Sentences with phrase «of aristocratic women»

The wearing of cosmetics was so integral to the identity of aristocratic women in France that their morning routine of painting the face and dressing the hair became an informal ceremony with an audience, known as the public toilette.

In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.

Thomas Gainsborough — Countess Howe, c1763 - 4 There is an almost apocalyptic beauty to this vision of an aristocratic woman in coral pink silks against a misty glowing sky.

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One reading of Tocqueville is... that much of the Middle East remains in the aristocratic age: the individual not yet having emerged into the light of day, men and women understand themselves in terms of their affiliations.

Ambrose was clearly a source for eleventh — and twelfth — century bridal mysticism, and, in his On Virginity, he even encouraged the aristocratic women who wanted to enter convents to use the Song of Songs to think of themselves as brides of Christ.

After I wrote The Next Christendom in 2002, I had a bizarre encounter with an elderly and rather aristocratic Episcopal woman, who praised me for how effectively I had delineated the growth of new kinds of Christianity in the global South, with its passion and enthusiasm, its primitive or apostolic quality, its openness to the supernatural.

In the Fourth Gospel, the first inquiry a Jew made of Jesus came from a rabbi, learned, aristocratic, a ruler of his people; Jesus» first contact with the Samaritans was with a woman of ill repute, humble and socially unimportant, even unacceptable.

Tocqueville's worry, of course, is that, while in the aristocratic age the differences between men and women are highlighted more than they should be, in the democratic age they will be denied altogether.

The former, in spite of writing a great book, Emile, on how to bring up children, abandoned his own and led a life of sheer hedonism, being constantly supported by wealthy European aristocratic women who were his serial lovers.

Set in remotest nineteenth - century Cumbria (but shot entirely in Toronto), this old - school spooker follows the travails of a young woman who becomes convinced that her aristocratic hubby is not all he appears to be.

Over the course of one midsummer night, Miss Julie explores the brutal, charged power struggle between a young aristocratic woman and her father's valet.

Here, he tackles environmental crimes, an enigmatic and aristocratic woman, and, of course, murder.»

Following the tour, we visit the Monasterio de las Descalzados Reales, or «Monastery of the Barefoot Royals», a convent with a history of providing an escape from unhappy betrothals for aristocratic women.

Set in 18th Century New Orleans, the game presents a little - known period of American history through the eyes of a woman caught between two worlds - the aristocratic French society of her father, and the African heritage of her mother.

In Tilia of 2012, an aristocratic woman stands in profile in the foreground while the scenic background reveals several classic Morrison motifs: dandelions and field - and - tree pairings abound.

The black - and - white format refers to the 18th - century English and French silhouette tradition, in which aristocratic young women hand cut silhouette portraits of their friends and family.

In his series of «Genius» paintings and sculptures, Hod depicted aristocratic young men and women whose cherubic cheeks contrast with their scornful expressions and smoldering cigarettes.

His knockout works are his most recent ones: 19th - century aristocratic portraits onto which he has hand - paints disruptions such as the clown noses in the work above, or a smear of lipstick across a woman's face.

This unknown woman, portrayed with an aristocratic posture and demeanor, somewhat evoking the style of John Singer Sargent, was imbued with great self - possession, posed with a book, and comfortable in her own skin.