matronliness

She tended to wear folk art print dresses, and much of her wardrobe was a stylish acquiescence to matronliness.

"Oh, he will," Sue replies knowingly, with a hint of the matronliness that is already so evident in these rambunctious schoolgirls.

She stripped the matronliness from Lillian Russell and the hysteria from Eva Tanguay.

She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun.

She has "blazing black eyes" and "a big beaky nose" and combines "regal matronliness and the savagery of a wild boar."

A hint of matronliness hovers, even as she nimbly illustrates some of her dance steps to the singing of Buddy Guy and the Ink Spots.

IF you've played anthropologist in the parking lot of any up-market suburban shopping mall, you will surely see just how effectively the cosmopolitan mother has shielded herself against any allegations of matronliness.

He paired them with jackets rich in texture, and he worked against the matronliness of some of the clothes by using wide, burnished-looking leather belts, African-textile detailing or silver chains worn at the hip.

Miss Cook's voice has been rated by far the strongest in the cast by critics who were, however, dismayed by a role they contend is muddled by soigne matronliness and short on Mommie Dearest wickedness.