Unlike the late Duke d'Orleans, he has no princely coquettishness, which is such a victorious grace, and has no desire to appear agreeable. ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)
Then she shrank past him and, with a kind of coquettishness in her gait, hurried downstairs. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1939)
But lacking form and rhythm, and convincing only in passages, they amount to a cloying coquettishness. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)
Or are the crossed knees and turned out ankle meant to indicate coquettishness? lack of balance? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Gone is the sheen and occasional coquettishness that characterized "The Reminder," her 2007 album that sold more than one million copies world-wide and risked redefining her as a cheery pop artist. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)
The former is the asexual and ultimately, inevitably disempowered feminist, the latter is the fully-empowered woman in full flight, unashamedly and without modernist complexes, using every part of her coquettishness, her curvature, her wiles and let's face it – her power, to get what she wants. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Soprano Erin Morley was a spectacular Marguerite (once a Joan Sutherland signature role), navigating the extreme coloratura and the mix of dignity and coquettishness with great flair. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At the same time her coquettishness was bounded by a unique sense of propriety. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Besides that strength, Grandma Gitty also has a coquettishness about her like that of Cleopatra. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Getty Images Much of today's air travel nostalgia -- such as the Broadway hit "Boeing Boeing" -- centers on stewardesses (now called flight attendants) who were often hired for their looks and coquettishness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The combination of timid embarrassment with coquettishness and a sort of expostulation was the result either of calculated effect or a spontaneous modesty. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dolly had one undoubtedly, and it was not a tough one either, though there was a little mist of coquettishness about it, such as sometimes surrounds that sun of life in its morning, and slightly dims its lustre. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mmm, the second-place smell, the third-place coquettishness. ❋ Shunn (2006)
Your shoes are utterly charming, it would have taken a hard soul to resist such coquettishness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This was softened by a frequent thoughtfulness, yet not so frequent as to do away, for more than a few minutes at a time, with a certain coquettishness; which in its turn was never so decided as to banish honesty. ❋ Unknown (2006)
This new trait of girlish coquettishness made an unpleasant impression on Dolly. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Behind Ilna were a score of other women: all of them young, all beautiful; all of them offering themselves in varied forms of coquettishness. ❋ Unknown (1997)
Yes, it was there in the eyes, in the absence of feminine coquettishness and flirtation. ❋ Lisa Bingham (1994)
[Counselor]: There's nothing [wrong] with being [coquettish]. ❋ ChAoS__ThEoRy (2009)
[James] and [Juliette] are very [coquettish]. ❋ Juntiac (2010)
