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- adjective Reminiscent of a
diva .
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Examples
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Dion's specialty is big, divaesque, flawlessly put-together, excessively romantic ballads.
The Girl Problem 2008
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Even so, with the news today of a California ruling affirming the right to gay marriage and previous contestants who appeared on the show this season the flamboyant and divaesque queen that was Danny Noriega, who was barely a year older than Archie, and another David...
David vs. Goliath: Thoughts on Competing Masculinities Anxious Black Woman 2008
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That protest is perhaps best exemplified in the divaesque anthem in Dreamgirls, when J-Hud's Effie White belts out, "And I am Telling You I'm Not Going," a song to pay attention to, a voice that cries out pain, attitude, rage, and power... so is it any wonder, when most black women and other women of color get ignored in national discourse, our singers can at least give us an audience?
Archive 2007-05-01 Anxious Black Woman 2007
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That protest is perhaps best exemplified in the divaesque anthem in Dreamgirls, when J-Hud's Effie White belts out, "And I am Telling You I'm Not Going," a song to pay attention to, a voice that cries out pain, attitude, rage, and power... so is it any wonder, when most black women and other women of color get ignored in national discourse, our singers can at least give us an audience?
Illusions of Inclusion and the American Idol Empire Anxious Black Woman 2007
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There's a kind of sort of divaesque aspect of that.
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By the end, however, he was in full, dramatically divaesque control.
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Kelley claims she knows who Winfrey's real dad is but she's not telling. the accounts of occasional bad behavior and divaesque snits that are (sadly) almost to be expected from a celebrity bio.
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Singer Krisdayanti's divaesque image has been battered by her rumored affair with a married man; former husband Anang Hermansyah released a condemnatory reproof in song, while her own release seems to have got little airplay.
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