Girlishness

The pale pink that dominated the collection added to the girlishness. ❋ Christina Passariello (2011)

Her laugh no longer flashed out so hungrily and her eyes, brimming with the secret he and she had made, deepened and seemed to rejoin the girlishness that had lingered in the other features of her face. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone. ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)

A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots. ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2010)

Now that Joel was no longer her patient she could have talked to Eugene about him, described the horror she had felt when this poor man with his dyed yellow hair talked of himself as an angel or a god, and described too the pathetic mother, pared down now to a raw, skinless creature who had grown, in so short a time, from absurd girlishness into her true age. ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)

No, I wasn't either-I knew she was a trollop, and her wide-eyed girlishness was a deliberate mockery. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

Lock brings convincing girlishness and kooky charm to the role of Laura; she's particularly funny in an early scene in which the girl -- dressed in pajamas and a helmet -- pretends to be an astronaut. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She has a bold naïveté, a frank girlishness, that serves the group well. ❋ LAURIE ABRAHAM (2010)

It delineated for him what until then had been a vague feeling, that there was something solidly bourgeois about this young woman, something grown-up about her underneath the girlishness that scared and excited him. ❋ Rafael Yglesias (2009)

Secondly, as my book is not yet out to the general public, I was not anticipating fan-girlishness in any form. ❋ Gailcarriger (2009)

More substantively, now both are forty-something women in an industry largely blind to anyone over thirty, and while each retains a certain girlishness -- Sweeney's breathy, often giggling line delivery, and Sobule's bright, insouciant vocals -- beneath the surface there's nothing gamine about them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm a serious gal, I admit it; but I know that giggling girlishness still lingers in me somewhere. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately here she is forced to put on a weak girlishness while sporting ridiculous curls in her hair that, I guess, are meant to provide the illusion of her being younger than her 26 years. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2009)

"[Bring] out your [inner] [girlishness]!" ❋ Missyy (2008)

A Girlish [Tomboy]: She's [a girl] and a [tomboy] and she loves [the combo]. ❋ PinkNinjaFrogs95 (2013)

Mean Old [Janitor] - [Be quiet]! [Giggly] Girls - You cannot shut us up, we are in girlish high spirits! ❋ Sundaygirl (2006)