| Banquettes thread up one side of the narrow room, facing an open kitchen, where Ballesteros, a diminutive figure of nunlike severity, marshals her small kitchen staff. |
| I assuredly esteem as a rarity this nunlike prudery which is preserved untamed amid those Bohemian girls who are so easily brought into subjection. |
| Many of the men wore white skullcaps and long white robes, dishdashas, and the women were either scarved and covered or in the full abaya, a black nunlike garb. |
| Many of the men wore white skullcaps and long white robes, and the women were either scarved and covered or in the full abaya, a black nunlike garb. |
| Her nunlike existence, minutely ordered and closely calculated, offers her such small and meager pleasures as the occasional ride on the public bus that circles the city. |
| A square window in a stark white door slides open, framing a nurse in a white room wearing a white nunlike getup. |
