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Перевод: demure

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скромный; серьезный; сдержанный; притворно застенчивый

Тезаурус:

1. The tail styling, however, is demure to the point of anonymity; aesthetic continuity with the Five and Seven is eschewed for an overtly sober, slightly dainty look.
2. There were no tourists, and my air of demure solitariness must have been conspicuous, for I attracted the attention of a man whom I then thought of as middle-aged, and who was of distinctly raffish appearance.
3. As if someone like me should have sat there quietly like a mouse, demure and repressed!
4. Falstaff, Rue Henri Maus, is a bustling art-nouveau caf that stays open long after most have dimmed their lights, while Cirio, 18 Rue de la Bourse, is a more demure, late nineteenth-century establishment where elderly Brussels women gather for a glass of Italian wine.
5. I was also thrilled to be invited to the wedding of Jack Woolley and Peggy Archer, a small family and village affair at which Peggy looked demure in a cream silk chiffon frock; Jack and best man Nelson Gabriel were devastatingly handsome in their grey morning coats.
6. The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast (July, 1915), so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon's The Flight of the Dragon.
7. She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and smile, "Oh, please, please all I want is a cup of tea, weak but not too weak, and the teeniest weeniest bit of really crisp toast."
8. Kylie had cathartically climbed out of her demure old skin into a naughtier new one - with the world watching.
9. The "step demure" and "downward lids" offend me, and never bring me a sense of virtue
10. She was not the whore who lurks under the demure exterior of even the most respectable wife and mother.
11. A typical eruption of shouting by the Fuhrer, complete with bristling moustache, flushed neck and bulging eyes, was elicited by Winterbotham's demure suggestion that the leader of the Third Reich "obviously felt very strongly about Communism".
12. This is natural: the exceptionally influential eminence that Eliot achieved through the second half of his life, together with his almost explicit (though characteristically demure) donning of the Virgilian mantle himself, have made it inevitable.
13. He captured her in a variety of poses and moods which reflect her many facets: as a grande dame in a hat and fur collar; as a great courtesan - "Madam Pompadour" he called the painting, perhaps deliberately mis-spelling it; in a wicker chair; demure in front of the piano; and he sketched her all the time, with quick, deft strokes.