nymphet

Example Sentences

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It nods to the way that young girls — the nymphets in the Vladimir Nabokov work that inspired Ms. Dass’s title — are treated as passive objects of male desire.

From New York Times

Balthus’s scenes of jaded nymphets display an indifference to history and ideas that verges on revanchism.

From New York Times

The curators have, on the other hand, thrown in two panoramas of warrior nymphets by the outsider artist Henry Darger — lovely works, but extraneous.

From New York Times

Since he’s basically been repeating variations on a theme for the last 30 years, the movies all start to blur together into an undifferentiated mass of conflicted intellectual heroes, wide-eyed nymphets and ill-conceived criminal schemes.

From Salon

Most unexpectedly, Roper devotes considerable attention to Dmitri Nabokov, who was — during the period when his father was writing “Lolita” — the same age as the doomed nymphet.

From Washington Post