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...But where her forebear Heywood was interested in Liz’s sexual virtue, echoing contemporary concerns about the chastity of another powerful single woman, Elizabeth I, here McArthur flips the script....
...As it is generally felt that James Ellroy and James Lee Burke are no longer producing their best work, two names jostle for pole position: Dennis Lehane and Don Winslow....
...What’s the surname of the family in Emmerdale whose members include Zak, Caleb, Chastity, Charity and Mandy? Traditionally, which of Robin Hood’s Merry Men (above) was a minstrel?...
...Fiscal probity, like chastity, tends to be admired only from afar. A swift Sunak ascension depends on Mr Johnson’s failing in a way that does not also hurt his chancellor....
...Hickson explores the political acumen and sheer guts it must have taken for her to hold on to power — and the role her celebrated chastity played in that....
...Designer William Dudley gives the piece a festive air and new music from Paul James mixes with the original from Henry Lawes....
...The friars at the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis of Assisi, who pursue lives of “poverty, chastity and obedience” in the medieval hilltop town in central Italy, may have little to share with Silvio Berlusconi...
...It was refreshing, for a change, to hear it in its proper context, played not just with exceptional refinement by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s leader, James Clark, but with the choral humming...
...But FT Alphaville wonders if that might change, come October’s presidential election – as previewed by James Crombie of Latin Finance: “Non-Brazilians are pretty complacent with regard to Brazil risk,”...
...James Knightley, ING Very difficult to get the balance right....
...to make otherwise finicky [male] journalists go misty and let drop the chastity belt of objectivity”....
...There should surely be more humour in the vow of chastity broken 622 times, as lustful lapses punctuate Florentino’s vigil for Fermina....
...Festing, who has taken the monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, is only the second English grand master of the charitable order, following the death last month of his predecessor, Andrew Willoughby...
...Ana James and Liora Grodnikaite did nicely as the two slave girls and tenor Joseph Calleja showed he has returned to fine form as Nicias. But, pole-dancing or no, this was Fleming’s show....
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