domesticity
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He championed a new Intimism in scenes of transcendent domesticity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
How much of her life does she dedicate to domesticity, now that she’s reunited with her ex, Miles?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
What it says about America: Wartime nostalgia and postwar domesticity codified the modern American holiday season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
So how had she gotten mired in the same pit of domesticity as her parents?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
Children were dear to him, and he knew their pretty ways; a cynical critic might allege that he exploited overmuch the tender domesticities.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
"Can a man of energy and action find satisfaction in these banal domesticities?"
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig
What he would hate, she perceived, was the suddenness of the demand and the irrevocable committal to those five years; the blow it was to those domesticities and proprieties he loved so much.
From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell
