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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At 41 years old, Mr. Refn has a schoolboyish air, neatly dressed in a white shirt, khakis and black glasses. ❋ Lanie Goodman (2011)
For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then, because Nelson had turned uncharacteristically schoolboyish, I added, I do appreciate your help with the whole thing, though. ❋ Hester Browne (2008)
Nathan, for instance, looks a bit schoolboyish and sad from the back — his ears in particular — probably because of the haircut he had before they started out on this house-hunting trip. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One message says "Berlin last stop", another is signed "Balls from Belgium", and a third the schoolboyish "Hoof Hearted". ❋ Unknown (2007)
Instead of the staid dignity and stolidity of a general, I saw an almost schoolboyish nimbleness; instead of a collar sticking up to his ears, an ordinary light blue necktie. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But it was Hunter's expression, a schoolboyish-pride grin that was most apparent as he left the field. ❋ Unknown (2002)
My grandmother alone found fault with him for speaking a little too well, a little too much like a book, for not using a vocabulary as natural as his loosely knotted Lavallière neckties, his short, straight, almost schoolboyish coat. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And yet the whole affair had only been a schoolboyish prank. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I had taken for granted that he would dissemble, but he had begun upon it with such bluntness, such schoolboyish bluntness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
