Sentences with 'feminine'
Example sentences and phrases with the word feminine and other words derived from it.
• « It is easy to exaggerate the empowerment of women in Roman society; Roman culture celebrated the self-sacrificing mother and wife as the feminine ideal, and Roman traditionalists decried the relaxation of strict gender roles that seems to have taken place over time during the Roman Republic. »
• « The description given, however, corresponds to a very feminine woman named Lucy whose skeleton was found in Kenya, Africa, in 1974 by anthropologist David Johnson. »
• « In publishing her work, Warren stepped out of the feminine sphere and into the otherwise poorly dominated realm of public life. »
• « No. It is but by perfecting all those feminine graces, all those fascinating attributes, which make her the centre of attraction, and which delight and charm all who breathe the atmosphere in which she moves; and, in Mr. Burke's language, would make ten thousand swords leap from their sheaths to avenge the insult that might be offered her. By her very meekness and beauty she subdues all around her. »