Sentence examples for rather demure from inspiring English sources

"He has a rather demure demeanor".

Like chickweed, it is a rather demure plant with attractive leaves.

Despite many years spent among people who often find themselves resorting to rough language — hookers, cocaine cowboys, policemen, newspaper reporters — her own conversation tends to sound like that of a rather demure secretary circa 1952.

But he's also very funny – and so luxuriantly, chirpily foul-mouthed that, on a couple of occasions, I fancy I see the rather demure ladies lunching at a nearby table looking aghast, not least when he announces that the most important lesson he has learned as an actor is to remember that, even if you're the star of a film, you're always part of a team.

In fact there is more beef for gay men in the first issue than cheese for the straights, with their royal buffnesses Ronaldo and Daniel Craig featuring bare-chested, while cheesecake comes in the form of 1) Maggie Gyllenhall arising out of a bubble bath in Agent Provocateur lingerie - hardly provocative - and 2) a rather demure shot of Diora Baird, star of the Barbarella remake.

As a rather demure, post-feminist lady, she didn't want to get naked for the photo shoot, as she does in the clubs.

Here Hodgkin captures (in mood, at least) a bird of paradise, and here a voluptuary; here is someone enviably at ease with their body, and here is another rather more demure.

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.

"She looked rather quiet and demure but was in fact extremely sharp-witted and a lively talker.

The second church, at the Bavarian village of Wies (1746 54), has a rather drab and demure exterior but an interior even richer than that of Steinhausen.

"Americanizing the game meant prioritizing physical force, manipulating weighty bodies over the goal line, rather than the demure flicking of the foot," Des Jardins writes.