Word: nuptials
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...fete champetre, or fantasies about the Emperor of China-and, decking it with foamy light and gamboling bodies as firm as little pink quails, create from it a microcosm of civility and pleasure. The Allegory of Music (1764) became for Boucher an occasion to gently eroticize the myth; the nuptial flutters of the muse's doves are clearly of more interest than the musical score behind them...
...article in this week's New York magazine, written by Paul's colleague William Lederer, describes the videotape process. Paul and Lederer are working together on a book about marriage called "The Nuptial Imperative...
Perhaps it is part of the current fashion of nostalgia, but when Assumption Church on the West Side of Chicago celebrates its one Mass in Latin every Sunday, worshipers jam in from as far away as Wisconsin. Many young couples come to Assumption to marry, specifically requesting a Nuptial Mass in Latin. The majority of Catholics may or may not prefer the vernacular as a more vital medium. But it is clear that some harbor a suspicion that modernity is overrated and favor Latin phrases as dark and cool and articulate as cathedral stones...
Meantime, a tidal flow of nuptial in pursuit, and then blithely departed with his bride in the fifth...
...result, 120,000 unwanted babies are born each year in Britain; in 1969, one bride in five was pregnant at the time of her marriage. That point is amply illustrated in the leaflet by a picture showing a very pregnant young woman in a white wedding gown, taking nuptial vows and saying to the preacher...