She gave off a womanly radiance. the novelist displays a womanly sensitivity to the characters' feelings
Recent Examples on the WebEve in the Garden of Eden, the womanly form with all its curves and capabilities. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022 That ancient rite of womanly passage has been degraded into faux horror tales by fashion magazines that fetishize prepubescent bodies for profit.Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 The paradox of Aretha’s womanly songs and her patriarchal upbringing is too complex for a movie this shallow. Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021 Reddy sings of determination and steadfastness as womanly virtues, getting stronger as women overcome daily changes. Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021 But Pankhurst had long since dispensed with a womanly need for approbation. Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020 Now acting as the mother to the collective unborn, other womanly duties followed. Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2020 Whewell praised Somerville for applying her womanly art to the project of unifying the rapidly fragmenting sciences. Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020 Those pirates thrived under the protection of the island’s capricious sultana, cruel in her poverty, weakness, fearful isolation, and unnatural state of unmarried womanly rule.New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020 See More