disrobement

Time and perspective shift as we embark upon our psychic disrobement.

Mangosteen in the Afternoon Isabell Serafin 2011

“The smart female reader will comprehend that a wedding day is followed by a wedding night,” and this entails a “wedding disrobement.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

“The smart female reader will comprehend that a wedding day is followed by a wedding night,” and this entails a “wedding disrobement.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

(It was just as well that the man had not demanded a larger sum, for Robert's more precious currency was concealed in a place only accessible to partial disrobement.)

The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

In the evening we had read books, or fitfully drawn ships and battles on fly-leaves, apart, in separate corners, void of conversation or criticism, oppressed by the lowering tidiness of the universe, till bedtime came, and disrobement, and prayers even more mechanical than usual, and lastly bed itself without so much as a giraffe under the pillow.

Dream Days 1898

In the evening we had read books, or fitfully drawn ships and battles on fly-leaves, apart, in separate corners, void of conversation or criticism, oppressed by the lowering tidiness of the universe, till bedtime came, and disrobement, and prayers even more mechanical than usual, and lastly bed itself without so much as a giraffe under the pillow.

Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 1895

Seasons -- and hang over the picture of Musidora undressing, while Damon watches the process of disrobement, panting behind a tree, will never account for the admiration with which the whole world hailed the

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

Its approach shifts between documentary directness and theatrical stylization -- straightforward narration alternates with ensemble rituals, including a symbolic disrobement: the characters take off their uniforms in rejection of a system that has rejected them.

Chicago Reader 2010

There's just the little matter of the show's publicity photos -- the ones that feature the Artist Formerly Known as Harry Potter in a state of alarming disrobement.

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

There's just the little matter of the show's publicity photos -- the ones that feature the Artist Formerly Known as Harry Potter in a state of alarming disrobement.

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009