coltish

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• Instead of standing as if she were balancing a book on her head, she was knock-kneed and coltishly awkward.
• Then there was Cécile McLorin Salvant, at 21 still so young as to be slightly coltish, who came out and proclaimed "I've got a secret! Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocalist Competition 2010 at Kennedy Center
• Critically acclaimed and coltishly adored, the album was recorded to the highest standards.
• A visit to Lake Placid every year allows you to watch as the cute little tykes from pre-juvenile and juvenile dance morph into coltish adolescents in novice and then stunning young heartbreakers in juniors and seniors.
• Her alienated, out-of-step Mary Henry is one of horror cinema's great heroines and that image of her stepping coltishly out of the brine, back from the brink of death, is iconic on a Virgin Mary level. 20 Girls 20
• Working within the constraints of royal ceremony, she combined an impetuous, coltish physicality with high glamour and a flirtatious, seductive allure.
• He, you see, is a details man, a coltish clothes horse, and a dedicated Anglophile to boot.
• There she was gambolling around Covent Garden one afternoon in her school uniform, minding her own business, when a scout from Elite modelling agency caught sight of the coltish 15-year-old.
• Yesterday he was asking for more time - for himself, and any manager attempting to rear young players - after watching his coltish team being dismantled by Rangers.
• The coltish Henderson, whose gawky movement can disguise his skill, and Downing both acquitted themselves well but the new boys had nothing to do with Liverpool's equaliser. Newcomers help Liverpool regain their old swagger | Richard Williams