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Michael Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch, a death-row criminal who’s executed before our eyes, only to be brought back to life by a beautiful scientist in flawless red lipstick and a nunlike hairdo.

From Time • Dec. 19, 2016

Dickinson, the nunlike individualist, again filled the bill.

From New York Times • May 13, 2010

A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored him.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Who is she in the nunlike habit?" inquired Dorothy, pointing to the shade of Isole de Heton, which still hovered near the weird assemblage.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

She was twenty-two, and she had about her that strange and charming nunlike mystery which often comes to a woman who lives alone and unguessed-at among male relatives.

From Tales of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold