Word: virtuous
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Alice Faye's return to the screen in the role of an unloved but triumphantly virtuous bride is not likely to add to or detract from her present reputation as a broad-shouldered blonde with a rich, husky voice. She does no singing in this picture, but her speaking voice is richly husky as ever even though she doesn't have much...
...These are people who act as if they are perfectly normal, but actually lack the ability to feel affection or attachment to anyone. So they usually imitate others, which makes some of them perverted, others virtuous. One patient bought a dog to imitate its friendliness...
...affair with Maria Cosway. At 22 this vivid, lovely, talented girl had married Richard Cosway, 39, a friend of the Prince of Wales and the most fashionable miniature painter in London. Maria was herself a painter of distinction, and apparently a virtuous woman, though gossips credited her with love affairs with the Prince of Wales, a singer, a painter, and the secretary of the Neapolitan ambassador...
...lifeless comedy about a poor but charming widow who becomes the mistress of a Cabinet minister. Life is gay and she is happy until her priggish Left-Wing young son returns from Canada and is outraged to find his mother living in luxurious sin. He forces her back into virtuous drabness-but not for too long...
...divorce, Jimmy said: "You know you have no grounds. It is I who have suffered the onus of cruelty after you wrecked my political campaign...." Then, he charged, Mrs. Cromwell confessed adultery by proposing that he divorce her in New Jersey "because you have sufficient grounds." In cold, virtuous tones, Jimmy said he replied: "Gentlemen don't divorce their wives in this country...