It makes me feel domesticated, and I forget the career woman side of me for a little while.
That convention, Ms. Temkin felt, had domesticated the paintings in a way that obscured how radical they were, what a "profound break with the past," and last fall she ordered the frames removed in one of her first acts as the Modern's new chief curator of painting and sculpture.
With its 2 3 scale the model feels tiny and toylike, sanitized, domesticated.
With its 2 3 scale the model feels tiny and toylike, sanitised, domesticated.
The Hecks believed the wild Przewalski blood would help to draw out the wild characteristics they felt lay dormant in the domesticated pony breed mares.
I feel very upset about what happened, but generally regarding Benjamin's reaction of self-defense, he was really a sort of a domesticated wild animal, but he had a wild reaction of self-preservation when he felt threatened.
Americans read those, felt pangs of nostalgia over things that really never took place, and the holiday was domesticated away from its earlier rancorous feast.
The inherent refinement of Mr. Long's touch, always evident, now prevails with a result that feels corralled, downsized and domesticated.
At a time when literary sex was still thought of in terms of Molly Bloom's mythopoetical earthiness, Lady Chatterley's inflated lyricism or Henry Miller's grubby adventurism, the Dirty Young Men were trying to make readers see and feel sex as a domesticated form of daemonic possession, as ordinary and dangerous as a fire lighted to clear some brush.
Very little of a venturesome spirit, a fierce hunger for life, a desire to stake out for themselves an independent existence can be detected, so defanged and domesticated, so tentative and timorous are these modern young men who seem never to have felt the wild fever of youth.
