chasteness
Example Sentences
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The chasteness of Nolan’s version bugs me as it’s insulting he doesn’t trust audiences to grapple with this hero’s moral complexity — and I’m gut-sick that he’s probably right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"The chasteness of Nolan's version bugs me as it's insulting he doesn't trust audiences to grapple with this hero's moral complexity - and I'm gut-sick that he's probably right."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
What the scandal does definitively show is that many who have advocated chasteness have shown contempt for it themselves.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2018
This filial defense, almost Victorian in its chasteness, followed minutes after an earlier tweet—swiftly deleted—that was rather less prim.
From Newsweek ● Jul. 9, 2012
There was an air of privacy about, the little chapel which pleased me, and a chasteness in its architecture which could not fail to please any one who loves simple beauty.
From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by David W. Bartlett
