kittenishness

The five Socialists, in their awe at saving the world, gave up clogging and all the kittenishness that was then considered proper to freshmen.

There was no cloying kittenishness about her, as that was a style that would not have suited her-or me.

She was a heavy-featured woman, losing her looks and figure to middle age; as if to turn aside the advancing years, she affected a kittenishness that went poorly with her girth.

Ezra Pound, author of Provenca, tells us frankly that his chief aim is to found a revolt against that puerile kittenishness which marks so much of latter day English poetry.

In this new production, Jonathan is played by a nebbishy Ben Shenkman and Grete by Ana Reeder, who brings her own clawed kittenishness to the role.

She didn't like to think of her dad trying to drive home from the Stewarts' in this, half-soused from three or four martinis (except that he always called them martoonis, with typical adult kittenishness).

He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

She had never quite grown into her ears, and the size of them gave her a look of eternal kittenishness- while the restless way they swiveled made her look eternally wary and uneasy, despite the ironic humor in her big gold eyes. '

In the heyday of Marilyn Monroe, whose kittenishness seems to have puzzled her (even as she grants that it worked), as well as a pantheon of other neurotic mid-century actresses, Ms. Bacall appears to have kept her head, in part by carefully modulating a calculated awe of the powerful men around her.