domesticity
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Television and the sales pitch of domesticity have always been closely aligned.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The tension between instinct and domesticity is at the heart of almost all canine fiction, including three scruffy, intriguing books from this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
I enjoyed domesticity, even though I had little time for it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
If men had not domestic divinities, at least they had divine domesticities.
From Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Shaw urged, in effect, that Home Rule was as bad as Home Influences and Home Cooking, and all the other degrading domesticities that began with the word "Home."
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Mr. Taylor, who had not waited on anybody since his mother died, and not much before, found a quite inexplicable pleasure in these little domesticities.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
