coltishness

There's some coltishness here, with occasional imprecision in the writing Mya's encounter with a strangely behaving man in a parking garage should have been suspense gold but just feels awkward and attenuated and mismatched performances but the good far outweighs the bad.

It's different for everybody Arbogast 2008

There were not many weapons in her arsenal beyond baby-smooth skin, lovely eyes, and an appealing coltishness—but her aim was true.

Sonnet of the Sphinx Diana Killian 2006

"Wacht am Rhein" through the starlight of garrisoned towns all the way from the Channel to the Carpathians, will talk of their being "stolid"; but they have, it is true, no coltishness.

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

` ` Trim '' is as clumsy as ` ` slender ''; she had escaped from the trimness of girlhood as wholly as she had gone through its coltishness.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905

The whole body stood a thought too high for its breadth, with a hint of coltishness in the thin arms and thick elbow-joints.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The grand thing is to get rid of dogged sulks and coltishness; of that wayward, swerving, hesitating gait, which says,

Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding George Greenwood 1837

RADA intonation contrast markedly with Phil Daniels 'coltishness and spiky Anna Scher School style of raw performance (Daniels was a bona fide Anna Scher graduate, by the way).

DVD Times 2010

He has a stocky appeal she doesn’t altogether discount, she likes the way his thighs fill his trousers, and there’s an appealing coltishness to the face….

Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

He has a stocky appeal she doesn’t altogether discount, she likes the way his thighs fill his trousers, and there’s an appealing coltishness to the face….

Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004

He has a stocky appeal she doesn’t altogether discount, she likes the way his thighs fill his trousers, and there’s an appealing coltishness to the face….

Hound in the Left-hand Corner, The Giles Waterfield 2004