Sentence examples for bodice from inspiring English sources
noun
A sleeveless shirt for women, sometimes provided with detachable sleeves.
This year's show features pieces as varied as an unseen drawing by Jasper Johns, sculpture by Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, prints by Julian Opie and Tracey Emin and a bodice made entirely from human hair by Clancy Gebler Davies.
These included details of a British Airways engineer caught in heels and a bodice walking a makeshift catwalk and the name of a drunk pilot arrested at the airport.
In the first published images of the couple's August wedding in the south of France, Jolie wears a custom-designed ivory dress designed by Donatella Versace, featuring elegant spaghetti straps and a ruched bodice.
One ruched navy-blue gown, with consummately crafted folds on the bodice, was half red-carpet goddess dress, half palazzo pant, while a jumpsuit mixed a slim-fit leg with a wider one.
The gown that prompted Versace's quip featured a bodice of embroidered tiny crystals custom made by Swarovski for the house and metres of creamy-brown duchesse satin backed with crinoline to give volume.
Her low-cut bodice emphasised her round shoulders and her high firm breasts.
They brought in bodice-rippers and American films, eventually replacing the neo-Egyptian décor with neo-Greek.
And beyond the timely body- and bodice-ripping of "The Devil's Whore", and outside a dedicated band of battle re-enactors, the English civil war itself has an oddly low profile these days.
In such a competitive market, it is notoriously difficult to write a thriller or bodice-ripper that avoids being remaindered, let alone one that commands shelf space at supermarket checkout counters and airport bookstalls.
None of these problems exists when distributing books digitally.Bodice rippingRomance novels and crime blockbusters have proved particularly popular on e-readers, perhaps because it is difficult to tell from across the aisle of a bus whether someone is reading a bodice-ripper or Dostoevsky on their Kindle.
The book captured the upheavals of the Tudor period and was a critical and popular hit that rescued historical fiction from its bodice-ripper reputation.In this section That day that changed everything Hide, but you can't run Tudor prose Artistic licence Reprints"Bring Up the Bodies", Ms Mantel's sequel, takes up where "Wolf Hall" left off, and it is an outstandingly good read.
