpowered most.
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At first glance it seems subdued and demure, but a close-up provided by fanatics.
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And with every passing year, to occupy less space and be more demure — and dull.
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What looks demure on Ivanka Trump or Taylor Swift may look "vulgar" on Jennifer Lopez.
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From there on photos show her in high-collared blouses with demure pinned-up hairstyles.
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But her nod to modernity and individualism was the demure but noticeable diamond nose stud.
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The mythos of the relentless but demure city persists in the observations of contemporary residents.
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It was warm, and the demure audience became more so as the night wore on.
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Simple goodbyes become a dance of bowing and nodding in an exercise of demure grace.
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They were stoplight red, an alarm set against the scene's demure cream-and-yellow backdrop.
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Demure and ladylike in appearance, she was a steely iconoclast in print and in life.
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So I just kind of nodded and he did not get a more demure woman.
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In front of the media, his demure facade disappeared and he angrily lambasted the court proceedings.
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She's confident, adept, and demure, yet spirited, with just the right covetable balance of country chic.
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Esteban: When I got married, I was young and impetuous, your mother was ignorant and demure.
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Actually, what's way more surprising than that is how demure both their outfits actually are. 4593997307001
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We love experimenting with the latest makeup and nail trends — from the wild to the demure.
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Unique and beautiful, a snowflake tattoo is demure and can have many different and significant meanings.
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Likewise, Juliet, usually innocent and demure, is transformed into a street-savvy and seductive young woman.
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Sal's yelps unnerve the more demure Babylonian bathers sharing the hot spring, who eye us suspiciously.
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For all the power of his words, Khan is a rather demure man and soft-spoken.
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Through all her misadventures, Romy remains a demure, attractive cipher, dependent on the kindness of strangers.
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He said, 'Style me like a lady'—he had on this I'm-a-demure-woman voice.
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To be stimulating, workout music has to be aggressive and in your face, not veiled or demure.
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It also meant having opinions, and being an agent, and doing things that couldn't be considered demure.
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Instead, Turnbull was forced to demure, damaging his already shaky political standing at home in the process.
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Structured co-ords create a demure vision in tulle and puddle train skirts paired with lace tops.
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Models paraded in demure A-line skirts, hooded coats and wide-legged jumpsuits in classic Chanel tweed.
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Ms. Leonard brings a rich voice, a deceptively demure look and moments of poignant vulnerability to Marnie.
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Or pair with a demure knee-length skirt for a more grounded, if no less thrilling, ensemble.
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Though, pointedly, that former proponent of the naked look, Jennifer Lopez, was demure in powder blue Valentino.
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Was she Mean Girls' head-bitch-in-charge Regina George, or was she demure like Cady Heron?
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She clutched her purse in front of her like a demure, dainty lady, wearing her white curls like a dainty lady; she is always sporting this same demure, dainty-lady look that does not prepare you for her giant laugh, her occasional potty mouth and her fierce intelligence.
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When we come back, the ever so shy, the ever demure non-controversial Roger Stone is up next.
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Beside the red, there's a demure black and a pair of Huawei's signature multicolor gradients to choose from.
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As for the demure body-covering long tunics with pants underneath that are de rigueur across West Africa?
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She is awkward and stilted as the demure bride but comes into her own as the warrior queen.
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But if the demure sophistication of the pencil skirt isn't your aesthetic, don't write it off just yet.
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There's an expectation for girls to be modest and demure, but I think it's such a double standard.
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With her dipped head and her inhibited range of motion, her mannerisms became those of a demure Victorian.
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And I thought, 'This is so wrong, that we're being depicted in this sort of subservient, demure way.
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Taken from Old English but popularized by Shakespeare, it means a demure or quiet darling, particularly a woman.
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But beneath Georgie's demure Edwardian dresses and Dee's racy little black numbers beat hearts that are not dissimilar.
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A count and a marquise are captives on an exotic island where warrior women rule over demure men.
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But if Bolton is compelled, look out: He knows a lot, and won't be demure or hold back.
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That was positively demure next to a video that Beto O'Rourke, another potential Democratic presidential candidate, disseminated recently.
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There, Trump -- dressed in a demure, navy blue Christian Dior dress and not-so-demure ice blue snakeskin Manolo Blahnik pumps -- sat in a low chair and chatted via an interpreter with Empress Michiko, while their husbands, huddled just feet away, separated only by a flowering plant, did the same.
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Could I see myself wearing these longer, nearly demure high-waisted Chloé shorts, perhaps with some modestly heeled sandals?
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Hathaway's reluctance to be a demure actress may have been one of the reasons people found her off-putting.
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Lovato tries to demure and avoid answering the question, but when pressed by Kardashian she finally gives it up.
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On the website, it looked like a reasonably demure, tan leather finish with plenty of cool texture to it.
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She has a moderately sophisticated rhythmic command but is too demure to cross the line from pop into jazz.
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It was a typical Bombchel piece, demure-ish flare skirt on the bottom, party (bra-lelujah liberation) on top.
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Polly was a free spirit, a weaver, who kept a few demure beige dresses to wear back to Springfield.
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Parton, however, went more demure with her outfit, keeping things covered up in a long-sleeve ivory lace gown.
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Where we are told to head toward "the center" — be normal, tame, and demure — I've firmly held my ground.
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And the style status symbols of the time weren't your timeless Chanel three-pieces or demure Cartier Love bracelets.
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These nationalists demure about mere separatists and purportedly reject white supremacy, but fold both sub-groups into their commentariat.
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BeBe, with exquisite swirls of red gems around her eyes, was chastised for being too demure as the Queen.
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The Sacramento, California, native plays folk by definition: her confessional, demure vocals on "Winter" sway crisply over barroom guitar.
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OLs were women employees in "pink collar" or service jobs who were assumed to have a polite, demure personality.
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Cynthia Nixon plays the older Dickinson, portraying her as multitudinous, assertive, rebellious, principled, shrill, demure, sensitive, coy, and vain.
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That turns out to be a surprisingly invasive, bureaucratic process, largely helmed by the demure Doctor Agent Hobbes (John Hodgman).
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However, it's not long before we learn that Sidney's far from the sweet, demure girl we assume her to be.
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Specifically, the notions that women should be less than, that they should be demure, and that they should be quiet.
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Meghan had a demure smile as she bowed her head and did a slight curtsy — following with her left foot.
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It's more often tucked or shot in a way that makes her look demure, slightly less angular — less, well, obtrusive.
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Ina is food goals — and I longed to exude her demure culinary confidence, if only for a mere few days.
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"(From "I Don't Want to Be Demure or Respectable") "Oh, mother earth,your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
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Ms. Martínez's Butterfly had transformed, in both manner and sound, from a demure, besotted girl to a weary, hardened woman.
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Kate opted for a more demure jade green dress for lunch with the Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Tuesday.
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The carbon fiber exterior gives it a demure look, with only a few tasteful accents of the company's signature yellow.
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But artist Sally Hewett takes this demure art form and uses it to render images that are anything but modest.
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So it was hardly demure in any sense, but it had that heavy gold-armored metallic piece as a yoke.
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But other Democratic leaders were less demure, rushing to the microphone to hype Becerra and lionize his political bona fides.
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The Pop Collection includes Buriti Bronzer, Magic Luminizer, Lip2Cheek stains in Demure and Beloved, and Simply Vanilla Lip & Skin Balm.
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Blac Chyna has made one thing clear: She is not interested in our lady expectations of demure social media decorum.
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Better to end with the demure pumpkin cakes, dusted with coconut and too light to be quite of this earth.
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He's dressed head to toe in Versace, a sign of his early success, but is unwaveringly demure in his manner.
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The Inspiration: A high-voltage, thigh-high boot paired with a demure oxford (in clashing colors and patterns, no less).
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The cheerful print is spotted (forgive us) in all the expected places, including flamenco-inspired tops and demure kitten heels.
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But what I found brave about the rest of her performance is how demure she has allowed herself to be.
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Another shows a demure "American Youth" (1964), based on Ringgold's brother Andrew, who was beaten in a racially biased attack.
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Play up its throwback femininity (and cover up) with a demure cardigan in blush pink and a high-waist skirt.
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Ms. Topham at first exudes a demure propriety that makes Beatrice's rather quick descent into murder-devising seem a little incongruous.
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She did slip back into a similar version of the dress, posing in BAZAAR's April issue wearing a more "demure" redesign.
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Clad in demure, almost virginal, white, Victoria has her hand around the Prince of Wales, in a gesture of motherly affection.
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Next Underwood opted for a more demure baby blue party dress with a fill skirt and sequin embellishment and Swarovski jewelry.
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Tyler himself took to Instagram to announce his new representation, too, albeit with a more demure photo accompanying the big news.
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The Pop Collection features the Buriti Bronzer, Magic Luminizer, Simply Vanilla Lip & Skin Balm, and two Lip2Cheek colors: Beloved and Demure.
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Why is he showing this agro finger work but, you know, this completely demure face that he won't even show us?
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You don't need to be "quiet and demure, graceful, polite, delicate, refined, poised or punctual" ... you just need to be yourself.
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She now plays Bets, a seemingly demure housewife on Showtime's "On Becoming a God in Central Florida," a dark, sunstruck dramedy.
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It was both demure and daring, which is a true tricky balancing act, so she was my winner of the night.
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The dark and twisted fairy tale from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm introduced millions to a sweet, demure, and tidy Snow White.
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Desserts were more demure: A coconut sorbet, served in a half-coconut shell, offered a cool rejoinder to the earlier carnage.
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At street level, the building appeared demure but elegant with a clean white entrance and small driveway surrounded by towering hedges.
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Keenly aware of her glimmering image, Mr. Kanter, the show's creator, was reluctant to consider her for the demure Julia Baker.
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The demure lady in a pristine white coat is going steady with a chap with long hair and a leather jacket.
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The Supremes in this show pop their hips with much more sexual frankness than the demure originals would have been allowed.
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Cynthia Nixon now plays the older, birdlike Dickinson, portraying her as multitudinous, assertive, rebellious, principled, shrill, demure, sensitive, coy, and vain.
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Far from being demure, submissive, and feminine, these women use their clothing to protest against what they see as unfair gender norms.
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In a White House where women can seemingly occupy one of two roles — bulldoggish or demure and daughterly — she occupied the latter.
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"Get Out" star Allison Williams chose dusty pink with sparkles, a decidedly demure princessy look amid the sea of low-cut gowns.
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"She looked fantastic — it was so demure and classy," Tamar Daniel, founder of Tuxe, tells PEOPLE from her design studio in Philadelphia.
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She smiled with a demure crook of her head and thanked me graciously, like a Southerner, not an internationally known opera star.
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Why had she chosen a black cat costume, when she could've dressed as a demure princess in a long, leg-covering skirt?
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Cuba Gooding Jr. started out somewhat demure at a Miami Beach nightclub, but he ended up partially naked ... and it was awesome!!!
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Larry Rivers (1923-2002), who created "Legs" (1969), aptly conveys Venus's daunting sexual power, unlike Botticelli's demure goddess of love and renewal.
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Then oil prices will drop, the yuan will rise, and there will be nothing but Chinese, wanting short skirts and demure necklines.
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Her sleek low bun puts her luminous complexion on display — and we're also taking notes on that demure over-the-shoulder pose.
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Consider an example from the pilot episode of "Girls" (which doesn't open the show but takes place a demure 15 minutes in).
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She called that model woman "The Angel in the House," after an 1854 poem by Coventry Patmore celebrating his demure, submissive wife.
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Her hair is an unquenchable solar flare of copper curls, contrasting oddly with the demure summer dresses that she tends to wear.
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OUR LITTLE SISTER Three female siblings in their 21959s attend their estranged father's funeral and meet their half-sister, a demure teenager.
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Mr. Trump described the meeting as "amazing," but some of the pastors were demure about whether they planned to make an endorsement.
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I have not yet installed my own relatively demure commissions — in truth, my circuits are a little blown by too many choices.
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John Houck's visual trickery; Svenja Deininger's "Crescendo" paintings; Didier William's eye-catching mixed-media works; and the poet John Ashbery's demure treasures.
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"I know she's happy, and I know she likes the dress," said Ilene Zeines, dressed in a more demure black strapless gown.
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While Judge is demure about his long blasts, preferring to let teammates admire them, he was incredulous when told of Winfield's gesture.
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Their demure presence, like that of the maiden aunt in the corner of the drawing room, are, paradoxically, vivid markers of distrust.
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Cyrus, on the other hand, went a little more demure in a black Madonna T-shirt, leather skirt, fishnets, and layers of pearls.
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So, too, does the wonderful Lauren Worsham, who plays Phoebe D'Ysquith, the rival for Monty's heart, with a demure sweetness that never cloys.
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Many of the below archival images were taken in the 1950s and tend to depict women as demure or absent from the workplace.
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They gave singers more demure outfits, put them on sparkly stages and changed the content of their songs to make them more "poetic".
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Paris seemed even more demure, wearing a beige flower-child dress and crown and roaming the desert taking photos with a large camera.
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Audrey Hepburn wore a demure, white floral Givenchy dress to accept the Best Actress Oscar in 1954 for her portrayal in Roman Holiday.
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Mr. Jung is equally credible as a diffident, sensitive artist and an impatient boor, and Ms. Kim slides nimbly from demure to obnoxious.
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Their skin is more demure, usually a gradient spanning the first two bands of the rainbow and underscored by a singe of green.
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"There she is in her Gothic Revival chair, very pious in her demure black dress with a cross at her neck," she said.
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In his hands, Afghan mantu (dumplings) are smaller-scale, almost demure cousins to hulking Uzbek manti, but still retain a touch of shagginess.
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Another dress, fashioned from translucent pink chiffon with a high neck and long sleeves, was demure and daringly revealing at the same time.
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"I can almost imagine her jewelry, especially pieces with a gothic-romantic feel, coming out of an old classical painting," Ms. Demure said.
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In her first trial, she presented herself as a demure schoolgirl, speaking in a hushed voice with faint traces of a British accent.
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When you look at period pieces like this, set in that era, usually women are demure, docile and don't have much of a voice.
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Here to explain more the author of a brand new book "Stone&aposs Rules," the ever so shy, demure, and non-controversial Roger Stone.
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Underneath that demure exterior lies a steely core, more than able to cope with the injustice and tragedy that threatens to derail Tish's life.
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Joffe's women can be bold and demure at once, looking out at the viewer with fierce eyes while holding self-conscious or awkward poses.
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She had even changed from the demure gown she wore in the first half to a bright red dress, suited to these sultry songs.
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Others have decried the sexism inherent in default-female voice assistants, compounded when these A.I.s demure when a user sends abusive language "her" way.
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As it title suggests, The Florist contains engraved illustrations of flowers — 60 plates of them, from a demure-looking peony to a dancing iris.
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Within the line, the options range from more modest and demure to full on flaunt, and every suit is available in size 2-20.
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They cost $400 in the US, come in a choice of demure space grey or a more flamboyant soft gold, and they sound phenomenal.
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This most-wished-for dress comes with a high neckline for a more demure look and an elastic waist detail to enhance your silhouette.
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The reclamation of anger in culture and pop culture means that the opposite of "sexy" is not "covered-up" or "demure" — it's self-possessed.
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And not demure, push the twin beds together, skip over the good part and see them panting over a cigarette afterwards kind of sex.
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A demure 1962 oil portrait of Ms. Künstler, whom he met when both were students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, hangs near the illustrations.
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When she appears as anything but demure, when she is passionate and sharp, she is attacked not for her ideas, but for her demeanor.
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Spider lashes!) all the way to the demure (glowing no-makeup makeup, pale-pink washes of color, brushed-up brows), plus everything in-between.
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It's even better if that woman is demure and the painting is nicely accented by something red, not so subtly alluding to communist support.
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In the skating world, that's an automatic handicap: "Presentation" — a refined and expensive costume, carefully groomed hair, demure makeup — is part of the score.
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With Trench Foot there was a decision to replace the demure, shakiness in previous albums with a command over my writing and my performance.
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Bernstein began to believe that Kaminsky, who was not demure in speaking to the press, was the prime source of those rumors about him.
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Located on vibrant Collins Avenue, the demure Kimpton Surfcomber is flanked by South Beach behemoths like the SLS, the Ritz Carlton, and the Delano.
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CARAMANICA The music in "The Barrel" is folky and straightforward, circling through four chords fingerpicked on an acoustic guitar behind Aldous Harding's demure voice.
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Both the skirt and sleeves are embellished with a cluster of floral buds and leaves, creating a fairytale princess look that's both playful and demure.
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Even Lady Gaga, not known for being demure when it comes to red carpet fashion statements, looked pale by comparison in her silver metallic dress.
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In New York earlier this year for the Tiffany & Co. Paper Flowers event, I originally did a very demure and natural makeup look on her.
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The Verona Collection founder Lisa Vogl started the brand after feeling frustrated with a lack of fashionable choices for people who prefer more demure clothing.
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But because Rihanna is nothing if not devoted to keeping us guessing, she showed up at the Billboard Music Awards in … a demure brown dress.
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All gaming gear these days seems to be adorned with increasingly sophisticated lighting arrays, leaving the more demure among us with little to choose from.
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But the sight of a main in turban and robe performing - even demure classical music - at the piano was a step too far for some.
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Las Vegas, the epicenter, is a woolly boomtown crowded with menacing riffraff in which Ms. Kruger's demure character, Romy, stands out as a conspicuous alien.
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The fish lady, Mipha, is demure in the game, and also at the sight of Urbosa's weird mashup of Seven Year Itch and Hollow Man.
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I rose now and wandered about the room, watching her possessively as with a tense demure consciousness of my gaze she adjusted the lurid stockings.
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There have been other times when I have been doing very manly, macho work and all of a sudden felt very demure and very feminine.
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Her gullible attendant, Dalinda (Mary Bevan, a luscious lyric soprano), has fallen for the duke, as she reveals in a demure aria suggesting her vulnerability.
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Though you have a demure and domestic side, you also sometimes need plenty of space, and have a deep well of sexual passion within you.
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She is wiser and more world-weary than the girlish Katy Perry, more impassioned than the ice-cool Rihanna, more demure than the slinky Beyoncé.
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She said it when I applied to every college I had seen mentioned in books—the ones with demure colors, Latin mottoes, things called quads.
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Bowl options ($7.95 to $13.95) include a demure snack size, which makes sense to me, since in Hawaii poke is often an appetizer or side dish.
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These women, who typically engage the viewer with a demure but alluring gaze, are often seen holding sexually suggestive pots and baskets, brimming with the harvest.
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You can, however, get the keyboard with more demure black caps if you don't want your desk to look like a scene from Enter the Void.
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Her taciturn husband-to-be, Dr. Colton Lee, is a widower with a young daughter in the Wyoming territory, and he's looking for a demure wife.
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Flattering, stylish, demure, and sexy all at once, the caveat with Lars' line was that it was only available from size 0 to 12...until now.
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Save for a thigh-high leg slit, this gown is a little more demure than her infamous birthday look, but it's nonetheless just as jaw-dropping.
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So imagine our surprise when the patron saint of nude selfies stepped out that very same night in an all white look that was downright demure.
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I don't know where this is going, but I suspect smart stylists are looking at that and wondering if they shouldn't go for something more demure.
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The company is taking a more demure approach to its I.P.O. than typical deals that list on either the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq.
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Or the "burkini," the head-to-ankle bathing suit that serves as a demure covering for female Muslims now lighting up the political sphere in France?
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A stock print of young dancers in delicate tutus hung before me, and they looked exactly how you'd imagine a cliché ballerina might: Demure. Submissive. White.
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She pauses to consider her outfit: silver glittery heels, Bridget Jones underwear, transparent PVC A-line skirt (so demure!), the pearlescent nod to Maggie Thatcher. Perfect.
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He brought out the slyness beneath the demure surface of the second movement, which opens with a lofty melody over a deferential accompaniment with pizzicato strings.
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Her black T-shirt dress was demure from the front, but a party in the back with cut-outs which displayed her thong and fishnet stockings.
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When you see a fairly demure and cryptic clue like "Back in" at 1A, you might be a tad disappointed, because how exciting could that be?
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I would have been annoyed by the work, likely because of my Asian upbringing, which championed a serious, reticent, and demure work ethic above all else.
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Beside the demure Space Grey option pictured here, the company is also offering a more flamboyant Soft Gold variant, which can be purchased at the same price.
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Last year, Meghan had protocol pro Kate Middleton by her side to show her the ropes as she gave a demure smile and did a slight curtsy.
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Kendall Jenner and Bella and Gigi Hadid all walked the catwalk for the legendary label, wearing a variety of very demure, tweed-centric looks and ornate headbands.
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But pushing aside statement earrings doesn't mean you're left with demure and simple — it's possible to find a piece that looks cool without weighing down your earlobes.
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Midge is no Claire Underwood or Serena Joy, but when we extol her virtues, let us not pretend that to be demure and polite is among them.
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Outside the museum — the imposing western wing of the Louvre palace — an enormous poster of a blond Barbie beams over the Right Bank with a demure smile.
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The decision to be demure, to rely on colors that do not offend or call attention, is tied up in class-specific ideas of propriety and respectability.
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The Sapphire Pursuit looks comparatively demure, but this Aviation variation is no lightweight, thanks to a combo of gin, lemon juice, grapefruit, maraschino, and creme de violette.
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Steal the Chanel styling trick and offset a classic black pair (or even a more high-voltage option, like a snakeskin print) with a demure boxy blazer.
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Michael Nyman's poundingly minimalist music is appealingly terrible; as so often with this composer, it builds the kind of rabble-rousing crescendo that makes Rossini's sound demure.
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But when I was younger, I was always told to pipe down and keep to myself because girls are supposed to be demure, mysterious, and practically invisible.
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The big event was Kanye West's Season 5 show, which was less shrouded in mystery than usual, and turned out to be much more demure as well.
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Each painting also has a demure white stripe across the bottom, a key that purports to explain the whole as a diagram of Mr. Kuo's inner life.
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They learned that holy women took up less, not more space — that they were demure, slight acolytes whose inner yearning was big enough to swallow their frail bodies.
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Sometimes the Maitlands appear — a Barbara or an Adam, the show's newly deceased yet not-so-scary couple, demure and suburban in an unassuming green dress or flannel.
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In her Golden Globe-nominated performance, Jessica Biel played a demure young mother who inexplicably commits a violent murder in broad daylight during an otherwise normal beach day.
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So when the request came in to consider an alternate route for the character – perhaps someone who fits the more traditional, demure definition of femininity – I fought. Hard.
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While it's easy for this look to become overly sexy, Zendaya's tiered Marchesa dress managed to embrace the racy neckline trend while still looking very demure and polished.
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For all of these appearances, Meghan has mostly adhered to the royal dress code, from nude stockings to demure hemlines to the latest and greatest in hat couture.
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Unlike the splashy first-day ceremonies for deals that list on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, BATS is taking a more demure approach to its offering.
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By now Ms. Huppert has re-emerged looking rather more demure, playing Phaedra in a marcelled red wig and pale skirt and dainty shirt with a bow collar.
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In the '50s, good female characters had to be demure, daffy, man-crazy at the very least; now, they must be unbreakable, doubtless, projecting independence in every frame.
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Brosnahan is petite and put together; that afternoon, she was wearing a striped T-shirt with a fitted motorcycle jacket and a demure pair of black penny loafers.
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Diane Lane played the pretty Cherry Valance, with demure little outfits and a deep-seated desire to see a different world than that of her presumably pastel bedroom.
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Deftly negotiating the wobbly line between steaminess and cool, she wore a scarlet ballerina-length Calvin Klein dress of silk gazar, demure except for its coyly slit neckline.
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You're just used to this demure, passive lamb and then you're confronted with this very strong vision of the religious symbol of Christ being sacrificed on the altar.
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A third theory was that the footage was too risqué and Ms. Monroe wanted to shoot a more demure version, so as not to further infuriate her husband.
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And when a woman was killed last year in Charlottesvillle, Virginia, while protesting a white supremacist rally, he was uncharacteristically demure when asked to denounce this hateful ideology.
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I mean, God, I think back to the, you know, "I think they'd appreciate a more demure woman," although I wouldn't consider that harassment, that's more just annoying.
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While Kim of yesteryear was all about more is more opulence and barely there fashions, 2017 has heralded in a very different, demure look for the reality TV star.
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But that doesn't mean she won't celebrate—it'll just be a demure affair, with her crew, a cozy fleece, and a carefully prepared cup of her favorite gourmet coffee.
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Unlike men's neat uniforms, women's clothes generally need only meet a list of rules, like being demure, black, with a skirt or dress that is shin-length or longer.
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His hair is that demure length that older gentleman musicians adopt when they realize they're no longer nineteen but stubbornly want you to know they're not dead yet, either.
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A story of Cambridge spies, atom-bomb secrets and a passionate affair between a demure Brit and a dashing Commie should steam up the screen and pop your popcorn.
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More conservative and demure forms of fashion expression take the shape of Thea Porter caftans, a pearl necklace, a button-down shirt and a bottle of Chanel No. 5.
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There was a pale blue chiffon housecoat, an ostrich-bordered trench and a sweet gingham frock, demure from the front but plunging at the rear toward the model's tailbone.
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In her hands, these brought to light a very different and far less demure 'Southern lady,' one who had played a vital role in economic, political, and social life.
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Playboy sent an advance copy of the redesigned issue, and let us get straight to the point: There are still naked women in this newly demure version of the magazine.
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I wasn't Baby because my voice sounded exactly like it does now, and I had that spunky energy going on — I wasn't [does a baby voice] super demure and sweet.
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Nikki Bella tries on two weddings dresses before she slip into a lace gown with a sweetheart neckline and demure shawl covering her shoulders on Sunday's episode of Total Bellas.
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Also on Beyerdynamic's CES agenda will be an update to its celebrated MMX 300 gaming headset, with the second-gen MMX 300 adopting a more demure, all-black color scheme.
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Today, however, Wear 2.0 is launching with two new flagship watches from LG: the gargantuan, feature-rich LG Watch Sport and the comparatively demure and pared-down LG Watch Style.
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A great deal of their cost is validated by the use of premium materials throughout, with the glinting metal and demure black leather making for a classy and classic look.
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Her demure apology and obeisance to Beijing is exactly what the government sought by singling her out: a return to the status quo that would put her in her place.
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It was demure and frankly a little stuffy, a stark departure from the plastic raincoats and oversized statement earrings and rainbow capes that came just a season or so ago.
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It has a smaller overall footprint, thanks to the lack of a numpad and those thin bezels, while the demure paint job and copper trim help visually mask its dimensions.
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Perhaps Botticelli borrowed this pose from the ancient Romans because it is erotically demure: Venus conceals her breasts and genitalia while drawing attention to the sensuous forms of her figure.
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She's perpetually late, she's a klutz, and she flashes her underwear (red, but definitely full-coverage and demure) in public at charity events in between taking shots of brown liquor.
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But the rough and tumble may also be an outlet for many of the wrestlers in a country where women are usually expected to be demure and cute, Hernandez said.
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Emma Watson looks demure in her finery as eldest sister, Meg, while Florence Pugh (playing the bratty Amy) and Eliza Scanlen (as the tragic Beth) serve sweet, wonder-filled gazes.
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Even though it's 2018 and Cupcakke certainly makes the most of the attending shock value of her songs, there's still something thrillingly subversive about a woman unwilling to act demure.
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They thrive as much at the girls' drug-fueled Coachella weekend as at a demure movie night in the park — and if they're well-behaved, the guys can come too.
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Remember Margaret Cho's sheer peacock dress, Jennifer Lopez's low-low-low-cut Versace dress (which, in retrospect, actually seems almost demure), and Nicki Minaj's Little Red Riding Hood-like cape?
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If it takes demure crew several hours to pacify a drunkard, it will not take much for a ne'er-do-well to take the weapon from them for his own means.
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Where Tonya was loud and brash, with heavy metal and blue nail polish, Kerrigan was quiet and demure, with the chignon and "tooth fairy" costumes the skating world expected of her.
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This didn't at all jive with what society expects from a figure skater: a quietly poised and demure young woman whose physical strength is concealed beneath an elegant layer of sequins.
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Ruth Negga and Ginnifer Goodwin #twinned in nearly matching Victorian-inspired dresses in blood-red hues, and Dakota Johnson picked a demure silk Gucci gown that gave her strong mumsy vibes.
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That's interesting, especially after hearing Natalie Portman talk at this year's Women's March about how she felt like she had to make herself more demure to stave off people sexualizing her.
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Its copper color option is eye-catching, glinting in the light at every opportunity, while the gunmetal is more demure, but still rather showy with a copper ring of its own.
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In Borough Park, one of the most heavily Hasidic neighborhoods in New York, dickeys are a hot item: Fitted into a sweater, they can make even a cowl neck look demure.
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With a demure head tilt away from the camera, he shows off what appears to be a tattoo of a bird in flight, high on the right side of his face.
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Though Indian style watchers were generally positive about the dinner dress and pleased that Ms. Trump had abandoned her usual garb for more demure, covered-up styles, there was some griping.
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But as of late Tuesday, British politics was the one subject about which Trump had been demure, living up to a White House pledge not to interfere in the country's Dec.
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The book takes its time getting on the highway, and the slow pace is exacerbated by Katharine McEwan's demure and deliberate narration, which drains some of the pungency from Hartman's prose.
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Not only were they far larger than Kate's typically demure accessories, but they were also a departure from the Mappin & Webb "Empress" earrings that she wore to Princess Charlotte's christening last July.
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Before I can ask why, he pulls out a blowtorch and ignites a slender piece of cassia bark, the brasher cousin of demure Ceylon cinnamon, so that it smolders like a cigar.
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Travel + Leisure has featured her in affordable finds like these cute and comfy sneakers and demure boat shoes, and investment pieces like her Stuart Weitzman cork wedges and Penelope Chilvers riding boots.
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But while Billy and Elijah prided themselves on their quick-witted sass, arguably a defense mechanism to survive the ruthlessness of the city and of their chosen careers, Cary is decidedly demure.
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Dances with Wolves, like Gone With the Wind before it, is just shy of four hours in length – with a demure "Intermission" panel in the middle that's useful only for home viewing.
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She seems like the kind of woman for whom the term "demure" was coined, though she isn't afraid, during her first evening date with Woodcock, to challenge him to a staring contest.
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While Kourtney has been showing off a more demure style recently, Kendall kept things sexy in a midriff-bearing Adidas sweatsuit for the fourth installment of this year's Love magazine advent calendar.
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"Trucks break down" (his beloved Tundra, shlepping him from town hall to town hall), "dogs run off" (shrinking poll numbers), "politicians lie" (ever-demure, Beto will let you fill in the blank).
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Their demure shape satisfies shy Capricorns' fetish for sensibility while appealing to their undying commitment to all things practical (51 pockets means you never have to carry a purse or a hammer).
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Whether your vibe is demure, no-makeup makeup or you'd be the one to adorn your face with star appliqués doesn't matter; you can still appreciate the following looks and their influences.
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Swift may sound like an interesting choice for either of those roles (my money's on her playing the more demure Demeter), but Webber says the director had his reasons for choosing her.
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Emphasizing the song's sparse delicacy, the witty video clip has her singing in a house that's stripped to its bare floors and walls, then demolished and immolated around her unflappably demure presence.
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Professors typically discuss how the naked white prostitute displayed starkly across her bed meets our gaze confrontationally, rejecting the age-old representation of the demure courtesan and presaging the birth of modernism.
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Advani is appropriately demure and fresh-faced as Preeti, but like the other characters in this film, she is an accessory used to prop up the god-like status of the lead.
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His royal red cape with Dalmatian trim and that surprisingly demure crown turned him into the Burger King, even though the black robe beneath it seemed more fit for the massage parlor.
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Days before flying to Paris, the reality star bared her nipples while going braless in a demure Elie Saab mini dress at the opening of Longchamp's Fifth Avenue store in New York City.
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What follows this sex-charged opening sequence is much more demure—mostly a breezy, modern gay take on Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise that tackles sexual health and same-sex intimacy in real time.
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Not to be outdone, older brother Jamie—the one on the left in the slightly more demure ugly Christmas sweater—became part of the top-ranked doubles team along with partner Bruno Soares.
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One afternoon, while I was at the Embassy, Pamela Anderson, the former "Baywatch" star and a vegan activist, walked in, dressed in a demure tweed overcoat, and took a seat in the lobby.
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" He mentions female athletes in particular and that a lot of work is left to be done; he calls on us to "keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure.
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No one would accuse a doting mother of murdering her children, and no one wants to imagine a demure girl with pretty bows in her hair pulling teeth from another little girl's corpse.
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Inspired by this take on a time-honored seasonal trend, we've crafted anti-precious, anti-demure outfits that offer a new and nuanced interpretation of what it really looks like to dress feminine.
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"Growing up as a mixed Chinese and white kid in very white Scotland, Mulan showed me I didn't have to be demure and obedient," Bristol-based writer and photographer Ailsa Fineron tells me.
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Demure in design, you won't miss the giant, retro sign for Seawell Fish N' Oyster, the hotel restaurant, or the palm-fringed walkway that leads to the hotel lobby and check-in area.
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When Montana (Billie Lourd, another Scream Queens alum) looks into Brooke's stall and says she noticed Brooke checking out Chet's "mound," Brooke demurs (have we ever seen Roberts demure on camera this decade?).
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Like many young Chinese, she used to like designer clothes and handbags; now she mostly wears Muji, the inexpensive Japanese brand whose style reputation in China might be described as dowdy and demure.
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While live auctions in the traditional art world follow rigid rules and demand demure behavior from bidders, the first ever live auction for rare blockchain art got rowdier as the bidding went on.
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"The perception of modesty before was so demure and considered [to be] something you can't have fun with," says Dima Ayad, a Dubai-based designer and founder of her eponymous size-inclusive clothing label.
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" With a much more demure mood, Blackman says: "Everybody started claiming that it was them who had did it and he just got so disheartened by it that he was like, ''ou know what?
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Extant films of handsome male French pop stars or the demure, fully dressed (what, no cleavage?) Greek singer Nana Mouskouri just weren't going to cut it in the US, the country that launched Playboy.
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Given the prices and the team's connection with tech, I expected the crowd at Warriors games to resemble a venture capital firm's cocktail party — young, vaguely geeky, demure business types, mostly white, mostly men.
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The problem back in The Times's newsroom was that its main news story — published online after Trump spoke in Phoenix — captured more of Mexico's demure Trump than the familiar firebrand who jetted to Arizona.
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After a demure Patek Philippe dinner at the hotel's brasserie, Mr. Clymer and I head over to the bar at Les Trois Rois, which is quickly turning into a Studio 503 of watch geekdom.
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The few black and white photos of my mother as a young bride depict a shy, demure girl, hopeful for the future and content with the new life her parents had chosen for her.
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"Making connections with other Christians, as well as Muslim and Jewish women, has probably been the most exciting benefit of blogging," says Liz Roy, a Christian who runs the personal style blog Downtown Demure.
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Inspiration can arise from seeing, up close and in flashback detail, how a famous American came defiantly into her power in a culture that expected demure acquiescence, and who along the way discovered herself.
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We need to keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure and our boys to be assertive, that criticizes our daughters for speaking out and our sons for shedding a tear.
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"The Heiress" (1949) Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson and Montgomery Clift were all sensational in this drama about a demure heiress, her distant, disapproving father and the suitor with dollar signs in his eyes.
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Along with a wrap silhouette that cinches at your waist, the dress also features a demure v-neck and hits right above the knee — making it appropriate to wear in every type of office.
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As the fought-over Rosina, the demure soprano Pretty Yende's gorgeous smile and silky, flexible sound — the vocal equivalent of the white handkerchief she carries — didn't compensate for her lack of spunk or spice.
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One of her most famous montages superimposes the figure of a demure housewife on the base of a table lamp, next to a giant male hand that is turning the switch on and off.
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As Devoney Looser points out in a new book, "The Making of Jane Austen" (Johns Hopkins University Press), some activists reimagined her as a "demure rebel", arguing that she would have sniped from the sidelines.
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Without the prior knowledge that she was starring in the remake of the 1977 horror classic Suspiria, we would not be able to I.D. demure ballerina Susie in the first images released from the movie.
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And what better and more blatant evidence of happy bedroom shriekings and rompings could there have been in those pre-IVF days than a pregnant woman, no matter how sober and demure the painted outcome?
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As the face of their cosmetics line, Bella Hadid also arrived wearing Dior Haute Couture, ditching her usual semi-naked gowns with slits up to her hip bone in favor of something much more demure.
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That could be because they tended not to publicly discuss their accomplishments, perhaps because of social pressure to be humble or demure—qualities that the study's authors also note are desirable to the opposite sex.
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The 21-year-old supermodel took to her website and app to explain a recent selfie she shared wearing a sheer black shirt, made more demure by the placement of pizza emojis over her nipples.
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This year, after almost 20 years of walking the award ceremony red carpet, the "Ain't Your Mama" singer went for something a little more demure – at least compared to that torso-baring look of yesteryear.
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Spreading out, and spreading out sexually within the aesthetic of pop, is antithetical to the traditional demure and "proper" sexuality women are relegated to, and chair dancing has facilitated a blurring of those gender norms.
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The title of reporter John Carreyrou's initial story about the underlying issues at Elizabeth Holmes' company was almost comically demure: "Hot Startup Theranos Has Struggled With Its Blood-Test Technology," the Wall Street Journal suggested.
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The material came gleaming down the runway in various skintight forms — including belted high-waisted leggings, pencil skirts and thigh-grazing boots — which the designer offset with demure, bow-necked blouses and double-breasted blazers.
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At the Golden Globes, he wore a bedazzled cape lined with hot pink fabric, though his Oscars look was somewhat more demure: a tuxedo gown and what appeared to be a hoop skirt, swathed in velvet.
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"We need to keep changing the attitude that raises our girls to be demure and our boys to be assertive, that criticizes our daughters for speaking out and our sons for shedding a tear," Obama writes.
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Beatrice made a sartorial statement in a skeleton-inspired Burberry coat, which she accessorized with a demure (but matching!) off-the-rack sinamay hat by Sarah Cant Couture Millinery (which is currently on sale for $413).
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It is yet another echo of that first demure fadeout from Evert's Oxford door, ambiguous and respectfully private, though how I wish Hollinghurst had abandoned his newfound tact and allowed us to stay there with them.
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She may be meek of countenance and demure in dress, with big unbecoming spectacles, but through them she stares at Kaj, who struts about spraying death threats like spittle, and sees him for what he is.
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In Thomas' own photograph, "Sidra Sitting," the artist replaces the typically demure, white figure of the reclining female nude with a fully dressed black woman confident in her posture and looking at the camera head-on.
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The last time the Olympics came to South Korea, in 1988, Korean pop music was awash in soft-focus ballads, a gentle and demure version of the sounds that were taking hold elsewhere in the world.
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Inevitably, many of her readers will be disappointed by any story that doesn't involve the dominant-submissive relationship between the sadomasochistic billionaire Christian Grey and his demure conquest Anastasia Steele, who becomes his willing sexual servant.
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You took them for what they appeared: shy, reticent, bred by nuns, but after marriage, though they continued to look demure, there was always in their attitude toward sex, an amused irony, even a deliberate coarseness.
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Despite having more than 50 films and innumerable episodes of television, from "The Flintstones" to "Army Wives," under her dancer's belt, Ann-Margret said that she liked to keep it demure and was still quite shy.
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Find a table at the Design District's Mandolin Aegean Bistro, where Greek and Turkish cuisines share the menu, and the low-key vibe matches the demure, blue- and white-trimmed 1940s bungalow that houses this restaurant.
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These interactions become lifeblood to you distinctly, transforming the fabric of the culture you consume — the coffee shops with well-rounded lattes, the restaurants with all-natural wine lists, those that are demure with funk and effervescence.
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Related Video: Ariel Winter Defends Showing Off Her Breast Reduction Scars at the SAG Awards This is a surprisingly bold sartorial move for the young actress, who typically favors more demure, classic silhouettes on the red carpet.
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Britney is no stranger to a showstopping outfit whether on the red carpet or taking the stage in Las Vegas — but these looks are a major change from last year's much more demure golden full-length gown.
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The surprise two-for-one gave us the Director X-helmed clip followed by another version directed by Tim Eres; a more demure take on the record that puts Rih and Drake in softly lit close quarters.
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Between a hard-drinking, pack-a-day California hellion and his demure, inquisitive Bavarian child bride, emotionally alone and a continent away from her siblings and parents, they had enough psychological dynamite already strewn in their path.
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But if you eliminate the fondue pot, and ladle the same gooey cheese mixture into a roasted squash, it becomes a far more demure addition to the menu — without losing a speck of its rich, creamy charm.
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On Thursday morning, CNN's Matt Dornic, vice president of communications and digital partnerships, and Brian Stelter, chief media correspondent, both claimed the video had altered speeds to make Acosta seem more aggressive and the intern more demure.
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The show features a 23-minute film accompanied by two separate installations, one a grotesque fantasy landscape with lights and fountains — shells are embedded in the floor — and one a more demure display of his grandmother's possessions.
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Certainly it has been some while (if ever) since the demure, always-delightful Janie Dee has been asked to drop her guard to the degree required of her character, Margery, the widowed mother of an indrawn teenager, Jason.
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While the former Victoria's Secret model has no problem strutting down the catwalk in lingerie, she gave Vogue the first look at her demure wedding gown, a long-sleeved satin creation with appliquéd lilies by Dior Haute Couture.
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Inspired by the sharp tailoring of the Mods, plus the dancers and beatniks of Chelsea, she was among the first to dress women in trousers — a world away from the demure, calf-length pencil skirts of their mothers.
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Dr Rosenberg points out that in societies that expect women to be demure or chaste, those who take steps to protect themselves from HIV can often face stigma, since others may assume they are engaging in risky behaviour.
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Ms Kim's modest if fetching outfit, her demure smiles, the touching deference to her (unrelated) nonagenarian travelling companion, Kim Yong Nam, the North's titular head of state: all were seized upon as evidence of a delightful charm offensive.
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Though she admitted that the costume "took some getting used to" and was the "most demure" of the choices, she looked super comfortable on stage, and later returned to dance with another actor during the "Razzle Dazzle" number.
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After stunning in a black-and-white patterned ensemble during Monday's garden party honoring Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, Kate opted for a more demure jade green dress for lunch with the Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Tuesday.
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Founded in 1921, a year after women won the vote, it channeled a wave of resistance to change by crowning winners who were demure and unambitious—everything the boisterous flappers and fiery feminists of the Twenties were not.
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If Duncan has reached the end of his five-championship road, just weeks after Bryant went out with an overstatement of seismic grandiosity, let that be the demure big man's career epitaph: even better than what people said.
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" Ms. Pérez made her Met debut last year as Micaëla in Bizet's "Carmen," and was praised by Zachary Woolfe in The New York Times as a "confident, forthright presence in a role that can fade into merely demure.
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The wearer was Charlotte Brontë, and her demure day dress, just about big enough for a 21816-year-old girl, was the plain wrapping that encased an enormous talent, a bubbling blend of ambition, passion and literary genius.
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As for Staunton's newly introduced character, Lady Bagshaw (a name Oscar Wilde might have invented), she's not a sadistic instructress but a demure lady-in-waiting with no kids and a big estate that Violet is panting for.
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Coach's target audience seems much younger than that of the era of demure bags (now bags have embellishment, or at least are styled with a key chain) and C-logo loafers (studded platform boots are now the staple).
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Julien's Auctions said on Wednesday the iconic outfit that marked her character's transition from demure high schooler to sexy Sandy Olson in the 1978 movie musical was one of 200 items that Newton-John is selling in November.
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What I do know, as a white male immigrant here, is that Neak has created complicated portraits of Cambodian women grappling with stereotypes and agency, which is a rarity in mainstream culture's sea of overly sexualized or demure women.
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When results were finally announced later that night, Jordan stood in front of an adoring crowd, dancing and singing along to music at a party she hosted several blocks down from the Idaho Democratic Party&aposs more demure gathering.
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Matilda has no idea what happened to her supportive and demure mother, but eventually finds a box of newspaper clippings and photos in her mother's home hinting at a connection between Matilda and a missing child named Carys Howell.
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Barrymore, 41, was wearing a demure black dress paired with a rectangular black lacquer bag by Edie Parker that read "Frankie" on one side and "Olive," on the other, in silver – an endearing nod to her two young daughters.
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Kate was all smiles as she placed her left foot behind her and curtseyed to the Queen, while Meghan had a demure smile as she bowed her head and did a slight curtsy — also following with her left foot.
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The outfit that marked the transition of Newton-John's character in the 713 musical from demure high schooler to sexy Sandy was among 500 items for sale to help raise money for the performer's cancer treatment center in Australia.
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She began seeing Dr. Thigpen in Augusta, Ga., after her first marriage, when she began alternating between the demure and depressed Eve White and the self-indulgent party girl Eve Black, perplexing her husband with her bizarrely shifting behavior.
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Instead of a demure Victorian romance, though, "Le Corsaire," based on a Lord Byron poem, is a flashy, virtuosic fantasy about pirates, slaves and abducted maidens, complete with dated gender and cultural stereotypes that range from questionable to objectionable.
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She was widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, as well as her subversion of the stereotypical "demure girl singer" trope, presenting herself as a "hip" jazz musician and a performer on par with male band members.
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At Buckingham Palace this week, she appeared coolly demure in a collared, puff-sleeved ice-blue Carolina Herrera gown, its calculated modesty in telling contrast with the more revealing styles chosen by her sister-in-law and half sister.
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A roguishly demure garden party frock "toys with the idea of what a woman's costume or uniform is, and transforms it," said Katharine Schub, a designer whose label, Homecque, offers a twisted, stripped-down interpretation: a faux leather pinafore.
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The pieces include a demure tweed suit by Bill Pashley worn on her Balmoral honeymoon in 1981, and the midnight-blue Victor Edelstein velvet dress she wore when she danced with John Travolta at the White House in 1985.
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I think the Queen and Meghan&aposs relationship at this point is one built on respect, and Meghan has shifted her own personal style to adopt a more demure regal look - something I think the Queen will be thankful for.
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And sure enough, the young crew boss who had been so mean to her when she wanted to work beside him shows up with a box of chocolates, looks approvingly at her demure appearance, and takes her out on a date.
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Following up on her very demure white Vivienne Westwood gown at the Met Gala, Kim doubled-down on her new chaste aesthetic, joining her friend Jonathan Cheban for a casual dinner in Hollywood on Wednesday in a relatively covered-up outfit.
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In her book, the Oscar-winning actress reflects on memories and lessons gleaned from Beverly's life – as a mother, a creative force and a demure yet fierce wife of a Navy officer – while also opening up about her Alzheimer's journey.
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In Washington Square, for example, it's easy to see how the stolid, demure brickwork of the Greek Revival homes gave a New Yorker like Henry James a sense of security in his position as a descendant of early American aristocracy.
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The developers intended kids—especially girls, as it was one of the early PC games to be targeted specifically to girls—to imagine demure scenes where the American Girls might show up for embroidery class, or meet at the soda fountain.
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A lot of studios obscure the kissing in some way, by having hands or arms in the way of the Awkward Lip Zone to hide how clumsy it looks, or by fading to black or panning away in a demure fashion.
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Its fantastic, handcrafted headphones adhere to traditions dating all the way back to the company's founding in the 1950s — and its manufacturing base is still the demure Brooklyn location that was once a grocery store run by the founder's father.
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There are no Calvins to be seen anywhere in Justin Bieber's latest Instagram posts — a pair of demure selfies from the freshly showered singer wearing only a towel (a nice towel, at that), etched abs, and some freshly puffed-out pectorals.
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Dr. Tracey Jones, the school's principal, claims it was an effort to protect their female students, who "should look demure and modest and not appear over-sexualized in figure-hugging trousers or very short skirts," she told the Milton Keys Citizen.
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Some obsess over her fourth-wall-breaking arsenal of expressions, or her anxiety and her energy and her sadness and her desire, but just as many are eyeing her bangin' jumpsuit, slutty-demure short red floral dress, and perfect, shaggy haircut.
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Kevin Wendell Crumb, played by James McAvoy, has twenty-three separate personalities (including a nine-year-old boy and a demure lady named Patricia), plus one more for luck—the Beast, who bends iron bars and snacks on human meat.
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Happening upon "The Falconer," a bronze of a boy in Elizabethan dress releasing a falcon in Central Park, Lucy is envious that statues of boys depict them in action poses while women are either demure nudes or Alice in Wonderland.
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She was dating a guy who liked that when he first started dating her, but as they were together for a little bit he wanted her to be a little bit more demure and a little more the girl next door.
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Her two-second speech about how she's not going to pose like a demure prude for a cover story about empowered women is still giving me life, and I can't wait to see what the show does with her next.
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It is regrettable to see independent, intelligent women reduced to props who exist to support their husbands' political agendas — to see them celebrated first and foremost for their sartorial decisions or, as Mr. Tusk's post implied, their demure and gentle demeanors.
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One fantasy that "Hidden Figures" invites is that the nerdy, demure, slightly disheveled Katherine will respond to the slights and insults thrown her way by Kirsten Dunst's character and the rest of the white power structure by unleashing her inner Cookie.
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The waiter told us that the restaurant turned into a local's nightclub after dinner, so we stayed in our corner, sipping from our many half-glasses of wine as the demure dining room changed over to flashing lights and techno.
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Each day, as demure office workers and tourists in short shorts watch, he pours streams of green batter into a mold for tiny cakes fragrant with the vanilla-like juice of the pandan leaf, a common flavoring in Southeast Asia.
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Yet the title could be, and probably is in some way, a reference to the incredible poise exhibited by the diva when she walked into the Southern California church with a show-stopping fur coat and a demure look on her face.
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Fans were surprised when Eddie Van Halen, the hard-partying guitar virtuoso of the rock titans Van Halen, began dating the demure Valerie Bertinelli, who had become America's sweetheart with her starring role on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time.
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The pair have been demure with releasing material thus far, with a scant few tracks appearing on the Soundcloud, but with their new groover, "Paradise," it seems they're ready to suit up and step out—and right in time for the weekend.
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A deft rapper from Birmingham, England, real name Melesha O'Garro, Lady Leshurr keeps a conversational, demure tone as she administers put-downs and Internet meme jokes to the camera; crisp and haughty, she cracks on your hygiene, your friends, your whole world.
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Cinderella in her famous 1950 animated feature is conscious for her whole story, but her main function in the narrative is to be beautiful and demure and wait for her physical and moral purity to inspire others to give her wealth and love.
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The cabin isn't *really* a cabin—it's a mansion, and the lumberjacks aren't *really* lumberjacks—they're white collar professionals who use words like "demure", and Saffron isn't *really* a sex slave—she gives her formal consent, falls in love and has a baby.
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The scandal, which prompted the company to put on a more demure exhibition here than usual, has also unsettled regulatory officials and made it more difficult to get approval for new vehicles, Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of Daimler, said in Geneva.
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That message emerges with unexpected force at the Fashion Institute of Technology in a museum exhibition that explores variations of a color that has ping-ponged across the centuries, varying in tone from demure to baldly subversive, from classy to trashy and back.
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The name is demure; the scene, not so much — at least not once they pass the parking lot, the man checking tickets at the front gate and the dim corridor at whose far end blazes a rectangle of bronze sand and sea.
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He addressed his criticism to 230 or so Accademia members ("accademici," so designated by demure green, red and white pins affixed to their lapels, which differ in design according to rank) and their guests, who gather each month to review an Italian restaurant.
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Walter Robinson's painting "Baron Sinister" (1986) places a heavy-breathing pulp-fiction cover on a demure field of white Rymanesque brushwork, and Peter Cain's hyper-real "Z" (1989) reduces a gleaming ad-ready image of a car to a phallus on wheels.
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But these passages do run through all the things that would distress a self-willed 21st-century young woman thrust into the past, including corsets, reflexive racism, and expectations of demure passivity, and they should make a modern reader grind her teeth in sympathetic frustration.
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Yet, again, she was the picture of poise and repose, wearing a prim and demure pale pink Christian Dior jacket and skirt, a thin black belt, and her signature pumps, her long hair, which she normally wears loose, put up in an elaborate chignon.
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But pastels, once the province of demure cashmere twin-sets and enameled automatic kitchen appliances, of petits fours, babies and the housewives who rock them, are announcing themselves as an unexpected alternative, filling the splash pages of millennial-run websites and dominating the spring collections.
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He can help all of us untangle our own thinking about what makes a wine expressive, about the importance of paradox and ambiguity, and of the difference between wines that he might describe as modest, demure and tender, and those of volume and power.
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Over the years her portrayals of Judith would shift increasingly toward the friendship between Judith and her maidservant, and when Gentileschi was most concerned with making money to support her two daughters' dowries, her paintings would be more demure and suited to patrons' tastes.
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Her general is at once the supreme leader (in keeping with a recent trend in Hollywood movies to depict women as every bit as tough as men) and strikingly demure when not in battle (something the filmmakers felt made her more viable to Eastern audiences).
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Last season, exaggerated collars showed up all fashion month long, with disco styles straight out of the '70s at Fendi, Paco Rabanne, and Louis Vuitton, while more demure Peter Pan versions could be seen at the likes of Simone Rocha, Tory Burch, and Celine.
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Scaling up the demure 19th-century genre of the black-paper silhouette, she brought to elegant, repellent life an unending stream of vicious master-slave narratives — a continuum of violence, abuse and violation that consumed and corrupted almost all parties, regardless of age or race.
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Nancy Holdaway, a demure "russet-haired girl," curvaceous and "pale-skinned yet luminous," will meet a stranger in uniform, tall and dashing, "challenging" of gaze, deep of voice and a little older than herself, who will shape her life for the next two decades.
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In this work, as in "Bäume," the fusion of the collaged imagery (the face, leaf, and branches immediately surrounding the face) with painting (extensions of the roots and branches) is both enchanting and strange; the craggy roots have a creatural quality that threatens the demure face.
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Her reclusion from the pomp and circumstance of the industry (and e-commerce, until earlier this year) carried over to her designs, where her taste for demure and classic ready-to-wear saw its own fashion cult within the industry, with the sales to back it up.
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Who would have guessed that Duke, who went on to play perky all-American teen Patty Lane and her demure Scottish cousin Cathy on TV's The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), would grow up to be hooked on tranquilizers and later diagnosed as a manic-depressive?
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I have a fairly demure sense of everyday style (black, navy, and beige on repeat) and tendency to keep my makeup to a minimum, so I consider my fragrance to be the thing that represents my identity; it's where I express my playfulness, creativity, and mood.
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The relatively demure approach from Moore on Tuesday came in sharp contrast to his record in Alabama and rhetoric on the campaign trail, where the former judge -- who has a history of incendiary and derogatory comments, including saying homosexuality should be outlawed and that Democratic Rep.
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Hungry City 12 Photos View Slide Show ' At Serengeti Kitchen in East Harlem, the escargots are small and dainty, demure analogues to the giant African land snails — large enough to spill over the palm of your hand — that are eaten as hors d'oeuvres in West Africa.
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Her proximity to her subjects, which include bombed-out houses and Israeli tanks, also speaks to the myth of the demure Arab woman; she is as close as one can possibly get to the occupation here, unafraid to stare down danger in order to capture its reality.
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Amble along with one of the Historical Society's guides, though, and experience that history unlocked — tales and tidbits about the city's founding, architectural and even landscaping details, Hollywood stars' lives, and photos of stunning interiors and pools, pools, pools (a Palm Springs passion) hidden by demure facades.
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" Ms. Milan, who is Chinese-American, took issue with the depiction of 19th-century Chinese women in the book, including a description of "slanted almond eyes" and a quote from a character describing them as "demure and quiet, as our mothers have trained us to be.
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Playing her first grand slam since returning from a 15-month doping ban, Sharapova grabbed the spotlight with an opening-round upset of second seed Simona Halep and commanded center stage right until the end, walking off Arthur Ashe Stadium court with a demure wave to the capacity crowd.
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Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish) had a trio of scanned tintypes celebrating femme sexuality and resilience: "Fern II" features a curly-haired femme wearing a heavy gold chain, her nipples visible through her thin white T-shirt, returning the viewer's gaze and refusing to be demure or ashamed.
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Diana: Her Fashion Story, which opens February 24, 2017, will trace the evolution of the princess's style, from the demure, romantic outfits of her first public appearances, to the glamour, elegance and confidence of her later life, according to Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that looks after Kensington Palace.
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It's not demure, and not everyone will feel at ease commuting the kids to school in it — but those who do, those who are happy to have the other kids talking about the cool parents with the electrically powered sports car, they'll love this new variant from BMW.
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Organized by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., the Peabody Essex Museum version of the show has subjects you would expect — rough-and-ready young miners — but ones you might not, like a demure Chinese woman and a Chilean sailor with lush ringlets of hair.
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This piece prodded my relationship with femininity in an unexpected way: I can't help but associate long, leopard print coats with a kind of demure and delicate femininity that feels unattainable to me as a queer woman who falls somewhere in the middle of the gender presentation spectrum.
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Jane the demure rebel and Divine Jane the conservative existed at the same time, in many of the same places — but since literary critics have traditionally paid more attention to literary clubs than to suffragettes, the Divine Jane is the only one who traditionally makes it into critical essays.
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It's the familiar fairy tale with a sexy modern twist: Rather than a flock of female swans and a demure Odette, Bourne gives audiences a gang of bare-chested, feral male swans led by a strapping fellow whose seduction of the Prince flavors the vintage story with overt homoeroticism.
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At the same time, Toll Brothers wanted to incorporate into the building design the character of the two diverse neighborhoods the site straddles: It's just a block away from the demure and private Gramercy Park and a quick stroll from the Flatiron district's bustling public space, Madison Square Park.
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That film argued against the idea that her marriage to Brown caused her downfall, focusing instead — as the title hints — on the burden of her demure, respectable crossover pop image, her bisexuality and relationship with Crawford, and her fraught bond with her family, who grew to depend on her financially.
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But there were some new elements and faces to see, too, like the micro-midriff, the brand's more demure version of baring navel, French navy hats replete with signature red pom-poms, distressed denim, and, oh, Adut Akech, the latest South Sudan newcomer who opened the show and its finale.
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Related Video:Susan Sarandon's Beau Sets the Dating Record Straight Susan, on the other hand, went for something a touch more demure, yet still very sexy, letting her black bralette top peek out ever so slightly from the top of her white tuxedo blazer and matching loose-cut trousers (all Max Mara).
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" Society is telling us we should use toilet paper—not bidets—to clean ourselves; society has caught women in the bind of being demure and likeable or outspoken and a bitch; society has "tricked us into believing that what it is saying is truth or reality or 'just how things are.
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Andrew Haigh's slow-burn British drama puts the idea of marriage through the ringer as a couple, played by a diabolically demure Tom Courtenay and a never-better Charlotte Rampling, comes to terms with the discovery of a decades-frozen body in the days leading up to their 45th anniversary.
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" Frances X. Clines, reporting for The Times that day, noted a sense of spectacle in a usually demure press corps: "A crush of American journalists, inquiring after the Princess' wardrobe and whims, camped around the capital to record a varied itinerary that was protected by a throng of security guards.
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It's the same every time: She's obsessed with her Valentino pumps in the days leading up to stealing them, she can't stop thinking about them, from the pink, sheer lace to the fake gems embroidered across the toes, to the kitten heel that makes what's so kitschy about them slightly demure.
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Conversations about the aesthetics of politics no longer rely on simply whether one candidate chose a red or blue power tie (because of course all the men are wearing suits), but about how their image reflects their platform and character, be it in Andrew Yang's notable tie-lessness or Kirsten Gillibrand's demure dresses.
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Walsh, who is pictured above in all his suave, demure, dry yet moisturised glory, completely bodied the competition for best-selling album of 20163 by a debut artist, having shifted 111,650 copies of a record featuring little more than a collection of songs made famous by better looking and better people than him.
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I suppose I was a tad aggressive, which I have learned with one of the U.S. attorneys there, I remember going to a meeting and before we walked into this meeting, the U.S. attorney looked at me and said, "I really think that the agency would appreciate a more demure woman". Right.
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She also dated Patrick Schwarzenneger in 2012, which means she was Kennedy family adjacent (Patrick's mom Maria Shriver is a Kennedy through her mom, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who was siblings with former president John F. Kennedy), and the Kennedy connection explains the modest footwear choices, from school-girl oxfords to demure Charlotte Olympia "kitty" pumps.
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Slam City Oracles lets you take up space, and take names while doing it "I knew I had hit onto something good with Lost Wage Rampage when, every single time I described it to a woman, each one — no matter how quiet and demure they were regularly — threw their heads back and cackled," she said.
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Matches Fashion is now carrying demure nightgowns from the likes of Three Graces London and Robin Wright Penn's line, Pour Les Femmes, and recently, a smocked, floral-print nightdress by the traditional Florentine label Loretta Caponi found its way to Amanda Cutter Brooks's new boutique in the English countryside and onto her Instagram account.
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Amid the parade of yakitori at Le Rigmarole, Compagnon and Yang present pasta that shows a clear debt to Italy while resembling no codified recipe; even their noodle shapes and names — cushioni, for ravioli that look like doll pillows; faniciulle, from the Italian word for maidens, elaborately folded like demure hoods — are the chefs' inventions.
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Though Ms. Lawrence prefers plunging necklines, such as a sweet long slip dress by Dior in the palest yellow that she wore to the "Joy" New York premiere in December, and a ruffled black Ralph Lauren gown she donned for the "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" premiere in Madrid, she occasionally tries a more demure cut.
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The racial hatred that swept America in the war years is well documented by historian John Dower in his book War Without Mercy, and exemplified by an iconic photo that ran in the May 22, 1944, issue of Henry Luce's Life, showing a demure young woman gazing thoughtfully at the Japanese skull her Navy boyfriend had sent her.
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And if you're one of those people who still subscribes to "The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right," the 1995 self-help book that advised women to act elusive and demure, wait for the guy to make the first move and thus end up with a wedding ring, Bumble may seem radical.
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They taxonomize it: for example, they explain and draw, in detail, the differences between demure "classic Lolita," fond of tapestry-inspired fabrics and muted hues, the "sweet Lolita," who favors pastel colors and images of cute animals and cakes, and the "gothic Lolita," who adopts a more funeral-inspired attire and might carry, say, a coffin-shaped bag.
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Movies where the emergence of a female character's sexuality runs parallel to the development of supernatural powers run the gamut from arthouse horror (like The Witch, where the teenage protagonist's alienation from her Puritan family ends with her joining a coven of witches) to slasher shlock (like Hello Mary Lou, in which a demure do-gooder is possessed by a rebellious prom queen).
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She shed the housewife gear, the demure shifts, Peter Pan collars and aprons sported by Lucille Ball, Donna Reed and even Elizabeth Montgomery, for the uniform of the '60s youthquake — graphic, eye-popping designs from Andre Courreges and Mary Quant — to be followed by the more bohemian accouterments of the early '70s, like the styles of Halston, Giorgio di Sant' Angelo and Yves St. Laurent.
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The mural is the artist's personal interpretation of the Arabian Nights: Ivory-painted arcades and pointed arches supported by slender columns unfold along the walls, opening into the rooms of a regal house where on a background of blues, soft golds, Indian-rose pinks and muted browns, yellows and greens, women, a child and a man holding a dog seem to draw an observer in to the peace and quiet their demure poses inspire.
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For example, a demure cassowary bird, silk parrots, and examples of beautiful orchids and flowers are part of the Birds and Blooms exhibit; a sea of glowing jellyfish stands out in the Biscayne Bay display; and a large assortment of animals, including a mob of kangaroos, several penguins, a flock of flamingos in the river, iguanas, pigs, alligators, manatees, and some of the world's rarest species are part of the JungleTrail segment.
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It is hard to find words for his visage as water douses his face in a performance art piece, the forlorn sag in his eyes as he talks about crashing his plane as a pilot during the war, the surging electricity in his gesticulating hands as he led a demonstration at the Düsseldorf arts academy, or the graceful, calm demure in the way he tries to convince a German woman to take a green party pamphlet on the street.
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Looser traces Austen's legacy: the Aunt Jane who emerged in the years just after her death; the nice old spinster aunt who happened to write a good yarn; the conservative Divine Jane of literary gentleman's clubs, who gloried in exalting traditional gender roles and a traditional idea of England; the demure rebel icon of the suffragettes, who definitively demonstrated that women were capable of genius and who tore apart gender roles with her pen; the romantic of the sexy Darcy era, who wrote love stories.
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In light of the Lord Grey news, Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, spoke to The Guardian about the implications of this situation, and how we talk about dress codes more widely: "Girls' bodies and dress are often policed much more severely than boys', and — especially when you start throwing around words like 'modest' and 'demure' — there is a real sense of girls being judged and valued on their dress and a moral judgement being applied in a way that certainly isn't happening to their male peers."
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Grayson's here, on the top landing, dressed as his alter ego Claire, with the grinning museum director beside him, engulfed by cameras and booms and giant gray feather-dusters swinging here and there, to such an infuriating extent that mere footplodders clutching pen and notebook can barely get a look in, and in fact find themselves being elbowed aside, because they are clearly preventing the best possible photographic opportunity that Grayson would present this morning… So I try to look past him, to the Timeline on the wall behind, which gives us some key dates and events in his life and ours, from which I excerpt in order to give a tiny flavor: Born 1960, Chelmsford, Essex April 1963, contracts measles, names Teddy Bear Alan Measles; Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers 'I have a dream' speech 1998 Begins psychotherapy sessions, which last six years; Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin […] The surprise today is how demure and soberly self-contained Grayson looks these days.
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