| 单词 | bluestocking |
| 例句 | My grandfather, Sam’l Hamilton, loved good writing, and he knew it too, and he had some bluestocking daughters, among them my mother. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Skeeter is a bluestocking, having developed liberal notions and journalistic aspirations at college that put her at odds with her old friends Hilly and Elizabeth. 'The Help': Black Maids and White Mistresses in the 1960s 2011-08-10T09:00:00Z As a result, according to numerous viewers, I have unwittingly created a powerful “brand” for myself: the wild intellectual, the bluestocking in garters. From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z Oh, this sort of strange deference to her father, a bluestocking intellectual who is very repressed and clearly emotionally tortured. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z Violet is very much an intellectual construct: an ardent bluestocking who cuts against the grain by opposing the impulse to be different. Movie Review: ?Damsels in Distress,? From Whit Stillman 2012-04-05T12:00:00Z There’s the confirmed rake, the bluestocking spinster, the runaway bride, the runaway dog. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Ursula Le Guin is represented by "Sur," in which a group of bluestockings mount an early 20th century expedition to Antarctica. Close encounters with feminist science fiction in 'Sisters of the Revolution' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In public, away from the cameras, the movie virago becomes a solicitous bluestocking. Julianne Moore on Maps to the Stars: 'The longer you live the Hollywood lifestyle, the more empty you become' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Other instructive synonyms for women include: “delectable bohemian little kumquats”; “little amuse-bouche”; “willowy lingerie models”; “cute little bluestockings”; “stacked miracles”; “dynamite blondes”. Brought to book: Woody Allen's memoir is the most damning indictment yet 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Oh, and don’t forget a sandwich or some bluestocking coffee at Redband Coffee Company for a pick-me-up. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z We consumed it under covers with a flashlight, much as Margaret Mitchell read the romance novels her bluestocking mother deplored. What Is It About Gone With the Wind That Still Enchants Us? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z But it's a useful way of banishing the "bluestocking" image of women doing serious jobs, she argues. How did Lego become a gender battleground? 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Hence these meetings were sportively called bluestocking clubs, and the ladies who attended them, bluestockings. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The establishment bluestockings may roll their eyes at the hoodies and bare feet, but look at what happens when the suits take over. Facebook: the revenge of the nerds 2012-02-06T11:45:13Z "I know of nothing—unless you're a bluestocking," suggested poor Ruth, "or go in for Woman's Rights!" Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z She was ignorant as yet what special gifts or graces of imagination lay under the comprehensive term of 'bookishness,' which had led her to fear in Olive the typical bluestocking. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z "Don't allude to bluestockings in my presence!" cried the author of "Evelina," making a shield of her fan. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "Men do so hate a bluestocking," she said once pensively to her friend Emily. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Looks like a party of bluestockings from Boston, Jack, coming this way, 'specially that there fishing tackle Jean's carrying. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series Boys dislike bluestockings; and you're much too charming to wear them anyway. The Book of Susan A Novel There is no bluestocking where there is no leaven of pedantry. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The Revolutionary bluestocking, Madame Roland, was from the very start delighted to see that her works were printed, and that they produced as much effect as if they had been written by some great statesman. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Perhaps the illustrious foreigners and the beautiful bluestockings who climbed his stairs—to the detriment of his day's work in grinding lenses—had set the Hague scenting sulphur. Dreamers of the Ghetto I am not going to caricature a bluestocking, but to point out one or two real dangers. Three Addresses to Girls at School It was discovered that woman could be educated without becoming a bluestocking, and practical without wearing bloomers or going in for the suffrage. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Some one at the table mentioned the word "bluestocking." Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The nineteenth century bluestocking with twentieth century trimmings.… Black Oxen A virago meant a bluestocking, but was a term of respect for a learned woman. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The normal American book reviewer, indeed, is an elderly virgin, a superstitious bluestocking, an apostle of Vassar Kultur; and her customary attitude of mind is one of fascinated horror. A Book of Prefaces This was the most brilliant moment in the public career of our bluestocking. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters "And Mrs. Cholmondeley,—do you give her a place among the bluestockings?" Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The Queen, whatever agility she may have possessed once when navigating banisters, is now a sedate and domestic person, and doesn't hold with bluestockings, notwithstanding the "Higher Education" of some of her daughters. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia They were all clever, and well-read, without a tinge of the bluestocking, and most of them were musical to the tips of their slender fingers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 That, we fancy, is why we would rather read him on Catherine Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings, than on any subject connected with the war. The Art of Letters In general the textual improvements are such as a bluestocking lady might well wish to make. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc. The sparkle of environment had won these people away from tombstone reading and family prayers as a Sabbath diversion, but even California could not be expected to make over a bluestocking in an eye's twinkling. Broken to the Plow By the way, the origin of this term bluestocking has never been satisfactorily accounted for, unless the reader should incline to think my account satisfactory. Autobiographical Sketches Then he was connected with a lady, one of our countrywomen, a bluestocking, no longer young, and plain, as a bluestocking is bound to be. Rudin You'll ruin your pretty eyes, and you had the makings of a fine bluestocking when I rescued you. Sleeping Fires: a Novel "There has never been an instance of a bluestocking being carried away by affairs of the heart"—a statement which, though gathered from an unknown source, he believed implicitly. War and Peace My Mother was his special favourite, and his vanity did its best to make a bluestocking of her. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Dionysius in old times, Frederic in the last century, with capacity and vigour equal to the conduct of the greatest affairs, united all the little vanities and affectations of provincial bluestockings. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 Don't marry a Jewess or a bluestocking or a woman who is queer in any way. Ivanoff He was afraid I would become a bluestocking and lose my charm and spoil my looks. Sleeping Fires: a Novel "No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations," he told himself. War and Peace |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。