Word: coy
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...mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...
...First invite the Harvard Trustees out to look the place over; then play a little coy, a little hard to get (consolidation); but leave the door open. It's still too early to hope for Radvard or Harcliffe University, and Radcliffe University is a long ways in the future. But we can wait...
...would rather see a man with the statesmanlike qualities of Senator Dodd as President of the U.S. in 1960 than any of the current crop of coy boys and eager beavers who would "like to be President...
...impassable from the South but wide open from the West, suspect that Johnson might have more than one reason for his westward shift in thinking. Cracked the New York Daily News: "We'd say it's at least a 100-to-1 shot that, for all his coy disclaimers, Senator Johnson hopes to be President Johnson some fine...
...post-World War II heyday, when everything on television was new and attractive, pro wrestling boomed. Desperate for new acts, new gimmicks, promoters began to push such gaudy huskies as "Gorgeous George," a marcelled, peroxide blond who made the sham slaughter seem even more ridiculous by his coy shenanigans in the ring and out. "The queens are passe now," says Columnist Jimmy Cannon, but wrestlers are still getting away with their hammy histrionics, still faking pain, anguish and angry violence with steady success...