Competent observers have testified that savages who have been accustomed to nudity all their lives are covered with shame when made to put on clothing for the first time.
To inform Miss Duncan that she has been the means of making nudity popular in musical farce would beyond question incur the lady's very reasonable wrath.
The Portuguese woman and the negro seem to get on well together, as is evidenced by the innumerable young half-breeds to be seen in their serene bronze nudity at the doors of the cabins.
But the Pampas in their nudity are not without signs of life.
Ideal nudity needs no girdle, because the charm is of lines too beautiful to be veiled or broken.
The dress was very inflammatory; and thenudity of the beauties of the portrait-painter, Sir Peter Lely, has been observed.
What strikes the ear does not so much irritate the senses, observes the sage Horace, as what is presented in all its nudity to the eye.
Accustomed as I was to semi-nudity and to white men's return to nature, I had never seen a man who so well fitted into the landscape as the owner of the ape.
It is related that the Pope, scandalized at the nudity of certain figures, a nudity which Daniele da Volterra was afterwards charged to clothe, sent word to Michael Angelo that he must cover them.
It was all, somehow, so shocking for its insincerity that its next to nudity was a minor consideration.
Another charm--A boy in a state of complete nudity takes bread and salt into one hand, and in the other he holds his flute and also a number of bugs, called the wedding party.
Thus: A woman in a complete state of nudity takes a mealie cake into one hand, or a crust of bread, or some other flour, and a brush used for whitewashing in the other.
Those forms at present despoiled of the thousands and tens of thousands of living flowers, which should cover and enliven them have, perhaps, in that stern nudity an additional attraction for the mind.
The note of nuditythis really remarkable woman struck at her first sight of the welcoming savages, was the keynote of the new domination of the islands from Hawaii to Australia.
So its producers relied on lots and lots of nudity to give it réclame here.
Under the gay sunlight, which at this early morning hour struck fully upon the window-panes, it looked pure as the dawn in the nudity of its great white walls.
The whitewashed walls and beams, all this blank nudity was increased by it, enlarged, and moved back as if it were unreal as a dream.
Then nudity became familiar, and the concealment taboo was broken down.
The habit of seeing nudity was broken, and as it became unusual it became offensive.
By itself, nudity was not regarded as shameful or indecent.
Complete nudity of males, where it occurs in Africa, seems almost always traceable to Hamitic influence.
The Japanese regard nudity with indifference, but they use dress to conceal the contour of the human form while we use it to enhance, in many ways, the attraction.
The fact is that the complete taboo on nudity in Central Europe is not over two centuries old.
We have here examples of the dread of the woman dying at her confinement, which we have already noticed in the case of the Churel, and the nudity charm is also familiar.
In Nona's case we have the nudity charm, of which instances have been already given.
All these interior peoples led a life of relative savagery, though they were very artistic, and never allowed completenudity in either sex.
The Negritos, Papuans, and most of the Melanesians went about in complete, or almost complete, nudity before they were influenced by the Malays or by Europeans.
When all was finished, Djala knelt down on her knees before her mistress and shaved her rounded flesh to the skin, in order that she might have the nudity of a statue in her lovers' eyes.
But their nudity shocked nobody, for they would not thus have exposed all the details of their bodies to the sun if they had possessed the slightest defect which might have rendered them the laughing-stock of the married women.
The vague, luminous outlines of the slumbering woman's supplenudity were thus enwrapped in misty shadow, between these two contrasting lights.
A black pubescence invested her nudity with a certain savage and shaggy effrontery.
Then the priest covered her with perfumes and enveloped her nudity in the veil woven by Tryphera.
He had never yet succeeded in contemplating a woman's nudity without intense emotion.
O nudity shimmering with tremulous pearls, that didst bind thy dripping hair with ribbons of green seaweed, Chrysis consecrates her comb.
Chrysis ensconced her tingling nudity in its shade, and shivered, with her breasts in her hands.
Naukrates nodded approval, took a draught of wine, and said: "The great event in love is the instant when nudity is revealed.
Lately the degree of nudity considered permissible has been largely increased.
Certainly of her costume the French phrase "qui commence trop tard et finit trop tôt" might justly be used, for she carried nudity on the stage to a startling degree.
The Digambaras are said [95] to "regard absolute nudity as the indispensable sign of holiness, though the advance of civilisation has compelled them to depart from the practice of their theory.
It would appear, as a rule, that though complete nudity was allowed in other respects, it was usual to cover the sexual parts.
There can be no doubt that such early familiarity with the beauty of nudityin classic art is widely needed among all social classes and in many countries.
Nudity to them was merely a licentious indulgence, to be treated with contempt even when it was enjoyed.
Early familiarity with nudity in art is at the same time an aid to the attainment of a proper attitude towards purity in nature.
I do not mind nudity in a modest and natural way; but Etty's women really thrust their nudity upon you with malice aforethought, .
The perfect nudity of the younger slaves is so familiar to the whites of both sexes, that they seem to witness it with perfect indifference.
Féré asks whether such a universal blush is more common than we imagine, or whether the state of nudityfavors its manifestation.
In the Gold Coast and surrounding countries complete nudity is extremely rare, except when circumstances make it desirable; on occasion clothing is abandoned with unconcern.
A like degree of nudity prevails among many of the Awemba, among the A-lungu, the Batumbuka, and the Angoni.
There are, indeed, separate spaces for the men and women, but they seem quite regardless of this distinction, and sit or bathe in a state of absolutenudity among each other.
In explanation of the nudity of the women at Upoto, a chief remarked to Ward that "concealment is food for the inquisitive.
The Baganda hold nudity in the male to be such an abhorrent thing that for centuries they have referred with scorn and disgust to the Nile Negroes as the 'naked people.
The semi-nude natives of the island of Nias in the Indian Ocean are "modest by nature," paying no attention to their own nudity or that of others, and much scandalized by any attempt to go beyond the limits ordained by custom.
Male nudity extends northwest to within some 200 miles of Khartum, or, in fact, wherever the Nile Negroes of the Dinka-Acholi stock inhabit the country.
To call on her in a state of absolute nudity would be regarded as a serious insult, only to be atoned for by the payment of goats.
During the festival, which lasted six days and six nights, men and women met together in a state of complete nudity at a certain spot among the gardens, and all raced toward a certain hill.
It may be added that among primitive peoples, and even among some remote European populations to-day, the exhibition of feminine nudity has sometimes been regarded as a spectacle with religious or magic operation.
Nudity of the foot in woman was a sign of prostitution, and their brilliant whiteness acted afar as a pimp to attract looks and desires.
It may appear that I insist too much upon the nudity of the Provençal horizon--too much considering that I have spoken of the prospect from the heights of Beaucaire as lovely.
The building has for many years been occupied as a barrack for regiments of the line, and the main characteristics of a barrack--an extreme nudity and a very queer smell--prevail throughout its endless compartments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nudity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: altogether; buff; decollete; nude; nudist; nudity; raw; stripper; undress; unsophistication
