While some "feminine" norms such as trying to be seen as nice and nurturing may have a protective effect against heavy drinking, others, like being especially concerned about appearance and looks, may increase risk.
Hello nice sensible career-nurturing fun.
They are very sensitive (with unpredictable moods), romantic, nice, sweet, caring and nurturing, motherly, homey.
So we have this culture of really nice people, and it's nurturing.
In GUN GAMES (Harper Audio/HarperCollins, $19.99), Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, a nurturing couple who keep a nice kosher home, get a crash course in teenage angst when they take a 15-year-old youth into their household.
Just be kind of dorky, nice, polite, clean, reserved, funny, loving, and nurturing.
Paula Abdul, who since the show's beginning had nurtured contestants and played the role of nice judge to Simon Cowell's mean one, is gone, replaced by Ellen DeGeneres, the talk-show host and comic.
Mr. Grosz, perhaps best known for his comedic appearances on "The Colbert Report," does a nice job with the perhaps slightly idealized, über-mensch role of the nurturing Greg.
They were repeatedly described as Rachel: lovely, Moira: friendly, Ella: supportive, Zoe: kind, Anne: professional and Vicky: very, very nice: Zoe: They were just very kind and I think, in a way, nurturing, because they knew there was a possibility that you might have bad news.
