girlishness

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.

Updike, John 2010

The pale pink that dominated the collection added to the girlishness.

In Haute Couture, '50s Glamour Meets the Cancan Christina Passariello 2011

A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.

Strangers at the Feast 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.

Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

No, I wasn't either-I knew she was a trollop, and her wide-eyed girlishness was a deliberate mockery.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.

Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone.

Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.

Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 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.

'If You Give a Pig a Pancake': Holly Twyford goes hog wild 2010

She has a bold naïveté, a frank girlishness, that serves the group well.

THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010