domesticity
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“Home music-making was at the core of Victorian domesticity, and a woman—wife, mother, daughter—considered the ‘angel in the home,’ would have been sitting at the genteel parlor piano playing this tune,” says Fink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 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
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
For the matter, then, of autobiography, I decline its higher and its deeper aspects; as also I wish not to obtrude on the public eye mere domesticities and privacies of life.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
"Can a man of energy and action find satisfaction in these banal domesticities?"
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
