Meaning of madonnalike | Babel Free

Definitions

rare spelling of Madonna-like

alt-of, rare

Examples

“Her hair was raven black with a tantalizing suggestion of wave which relieved the oval face from the madonnalike look it had so often worn since her mother’s death.”

“Miss [Dolores] Costello herself is more ethereally beautiful than ever, the madonnalike quality of her loveliness having been heightened by her motherhood.”

“Contains marriage certificate, family record, and madonnalike picture of author’s wife and baby.”

“But through the veil he saw that beloved face, those madonnalike eyes radiant, and his heart was filled with an overwhelming joy.”

“One of the earliest of all the silent screen stars, Norma Talmadge played the serene, madonnalike beauty with unseen fires seething within—a sort of pre-World War I Grace Kelly.”

“They had been struck by the madonnalike picture of Aunt Greta with the little Mexican boy.”

“In China, this figure was transformed into a goddess of mercy, Kwan-Yin. Represented in a variety of gracious postures, often with a child, she expresses a madonnalike maternal feeling.”

“The fact that sexual perversion and all kinds of depravity were mentioned in connection with the sabotage group was difficult to reconcile with her madonnalike appearance and high ideals.”

“He stood beside her with a pulsing hard-on, looking down at her madonnalike face and figure, like a Botticelli Venus.”

“Joanne’s womb is in excellent order and so is she. Her inner serenity shines through on her lovely, madonnalike face.”

“Her deep black hair, pulled back from her forehead and gathered in a knot behind her head, gave full rein to her rounded, madonnalike face.”

“Her dark eyes were the same color as Florencia’s, but gentler, and her face had a madonnalike quality.”

“Far less compelling than these sculptural pieces is Myth, a pencil drawing of a rounded, madonnalike head.”

“As several critics have noted, the movie’s final scene, with Rosemary in madonnalike attire receiving a foreigner bringing gifts, explicitly parodies the birth of Christ.”

“Jenny hadn’t really noticed before that the girl’s face was so beautiful. There was something serene, madonnalike, about her.”

“The loose kanga can be worn as a shawl, draped over the legs when sitting down to protect the ankles and feet, and even madonnalike over the head.”

“Everything about her was wrong. The neat clothes, the madonnalike face, that beautifully modulated voice, and yet, when I took her in my arms, my heart started to pound, my stomach contracted, the inside of my mouth went dry.”

“In the first paper it was suggested that Jesus’ dead body being returned to his mother for a last mournful reunion is given deepened emotional force by the madonnalike face of the mother.”

““Her grave beauty had a madonnalike quality accentuated by a middle part in smoothed-back blond hair,” Ernest’s brother Leicester [Hemingway] wrote of her [Jane Mason].”

“No, women of today are not likely to regard the madonnalike woman as a sexual being. We are more likely to recognize her maternal endowments, a role many women have serious doubts about. It is said to be this woman's selfless devotion that turns her children into well-adjusted adults—and we can only commiserate with her heavy burden. Thus, the madonnalike woman's fate is the same as the wild sexy woman's: So long! You are hopelessly prudish and passe.”

“Your madonnalike relationship with your baby grows intuitively, innocently without your planning it or even noticing that it is happening.”

“Harry reached for the towel, draped it over his head, and clutched it under his chin, madonnalike.”

“Although it does not appear therein, Migrant Mother hovers, madonnalike, over the larger project from which it emerged: […]”

“She smiled then, a gesture that lit up her face, transforming it from serenely madonnalike to glorious.”

“[…] still less was any face that rounded, Madonnalike softness in which the Indian sculptors had expressed the sanctities of lust.”

“He [Paul Gauguin] was a religious man, and many of the women he painted had a Madonnalike quality.”

“Or the March of Dimes, which researches cures for birth defects, solicits public sympathy with a Madonnalike portrait of a loving mother and her perfectly formed baby.”

“The Streetcleaners surround him, as the Titans around Prometheus, and ritually beat him to death. La Madrecita, Madonnalike, is present at the execution.”

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