"You learned womanishness, you who took care to arrive late at the battlefield and stood by while I fought six men!". From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Could it be that the French producer played by Amalric himself hoped to absorb the flagrant almost over-the-top womanishness of the troupe to get away from his own existential uprootedness?. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: In Paris With Mathieu Amalric: Best Director at Cannes] Reference
Could it be that the French producer (played by Amalric himself) hoped to absorb the flagrant almost over-the-top womanishness of the troupe to get away from his own existential uprootedness?. From Wordnik.com. [Karin Badt: In Paris With Mathieu Amalric: Best Director at Cannes] Reference
Marcius, straightforward and direct, and possessed with the idea that to vanquish and overbear all apposition is the true part of bravery, and never imagining that it was the weakness and womanishness of his nature that broke out, so to say, in these ulcerations of anger, retired, full of fury and bitterness against the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
They fancied, with the eager old-womanishness of office gossip, that he had. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
Even in the agony of my awakening consciousness I felt the inevitable sting of shame at my weakness and womanishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
I-don't-know-what womanishness, that makes him push like a needle for the lead, and he will have the lead and when he has got the lead, there. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
'Medole has money and rank and influence, and a kind of I-don't-know-what womanishness, that makes him push like a needle for the lead, and he will have the lead and when he has got the lead, there 's the last chapter of him,' said Luciano. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
I drank often in cabarets, became something of a swaggerer, and something of a fop, -- though never descending to the womanishness of the King's minions, -- and did not allow my great love affair, which I never mentioned save in terms of mystery, to hinder me from the enjoyment of lesser amours of transient duration. From Wordnik.com. [An Enemy to the King] Reference
Marcius, straightforward and direct, and possessed with the idea that to vanquish and overbear all opposition is the true part of bravery, and never imagining that it was the weakness and womanishness of his nature that broke out, so to say, in these ulcerations of anger, retired, full of fury and bitterness against the people. From Wordnik.com. [Coriolanus] Reference
And having thought upon it a hundred and five times, I know not what else to determine therein, save only that in the devising, hammering, forging, and composing of the woman she hath had a much tenderer regard, and by a great deal more respectful heed to the delightful consortship and sociable delectation of the man, than to the perfection and accomplishment of the individual womanishness or muliebrity. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
The latter, I surmise, for trudging after her she will have a fond mother and a bevy of aunts, and so forth — persons who, within a year, will have filled her with womanishness to the point where her own father wouldn’t know her. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
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