nunlike

Kate has quite a nunlike quality, as a lot of Irish women have.

The effect was nunlike even to the headscarf which she wore indoors and out, like a wimple.

She was nunlike in her sterility and cleanliness.

"That was more important than anything," says Roberts, whose nunlike modesty plays off Burakowski's love of the outrageous.

There, Ms. Childs played a nunlike woman forced to masquerade as a man in late 19th-century Ireland.

The play soft-pedals some of Charlotte's outrageousness, particularly in its depiction of her nunlike chastity.

And she understood exactly what worldly Uncle Jack had been about in sending his irresistible daughter off to court in such nunlike trappings.

After her lover, Fiyero, is killed, she joins a nunlike order of "maunts" and takes care of the ill and dying.

Her mother, carefully managing on a limited budget, settles into a nunlike reserve and sternness, which she passes on to her beautiful daughter.

The painting depicts eight beautiful women with empty faces in nunlike costumes departing from a Neo-Gothic castle on bicycles with knitting-needle handles.

Banquettes thread up one side of the narrow room, facing an open kitchen, where Ballesteros, a diminutive figure of nunlike severity, marshals her small kitchen staff.

Sidonie Rougon, Pascal's sister, after a life of impropriety, now lives in "nunlike austerity" as the financial mistress of a home for unwed mothers.

She moved with a nunlike tranquillity from one sequence to the next, thinking nothing of being asked to drag a beast through a blizzard, and clearly suffering none of the discomfort felt by others.

She performs with an almost prim spirituality that recalls not only Ms. Farrell but the tales of the nunlike Marie Taglioni, a mid-19th-century Paris Opera Ballet star.

It was a wonderful parody of a fashion show, right down to the bright red runway, the nunlike procession of the models (without music), and the over-the-top western shoes in hot rodeo colors.

Mr. Macarol's young girl with long hair has a nunlike propriety about her but appears capable of holding her own with the minxes portrayed by the now hot photographer Sally Mann.

Downstairs, Yousef's younger sister Laila struggles to hide her long chestnut hair in a black maghnaeh - a nunlike cowl whose unflattering effect doesn't quite deaden her creamy-skinned bloom.

All in white, with no ornament but her fair hair, and a fragrant posy of violets in her belt, she looked a different woman from the meek, nunlike creature one usually saw about the house.

But, like a gifted storyteller, Hopper leaves us to guess at the identity, and the purpose, of the nunlike nanny in her bright blue uniform who hurries along with an inhabited pram in the lower left corner.

There is the narrator's mother, whose marriage acquires its passionate intensity only when she lies dying of cancer, and nunlike Maeve, whose childless union with the defeated Billy becomes a terrible kind of penance.

There duly came the charm of calling at the college door for her; her emergence in a nunlike simplicity of costume that was rather enforced than desired; the traipsing along to the station, the porters' "B'your leave!

The Beguines sensibly discovered the safety to be found in numbers, in a reputation for sanctity and in the superstitious awe with which nuns (Beguines wore nunlike robes and coifs) have always been regarded.

In the same year (1906) that she was painting a portrait of M. Adelaide Nutting emerging nunlike in her nurse's uniform from a rich black background, Matisse was painting "The Joy of Life."

After her husband's death Zita donned nunlike mourning clothes and for some years moved about Europe in the interests of the Hapsburg succession, especially promoting the ascension of Otto, her eldest son, to the Hungarian throne.

Ms. Hobbs was more obscure in the athletic "Stheno Divided" with Kerstin Fichtner, Shira Paritzky, Patricia Wolf and Makiko Yamamoto as nunlike figures shifting in and out of possible visions.