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  • That this “reality” might mean finally parting with his fixation on an impossibly idealized and unattainable woman the Zorina remains unstated if not unrecognized.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Here was his Zorina, a “superior spirit,” at last and enfin:

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Here was his Zorina, a “superior spirit,” at last and enfin:

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • It's a message for everyone to engage one another, manager Zorina Price said.

    The Aluminum Arches 2012

  • She was a “Zorina,” in honor of the famous ballet dancer Vera Zorina, who possessed, besides beauty and a goddesslike body, “what is lacking in this warring, man-ridden world: a sense of the continuity of life and perpetual sympathy, fellow-feeling, and consolation.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • She was a “Zorina,” in honor of the famous ballet dancer Vera Zorina, who possessed, besides beauty and a goddesslike body, “what is lacking in this warring, man-ridden world: a sense of the continuity of life and perpetual sympathy, fellow-feeling, and consolation.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • That this “reality” might mean finally parting with his fixation on an impossibly idealized and unattainable woman the Zorina remains unstated if not unrecognized.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Family: Mother and brother and all that includes, Patricia and Don Cantwell and their children, and the pups, Choura and Zorina.

    Blogs navigation 2009

  • Since arriving in Ceylon, Paul had accompanied Julia and a flock of chattering girls on a day’s excursion to the cave temple at Dambulla, but he was not particularly taken with any of them not a Zorina in the bunch.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Referring to his earlier treatise on the Zorina, Paul reminded his brother that his ideal type was confident and refined, someone “who has been hammered already on life’s anvil and attained a definite shape.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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