belle
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Doctors talk about la belle indifférence, a state of reality-denying serenity that some patients enter while experiencing serious medical symptoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Many of them were built in the early 20th century - grand belle epoque palaces serving a then emerging class of privileged, primarily English tourists.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
Later, he asked his belle of the stairwell how she might have reacted if he had asked her to marry him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Nor is she the family-friendly belle seen in the 2022 family-friendly musical “The Lincolns of Springfield.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Une belle vie, as she always promises, hoping that here she would be free to take her sister’s hand and touch the moon.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
Now, thanks to how fast AI is changing, they are the belles of the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
If the pure plays are the current belles of the ball, IBM could be the long-term keeper for investors.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
There are no benevolent white belles and polite gentlemen in “Emancipation,” no trace of the grotesque plantation fantasies so beloved by old Hollywood.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
“The whole thing was presented as just gushing about the antebellum era, the southern belles, and how it was such a great time to be alive,” Wolfisberg said of Boone Hall.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
“So we are to countenance things and people which we detest, merely because we are not belles and millionaires, are we? That’s a nice sort of morality.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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