womanly

Sally Kohlstedt: And so she very well might have been hesitant to present the material herself because that wouldn't have been womanly.

“Sinead will forever be a figure of womanly defiance, for a country that never liked women,” she said.

The stately Foïs carries the film as it devolves into a restrained drama about familial loyalty and womanly fortitude, its change of gears not entirely clicking into place.

The magnitude of her wail and the amplitude of its womanly Blackness stops you cold.

At 30, women are expected to be womanly rather than girlish.