Word: coquettishness
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...Seventh Veil," Ann Todd portrays a concert pianist who, after a long period of intense training by her cousin-guardian Nicholas (James Mason), succumbs to a neurotic illness. Miss Todd manages to put across many different ages, moods, and attitudes smoothly; she can shift from the coquettish to the depressed with no difficulty, and uses both facial and bodily movement to advantage. Mason is as gutturally crisp as ever, and avoids over-suppressing his emotions, which is a common fault in such cynical roles...
Like a Drink & a Kiss. The first-nighters for The Lady's Not for Burning assembled in the customary coquettish melee of a Broadway opening, the day's trivia still buzzing in their ears, its annoyances, despite the anesthetic of dinnertime Martinis, still hot under their collars. The curtain rose. Actors began to speak. The hero introduced himself...
...miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
Another excellent scene: an asylum dance. On one side of the hall the women are lined up, coquettish in spite of their drabness; on the other side are the slicked-down men with little bouquets and candy boxes in their hands. To the stringy tune of a bored band, the partners hop and skip through their dance, distorting it like forlorn children at dancing school. The scene is only slightly harmed by an overlong, over-sentimental group singing of Going Home, timed with the heroine's own realization that she is indeed going home...
...silent as a chess player. (His one relaxation, in fact, is chess; his fellow Army men well know the Shaposhnikov end game.) He is personally cold and reticent, and he stays out of the political light. He is modest to the brink of affectation; his books are almost coquettish: "Our present immature work. ... If the magnanimous reader will do us the great honor of further following our reasoning. . . ." This silence and super-modesty have saved his political head time & again...