Redmayne has a virginal look, a knocked-silly astonishment when the most famous woman in the world shucks off her clothes and jumps into a freezing river.

NEWYORKER: My Week with Marilyn

Kathlyn Williams, who played a virginal blond heiress named Kathlyn Hare, raced through thirteen segments of the serial, pursued by a hunky, scheming Hindu named Umballah (Charles Clary).

NEWYORKER: Tune in Next Week

The harpsichord, a table-size Renaissance favorite, was cleverly reengineered as a boxlike model called a virginal (in tribute to Queen Elizabeth I) that one person could fold up and carry.

FORBES: TRACKING THE EVOLUTION OF TAKE-OUT TUNES

Eddie Redmayne has a virginal look, and a knocked-silly amazement when the most famous woman in the world shucks her clothes in front of him and jumps into a freezing river.

NEWYORKER: Fantastic Voyages

The typical hero is no longer a brooding English aristocrat with a large estate who, on a chance visit to a sick aunt, meets a lovely, lonely, virginal 17-year-old, says Charis Calhoon of the Romance Writers.

ECONOMIST: America rediscovers its heartland

Until the first world war, and an encounter at the age of 38 with a soldier on a beach near Alexandria, he was painfully virginal.

ECONOMIST: Musing on an English master