Sentence examples for slightly demure from inspiring English sources

Dwyane Wade was slightly demure on the subject.

Along with a profusion of slightly demure schoolgirl coats, they were, Mr. Burstell added, "a reaction to androgyny and minimalism," which seem this season to have run their course.

That Mr. Lang has served as a role model was evident not just in Mr. Yu's camera-ready tousled hair and his bright red socks, which peeked out from under crisp black trousers, but also in the way his torso swayed and his hands fluttered through the air as he and Mr. Lang played a clean, slightly demure account of Schubert's Rondo in A (D. 951).

It's the same every time: She's obsessed with her Valentino pumps in the days leading up to stealing them, she can't stop thinking about them, from the pink, sheer lace to the fake gems embroidered across the toes, to the kitten heel that makes what's so kitschy about them slightly demure.

But thankfully she has become slightly more demure in her later years.

It is rather fitting that the designers behind the launch of L'Agent, the ever so slightly more demure little sister to Agent Provocateur, are Penelope and Monica Cruz.

"Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890-1930," which opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 19 (through Sept. 16), sounds slightly more demure.

("I was a mind weaver of rich fucking tapestries, too, back in the day, with some demure yet straight-talkin', slightly slimmer, slightly more hygienic version of my actual self …").

There was some very musical dancing from a demure Cynthia Gregory and slightly bolder Miss van Hamel.

THE CROWD Demure, adult and slightly dressy; efficient, occasionally too-eager servers.

Most of the work falls between the extremes of the crafty perfection of Cynthia Sisson's small, meticulously dotted surfaces (whose floral motifs are not as demure as they seem) and the slightly abject casualness of Bella Foster's "Wicked Forest," a Polke-like mass of pale brown stains and drips transformed into a thicket by the addition of some small red leaves.