Word: coltishly
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...Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass the time...
...carbon copy, not a sequel, yet not entirely a fresh and uninfluenced cinema, Daughters Courageous has a coltish, unaffected charm, considerable wit, an ill-concealed admiration for its two picaresque but impossible male mainstays. Not calculated to stir up too much emotion, one scene in it will nevertheless bring goose-pimples to many a tough-bearded male. The scene: the girls, barbering their stepfather-elect, shaving downwards over his Adam's apple...
True, this coltish Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, this tall boy with the generous ears of an innocent, had had a splendid start toward a holy life. Yet, there was something depraved about the easy hang of his well-made, collegiate clothes; something free-and-easy, almost loose, about the clear voice in which he answered their questions with unabashed promptitude. There was a modernistic tinge to his record at Mercer College: he had built and operated a radio station...
...Wheelwright with memory of the snubs of his coltish Freshman year fresh in his memory has turned his lament into light verse which is very amusing and which will be appreciated by most undergraduates...