But "Meditation at Lagunitas" wields its chasteness like bait: it would be just the poem to get a chaste person to go to bed with you.
There is a chasteness, a church-like quality in the voicings of his chords and in the plainspoken tone of his voice.
If this is a letdown, and yet another example of the overwhelming chasteness of buttoned-up Americans, enter the always underestimated Canadians.
But I'd rather chasteness be the problem than the kind of hypersexual, shallowly hedonistic image of gay men presented in so many television shows and movies past.
The collective chasteness would not last.
Instrumental playing from La Nuova Musica under conductor David Bates is delicate and much more deadpan, providing a semblance of chasteness.
Many of his buildings, including Palazzo Thiene in Vicenza and Villa Barbaro at Maser, break the Palladians' rules of chasteness.
Indeed, for such a sensual film, Drive is striking for the chasteness of its central affair – Refn even snipped out a kiss early on for fear it would "ruin the poetry".
This film's chasteness, its loving recreation of the Shanghai immigrant community in early Sixties Hong Kong, is the very opposite of empty flash.
Elsewhere, Audience of One is wonderfully doomy and theatrical psyche, while on Oo Girl Ivers sings, "Come on, let's dash ourselves to pieces, I'll break myself against your body," but he's never really free of a peculiarly self-regarding chasteness.
But what gets the idea under a reader's skin is the elegance, almost chasteness, of the style in which the proposition is elaborated.
