Sentence examples for sapphist from inspiring English sources

Possibly as a result of Barney's forthright Sapphist views, Brooks's portrait style became more realistic and more intent on shaping a new concept of femininity.

Whether playing a grandiloquent Victorian actress in "The Elephant Man" or a quip-dispensing Sapphist in David Mamet's "Boston Marriage," Ms. Burton has never been less than fluent in the ornate language of epigrams.

Her "rose is a rose" becomes "A Sapphist is a Sapphist is a Sapphist".

Such novels were often written by gay women, who tried to allow their heroines some honest enjoyment within the confines of the genre, which required its busty Sapphists to find real love with a man, go mad, or commit suicide.