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Describing the relationship between Rachel and Tom, Ms. Lizzimore, speaking by telephone from London, used the word "dogged" then apologized for the word's dowdiness.
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Modest fashion might come across as a humblebrag: You have to be a pretty stylish, pretty good-looking woman to claim ownership of such radical dowdiness.
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The space has lost its old dowdiness and gained an energetic horizontality that makes a virtue of the low ceilings, though the design doesn't do much to dampen the noise.
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In recent years, the street has become a meeting place of ornate style and fashion swagger, lifting itself out of a few decades of dowdiness to become Glasgow's answer to the Boulevard Raspail.
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We already know that the Urban Prairie Girl ruled summer, in her high necks, apron details and ruffles, making "Amish dowdiness seem a provocative fashion choice," as noted by another writer in The New York Times.
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The recent crush of Lower East Side Laura Ingalls Wilders is in large measure attributable to her and a selective but influential group of acolytes, who manage to make the dresses' Amish dowdiness seem a provocative fashion choice.
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We know the texture of her skin; the patterns on the walls; the depth of field; the quality of the light; the contrast of the black-and-white film; the level of grain; the dowdiness of her clothes.
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In 1894, aged 41, Bear-Crawford had married William Crawford, a solicitor nine years her junior, and was thereafter known as Mrs Bear-Crawford. Her marriage brought her happiness but did little to change the even flow of her life. Beatrice Webb described her as a 'gentle-tempered intelligent woman who keeps me company in the dowdiness of her dress'. Domestic, affectionate and well- read, she had a 'lovable, sunny nature', but as an ardent feminist she believed strongly in women's equality with men; the Age reported in an editorial of 22 September 1897 that she had 'uttered the rather astounding dictum that most things worth having were originally produced by women.
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