- optimistic, and by the
second decade of the 21st
century girlish and
old womanish at the same time. She
survives and she bubbles, both.
Malina met her...
- mid-40s—was a "small, skinny,
already graying woman with a crumpled,
old-
womanish face,"
Chekhov wrote. She had
lived freely in
exile on
Sakhalin but was...
-
astronaut Deke
Slayton was less diplomatic,
calling See's
piloting skills "
old-
womanish." Others,
including Neil Armstrong, who had
worked with See on the backup...
- "unmanliness and kinaidiā" and
frequently commented on his "unmanly and
womanish temper", even
criticising his clothing: "If
anyone took
those dainty little...
-
detailed prophetic program of the life of the
church from her own days of "
womanish weakness"
through to the
coming and
ultimate downfall of the Antichrist...
- Athenaeus,
Callixena was emplo**** by
Olympias out of fear that
Alexander was "
womanish" (γύvνις), and his
mother used to beg him to
sleep with the courtesan,...
-
expression of
mothers to
female children, 'You
acting womanish',
referring to grown-up behavior. The
womanish girl
exhibits willful, courageous, and outrageous...
- simplicity,
apart from
modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy,
calling it "
womanish solicitude; for
there is
something unmanly,
something almost dastardly"...
- half-naked
androgynous youth: the
literature describes him as
womanly or "man-
womanish". In its
fully developed form, his
central cult
imagery shows his triumphant...
-
games are
clearly masculine ones—that is
without affective morbidity,
womanish sensibility—but lively, bellicose,
muscular and
violently dynamic. The...
