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Coyness is nice, but who buys a book because the author panned it in print?
April 2008 2008
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Coyness is nice, but who buys a book because the author panned it in print?
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Thompson's "Coyness" About Running May Be Violating Election Law
Thompson's "Coyness" About Running May Be Violating Election Law 2009
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Coyness in response, though I think he was not fibbing and is indeed not with the CIA.
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Coyness and mock-modesty and stop-or-I'll-scream and playing hard to get have no appeal whatever to his psychology.
Masters of Space Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry 1925
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Coyness seems to be not much more developed, at least among those who need it most:
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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Coyness, Sir Arthur Gordon informs us that among the "sentimental" class of poems "there are not a few which are licentious, and many more which, though not open to that reproach, are coarse and indecent in their plain-spokenness."
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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