Sentence examples for desexualize from inspiring English sources

The least suspect illustrations, by the celebrated Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias, adorned a 1938 edition; the others tend to whiten sympathetic black characters and to desexualize Uncle Tom, who, as the father of very young children, must possess a virility belied by his presentation as an avuncular oldster.

Goldberg owed something to the nineteen-fifties and sixties comedian Moms Mabley, but she didn't desexualize herself in a house dress or a wig to get her point across: she was a woman that New Yorkers could recognize; she had been on the street long enough to find the poetry in it.

The strategy has been either to desexualize gays by shifting the conversation to marriage and parenting or — brilliantly — to position transgender children as the ones in need of protection.

For most of us, hiring someone is essentially a romantic process, in which the job interview functions as a desexualized version of a date.

Still, the headlines sent lolicon underground for many years, and in the nineteen-nineties creators reared on the genre absorbed, defanged, and desexualized it for the mainstream.

(In the booklet for the CD of "PRISM," Perry looks thoughtful and gauzy, as desexualized as she's been on a cover yet).

It is the male gaze — the way men look at women — that needs to be desexualized, not women in public.

Dancers, shaking and thrusting their hips or writhing on the floor, performed sexualized movement with a desexualized purposefulness.

I tried on the Nuuk ($499), a fluorocarbon-free parka in "ox red" with a boxy, desexualizing cut and fur trim around the hood with a strangely scratchy feel.

Another day, another ma'am-ogram: you may not want it; it may make you feel flattened, desexualized, overripe and nearly through; but trust me, ma'am, we're doing it all for you.

I am an Ivy League graduate, a liberal and a feminist, but see nothing "desexualizing" or "classist" about the word "ma'am".