Her sexuality and emotional directness made her more demure contemporaries, like Peggy Lee and Celia Cruz, look like debutantes at a tea dance.
Nicola Roberts - Girls Aloud Beyoncé's demure attitude and "Sasha Fierce" persona make her a well-rounded artist; her I Am... Sasha Fierce album gives the best of both worlds.
It was a questionable fashion choice, but the "So You Think You Can Dance" host looked absolutely stunning -- somehow making her backless, sideboob-baring look appear demure.
Ms. Cardellini, who played the melancholy teenager Lindsay Weir on "Freaks and Geeks" (which ended in 2000) made her "Mad Men" debut in the premiere episode this season, playing Sylvia Rosen, a seemingly demure housewife and neighbor to the Drapers.
Goody appeared threatened by Shilpa's demure demeanour and, with two fellow housemates, set about cruelly picking on her and making her time in the house a misery.
"I'll make it demure on top so it doesn't look like I'm working a street corner," said Ms. Deam, whose main fashion expense is a couple of pairs of shoes every few months, or about $600.
And there was something about her demure smile that made me think she thought so too.
When Bruni and Sarkozy met Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, she made quite the style splash in her demure Christian Dior ensemble, complete with a matching hat and black flats.
Her ghostly chants, guttural growls, gasps and moans are enough to make Björk, her sometime collaborator, sound as demure as a choirgirl.
An actress such as Emma Stone might risk a daringly low-plunging cleavage, as she did in Lanvin at the Globes last year, but make a more demure choice at the Oscars.
