domesticity

An exquisitely observed scene depicts a full weekend Suzanna is allowed to spend with her mother in a prison trailer, a simulacrum of domesticity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

“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

Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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

Why could we not have had more such, instead of such indifferent domesticities as La Mignonne?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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

Why not be revenged on society by shaping his future domesticities loosely, instead of kissing the pedagogic rod of convention in this ensnaring manner?

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy