Sentence examples similar to a demure character from inspiring English sources
It takes a certain moxie to use Madonna in a film, cast her as a famous actress who casually sleeps with both her director and her leading man, devise a plot in which she is violently slapped around and manage to make her the most demure character in the story.
St. Vincent used to be the one of the more demure characters in indie rock.
The title character, a demure spinster who is in charge of soft furnishings at a store in Leeds, becomes the regular client of Mr. Dunderdale, a suave, silver-haired chiropodist who turns out to be an enthusiastic foot fetishist.
Her character is a demure, dutiful housewife, "Eve White", but then "Eve Black", a more flirtatious persona, takes over and destroys her life, before a third persona "Jane" resolves the conflict.
She said she fell in love with Mr. Henley as they were dancing, but playing the part of a demure maiden (at society events, people often stay in character the whole time), she avoided looking him in the eye.
Three women attendants hold up the sheet through which a demure -- or not so demure -- Naseem proffers a malingering body part for Aziz to inspect and cure.
She didn't give us a demure Giselle; she was demure about playing Giselle.
She had a demure, accepting presence.
David Agler conducted a demure, vanilla performance.
"You liked it?" she asked, wearing a demure Givenchy dress.
