Word: peasant
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...basic storyline of Giselle follows a peasant girl, Giselle, who is cruelly betrayed. She discovers that her poor lover is not who he appears and is already engaged to another woman. Upon learning the truth, Giselle goes mad with grief and dies after a fit of frenetic dancing...
...alcoholic widow, a lustful village priest, a cobbler struggling with his homosexuality, a conflicted Inquisitor. Craig has the gift of finding complexity in simple people, and she tells their stories in fluid, shapely prose that blends mysteries both religious and erotic with the scratchy, stinky realities of peasant life. She slips only rarely into the "But what troubles you, Father?" school of historical dialogue...
...still get lured in every once in a while… especially when my brain is post-exam mush. Much like a car commercial that refuses to admit the existence of rush hour traffic, fashion spreads transport readers to another world where an elbowless peasant top with more ruffles than any shirt should have seems like a must-buy. This is how I felt when I found myself sleepily thumbing through Glamour’s “Field of Dreams” February spread and realized that I was actually being lured into the dream...
...brain that enjoys watching Snow White sing “Someday My Prince Will Come,” there was a fleeting desire to romp through calf-high wild grass and drink stream water, dressed, of course, in the trendiest, worn brown leather boots and soft pastel peasant...
...watchwords. And in the first two decades of his 46-year career, Saint Laurent, now 65, threw up plenty that was both. He made trousers and suits completely acceptable dress for women, night and day. He glamorized the pea coat, the leather biker jacket, the safari jacket and the peasant dress. He scandalized couture with transparent fabrics. His way with color was as improbable as it was unerring...