Eksempler på demure

• Sebastian and his female companions are demure, ghostly creatures, alike in their seeming reluctance to be gazed upon.

• The tortoises were thus condemned to an elaborate but demure courtship, demonstrating the sudden pull of new attraction alongside a frustrating inability to ever consummate their desires.

• It is demure, wistful and almost winsome in its wording.

• Is this not too demure an attitude to take in respect of a regime like this?

• In his place there came a shy, demure, self-effacing, timid, middle-aged lady.

• That was without any demure whatever.

• Far from demure, she performed daring stunts and rode astride, like her brothers.

• Verenestra chooses to appear as any demure, slim female faerie of unearthly, fey beauty.

• Their metamorphosis has taken cholis from being demure and sedate to daring, with adventurous tailoring and innovative necklines, such as halter, tubes, backless or stringed.

• The demure lady is unable to overlook the beastly side and declines his darling present.

• The suitors sat in a circle around the bowl, chatting, bragging, arguing, and showing off for the demure young lady.

• Now she is a beautiful but demure young woman looking forward to many, many more years as a humble servant of the empire.

• She is beautiful, demure, and always present at social gatherings.

• The male displays a quite enthusiastic and at times even aggressive attitude while attempting to court the female, who is elusive, defensive and demure.

• Petite, blonde, pretty, she is demure in a way that belies her occupation.