demureness

The other woman, a model of demureness, kept her face hidden.

As he introduced her, she bowed low, making herself the very picture of demureness.

He should have known that Rebecca would never choose demureness over accuracy.

Thus, whether you are male or female, a touch of demureness and self-sacrifice can go far.

They came up in a parody of demureness, but hopping with impatience.

Covering up is the new nudity; demureness is hot again.

Her demureness was still there, but it was badly jaded.

I may have exaggerated slightly," she said, lowering her eyes in a flash of demureness.

She cast her eyes down in exaggerated demureness.

Only in the tableau of a ball scene does a certain high-bred demureness reassert itself.

I didn't ask,' she said tartly, dropping the demureness.

But for all her sunny smiles and demureness, Ms. Thomas is a woman to be reckoned with.

Grace flushed with pleasure, her customary demureness overcome.

Mostly young women, many of them fashionably dressed, but still with a kind of Catholic boarding-school demureness.

The stretch pants projected demureness, regret and impregnability.

I am less happy with the demureness of someone like Michael Jordan, who is as popular as he is rich.

Pilar replied with a certain demureness.

Nina's demureness and femininity are highly regarded.

Leyladin asked in a tone of mock demureness.

Leyladin offered a mock grimace, then smoothed her face back into demureness.

Demureness vanished as the girl shrieked and raced across the aviary, startling birds into whirling clouds.

Her demureness pampered Duncan.

Muslim parents want their daughters to be like Mary in her "chastity and demureness," according to a 2006 IslamOnline.net article.

No phony demureness here: She acts as if she came of age telling an endless parade of Latin men where to put it.

'Very much so, indeed,' said Cherry, with a demureness of manner that gave a very disinterested character to her assent.