schoolboyish

At 41 years old, Mr. Refn has a schoolboyish air, neatly dressed in a white shirt, khakis and black glasses.

Refn Revs Into High Gear With 'Drive' Lanie Goodman 2011

It was about studies and lessons, dealing with the rudiments of knowledge, and the schoolboyish tone of it conflicted with the big things that were stirring in him - with the grip upon life that was even then crooking his fingers like eagle's talons, with the cosmic thrills that made him ache, and with the inchoate consciousness of mastery of it all.

Chapter 13 2010

These strike me as slightly schoolboyish -- "Well, you say yes, but your friends say no, nyah, nyah" -- perhaps reflecting the growing desperation of a government increasingly anxious to extricate itself from what is, in fact, clear involvement in a war crime.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose.

Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010

He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile.

Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile.

Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

His behaviour becomes giddy and schoolboyish: he digitally combines separate pictures of himself and Megan, to show how good they would look as a couple, and makes long, late-night calls to her, excerpts of which are shown in Catfish.

Trust me, I'm a film-maker: the men behind Catfish come clean Ryan Gilbey 2010

The very sight of him hovering diffidently in the corner of a room - with his beard and his home-trimmed hair and his schoolboyish little collar poking out of the top of his hand-knitted sweater and his palpable conscientious desperation not to cause any offence to anyone whatsoever - could make a red-blooded woman lose the will to live.

Woodcraft Folk Memories juliette 2009

The very sight of him hovering diffidently in the corner of a room - with his beard and his home-trimmed hair and his schoolboyish little collar poking out of the top of his hand-knitted sweater and his palpable conscientious desperation not to cause any offence to anyone whatsoever - could make a red-blooded woman lose the will to live.

Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009

These strike me as slightly schoolboyish--"Well, you say yes, but your friends say no, nyah, nyah"--perhaps reflecting the growing desperation of a government increasingly anxious to extricate itself from what is, in fact, clear involvement in a war crime.

Harper's last stand 2009