chasteness

The chasteness of Korean dramas is also a major draw: There’s typically no on-screen nudity, and depictions of sex are rare — 16 episodes usually lead up to a kiss, often closemouthed.

What the scandal does definitively show is that many who have advocated chasteness have shown contempt for it themselves.

Tales told of her chasteness living among “wild” Native Americans; at the height of Jim Crow, a popular poem called her the “heir of civilization.”

Clearly, the fan-base isn’t put off by unsupported high notes, vocal swells that stand in for actual phrasing, a choir-boy chasteness of timbre or a refusal to engage emotionally with her material.

Last year, he drew ridicule for saying women should not laugh in public, not draw attention and should protect their "chasteness."