St. Vincent used to be the one of the more demure characters in indie rock.
Ms. Moore sang "Swing Low" again at the memorial service on Saturday, and family members recalled Mrs. McDill as hardly the demure society type, but more like a Katharine Hepburn character.
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.
This reinforces the Madonna-whore complex -- a double standard where in the actress must be seen as demure even if the characters she plays are debased in that their sexuality is tailored solely to titillate the heterosexual male gaze.
Most others are all about her eyelashes — feathery curtains over downcast eyes that make the character seem more demure than dangerous.
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.
Few women I have known have her combined qualities of quiet charisma, kind of shy and elegantly demure, but with iron strong character.
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.
For the new building, Weddle Gilmore Architects has produced an assured and demure neo-Classic design, French in character.
Bensedrine, who is sixty-six, ismall-boneded and wears demure suits and pearls, but her character is direct and sometimes fiery (in political circles her nickname is the Lioness).
