How To Use coyness In A Sentence
- contrived coyness
- It is in _this_ sense that "coyness" is obviously a trait of primitive maidens. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
- Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
- Lord of my heart, no more shall there be for me waiting in corners, no more coyness and sweetness of demeanour.
- Elizabeth was not so easy to give in to such coyness.
- In an industry famed for its confidence and self-belief, there's no room for coyness or self-depreciation.
- I call it folly, not because I am adverse to feminine reserve, not because I am prone to quarrel even with what I call coyness; but because I know his nature so well, and feel that he would not bear rebuffs of which many another man would think nothing; that he would not bring himself to ask again, perhaps even for a seventh time, as they might do. Ayala's Angel
- Miss Austen also raises the question many intelligent women find themselves asking: Is all this coyness really necessary?
- Her playful tone echoes these predecessors, but with a coyness that seems distinctly feminine.
- But the coyness is a diversionary tactic: it masks the deep normative commitments that in fact saturate Smart's work.
