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How to use sapphic in a sentence

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She also played the sapphic Dr. Kitty in the play Last Summer at Bluefish Cove.
The sapphic stanza, which Sappho uses and may have invented, has a strong caesura, as do her other lines.
Playing a Type A-plus-plus lawyer who's finally learning to acknowledge her sapphic side, she is brilliantly funny and adorably vulnerable.
The following conversation occurred after the recent spattering of sapphic portrayals in the diva world.
The book casts a flirtatious eye towards sapphic chic and the aesthetic imperative to get dolled up.
Japanese macaques are a kind of Scottish monkey now living in Japan where they've developed strong sapphic preferences.
It's an appropriate venue for the show's vaudeville-burlesque revivalism with a sapphic flavour.
Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced.
Indeed, these adolescent, spinster, perhaps sapphic women wrote journals, lyrics, fantastic tales, and stories mediated by the spirits who guided their pens.
In Sinclair's book, published by Pan Macmillan, Jane's childhood is cut out, save for references to a vaguely sapphic past in the boarding house.
She is buried in the cemetery of Forest Lawn where the violets, sapphic flowers, are always plentiful.
Bonus points to Ben for having his sister sing it, making it sapphic.
But the mayor of one of the Greek island's cities took a British tour group to court in September to block 100 sapphic sojourners from indulging in a stay at a local resort.
As many as 1,200 sapphic travelers sign up for one of Olivia's offerings.
Rosie Aldridge's forceful Florence wilts in sapphic adoration of Lady Billows, while Charles Johnstone's Mr Gedge trembles with love for flighty Miss Wordsworth.
Another is that I thought it reimagined Aphrodite, her presence, in a Sapphic way.
I don't know a more seductive syncopated rhythm than that of the Sapphic stanza with its three long lines and one short one.
Reviewers and critics paid Swinburne the compliment of identifying him with Sappho and praising his talent as Sapphic.
They may have chosen Lesbos for its Sapphic connections, but I doubt any of them are planning to read poetry this holiday.
Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The hypnotic vibrations of the Sapphic thrill were affected by a new series, striking them in like phases.
On the other hand, we can find scarcely an ode in the Sapphic or Alcaic metre, which does not clearly betray its modern origin.
Of these, four are in hendecasyllabics, one in the Alcaic and one in the Sapphic stanza.
He forgot all about Sappho, but the Sapphic vibrations went on increasingly.
The influence of the Sapphic legend, I fancy, not alone because of the sweet inversion.
Its essence is flavored with the day and lyric trail of the Sapphic students.
Quantitative measures, like the Sapphic and Hexameter, were composed accentually.
After the hexameter the most frequently imitated metre is the Sapphic strophe.
Erinna and Damophyla study together the composition of Sapphic metres.
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