(1) In pre-Biblical days, the Greeks permitted only virgins and chaste men to process olives.(2) They must be seen to remain chaste and virginal at all times.(3) He was, according to one of his many illustrious pupils, ÔÇÿa charming teacher, so simple, unaffected and sincere in manner, so chaste in style, so clear in demonstrationÔÇÖ.(4) It is precisely as chaste maidens or model wives and mothers that they exercise the only form of power that patriarchy leaves to women: the right of prohibition.(5) She shook her head mockingly before walking over to his father to embrace him and gave Garth a chaste kiss on the cheek.(6) According to this account it is the story of a chaste , virtuous woman who is shown in the most graphic and vile ways that such virtue is rewarded only with suffering in the world outside convent walls.(7) Their lips met, and for a second it was a chaste , innocent kiss, but suddenly something flared to life.(8) For Nietzsche, there is no modesty, no chaste self-governing in the sexual antagonism and the unrestrained gift of the woman.(9) By the 1800s polite society began to place a premium on brides being virgins, and the Victorian ideal was that women should be chaste before marriage and modest afterwards.(10) Romantic fable though it may be, this film's approach to romance is chaste , indeed: there are no embraces, nor is there any kissing or touching, let alone nudity and fornication.(11) Now this was according to God's will, so that the church might be provided with pure altar bread made by the hands of a chaste and innocent youth.(12) In 1997 the denomination amended its constitution to stipulate that in order to be ordained as a church leader, a person must live in a committed heterosexual relationship or be chaste .(13) Oh, they flirt casually, make eyes at each other, and share a chaste embrace or two, but we never see anything that makes us say, ÔÇÿNow they're a couple.ÔÇÖ(14) He pulled her into a chaste embrace and bent to whisper in her ear.(15) But that relatively chaste kiss and tender embrace was as far as she would allow him to go.(16) It was a chaste kiss ended in a comforting embrace.
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