domesticity
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He championed a new Intimism in scenes of transcendent domesticity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
Initially, he was thinking of this body of work in terms of domesticity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
“Wi$h Li$t,” a wistful song that hits like a contented sigh, imagines a simple life of domesticity in a suburban house with a basketball hoop, children and peace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
But often there were sheets and towels hanging to dry through the bars of windows, and this touch of domesticity always gave them hope.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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
Living at Stratton, he had taught himself to think much of the quiet domesticities of life, and to believe that Florence Burton was fitter to be his wife than Julia Brabazon.
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
She co-operated in domesticities with her useful neighbour, glancing once or twice at the figure on the bed, and reinforced in the belief that all was safe there, for the time.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
To return to Shelley from the turmoil of our gross excitements and cramped domesticities is to bathe our foreheads in the "dew of the morning" and cool our hands in the ultimate Sea.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
