domesticity
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What it says about America: Wartime nostalgia and postwar domesticity codified the modern American holiday season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
He’s the un-Rembrandt, a poet of intimate domesticity whose nine paintings here are less than 2 feet per side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026
For a heartbeat, you can almost imagine an alternate ending: two lonely figures passing the winter in gentle domesticity, breaking bread, tending the fire, building a language out of generosity.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
Amanda Knehans’ beautifully designed set, as snug as it is appealing, grounds the action in a clean and cozy domesticity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025
Such domesticity among men was unknown to the girls, and Fiona said she would marry no man who had not served in the Royal Navy.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Another gallery, on the second floor of the old mansion, is devoted to small domesticities, including photographs of families by Bruce Davidson and intimate scenes of ordinary life by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021
Those domesticities went down like a row of dominoes at the first breath of female revolt.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
There, too, stood the old manse—now tenantless—so long the temple of his studies and domesticities, the shrine of joys and sorrows known to none save himself.
From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather
All his regard for the quiet domesticities had come from his love, and had had no share in producing it.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
Beauclerk was too fine a fellow to think well of the domesticities; there was a good deal of the blood of Charles the Second in him.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
