(1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
(2) Mickelson's coach, Butch Harmon, was reduced to tears.
(3) Station commander Butch Wilmore used a robot arm to grab the capsule and its 5,000 pounds (2,300kg) of precious cargo, as the craft soared more than 260 miles (420km) above the Mediterranean.
(4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
(5) She always had a butch identity, but couldn't express it as a girl in the 1980s.
(6) And I distinctly remember seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned me on to Robert Redford and probably led to me the 70s version of Gatsby .
(7) Copyright: AK Summers The idea for Pregnant Butch came when she was first thinking about having a baby – her son, Franklin, is now 10.
(8) "When you're a butch, you want the way you look to be recognised as intentional," she says.
(9) The Johnny Depp western The Lone Ranger has attracted ire from campaigners over its addition of a prosthetic cleft lip to actor William Fichtner's face, to enhance the "evil" qualities of his outlaw killer character Butch Cavendish.
(10) The Stonewall uprising was led by drag queens but the first punch was thrown by a butch lesbian.
(11) "Plus it had those elements of fantasy - I was brought up on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Jesse James.
(12) Because only the inactive monomeric form of ButChE contains free sulfhydryl groups, it is postulated that MMH combines covalently with the sulfur, preventing formation of active enzyme.
(13) The memory of this woman's distended belly resurfaced when Summers was contemplating pregnancy, reviving adolescent fears that butchness was synonymous with ugliness.
(14) Take The L Word : the drama about lesbians ran for six seasons, but faced criticisms over not including enough butch characters, for example.
(15) But the flipside was that I often felt I had lost my butchness.
(16) Pregnant Butch is her first full-length graphic book.
(17) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
(18) A ll my preconceptions about Mexican food were blown out of the water on my first trip to the country, when I discovered a cuisine that offers everything from butch street food to incredibly refined dishes, from hearty food like grandmother’s mole to delicate crab soups.
(19) Stone Butch Blues, her influential first novel , considers the difficulties of lesbian and transgender life in the second half of the 20th century.
(20) Finally, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , they broke cover, and dashed to their equipment, all guns blazing.
Femme
Definition:
(n.) A woman. See Feme, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Discussing activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s anthology, Why Are faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?” , academic Alex Rowlson finds that the increasing phenomenon of profiles on gay men’s dating sites that contain exclusion lists like “no blacks; no Asians; no fats; no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .” I read a staggering piece recently, entitled Why I No Longer Want To Be Gay .
(2) Trierweiler, who calls herself "une femme de caractère", was referring to the fact that Falorni had been asked to step aside by the Socialist party to enable Royal to win the seat.
(3) The Women Incendiaries by Edith Thomas (1963) Richard Cobb had told me about Thomas’s participation in the Union des Femmes Françaises during the Resistance which left her familiar with barricades.
(4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
(5) "The international community wants to force Mali's hand," Diakité Fatoumata Siré, president of women's group Association pour le Progrès et la Défense des Femmes au Mali (Apdef), told journalists.
(6) The stuff that reinforced that image – I'm Waiting for the Man, Street Hassle, Dirt, Kicks, Sad Song – was matched by songs of real tenderness, not in the grudging tears-of-a-tough-guy style, but open and honest and touchingly fragile (see Femme Fatale's ruined suitor warning others off to Coney Island Baby , his lovestruck paean to Rachel, the beautiful drag queen who was his mid-70s companion ).
(7) Both lift us out of our everyday monotony – poets by finding the eternal within the quotidian; royals by gliding about in crowns and ballgowns – and I am not a femme serieuse .
(8) Ardant was discovered by international audiences in 1981, when she starred opposite Gérard Depardieu in La Femme d'à côté ( The Woman Next Door ), directed by François Truffaut (with whom Ardant had the first of her three daughters), but British film-goers will remember her more recent portrayal of opera diva Maria Callas in Franco Zeffirelli's 2002 film, Callas Forever .
(9) He said: “It’s interesting that the artists that have a resonance today are not the ones who had a resonance 10 years ago.” The London sales come with an Atlantic tailwind of the dizzying record-breaking prices achieved at Christie’s in New York last month, including the $179.4m (£114m) paid for Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger, making it the most expensive painting sold at auction.
(10) This led to the Hélène cycle, in which Audran as Hélène played a wife: adulterous in La Femme Infidèle and Les Noces Rouges (Wedding in Blood, 1973), put upon in La Rupture (1970) and betrayed in Juste Avant la Nuit (Just Before Nightfall, 1971).
(11) Jean-Luc Godard 's films alone hit one like bullets, their charge not unlike reading a Stendhal novel – Le Mépris, Bande à part, Une Femme Mariée, Pierrot le Fou, Deux ou Trois Choses, La Chinoise, Weekend dominated the decade.
(12) We thought we were meeting Eva, tourist "greeter" and founder of artists' network Les Femmes du Panier, at Marseille's town hall at 3.30pm.
(13) "Seeing myself in relation to femmes helps clarify that sense of masculinity," she says, which made the changes her body went through in pregnancy even more discombobulating, the differences between her and her femme friends shifting and fading.
(14) Lately, though, she's been joined by other chart femme fatales keen to address death with all the gusto of a Slayer album.
(15) In support of Badinter, Sabine Salmon, president of the association Femmes Solidaires, said that during school visits over the past two years her employees had noticed more and more French schoolgirls expressing a desire to stay at home.
(16) More to the point, where is the female Judd Apatow, playing godmother to a new wave of funny ladies in femme-oriented comedies that allow their characters to live lives beyond Prada?
(17) While there was nothing being sold that would have encouraged the stellar prices achieved at Christie’s in New York last month – record prices of $179.4m (£114.23m) for Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger and $141.3m (£89.97m) for Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme au doigt – there were still seven lots which sold for over £10m.
(18) After the hostile reception to Les Bonnes Femmes, Chabrol was forced to make a series of potboilers until he was given the chance to direct Les Biches (The Does, 1968), a cool, callous and witty menage à trois tale, which put him firmly back on the "art cinema" circuit.
(19) FEMME – High Day-Glo pop entity FEMME, AKA Laura Bettinson, first came to a small part of the music-buying public’s attention via producer Nigel Godrich’s “multimedia trio”, Ultraísta.
(20) As bidding on Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O) reached $151m, Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkänen – auctioneer for the night – said: “We’re in new territory.” As the final bids rose in $500,000 increments, he spread his arms wide, as if to capture the sensation of the global art market reaching the stratosphere.