After brief encounters during his bourgeois upbringing in Lubeck and Munich, Mann's taste for younger men settles into chaste flirtations, private diaries, or just " the secret energy in a gaze" .
" Your lady may prefer this. It's a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel, " he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo's shoulders.
And so the strategically paced bow is to kind of symbolically represent her virginity, that she is chaste, that she's married to the realm, and this is a great sense of her kind of impenetrability and stability.
So most bananas live a chaste life: if you’re a banana farmer, you get more banana plants by cutting off a piece of the stem of an existing banana plant, and sticking it in the ground.
She was unmarried and very chaste.) " No wonder" ! some sceptics may say (bearing in mind the description of her personal appearance; but we will permit ourselves to say that it was wonderful and rare).
I did not understand this, and I thought that the honeymoon and all of my acts during that period were virtuous, and that to satisfy one's desires with his wife is an eminently chaste thing.
She had an enormous head, with the masculine yet delicate forehead of the Jupiter of Phidias, and gray eyes, to which her chaste life, penetrating fully into them, carried a flood of light.
Would not this simple elegance of sincerity be a chaste homage paid to domestic affections, far surpassing the meretricious compliments that shine with false lustre in the heartless intercourse of fashionable life?
Inwardly you condemn me for having had a part in it, and you fancy you defend the principle of chaste living when you do nothing except from the prompting of your passions.
I could live tranquil if not happy-I have found strength in my chaste solitude, I admit it; but if I am deprived of this negative happiness I too shall become insane.