dovelike

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“Seidel would have given us the makers of Auden’s tigerish blazer and dovelike shoe,” he writes, “but he was never impressed enough that Auden didn’t.”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2015

As in other of his books, in Unclay there are the simple-minded clergyman whom nothing shocks, the dovelike virgin, the innocent poor farmer, the rich farmer like a boar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without warning, wearing an unbecoming dovelike look, tough, gruff John L. Lewis clumped out of his lair brandishing a proposal for �of all things�labor peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Henry James, an American girl abroad was a dovelike creature, all too easily undone by the serpentine charms of Old World society.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was pleased with her counsel, directed a flattering look at him and began to assume the air he wanted her to assume—the dovelike.

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer