Chasteness

Last season, it was an MTV adaptation of a British show, the racy, teen sex-laden "Skins," that drew the ire of protestors, though "The Playboy Club," with its public airwave chasteness and age of consent actors, shares little in common with that show. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was aware of her face, the expression of chasteness, but joy, too, as if she was both ashamed and glad of the moment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Admit that Gandhi is a catastrophe for India; that chasteness in the choice of means leads to political impotence. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)

Matthew and I never talked about our desires, or even our chasteness, for that matter. ❋ Richard Paul Evans (2010)

During the holiday, visitors were separated according to gender on Meah Shearim Street in order to maintain chasteness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Raised a Jehovah's Witness, he never had a reputation for drinking or taking drugs, and his only public "romance" was with Brooke Shields, another former child star who wears her chasteness like a badge. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The rapist was forced to marry her because no one else would have her, forcing her into a life of poverty and chasteness. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

But I figured if there's any element of "post feminism" or celebration of a "new chasteness" to the first three books, I wasn't particularly worried for Younger Daughter and her friends. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This film's chasteness about the body, which is literally cut off from the characters for most of the film, reflects the impossibility of an honest discourse about sexuality in a context where sex has been transformed into a commodity. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

Irish historians point to the low illegitimacy rates in late eighteenth - and early nineteenth-century Ireland compared with contemporary European rates, and suggest that this was due to early and universal marriage before the Great Famine as well as a sexual chasteness that ran contrary to the sexual ribaldry reflected in Gaelic literature and customs. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The distant lamp-rays glanced on clear pendants, on broad rings; neither the chasteness of moonlight, nor the distance of the torches, could quite subdue the gorgeous dyes of the drapery. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He made the thing an artistic method, using it with the same power, though not the same chasteness, as George ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some men, true enough, would have been discouraged by Suzy's note, devoid as it was of the faintest blush of romantic undertone, but its very simplicity and pragmatic directness, its very chasteness, if you will, served only to amplify Switters's ardor. ❋ Robbins, Tom (2000)