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madonnalike en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, rare) rare spelling of Madonna-like
   alt of Madonna-like
   • Your madonnalike relationship with your baby grows intuitively, innocently without your planning it or even noticing that it is happening. 1996, Leslie Kirk Campbell, “Being Ourselves: Your Fourth Trimester”, in Journey Into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, section 10 (Coming Out: Your Tenth Month), subsection 2 (The Madonna in Me), page 200:
   • Everything about her was wrong. The neat clothes, the madonnalike face, that beautifully modulated voice, and yet, when I took her in my arms, my heart started to pound, my stomach contracted, the inside of my mouth went dry. 1989, Jack Higgins (pen name; [Henry] “Harry” Patterson), Memoirs of a Dance-Hall Romeo, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 50:
   • Miss [Dolores] Costello herself is more ethereally beautiful than ever, the madonnalike quality of her loveliness having been heightened by her motherhood. 1931, ““Expensive Women” Proves Fine Starring Vehicle For Dolores Costello’s Return To Talkies: Warner Bros. Brilliant Modern Romance Which Opened At Strand Last Night Acclaimed By Large Audiences”, in Warner Bros. and Vitaphone: Talking Pictures, New York, N.Y., page nine:
   • No, women of today are not likely to regard the madonnalike woman as a sexual being. We are more likely to recognize her maternal endowments, a role many women have serious doubts about. It is said to be this woman's selfless devotion that turns her children into well-adjusted adults—and we can only commiserate with her heavy burden. Thus, the madonnalike woman's fate is the same as the wild sexy woman's: So long! You are hopelessly prudish and passe. 1995, Merete Leonhardt-Lupa, “A Mother's Sexuality”, in A Mother Is Born: Preparing for Motherhood During Pregnancy, Westport, Conn.; London: Bergin & Garvey, →ISBN, page 113:
   • Joanne’s womb is in excellent order and so is she. Her inner serenity shines through on her lovely, madonnalike face. 1978, Martha E. Munzer, “Rounding It Out”, in Full Circle: Rounding Out a Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 80:
   • He stood beside her with a pulsing hard-on, looking down at her madonnalike face and figure, like a Botticelli Venus. 1977 January, Harold Norse, “The Nun’s Tail”, in Hustler, page 90:
   • As several critics have noted, the movie’s final scene, with Rosemary in madonnalike attire receiving a foreigner bringing gifts, explicitly parodies the birth of Christ. 1985, Virginia Wright Wexman, “The Human Subject: Horror and the Popular Tradition”, in Roman Polanski (Twayne’s Filmmakers Series; Warren French, editor), Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 67:
   • The loose kanga can be worn as a shawl, draped over the legs when sitting down to protect the ankles and feet, and even madonnalike over the head. 1988, Jane Taylor, Leah Taylor, “The Itineraries”, in Fielding’s Literary Africa, New York, N.Y.: Fielding Travel Books ℅ William Morrow & Company, Inc., →ISBN, section “Prelude: Lost Cities of Africa by Basil Davidson”, page 46:
   • One of the earliest of all the silent screen stars, Norma Talmadge played the serene, madonnalike beauty with unseen fires seething within—a sort of pre-World War I Grace Kelly. 1956 January 23, “Film Pioneers’ Roll of Their Living Immortals”, in Life, volume 40, number 4, page 120:
   • They had been struck by the madonnalike picture of Aunt Greta with the little Mexican boy. 1960 December, Skulda V. Baner, “A Hollywood madonna”, in American Girl, volume XLIII, number 12, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., page 43:
   • Jenny hadn’t really noticed before that the girl’s face was so beautiful. There was something serene, madonnalike, about her. 1986, Aola Vandergriff, Devilwind: Jenny’s Story, Signet, New American Library, page 214:
   • Although it does not appear therein, Migrant Mother hovers, madonnalike, over the larger project from which it emerged: […] 2001, A[llan] D[ouglass] Coleman, “Dust in the Wind: The Legacy of Dorothea Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor’s An American Exodus”, in Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; London: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company, published 2002, →ISBN, page 156:
   • Her deep black hair, pulled back from her forehead and gathered in a knot behind her head, gave full rein to her rounded, madonnalike face. 1980, David Madsen, chapter 1, in Black Plume: The Suppressed Memoirs of Edgar Allan Poe, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 16:
   • In China, this figure was transformed into a goddess of mercy, Kwan-Yin. Represented in a variety of gracious postures, often with a child, she expresses a madonnalike maternal feeling. 1962, Niels C[hristian] Nielsen, Jr., “The Buddhists”, in The Layman Looks at World Religions, St. Louis, Mo.: The Bethany Press, →LCCN, page 60:
   • Far less compelling than these sculptural pieces is Myth, a pencil drawing of a rounded, madonnalike head. 1984 March 10, Marina LaPalma, “Paradoxes of Association and Object”, in Artweek, volume 15, number 10, page 5:
   • In the first paper it was suggested that Jesus’ dead body being returned to his mother for a last mournful reunion is given deepened emotional force by the madonnalike face of the mother. 1989, Jerome D. Oremland, “Michelangelo, His Family, and Julius II”, in Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling: A Psychoanalytic Study of Creativity (Applied Psychoanalysis Series, edited by the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; monograph 2), Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 87:
   • Her hair was raven black with a tantalizing suggestion of wave which relieved the oval face from the madonnalike look it had so often worn since her mother’s death. 1925, “Adventure”, in The Calgary Stampede: A Story of the Canadian Plains Based on the Motion Picture Story by Raymond L. Schrock, New York, N.Y.: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson-Corporation, page 6:
   • Her dark eyes were the same color as Florencia’s, but gentler, and her face had a madonnalike quality. 1980, Janet Louise Roberts, Silver Jasmine, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 134:
   • She smiled then, a gesture that lit up her face, transforming it from serenely madonnalike to glorious. 2007, Stephanie Laurens, Beyond Seduction (A Bastion Club Novel), Avon, →ISBN, page 29:
   • Harry reached for the towel, draped it over his head, and clutched it under his chin, madonnalike. 2000, Dennis McFarland, Singing Boy, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 285:
   • The fact that sexual perversion and all kinds of depravity were mentioned in connection with the sabotage group was difficult to reconcile with her madonnalike appearance and high ideals. 1969, Etienne Leroux, “Early History”, in Amy Starke, transl., The Third Eye, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →LCCN, pages 45–46:
   • Contains marriage certificate, family record, and madonnalike picture of author’s wife and baby. 1946 September 28, “The Home: Courtship, Marriage and Children; By Evangelist John R. Rice, D.D., Litt.D.”, in The Sunday School Times, volume eighty-eight, number 39, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Sunday School Times Co., page 888 (24):
   • But through the veil he saw that beloved face, those madonnalike eyes radiant, and his heart was filled with an overwhelming joy. 1955, Doris Shannon Garst, “A Treasure Found and a Treasure Won”, in James Bowie and His Famous Knife, New York, N.Y.: Julian Messner, Inc., published 1962, →LCCN, page 115:
   • “Her grave beauty had a madonnalike quality accentuated by a middle part in smoothed-back blond hair,” Ernest’s brother Leicester [Hemingway] wrote of her [Jane Mason]. 1993, Stuart B[etts] McIver, “Three Friends…And a Foe”, in Hemingway’s Key West, Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 54:

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