mystique

Noun

Meaning

an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing

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Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. Betty Friedan

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. Betty Friedan

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. Betty Friedan

The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms. Camille Paglia

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry. Matthew Vaughn

To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star. Nicole Scherzinger

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