madonnalike

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1. rarerare spelling of Madonna-like

   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

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   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

   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

   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

   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

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1. rarerare spelling of Madonna-like

   He [Paul Gauguin] was a religious man, and many of the women he painted had a Madonnalike quality.

   1970, Ann Raymond Campbell, “Paul Gauguin”, in Paintings: How to Look at Great Art, New York, N.Y.; London: Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 116

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   […] still less was any face that rounded, Madonnalike softness in which the Indian sculptors had expressed the sanctities of lust.

   1969, Peter Dickinson, The Old English Peep Show, New York, N.Y.; Evanston, Ill.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, page 128

   Or the March of Dimes, which researches cures for birth defects, solicits public sympathy with a Madonnalike portrait of a loving mother and her perfectly formed baby.

   1977, Carol Schiro Greenwald, “Group Access and Climate Control”, in Group Power: Lobbying and Public Policy, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, part II (Building Access to the Policy Process), chapter section “The Language of Grass Roots Campaigns”, page 101

   The Streetcleaners surround him, as the Titans around Prometheus, and ritually beat him to death. La Madrecita, Madonnalike, is present at the execution.

   1977, Diane E. Turner, “The Mythic Vision in Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real”, in Jac Tharpe, editor, Tennessee Williams: A Tribute, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 249