It depicts a queenly young woman in Elizabethan garb, her demure face subdivided with lines that evoke the striated, Africanized women of Picasso's groundbreaking "Demoiselles d'Avignon".
His and Elizanne's cheeks felt pasted together and yet when the music stopped he didn't want to let go; he continued, pantingly, to drink her in, her foreshortened demure face with its smudged upper lip and dewy expanse of décolletage, the white edges of her strapless bra outlining her gentle bosom.
Film grants that wish and makes us privy to the shadow play of erotic impulse – "What throbs fast and full, though hidden, what the blood rushes through," as Brontë put it when criticising Jane Austen as a prude – behind Wasikowska's plain, demure face.
When Vanity Fair released its upcoming magazine cover on Monday morning, the world met Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, photographed in a one-piece bustier with her makeup done, hair styled and a demure look on her face.
On the cover of this week's Billboard magazine, Miley Cyrus stands in a field of green, wearing a pretty pastel pink dress with a demure expression on her face.
For a more demure look, keep your hair partially down.
"They're sick, they're broken and I give them new life," said Launay, 80, whose cramped workshop and worn oak work tables are cluttered with doll flotsam: shiny torsos and pouty baby faces, demure bisque heads with punctured pink cheeks and fractured noses.
The identification of beauty as the ideal condition of a woman is, if anything, more powerful than ever, although today's hugely complex fashion-and- photography system sponsors norms of beauty that are far less provincial, more diverse, and favour brazen rather than demure ways of facing the camera.
Demure honey ringlets frame her face.
And before a few more pages have passed we are disturbed to catch, with Robert, an "unguarded flash of triumph" in the teenager's expression as one of the details in her story is proved to be correct: "a savage emotion, primitive and cruel... very startling on the face of a demure schoolgirl who was the pride of her guardians and preceptors".
Not necessarily, argues Golding, they can also disguise the wearer or make them anonymous: "They can be very demure – veiling or masking your face and creating a certain mood.
