| Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt. |
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| These works are considered as icons of amorous pursuits in an age of gallantry and the accompanying and complementary coquetry. |
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| It also represents other states such as hatred, pride, falseness and coquetry, depending on the variety you choose to give. |
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| There is gossip, friendship, coquetry and wily bargain amid the whiff of condiments and pickles. |
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| He has the look of one of Caravaggio's young male models, though without their coquetry. |
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| She looks the part, and acts it with wonderfully outrageous coquetry, even if obliged to force her voice rather worryingly in the lower register. |
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| There was something compulsive, engaging, about Krakow's siege mentality, and spring, with all its brash coquetry, seemed oddly antipathetic. |
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| She was always in a dither of affected coquetry, and he had begun to think he had misjudged her character. |
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| The exhibit looks at animalism and concepts of femininity, sexual fetishes, seduction, excess, coquetry and class standing. |
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| When the negotiations began, she greeted the duke's agent with a courtesy and coquetry that was unusual. |
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| The explanation is farcical and bizarre, yet there is mystery, almost coquetry, in the way Martel underplays it. |
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| As played by Hall, Charlotte is a mix of ingenuousness and coquetry, a femme fatale with a very diffident air. |
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| Though she was not unattractive, Ben had spurned her several times simply because she always came on too strong and would not desist her coquetry. |
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| But the slow pace of exercise indicates that these young people are more interested in coquetry than spoiling a perfectly good sweat-suit with sweat. |
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| Alongside Corella, she is perfectly cast as Kitri with precisely the right Latin looks and temperament, quickly flitting from coquetry to fiery and all stops between. |
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| Was there a spice of feminine coquetry in her famous speech to John Alden? |
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| She preferred to keep the genteel preliminaries — coquetry, foreplay, drinks, a friendly hello — as brief as possible. |
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| In his books, he speaks of Queenie's coquetry, and of her jealousy, which he regards as a female characteristic. |
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| Wariness and avidity, coquetry and rage, preening and despair — unrelenting egotism plays on her face like sunlight on a fast-moving stream. |
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| Women, often unnamed, are trapped in the domestic sphere and display coquetry, frailty, emotionality and dependence. |
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| The fan is a fashion complement which is at its peak and it's considered the emblem of the coquetry. |
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| They did not hide their capabilities, but showed them openly without praise! or coquetry. |
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| That is an understatement, but it is said without any coquetry. |
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| By adding a generous dose of coquetry and mischief to the ingredients of her work, she manages to bring out all the glamour, sensuality and sparkle of the female characters she has created. |
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| The reader can rightfully accept it as a coquetry of a fine master, because Ishiguro seems to have deliberately featured symbolic characters of commercial literature in the plot. |
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| Beatrix deploys her Dutch coquetry upon her beatifically schnappsed husband by clapping his shoulder with her weighty hand and casting him an oeillade beneath her thick brows. |
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