(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no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .”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.
Heraldry
Definition:
(n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.
Example Sentences:
(1) These appear to be the first use of this medically significant bird in modern heraldry.
(2) Bungie has taken in a range of influences from medieval warfare and heraldry to retro sci-fi and hasn’t held back on wacky ideas.
(3) The display of hands in heraldry provides a graphic reminder of both the origins and development of medical institutions, and of certain aspects of the functional anatomy of the hand--aspects which are of importance to the surgeon who deals with the injured hand.