The piece, best known to some for its use in the Martha Graham dance "Acts of Light," shows Nielsen at his most impressionistic and evocative, with music by turns demure, seductive and aggressive.
Some of the 300 styles she turned out annually were demure, others anything but.
Usually languid and demure, the snake turned quick and aggressive when it saw its prey.
Star power certainly isn't in short supply here either: Byrne, in a role made famous by Madonna (and recently attempted by Lindsay Lohan), is at turns both demure and passionate; Hulme's energetic and anxious Charlie lifts the scene whenever he's on stage; and Herriman's smooth and cynical Bobby is at his best when the two of them are firing lines back and forth.
We have no idea how demure concealment can be turned so subtly into outrageous revelations, how depravity can be so neatly superimposed on the decent outline of the Gibson Girl.
Architect Frank Gehry, internationally recognized for his swashbuckling designs, has turned his talents on a comparatively demure new office building under construction in El Segundo.
Renée Zellweger's gold lace dress, by Carolina Herrera, seemed demure by comparison, until she turned around to reveal the back, which plunged all the way into plumber territory.
PETER PAN collars, those demure relics of the Eisenhower era, turned downright naughty on the fall runways, and nowhere more so than at Louis Vuitton, where they appeared in nearly all of Marc Jacobs's provocative looks.
"He turned slightly and said, 'Oh, hi.' " His attire was not demure.
Grace Molony is perfection as Austen's unmarried heroine, Emma Watson, a sylph in a sky-blue dress, starting deliciously demure but turning mutinous (Wade knows how to reproduce Austen's exquisite waspishness).
