Whether those have offenses are venial or mortal, malign or merely thoughtless, by the time they get to YouTube, they're all just gaucheries and gaffes, and they all require the same formulaic apology. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The sultan and dervish look with amused tolerance on the gaucheries of the European rubes. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)
We are apparently meant to think that Mary's gaucheries, her twitchy oddness, are a professional hazard. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She detested Erik; gloated over his gaucheries — his “breaks,” she called them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As the vice-presidential candidate uttered a series of gaucheries that came to be known as "Agnewisms", the theory developed that his appointment was really a clever kind of life insurance for Nixon. ❋ Unknown (1968)
Right now, on top of her other gaucheries, she was unscrewing the comb from her wrist -- an unfriendly if not quite a hostile act, as anyone must admit. ❋ Fritz Leiber (1951)
He isn't apt to find fault, but I am conscious that he is secretly criticising my dress, my dinners, the gaucheries of the servants, my moral qualities, even the way I turn my sentences. ❋ Various (N/A)
At the breakfast table it was, of course, my privilege to propose the health of the bride and bridegroom, which I most gladly did; and, let me say, so successfully as to bring back unwonted smiles to Campion's face, who now freely forgave me for the _gaucheries_ at the marriage service. ❋ P.A. Sheehan (N/A)
And when those of a filial nature are brought into prominence, they, too, often have only a pathetic or painful aspect -- love on the one side repelled by indifference; an uncouth parent offering rough sympathy that irritates instead of soothes; a sensitive girl writhing under the brutalities or _gaucheries_ of a drunken father. ❋ Desmond Byrne (N/A)
This was the pleader of the court-house rally, and she forgot the gaucheries and limitations of a moment since. ❋ Mark Lee Luther (N/A)
It may be accepted that Madeline Anderson and her people were of these, and that she wondered sometimes during the brief days of her engagement what it would be like to belong to the brilliant little world about her that had its visiting list in London, Paris, or St. Petersburg, and was immensely entertained by the gaucheries of the great ones of the earth. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
Brian's mind, after the first sullen period of readjustment he had worked his own salvation and reverted by wholesome instinct to boyhood with its inexhaustible animal vigor, its gaucheries and its boisterous minutes of frolic heretofore denied. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
The vast influence he still has is due to the fact that the common man, with all his mistakes and gaucheries, speaks in him, and that when the common man hears his own thoughts spoken in Bryan's voice he knows that the accent is sincere. ❋ Various (N/A)
Apart from the Second Act, where Miss MARIE LÖHR (looking rather like a nice Dutch doll) delivered the blunt gaucheries of _Remnant_ with a delightfully stolid naïveté, the design of the play and its simple little devices might almost have been the work of amateurs. ❋ Various (N/A)
A gentleman be should careful, in entering a carriage, not to trample upon ladies 'dresses, shut their shawls in the door, or commit any other gaucheries. ❋ Sarah Annie Frost (N/A)
It was the fault of that debonair, mocking, lazily smiling Mephistopheles who was misnamed the Saint, who seemed to have been born with the uncanny gift of paralyzing the detective's trained and native caution and luring him into howling gaucheries that made Mr Teal go hot and cold when he thought about them. ❋ Charteris, Leslie (1937)
She detested Erik; gloated over his gaucheries -- his "breaks," she called them. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Why, then, go on parroting _gaucheries_ that Schumann himself, were he alive today, would have long since corrected? ❋ Unknown (1918)
At such times Symes himself talked rapidly to hide the gaucheries of her speech, and they were ordeals which he took care should be as few as possible. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
