| 单词 | gauche |
| 例句 | In the United Kingdom, everyone drives on the left, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that convention; it is in no way sinister, gauche, or socialist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You wouldn't be as gauche as to ask, "Hey, are you related to the guy who makes vacuum cleaners?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The air of collective displacement, the impermanence of life in wartime and the gauche personalities of the more recent arrivals tended to dissipate my own sense of not belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m gauche and awkward, I dress badly, I’m shy with people. I warned you in Monte Carlo how it would be. You think I’m not right for Manderley.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z True, there is something rather gauche about the sometimes too predominantly unison writing of the C major quartet D32, composed when Schubert was 14. Cuarteto Casals – review 2012-10-11T16:44:30Z It seemed more than gauche that his memory should be evoked by a slick boutique hotel. In the ’90s, We Had ‘Friends.’ Now They Call It Co-Living. 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Francophiles may find that gauche, but when I check in at the chamber of commerce, I’m assured that however you want to say it is fine. In Havre de Grace, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, a rich maritime history — and ducks, lots of ducks 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Yet even this hopelessly gauche move did little to dim his triumph: he’d gotten what he thought he wanted just in time to want something else altogether. Music Review: Bombastic, Boisterous and Triumphant 2011-03-08T22:29:10Z “Danny was never so gauche. This was a highly sensitive, hyperintelligent person who, while wanting very much to help the artist, never wanted to cause pain or humiliation to any other human being.” Danny Fields Loved Punk Rock. It Loved Him Back. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z I also think it’s a little gauche for Americans to point out to anybody in the world what their problems are at this point. Michael Moore on why America “needs a little time in the timeout room,” and whether Hillary will start a war to prove “a woman can pull the trigger” 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z But it does seem to be the case that they’re gauche among the cool kids these days. Hashtags and @Mentions: What's In And What's Out On Twitter 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z His status ensured him access to the best and brightest women in Georgian society, but most found his manner unpleasant and his opinions gauche. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-02-18T08:00:05Z The way he captures Nemorino's gauche yet beguiling charm – without so much as a hint of caricature or sentiment – is breathtaking. L'Elisir d'Amore – review 2012-11-14T12:21:46Z Though Glee grew disjointed and gauche as the seasons went on, it was mostly big-hearted and great fun, the first, unassailable evidence that a Murphy production had not only panache but real commercial heft. American success story: how Ryan Murphy became Netflix's $300m man 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z I've done the world's most gauche American thing on the planet! Mad about the man 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Used to kind of enjoy the Kardashian show, fun, guilty pleasure, but now I’m really turned off by how blatantly exploitative and gauche they are. There?s One Big Question About the Kardashian Marriage 2011-11-04T22:36:34Z Thomas Day: 'Most found his manner unpleasant and his opinions gauche.' How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-02-18T08:00:05Z Perhaps as part of the Academy's campaign this year to be more cool or, in Hathaway's words, "hip", there were fewer of the gauche cutaway shots for which the Oscars are so rightly renowned. Oscars 2011: 10 ways to improve the ceremony 2011-02-28T18:42:02Z In a pink tank top and a white tracksuit, her hair in a ponytail, she looks like an overly gauche teenager. In Paris, First-Person Trauma Jumps from Page to Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Tall and lean and socially gauche, Virginia is riven with anxieties that the movie jarringly visualizes. ‘Vita & Virginia’ Review: A Real-Life Affair Made Lifeless 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The phenomenon of being "big in Japan" dates back to when Japanese record-buyers were condescendingly regarded as kooky and gauche, prone to aiming their affection for western culture at the wrong targets. Big in Japan 2010-03-22T19:00:00Z Martin Quinn, 18 and about to go to drama school, makes the bullied boy both gauche and appealing. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z And wasn’t his taste for pat symbolism a bit gauche? My Summer With Hal 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The moments here are personal and private — people are getting to know walls, floors — and to intrude on their psychedelic reverie seems gauche. O Mad Night! 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z This means that while we see them as they see each other, we are also allowed to see them as they see themselves — which is as gauche lummoxes. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z In fact, they seem so posh that you might feel a tiny bit gauche when you inevitably lick the plate. These 4-ingredient dulce de leche lava cakes bake in under 15 minutes 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Sachs may be fudging reality a bit to get his story moving, but it would be gauche to object too strenuously. 'Love Is Strange’ Stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z No museums, no galleries, no fairs, no art schools; no openings, no studio visits, no arguing over beers, no gauche private-jet partnerships. The Merry-Go-Round Stopped. What Sort of Art Will Emerge? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Olive is recognizably a late bloomer and a bit socially gauche, but the film makes that seem completely charming, never like a bad thing. "Easy A": The summer's biggest comedy surprise 2010-09-17T01:01:00Z All of it is transposed into a modern manner that is knowingly gauche and at times clotted, but at the same time richly colored and full of feeling. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z “I was extremely gauche but we were not being show-offy, we were just so surprised and pleased. We were childish in the best way.” The year rookie cop series Hill Street Blues hijacked the Emmys 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z I have learned it is gauche to say exactly how much. This is what a pre-moon Speedmaster watch is worth 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Ambition was deemed gauche, so rock bands had to spend a decade pretending they didn’t care about their life’s work. Perspective | Turnstile, the soaring hardcore band of the moment, has a reminiscent sound that pushes us forward in time 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z You want to see the struggle, the gauche experiments, the lurching missteps. Review | A National Gallery show examines Gordon Parks’s early years 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z In a city that once considered book talk to be gauche in the extreme, people currently speak of little else. T Magazine: Salon Selective 2011-03-23T15:00:51Z Am I being cheap and gauche to use my homemade cards? Perspective | Miss Manners: Are my homemade condolence cards tacky? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Many of today's adolescents may seem gauche, mulish and angry. Submarine plumbs the depths of self-satisfaction 2011-03-21T10:31:19Z Even if SAG-AFTRA members are allowed by the rules to continue their outside work, will it not seem gauche to do so? Is This the End of the Red Carpet? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z What’s considered chic by one tribe may be deemed unforgivably gauche by another. New York Fashion Week: Oh, to Be Fashion Week?s ?In? Spot ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:03:58Z On it, the young Moss, who appears to be wearing no make-up, grins like an excited and slightly gauche teenager from beneath a headdress made of fabric and feathers. Corinne Day 2010-09-04T23:07:00Z He’s also, most pointed out, very amiable and polite, at 17 still a little gauche beneath the cheekbones – a nice Wokingham lad. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But Gould was already markedly odd in his manner: gauche and abrasive, he was often absorbed by the increasingly arcane rituals with which he sought to control his personal environment. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z Each day they refrain from making another promo as gauche as Radioactive is another day where they've at least exhibited some self-awareness. Can bands be trusted to name their own albums? 2013-06-19T13:50:47Z Cat’s new relationships with Henry and his sister Ellie are nearly derailed by two “bad” siblings: gauche, grasping Bella and Johnny Thorpe. A new ‘Northanger Abbey:’ tweets, texts and vampires 2014-04-23T19:15:12Z But it’s a perfect description of the movie he’s in, which possesses a raw, naked, gauche honesty that has always been embedded within Noé’s work but is fully exposed here, sometimes with hazardous results. Beyond a three-way in 3-D: The awkward delights of “Love,” Gaspar Noé’s gorgeous real-sex movie 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z By comparison, Anomalisa sounds altogether mundane: a depressed, middle-aged motivational speaker spends a night in a Cincinnati hotel where he has an affair with a gauche young woman. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Once I got to university, I felt I was finally coming into my own, which is surprising, in retrospect, because that was when I was at my most gauche. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z Camille Kouchner’s memoir was a sensation in France for its unsparing portrait of gauche caviar, a sociological class with a distinct ideological heritage. The Memoir That Exposed a Family’s Secrets. And a Society’s. 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z I would not be so gauche as to identify the victim, though the crime is neither entirely a surprise nor exactly a mystery. Movie Review: Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Stars Rachel McAdams 2013-08-29T22:04:14Z It is seen a bit gauche to open the door yourself. A Few Etiquette Tips for Getting Around Japan 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z My request had apparently been quite gauche, like ordering a porterhouse steak at Delmonico’s, then fishing out of your pockets some McDonald’s ketchup packets. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Yes, my $450 dinner was worth every penny 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Logistics manager Graham Hitchins somehow grows ever more gauche and unknowing with every episode. Rewind TV: The Newsroom; Twenty Twelve; Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies; Volcano Live – review 2012-07-14T23:06:06Z In contrast, it’s considered gauche to expose the private life of a well-known figure when that information isn’t in the public interest. Why Ted Cruz’s sex life matters: The GOP’s toxic “family values” charade deserves continued scrutiny 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z If this wasn't bad enough, Tobey Maguire is miscast or misdirected, playing Nick as gauche, uncomfortable, unsophisticated, childlike – less an involved observer than an intruder. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z I used to feel a lot more gauche than I do now. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z Lindsey Stirling is a pop violinist, a classical crossover artist, a ruthless and often gauche blender of styles and aesthetics and a second-place finisher on the most recent season of “Dancing With the Stars.” Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Las Vegas is so gauche, this line of thinking goes, so unabashed about its own vulgarity, that it is a perfect metonym for that original embarrassment, America. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z But flaunting it, or enjoying your physical appearance for its own sake, was gauche or vain. Body transformation: from ‘dad bod to rad bod’ in just seven weeks 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The dialogue seems stilted and gauche, but that's probably appropriate for the kind of exchanges that are generally taking place. Locarno film festival welcomes Goodbye First Love 2011-08-05T13:05:09Z The contrivance might fit the novel’s theme of courtly love, but it’s hard to buy the premise of Nell as a gauche and pining scientist. A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Is it gauche to linger longer than you were supposed to? Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z But Ms. Carey, 45, has long had a taste for the outsized and gauche, and Vegas, with its grandeur and glitz, seemed like just the place to find redemption. Review: Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The grimmest space in the whole building is the art store near the exit, Avant Gallery, which sells overpriced, absurd post-graffiti canvases that would be gauche even in the middle of a third-tier suburban mall. At Hudson Yards, One Mall for the Rich, and One for Everyone Else 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The Japanese "influenced" works were especially gauche and poorly executed. Van Gogh Never Visited Japan, but He Saw It Everywhere 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Not since Jack Nicklaus ambled down the fairway in plaid Sansabelt trousers has golf wear looked this wonderfully gauche. Bill Murray and His Brothers Venture Into Golf Wear 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Miller reveals himself to be witty, self-depreciating, gauche and technically accomplished. Pop: J. Cole, Wale and Mac Miller Return With New Albums 2013-06-26T14:00:01Z He quickly swapped her for someone more enthusiastic, in a move both expedient and gauche. Music Review: The-Dream Performs at S.O.B.?s 2012-03-13T22:01:22Z Is it gauche to stay around longer than you were supposed to? Sigrid Nunez Follows ‘The Friend’ With a Sorrowful, Funny Novel About Death 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Racism is a theme in Week 4, which results in some gauche and unfunny exchanges. | 'The Green Room With Paul Provenza': On Showtime, Behind the Scenes With a Comic 2010-06-09T21:09:00Z “While specifically requesting cash is quite gauche,” Ms. Smith said, “the savvy couple can gently direct guests toward a monetary gift.” On Registries, More Couples Are Asking to Show Them the Money 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Even so, apart from Mr. Ball’s gauche self-branding, there were few ripples Thursday night. Bow Ties and Statement Sneakers at the N.B.A. Draft 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z A frenemy once called his stylistic choices “very gauche,” which inspired his artistic moniker. The Covid Nurse Turned Polaroid Portraitist 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z And on Monday morning, each logged on to discuss Tanya’s gauche, tragic demise and where the series, already renewed for a third season, might go from here. Making a Splash: Jennifer Coolidge and Mike White Discuss the ‘White Lotus’ Finale 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z It's gauche to want an award too much in Hollywood, but Julianne Moore admitted backstage that events like the Golden Globes could be motivators. Golden Globes: Zings, hugs and coos behind the scenes 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z She genuinely does still have the slightly gauche charm of a much younger girl. Felicitations 2011-02-20T00:04:06Z Gatsby will either be gauche, or classy; Daisy will be charming, or repellant; Nick will be dishonest, or honest. Gatz to deliver every word of The Great Gatsby on West End stage 2012-02-08T15:43:41Z Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has announced plans to sell the state office building to a new owner, who presumably would replace it with something taller and a whole lot less ’80s gauche. Postmodern architecture at risk, Part 2: The saga shifts to Chicago 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z If anything, I was at the Candide end of the spectrum rather than calculating, and, like Voltaire's hero I was an innocent unable to stop asking gauche questions and blurting out the truth, however inconvenient. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z “The style is a trifle primitive,” one observer wrote about Anderson’s prose, “gauche, aggressive, maudlin ... it speaks in pungent slang.” Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z But my choice for supporting actress would be Zoe Kazan, who crammed a whole feature’s worth of gauche, cautious dreams into a perfectly crafted short segment in the Coens’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z I discovered my favorite musical in a way theater die-hards might find gauche — via the widely panned film adaptation of “Rent,” a flop. Why ‘Rent,’ the Movie, Was My Gateway Musical 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z A reality show set at various small companies, it’s part docuseries, part gauche game show. Television Review: ‘Does Someone Have to Go?’ on Fox 2013-05-22T22:13:03Z I used to loathe its happy-clappy gaucheness, but now I quite like it, despite knowing that there’s nothing gauche about its indomitable owner. Design: Despite Changes, There's Little to Love in 2012 Olympics Logo 2010-03-29T06:21:00Z But this wonky political horror movie turns out to be painfully earnest and gauche to the point of confusion. ‘Red Pill’ Review: The Horror of a Weekend of Racism and Extremism 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z As "daughter of the regiment", she whisks and spins across stage with comedic pell-mell energy and Chaplinesque elfin charm, at once mascot, laundrette and unexplored love interest for the gauche troops. Tosca; La fille du r?giment; Takacs Quartet 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z There are no errant words in his sentences, no gauche contemporary "likes" or "y'knows". Vampire Weekend: 'People tried to pretend we were rich idiots' 2013-05-03T10:30:00Z What might be seen as garish or gauche most of the year takes on a more playful, festive tone around the holidays. Small-space living: No room for a Christmas tree? Embrace the unexpected. 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Glossy-magazine advice has lost its hold on women-centered messaging; it’s a little gauche now to record one’s calories and scheme obsessively about how to get a man. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z His dysfunctional relationship with Vera morphs from demanding and gauche to touching and demonstrative as each learns from the other. Disgraced; 4000 Miles; To Kill a Mockingbird – review 2013-05-25T23:06:06Z Both Coldplay and the Chainsmokers specialize in the grand gauche gesture, and this collaboration sounds so natural it could pass for a song by either one of them on their own. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Megan, the medical examiner on “Body of Proof,” fits a more familiar pattern a little too neatly: she is intelligent, arrogant and a socially gauche know-it-all. | 'Body of Proof': Feisty Types? Try Looking in the Morgue 2011-03-28T23:02:39Z It occurs to me that many of those early roles installed Hannah as a particularly benighted male fantasy figure: the gauche, innocent child with the body of a woman. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The odiously gauche, lantern-jawed, knowingly named Jonah, liaison to the president and thus ever the bearer of ill luck and bad news: and aforementioned whiz-kid Dan, who was indeed certifiable oomska, but useful oomska. Rewind TV: Veep; Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Line of Duty; Richard II; Walking and Talking – review 2012-06-30T23:05:43Z He has a certain gauche, boyish charm but – and this isn't professional jealousy – he doesn't know anything. Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation 2013-06-15T16:45:00Z Copp may be the reason that my wife and her siblings and both our children have always had good vocabularies: destitute, vituperative, locality, inauspicious, gauche, megalomaniac, union suit. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z And in fact, while some of the political messaging struck a slightly gauche chord, it was captivating, and the results – particularly the climax, when they conjured a Gauguin image – memorable. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z Even then, it can come off as socially gauche when you’re dining with friends or co-workers and you’re the only one who isn’t gushing over the triple chocolate mousse cake someone brought to the party. Sugar is killing us, and it doesn’t take much 2014-02-25T13:50:00Z When she rises on point and shudders around the stage to demonstrate the excitement of her encounter with humanness, she is at once lovely and gauche, counteracting the bubble-headedeness of the character as written. Review: In ‘I Married an Angel,’ a 1930s Musical Falls to Earth 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Or, as it might be known in more gauche circles, a razor blade. The Hard Sell: Gillette Venus 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z Given that Michael Jackson virtually admitted his entire life was a cautionary tale of child stardom, it seems faintly perplexing that this somewhat gauche youngster should be making such an early debut. Michael Jackson's kids are following in his celebrity footsteps 2013-03-14T19:17:12Z She’s also being a bit gauche and inconsiderate because you’re her co-workers, not necessarily her close friends with whom she might more appropriately discuss such things. You Can Ignore the Bridezilla in the Breakroom 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Or would it be gauche to do so? Advice | Miss Manners: He grilled me on my political opinions on our first date 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Standing ovations should be reserved for truly exceptional performances only, and applauding between movements is gauche. Rant and Rave: Standing ovations should be used sparingly 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z On the face of it, speaking about risks to financial markets while pushing through an overhaul deeply resented by blue-collar and working-class French people seemed politically gauche. Unbowed, Macron Appears Ready to Tough Out Pension Crisis 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z It was particularly gauche to bring one to a black-tie affair. Advice | Miss Manners: I feel terrible that most of my dinner guests caught covid 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “They would find it gauche or uncomfortable. And I was like, ‘You know what, if you’re uncomfortable it’s because you’re making too much more money than me. Sex, Death, Affairs: Everything People Would Rather Talk About Than Money 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Even CNN’s Don Lemon called Harry’s account of a physical blowup with his brother “gauche” because, well, families are families and some things are none of our business. It's a blast watching Harry and Meghan beat the press at its own game 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z He admits to skipping his father’s birthday celebration because, you know, doesn’t it seem a little gauche to celebrate having 70 years on this planet when your grandson had only two? Review | Rob Delaney’s book, about the loss of his son, sings with life 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The former’s high status influences the perception that its profligate spending is tastefully cultured while New Money’s habits are desperately gauche. What hip-hop bling reveals about American status anxiety 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The scene is outrageous, not because it’s for or against abortion rights, but because it’s so gauche and utterly artless. Review | Dumb ‘Blonde’: Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe in misguided biopic 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z How do classically-trained musicians locate the groove of a song like Rock Steady, for example, without sounding hopelessly gauche? Aretha Franklin Prom will explore 'the core of who she was' 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z People who want to be “tastefully gauche,” if I can offer another contradiction. ‘Chic' carpet is the interior design trend born from the dustbin of American culture 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “Al Baldwin is probably the most gauche character I have ever met in my whole life,” Ms. Mitchell later said in a Watergate deposition. Alfred Baldwin, Lookout for Watergate Burglars, Dies at 83 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z I suspect she feared doing otherwise would have seemed gauche. Perspective | School districts, stop hiring splendid outsiders to be superintendents 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z The 37-year-old mother of two says that, in Finland, boasting about one’s good fortune is considered gauche. Is Finland really the happiest country in the world? Finns weigh in. 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Their bodies’ gauche but vital shapes put me in mind of Helen Levitt’s contemporaneous photographs of children playing in the streets of New York’s poorer neighborhoods. Perspective | Children at play in the midst of war But today she counters these stereotypes, writing: “It is not gauche to write about trauma. It is subversive.” More navel-gazing, please. Melissa Febos thinks personal essays can change the world 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It was considered gauche to broadcast these events, though, because we reporters were not the story we’d come to cover. Opinion | In Russia, I Learned, Threats Were Always Real 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z His body, in a gauche, unnatural position, cuts diagonally across the page. Perspective | Humiliation, cruelty, horror: Goya knew it all too well Even when Nicholas arrives an hour late, already bored and a little drunk, Phyllis is too fine a hostess to let such gauche behavior depress her vivacious personality. Review | In Tessa Hadley’s ‘Free Love,’ a mother’s happy life is upended by a kiss 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Yet styles sometimes veered off into pure theatrics like a feathered hood in bluebonnet and gauche fringed jacket. Kim Jones back on runway as Fendi channels celestial Rome 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z But we can’t be here for beauty — that would be gauche, not to mention piggish. What Is Miss America, if Not a Beauty Pageant? 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z They went on to perform a bizarre comedy sketch which saw "Savile Row shop assistant" Blair teach "gauche American" Davis how to be posh. Give Us A Clue to Extras: The life of Lionel Blair 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Of course, our ideas about wealth — who has it, who deserves it, whose displays of it are tasteful and whose are gauche — are inextricable from gender and race. How 'The Real Housewives'' glam arms race gets its cast into hot water 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The Queens-born outsider was always striving for acceptance in society’s various hierarchies — real estate, business, entertainment, politics — but was often dismissed as a little too gauche. ‘Part of the club’: Biden relishes revival of alliances that Trump dismissed 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z It would be gauche to munch gooey nachos while elegantly sipping your perfectly chilled dry martini. Try these 2 savory appetizers while you sip the classic martini that won as Seattle’s best 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z “Given the descriptions of Caligula’s licentious lifestyle and appetite for luxury, we might have expected the designs to be quite gauche.” Caligula’s Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Whatever personal distaste many Republicans may have for Trump's gauche behavior or the alcohol content of Giuliani's shoe polish sweat, they're inclined to see only upside for themselves in letting this play out. Republicans aren't scared of the Trump & Rudy show — they love this stuff 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z After all, you wouldn’t want to spoil your opponent’s personal milestone with anything so gauche as trying to do something to help your team win. Is anything more stupid than baseball's unwritten rules? Ask Fernando Tatis Jr 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Some make the case that our dowdy, gauche old anthem is exactly the right fit: An official national song shouldn’t actually be a good song, and certainly shouldn’t have any trace of hipness about it. It's time to cancel 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Here's what should replace it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Consider the “grandpa effect,” as he called it: people who were mistaken for bots because they used social media in “uncool or gauche” ways, he said. Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Instead, while the falls roared in the foreground, behind me a gauche splattering of billboards and neon, casinos and hotels sprouted from the asphalt like tall weeds. Nature surrounds us, even in quarantine 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Evans agreed: “It’s just become gauche to name kids after any politicians. Politician is a bad word.” George, Barack or Donald? Partisan division casts a shadow on baby naming 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Her intellectual rigour and her misanthropy are upended when she meets, on the flight over, a gauche, chain-smoking, defiantly unintellectual fellow from Tulsa. Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Like his dancing in the video, the song was awkward and gauche, but it charted all around the world. We spent a morning in Rick Astley's home studio 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Pippa was embarrassed by these gauche and faintly theatrical eruptions of veiled feminist protest, coming so much too late. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s gauche, but nonetheless admirable and – if you drop your prejudices – rather bewitching. 'Thirty years of freedom!' Why David Hasselhoff remains an icon for German unity 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z “Don’t be so gauche,” he calls after him. Homophobic? Maybe. But at least Midnight Cowboy showed me gay men on screen | Ryan Gilbey 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s somewhat gauche to post a photo of one’s ticket, as the price is printed clearly, and a generic show curtain or an unfamiliar set doesn’t say enough. How Playbills became social media must-shares 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important than getting that mean-spirited, embarrassingly gauche, wishy-washy blowhard out of the White House. Opinion | All these wannabe Democratic nominees are wasting everybody’s time 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The primeval, handshakes-behind-closed-doors understanding of power embodied by Bohemian Grove may still undergird American society, but it’s become increasingly gauche to promote in polite company. Essential California: The all-male, ultra-elite Bohemian Grove meets 2019 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The rational domestic interiors we associate with the Bauhaus—white walls, a few perfect objects, chairs and tables distilled to their essence—make the very idea of personal conflict seem almost gauche. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But as the “patrons” hollered—Augusta is the sort of place that considers the word “crowd” gauche—Woods remained impassive. Tiger Woods Makes a Comeback for the Ages 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Her “aggressiveness seems almost gauche, even for a politician,” a journalist wrote. Opinion | How Old Is 37? Depends on Your Gender 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z But over the past few weeks, the relentless parade of remarks, ranging from gauche to grotesque, suggests more than simply individual, off-the-cuff indiscretions. These gaffes expose British politics’ real issue with race | Gary Younge 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Murray fumbled once in West Virginia territory, courtesy of a pop from linebacker David Long Jr. West Virginia punted, which seemed gauche. In a shootout like few others, Oklahoma finds an answer on defense to edge West Virginia 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z It was a little gauche to revel in it. Manchester City Surges Past United, and to a Higher Level 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z "You would expect some knowledge of the province or at least not to be so gauche as to proclaim your ignorance," he wrote. Home truths for NI Secretary Karen Bradley 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Foreigners are tolerated in the oendan, but avoid rooting for any team except the one your seatmates support—it’s not only gauche but an usher might ask you to move to a different section. The Japanese Baseball Tour: A Vacation with a Serious Curve Ball 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But gauche millionaires seeking advice on shirtmakers can now shop around. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It is gauche to tell a woman at your California crisis pregnancy center that yours is not a licensed medical facility that provides a full range of services. Opinion | Some rules of civility for the Trump era 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Though she did not hang out with the bohemians and intellectuals of the rive gauche, there was nevertheless something about her persona that chimed with the romantic existentialism of the time. Françoise Hardy: ‘I sing about death in a symbolic, even positive way’ 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s also far less gauche than the I.D. VW’s all-electric I.D. Vizzion coming ‘by 2022’ with 400 miles of range 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “I was brought up in a culture where it was considered gauche.” What We Talk About When We Talk About Pay Inequity 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Arrivistes, when they arrive, are supposed to be gauche and gaudy. Antipathy towards the Patriots' Super Bowl juggernaut is a form of self-hate 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “A lamp fashioned from the drumstick of an ostrich,” he told People, “strikes me as rather gauche.” Harry Selby, genteel safari guide from a bygone era, dies at 92 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z This year’s list included “blithering,” ”gauche” and “mugwump,” which refers to a person who remains aloof or independent - especially from party politics. Words banned for the new year? ‘Fake news’ gets top vote 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z This year’s list included “blithering,” ”gauche” and “mugwump,” which refers to a person who remains aloof or independent — especially from party politics. List bans ‘fake news,’ ‘covfefe’ and ‘let me ask you this’ 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z In the Diaries, the impression Brown gives of herself in the early 1980s is of a young woman unpolished, gauche and game after the English fashion. Tina Brown: 'What is it with old men and bathrobes?' 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z It includes its own car park scene with a Woodward who is more gauche and wide-eyed than in Redford’s knowing portrayal. The story of the man who brought down Nixon and its 'exact parallel' today 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Is it gauche not to buy a bottle after I’ve been tasting for a while? What to expect on your Washington wine-tasting weekend getaway | Provided By Chateau Ste Michelle 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And why do they dislike us so much, even while admiring gauche plutocrats such as President Trump? Review | Liberal elites don’t have a clue about the white working class. So says a liberal elite law professor. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Normally gauche, he is animated when Lamb chalks up another crushed rival onto the blackboard they use to record the paper’s sales. A new play explores the genesis of Britain's titanic tabloid 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Wealthy people on both sides of the equation — the wealth creators and the heirs — often consider it gauche to even discuss money. Perspective | A how-to guide from the ultra-rich: What to tell your kids about money 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Many lawyers, even those who have dedicated their careers to political causes, defend Gorelick’s work with Kushner, if only because in legal circles, it’s gauche to judge lawyers by their clients. When a liberal power lawyer represents the Trump family, things can get ugly 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z When the 3310 first appeared, sending a text instead of leaving a polite voicemail still seemed a bit gauche, like faxing a letter of condolence. Dumbphone! Can I survive modern life with the original Nokia 3310? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Gleefully gauche and carefree, MIA is the best argument for when cultural appropriation works. MIA: ‘This a white country, you don’t have to spell it out to me’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z “Social media is supporting this change. Posting pictures of what you just bought is gauche; posting pictures of something you’re doing is fine.” Just do it: the experience economy and how we turned our backs on ‘stuff’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “And so a lot of Hannah’s darkest moments or the most gauche, horrible things she’s done literally came out of a year and a half of my life.” Lena Dunham: 'I can't even understand what the alt-right is saying' 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s Donald Trump, according to universal bipartisan proclamations from establishment Washington lifers who broke into such hysterics over a gauche real estate titan who thought he could do their job better than them. Remember when the establishment thought Trump was crazy? 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The “conservative establishment” blanched at Trump’s gauche behavior and seethed as he continued to poll ahead of their anointed candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, despite Trump’s flagrant disregard for their beliefs. So much for the populist presidency: Donald Trump has failed to learn the lessons of his own victory 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Thrift was comforting; material goods uninteresting, bordering on gauche. Confessions of a Watch Geek 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Dresses with gauche outsize frills look like something a well-meaning but clueless mum would buy for her daughter’s teenage prom. Milan fashion week: Gucci embraces its brilliant absurdity with fluid show 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z It works extremely well, appearing gauche only until you accept its service to blunt statement: manner at one with matter. The Enigmatic Art of Raymond Pettibon 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z There are some jarring similarities — two big, fleshy men given to vulgarities and gauche behavior, boastful, thin-skinned, politically amoral, vengeful, unforgiving and, most important, considered illegitimate presidents. Trump’s presidency is doomed 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Flirtation, a walk through the course at night, there's a skinny-dipping adventure...the whole thing is clunky and gauche. Revisiting "A Gentleman's Game," the worst golf movie ever made - Golf Digest 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Sorry to be gauche, but what do you do with the money? Gene Luen Yang Thinks Superheroes Are for Everyone 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Reichardt, perhaps the only person in the world who could find a bird call gauche, yelped. The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z I am astonished that the NY Times would even publish such gauche comments. A Chicago Shooting Survivor, but in Need of a Miracle 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z He was for many, as a gauche pop song of the 70s went, the Black Superman. Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z At first it was considered gauche and naïve to use the Vietnam-era term “quagmire” to describe the United States’ situation in the Middle East. The tragedy of ‘foreign policy elites’ 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Almost a century later, the term morphed into “the black vote” as the word “negro” became gauche in the country’s liberal corners. Clinton, Sanders, and the Myth of a Monolithic “Black Vote” 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The prospect of 100% of respondents suggesting the league’s best team would finish rock bottom might seem a touch gauche. 67% of players say an MLS team would survive the Premier League. Are they right? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z So to suggest that it is a fact that a major cause of gridlock in Washington these days is unprecedented obstructionism by Republican members of Congress towards President Obama’s agenda would be gauche. “Both sides are equally guilty!”: Why the media’s favorite narrative is downright dangerous in the age of Trump 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z To say “we’ve seen this before” is both empirically incorrect and a bit gauche, like scoffing at the arrival of Rose’s Luxury because Washington already had a Morton’s. If you can’t enjoy this Capitals season, maybe sports fandom isn’t for you 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Is it gauche to acknowledge the futility of this review before it begins in earnest? Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is an act of radical creative transparency 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The girl from earlier approached him with a syringe, her gestures gauche. The man with the spider : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Adoring life means embracing everything you desire, even if it seems perverse or gauche. Savages yield to temptation on new album Adore Life 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Their real achievement, just around the corner, was to make punk rock seem bigger and broader than anyone else did: White Man in Hammersmith Palais alone makes the debut seem gauche and narrow. From Kid A to Straight Outta Compton – five flawed albums that became classics 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Whether trying to court an audience with the gauche stadium noise of Never Let Me Down or provoke it with his garage band Tin Machine, nothing seemed to work. David Bowie: Back in the spotlight, still refusing to play along 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z "AG" means "a gauche," or to the left. American bikers prepare for Dakar Rally, the world's most dangerous motor sports event 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Asked about MLB’s new policy in general, Baker provided another gauche response. Aroldis Chapman case will test MLB domestic violence policy 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Photograph: Bauer-Griffin/GC Images If it was once the more dressed up the better, these days that is seen as a bit gauche – as is anything too bodycon or self-consciously tailored. How to get upgraded: a lesson in airport style 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It illustrated the criticism of Yedlin as a gauche defender, even at this modest version of international level. A sour end to the year of Zardes: what we learned from USA's World Cup qualifiers 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The gauche teenager was replaced by a thundering keg of explosive venom on the All Blacks left wing. Jonah Lomu: the World Cup that created a legend - BBC News 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It's gauche to talk about property values at a public meeting, Fischel says, but the concerns people voice instead are clearly connected. There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z That might be a bit gauche for some purists, but it would leave the flora and fauna undisturbed, as opposed to what increased hunting and grazing might do. Florida editorial roundup 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z She lisped, wore frumpy skirts and was nicknamed “The Milkmaid”: gauche and fresh-faced. From Putin to Mullah Omar, traces of cold war paranoia still shape our world | Anne McElvoy 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It is now not totally gauche to confess, at a party, that you spend your late nights perusing the Wikipedia list of serial killers. Ann Rule's true crime books: what made them so compelling? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He seems like a genuine man and comes across as kind and respectful, if a little gauche, rather than the creep some women seem to suspect him to be. Offline dating gives us a buzz Tinder can never match | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Finally, while some glancing is understandable, outright gawking at naked bathers is considered gauche. Nude beaches in America: a guide for career nudists and amateurs 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The unpopularity and unnerving left-wing idealism of the Labour Party’s gauche leader is the Tories’ comfort blanket. The limits to ridicule 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Discussing money is considered gauche in certain situations but permissible in others if the questioner needs the information, and if the topic is approached in the right way, says Smith. The Money Taboo: Why It Exists, Who It Benefits, And How To Navigate It 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z It feels incongruous — gauche, almost — to dig into picnic fare at the kind of place where you should be ordering risotto or tartare or something that comes with mousse, gelee or foam. A crisp and juicy bucket list of D.C.’s best fried chicken 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In France the centre right mocks rich leftists as the gauche caviar. Election 2015: Parties play up the tribal rhetoric 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In certain circles in the U.S. and Europe, this kind of conspicuous display is considered gauche. What Would A $19,999 Apple Watch Mean For The Future Of Pricing Elasticity? 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Just the thought of a 38.5 millimeter dress watch, for quite some time, I considered gauche. SIHH 2015: Introducing the Exceptional A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Automatik 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Our money taboo stems from the the British, who, traditionally, deemed it terribly gauche to talk about money, says Jodi R. R. Smith, of Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting. The Money Taboo: Why It Exists, Who It Benefits, And How To Navigate It 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z But he is not without critics, who point to his sometimes chaotic leadership, gauche manner and occasionally contradictory statements. Jose Mujica: Rebel turned president 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Suddenly, Girls’ Hannah all but demanding her parents continue to support her post-college literary ambitions seems gauche but unsurprising and 13 Going On 30 feels more like a documentary than a cute romcom. Where Have All The Grownups Gone? Why 'Adulthood' As We Know It Is Dead 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z "I think it was very misplaced and gauche of Nicola Sturgeon this morning to try and extract political advantage from the Commonwealth Games," he said. Glasgow Games Fail To Give Scottish Nationalists a Lift Ahead of Televised Debate But what's most potent is the idea that this is, fundamentally, a deeply gauche and pretentious thing to do. Is it ever acceptable to wear sunglasses indoors? 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Still, in old money communities, it is considered gauche to talk about money, which is why someone with that background might say, vaguely, “yes, it was a good year.” The Money Taboo: Why It Exists, Who It Benefits, And How To Navigate It 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z “It embodied much of the spirit of the time — or at least the time when it was designed, early in 1955. It was clumsy, powerful, dowdy, gauche, well-meaning — a de Kooning woman.” With the Blessing of Bill Gates, an Unlikely Summertime Best Seller 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Still, this is pretty gauche for them, and just doesn’t seem like it fits with their brand. Nintendo Forms Unusual Partnership With Mercedes for 'Mario Kart 8' DLC 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z But his expression indicated that he thought doing so would be gauche. Sushi Restaurant Finds Tip Habits Hard to Break 2013-06-07T01:02:49Z Restraints on conspicuous consumption – once considered gauche and tacky – were loosening, said Hernandez. How wealth of Silicon Valley's tech elite created a world apart 2013-05-25T23:04:15Z At times they have seemed ashamed of their strengths, striving for a subtlety and restraint to impress the theorists rather than tearing into the opposition and exposing themselves as quaint or gauche. Manchester United v Aston Villa: five talking points 2013-04-22T21:12:56Z Saying "maniacally focused" at all is out of place and gauche in an earnings call. Apple is losing the war – of words 2013-03-18T14:47:44Z They deliver a performance full of very familiar ingredients: brief flashes of promise, gauche repartee and the sense that with enough visits to venues like this, they might just discover who they actually are. Can the UK's 'toilet circuit' of small music venues survive? 2013-02-22T16:30:00Z Ikea furniture and Ikea-inspired decor is seen as aspirational, to a lifestyle that is modern and cosmopolitan, and removed from the more traditional furnishing tastes of the Gulf, regarded by some as gauche. No women please, we're Saudi Arabian Ikea 2012-10-02T10:38:30Z The smartest thing any announcer said during the opening ceremony was Matt Lauer's honest, if gauche, comment that he couldn't decide if the Olympic baby was "cute or creepy." NBC fail shows network's commitment to 'the last great buggy-whip Olympics' 2012-07-30T13:31:00Z Another indignant commentator, unimpressed also by Oprah’s choreographed visit to a Mumbai slum, described her as “myopic, unaware, ignorant, and gauche.” The Return of Eva Perón 2012-07-30T05:00:00Z France’s “gauche caviar” — wealthy socialists like Dominique Strauss-Kahn or Jack Lang — were hardly revolutionary, but merely took their neckties off at lunch. News Analysis: What’s a Socialist? 2012-06-30T19:27:39Z Admittedly her messages of romance were a little gauche, and certainly exhibitionist. How Twitter is putting an end to our private lives 2012-06-09T16:54:47Z In fact the game is quite clearly rugby, yet this gauche painting of two pairs of pyjama-clad twins is still known and cherished as Rousseau's Footballers. The 10 best? sporting artworks 2012-05-19T23:03:20Z At Haarlem he formed what is known as his first manner, which is but a quaint and gauche imitation of the florid style brought from Italy by Mabuse and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Naturally timid and distrustful of herself, she was vexed at feeling gauche, and sought in spite of it to give herself an unconstrained and bold manner, but not always with success. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z "Doubtless I have been very clumsy, very gauche; all the same, I have come only in kindness." The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z It began to look as if we'd all march right off the cliff just to satisfy their pride and mine, but a French lieutenant came to the rescue with 'a gauche en quatre!' The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z Intermarriage was common for all but the most conservative, and it was considered gauche to discuss sect. Eyewitness in Syria: As Rebels Retreat, A Homs Refugee Warns of Sectarian War 2012-03-01T17:36:51Z Bardith did not accept credit cards — a gauche nuisance — until a few years ago. | Upper East Side: No Bulls Allowed at Bardith, a Purveyor of Antique Porcelain 2012-02-24T04:26:57Z The Yetta he remembered had been impulsive—a creature of extremes—one moment lost in a childish abandon of enthusiasm, the next embarrassed and gauche. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The rise of duelling produced another type, called the main gauche, which was a parrying weapon and often had a toothed edge on which the adversary’s sword was caught and broken. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z "Quatrième à gauche!" cried the porter, and Julienne hurried up the narrow staircase. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z With the rise of sweater-themed parties, guests young and old are rushing to top each other with the most frills, bows, and gauche decorations yet. A Brief History of Ugly Christmas Sweaters 2011-12-15T01:40:00Z Finally I came to the conclusion that they really liked to appear shy and gauche, and deliberately affected the stiffness and the awkwardness. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z But — sorry to be so gauche — killing the world’s most wanted terrorist will make for a nice sound bite. Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election 2011-11-03T08:58:00Z She was also rather gauche in her movements, but this again was not out of keeping with the part. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Extremely clever at any form of brainwork, she was gauche and brusque in her manners, and totally lacking in perception. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z He took the album and pointed out the student—it is always a student, with a white handkerchief round his neck, a white student's hat on his knees, and a gauche manner, who plays Mephisto. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z In those fourteen years the gauche north countryman has seen something of the world. Romney 2011-08-02T02:00:24.233Z He felt awkward, gauche, tongue-tied, hot and cold by turns. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z As spray tanning becomes less gauche, it's also going corporate. Spray Tanning's Golden Moment 2011-06-16T21:00:03Z Thus at this moment he looked distinctly gauche, though not without dignity, as, his back slightly bent, his left arm outstretched, he waited until Lydie chose to place her hand on his sleeve. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z But whatever the faults of the F. O. be, M'Glashan's agent in London has also his share in the calamity, being the stupidest gauche that ever existed. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Shopping, a favorite Japanese pastime, is now seen by many as gauche. Where Chernobyl Outlook Is Shakier Than Ground: William Pesek 2011-04-13T21:31:58Z I assumed the manner of a gauche, stupid school-girl, and began to simper with empty inanity. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z And to top that off it may be added that the war was won by a lefthander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, a southpaw, or, as the French have it, gaucher. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z He was gauche and inaccurate but terribly persistent. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Accordingly, from the French, one is considered “gauche” or “maladroit” when exhibiting clumsiness. Letters: A Question of Savings (2 Letters) 2011-03-14T23:30:19Z It is enough to say, that I was warmly and cordially received, and on the best possible terms with the members of the extreme gauche. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z That manner of speaking may do at New York, Brooklyn, South Boston, or Congress, but at Boston proper it is extremely gauche. The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z The New York Times was also full of backhanded compliments, citing the group's "gauche taste" and "anonymous smash hits." Black Eyed Peas a "mindless" fit for Super Bowl 2011-02-07T05:34:46Z Their fundamental tenets remain, though — good cheer, movement, gauche taste — even as they churn out supersize, occasionless songs, at breakneck tempos, designed for maximum impact. Critic?s Notebook: A Victory for Hip-Hop With Flash, Not Friction 2011-02-07T03:30:20Z These sort of facts should only be referred to obliquely in conversation – offering them outright is as gauche as displaying the gymnastics trophy you got at school. How I acquired my pub quiz technique 2011-01-20T00:06:00Z We look back, and we can't believe we were ever that gauche, that gaudy. MySpace shrinks into the digital void 2011-01-14T09:00:02Z He was, however, far from gauche and off-loaded with some dexterity but Tindall's leadership is likely to earn him the jersey. Five questions for England ahead of the Six Nations 2011-01-12T22:30:20Z Nobody got fired in the first days of N.B.A. training camps — that would be so gauche — but the Nuggets started theirs by leaving Carmelo Anthony in a bizarre limbo, writes J.A. Leading Off: The Return of the Bears 2010-09-28T16:21:00Z And yet, for all that he might have seemed a little gauche, Zuckerberg possessed supreme confidence in his own abilities. Facebook's intriguing world revealed 2010-09-11T23:20:00Z There is some prospect that the opposition will be gauche by comparison. World Cup 2010: Fabio Capello must deliver as moment of truth arrives 2010-06-26T06:00:00Z I’d say this guy gives new meaning to the term "gauche new money," but he doesn't, because those words are clearly inadequate to describe him. Senator Subprime? Meet politics' latest rich guy 2010-04-30T12:31:00Z The winger ultimately appeared gauche but Capello will bear in mind the disturbance he caused initially. European failure gives Fabio Capello reason to cheer 2010-04-08T21:10:00Z "He's a trifle gauche," said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. The Wonderful Visit She stood by his side now—flushed, silent, a trifle gauche, for it was something of an ordeal to meet the people who politely ignored her existence in the life of the neighbourhood. Lady Cassandra All that he has ever done that is injudicious or mean or gauche will infallibly strike him as more injudicious and meaner and more gauche in the cold and judicial stare of the waking hour. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland His own origin was too recent to make an alliance of this kind desirable, and he wished that she had been a princess; even de la main, gauche of some royal house. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life She made a big effort, though, to recover; it seemed so ungracious, so rude, to receive a kindness in so gauche a fashion. Anxious Audrey At intervals lamps, as yet unlit, protruded from either side, and to warn us of these from the darkness a voice would call, “attention à gauche,” “attention à droite.” With the French in France and Salonika The novelty of everything so occupied him that he was the more gauche in manner. A Danish Parsonage Madame von Marwitz sent her presents from Paris; a wonderful white silk dressing-gown; a box of chocolate; a charming bit of old enamel picked up in a rive gauche curiosity shop. Tante But Clara, too, was under the spell of the moon, and his gauche response to her mood had touched her. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists My eyes glanced around to see the effect produced on my friends by my gauche cousin. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 The truth was, I did not like her, and was too young, too ignorant and gauche to try to smooth over my dislike. The First Violin A Novel I left him and offended Mrs. Faulkner by telling her what I thought of him, and she told my mother that it was such a pity that I was so gauche. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Directed by the concierge to the cinquième à gauche, I mounted narrow, evil smelling, badly lighted stairs, and rang at the designated door. The Belovéd Vagabond At first I was so gauche, so stupid and provincial, that I could not bear to have anybody kiss my hand and pay me compliments. The Dark Star Labour, in such indolent and self-possessed acres, was a crude and gauche idea. In the Tail of the Peacock One evening at the theatre a young man, Armand Duval, who, though by no means innocent, is shy and gauche, is introduced to her, and she laughs at him. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century His small stature, his youth—he was now only fifteen years old—his “gauche” appearance, were not calculated to inspire the boys with any respect for him. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant He felt gauche and awkward, the consciousness of what he must say after dinner weighed on him heavily. The Wooden Horse Again his hand went to the bell, and again Ringfield remonstrated, but his gauche utterances were of no avail in face of Crabbe's decision of character and natural lording of it. Ringfield A Novel The gauche boy gone from him, Milt took her hand, pressed it to his cheek. Free Air And the Greek professor stared at Frazer's gauche movements with a grim smugness that indicated, "Quite the sort of thing I expected." The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life They feel that they are gauche—and yet they know that they are beautiful—wonderfully beautiful in their own badly dressed way. Mufti The Emperor amused the King and me by saying he was so embarrassé when people were presented to him, and that he felt so "gauche" en frac, which certainly he is quite unaccustomed to wear. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 I had lost much of my awkwardness and gauche manners, and under the $10 a week arrangement began to dress fairly well. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude She is certainly pretty in a coarse kind of a way, I admit, but terribly gauche. Tom Gerrard My dear niece is very young—a mere child, you understand me, unformed, gauche, what you call shy. The Northern Iron His stays are always, he is often, "tight," His collar, like his birth, is sans reproche; He seldom does a thing because it's right, But, on the other hand, is never gauche. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 It was obvious that the Id was sensitive to the gauche ways of the Master, yet his equally obvious devotion was unwavering. Cubs of the Wolf They might find her uninteresting, but not gauche. The Californians I was only little Katharine Harrison then; I remember perfectly how shy and gauche I was, and how terrified at you. The Brentons It seemed to him that his sister-in-law meant not only to rescue Una from an undesirable lover, but to attach a handsome, gauche youth to herself. The Northern Iron "My dear parent," drawled Jean Briggerland, "after my lecture on the stupidity of the average criminal, do you imagine I should do anything so gauche?" The Angel of Terror It steers a medium course between the extrême droit of the so-called Family Compact, and the extrême gauche of the Baldwin opposition. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 The child in her was gauche and crude, sitting in judgment—as cynical, as critical a spectator as Sissy herself—upon the very hopes the woman awakened. The Madigans It is that we Mexican gentlemen believe you Americans somewhat gauche in the handling of the rapier, though we know you to be adepts in the use of the pistol. The Lone Ranche “I think I see Mr Lamb beckoning to you,” observed Gatty, wishful to relieve the poor gauche chaplain from his uncomfortable position. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Mademoiselle was embarrassed and constrained, and it was I—I, the gauche and unsophisticated "boy"—who had to gently disarm her fears and lead her back to her bright and natural way. The Rose of Old St. Louis He came forward with a gauche gallantry, and offered his arm to Horatia. Sarah's School Friend Thus the gauche or left is occupied by the extreme liberals; the centre gauche, by those who are a shade nearer the Bourbons. Recollections of Europe It seems that he was shy and gauche, and that he strove to conceal these defects by occasional outbursts of a dreadful playfulness. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France We were at the small, cheap hotel on "la rive gauche" where we'd stayed and been happy three years ago, before starting on our holiday trip. Everyman's Land At these words which indicated the pretension to personal popularity lurking in the mind of the royalist orator, the Assembly gave marked signs of disapprobation, and the côté gauche murmured loudly. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Your travels have made you rather boisterous and gauche. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood Though his lordship lived so much by himself he was neither gauche nor stupid when he went into society. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour But to be gauche is merely to be awkward and clumsy; while to be right is something far higher and more important. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science How could he have been so gauche, so clumsy and unlike himself. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story Another hand was thrust into his, with a sudden gauche movement that was not without a girlish charm. Secret Bread She liked the idea of placing the gauche girl under so vigorous and seasoned a wing as Estelle Baker's. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Droite and up goes the right hand, gauche and the left follows. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State She was as gauche and simple in his company as a young girl would have been; but her mind was different. Nocturne It was bad enough to offer to escort the Mainwarings, who, however gauche they might appear, were undoubtedly ladies, but to take Poppy, alias Sarah, as well, was really trying. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls An Italian may be rude, he can never be gauche. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate If she could be persuaded to amend her style of talk and her gauche manners, perhaps she was of a true fine nature underneath. Patty and Azalea It is not that gauche happenings are serious offenses, no matter how awkward the incident. Etiquette "Father said you were very shy, but he didn't think you were the other thing—gauche." Kitty Trenire "The Germans are very gauche—their tone is still just the same!" Fields of Victory Lady Selina thought her a very handsome but very gauche young woman. Marcella Our extreme gauche, which we call the Manchester School, employs its whole efforts in that direction. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 He was born a gentleman à la main gauche. Promenades of an Impressionist She said you were growing up shy and gauche. Kitty Trenire The answer was intended to be jocular; it sounded only gauche, as Drake recognised, and the laugh which accompanied it positively rude. The Philanderers From her first book, her manner seems to be easy, adequate, unforced, with nothing about it self-conscious or gauche. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities He led the centre gauche into most of its errors. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 At worst it might stunt her from any form of enlightenment and she would appear foolishly gauche and inept to herself. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America "I expect I ought to, and I expect it is something dreadful; but if I am happier so, why can't I go on being gauche?" Kitty Trenire He had pictured to himself some slim, quiet exile, perhaps a little gauche and timid, but at any rate amenable to instruction and to his will. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle They had begun at once to employ upon him the oldest arts known to woman, and he was not flustered or "gauche"—a word Winona had lately learned. The Wrong Twin The queen, however, was quick to see what was gauche, and did not scruple to reprove them for uncourtly manners. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook "Well, he seems to be a shy little man, gauche, and--and--underbred, even for his late position." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Bargaining with the President would be gauche at the least. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel Tame anarchists, a dreary crew, Squib Socialists too damp to sosh, Fake Hobohemians steeped in suds, Glib females in Artistic Duds With Captive Husbands cowed and gauche. Hermione's Group of Thinkers This brought to my mind images of infinite worry, gauche servants, "please Ma'am," contretemps, and the habit growing out of our elaborate and uselessly conventional life of magnifying the importance of similar trifles. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains He was a bulky, gauche, noisy, humorous man, with narrow eyes, a rustic complexion, large red hands, and brilliant clothes. Main Street A man's domestic armoury was filled with weapons if he could make a woman feel gauche, inexperienced, in the wrong. The Shuttle The youngest of them all, whose name was Philippe, was somewhat unlearned, and was considered gauche, so the king thought very little of him, and no one ever spoke about him. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc I felt like waving, but that would have been gauche, so I kept my hands to myself. Violists Rachel had never in her life felt so gauche and awkward. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Ah! how unready, how gauche she had shown herself! Eleanor Mrs. Van Dam smiled, and I felt gauche, like a schoolgirl. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day My father, the king, has given his consent to the ambassadors from France for the wedding, and I have a deep suspicion that Philippe is gauche, and that he may even be avaricious. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc In France, where they consider English people frightfully gauche, all this etiquette is reversed, and is very much more like ours in America. Manners and Social Usages A little gauche, 'tis fair to own, And rather given to skips and bounces; Endangering thereby many a gown, And playing, oft, the devil with flounces. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes She was nothing to him but a shy gauche girl whose very existence was an embarrassment. The Shadow of the East Do you remember when I was very young and gauche? Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories If I can find some defect in Philippe that shows that he's gauche or avaricious, he will never be my husband. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc It is considered gauche to be undecided as to whether you will take clear soup or thick soup; decide quickly. Manners and Social Usages Carolyn Thorpe got as much enjoyment out of the gauche carriage and rough voices of the "chorus girls" as she had expected, but was not observed to warm toward "Annabella's" closest friend. Bertram Cope's Year She was a fleshly, gauche, vain, and ill-favoured woman. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series She felt always in his society as shy and gauche as an awkward child, and was conscious that it was in such a light he regarded her. Mrs. Day's Daughters I thought that if Philippe were gauche and avaricious he would not dare sleep in a bed like this one, but instead would lie down in the other which is more plain. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc You were so gauche, so ignorant, so violent, so confident one moment, so plunged into despair the next. Fortitude This woman had a trick of always making her appear gauche. The Nest Builder We played a piece at Canterbury called "Palace and Prison" adapted by Simpson from "La Main gauche et la main droite" which, as far as I remember, is unobjectionable. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir She was very young and gauche, failing often to do what was required of her from mere nervousness. The Sheik I would rather renounce my life and possessions than take a husband who is gauche, vile and avaricious. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc How very gauche and rude of him; so unlike him, too! Two Years Ago, Volume II. Sinistrality -- N. sinistrality†; left, left hand, a gauche; sinister, nearside†, larboard, port. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Mademoiselle," I said, "I fear I have been very rude, and, as usual, very gauche. The Unspeakable Gentleman She wondered if it would seem gauche and too informal to speak now. The Head of the House of Coombe He is young, more genteel than any other man, courageous, generous and more wise than gauche. The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc And we used to laugh at him together, behind his back, and christened him the wild Indian, because he was so gauche and shy. Two Years Ago, Volume II. There is, even, in the architecture of Winnipeg, a sort of gauche pride visible. Letters from America She believed you were as gauche as that. The Unspeakable Gentleman The little man is affected, gauche, and servile. At the Sign of the Eagle "La premiere Rue a gauche," said an old man of whom I inquired the road; "et puis," added I. "And then quite straight; it is a chaussee all the way, and you cannot mistake it." The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4 She scarcely took the pains to conceal her disapproval of this young man—so ordinary, so gauche. The Tempting of Tavernake Harriet felt rather sorry for the gauche little creature who flung aside her hat and wrap, and sat biting her gold pen-handle, and spoiling sheet after sheet of paper. Harriet and the Piper Priscilla had completely dropped her role of the awkward and gauche girl. A Sweet Girl Graduate Even though his host was gauche it cannot be denied that the retort was rude. Chopin : the Man and His Music Oh, at least I am not so gauche, now I know how to ogle. The Lucky Man One sees him develop from the shy, gauche, immature boy into the mature, secluded, crabbed, ungracious student. The Upton Letters A Parliamentary Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things, and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent. The English Constitution You know she's horridly shy, and as gauche as if she lived in the backwoods, and we meant to 'send her to Coventry.' A Sweet Girl Graduate He laughed, only half comprehending, gauche in the expression of his deep-hearted satisfaction. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life He is a little gauche, but that will soon rub off. In the Reign of Terror An extraordinary basis, indeed, for a social organization—the lame ducks, the noble army of the incapables, the gentlemen a main gauche! The Gates of Chance The mere color and odor of the stuffy offices, the gauche, material attendants, the impossible aspirants and participants in this make-believe world! The Titan She knocked over a footstool as she did so, and one or two people looked round and shrugged their shoulders at the poor gauche girl. A Sweet Girl Graduate Once at the great hall his mother put the gauche little Peg at her ease, introduced her to the most charming of partners, and saw that everything was done to minister, to her enjoyment. Peg O' My Heart His courtliness of a moment ago had vanished, and he stood sheepish and gauche as a clown. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Without being exactly original, she did show a commendable intelligence, and though at times she was gauche and even uncourtly, he felt that here was a person whom it might be well to cultivate. Where Angels Fear to Tread Feeling that his question was somewhat gauche, he smiled angrily. The Idiot Also, her peculiar gaiety—which always sounded as though she were laughing at herself, at you, and at the world in general—was gauche and anything but infectious, while her sympathy was too evidently forced. Youth He is gauche, affected, somewhat ridiculous, distrusted by the Republicans, and scoffed at by the Royalists. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo I'm very gauche and very shy, Her jokes aren't in my line; And, worst of all, I'm seventeen While She is forty-nine. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition Our mistress passed her scissors between me and my neighbor of the cote gauche, and then she seemed instantly to regret her own precipitation. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief Your devotion to Lucille, or rather the singleness of your devotion to Lucille," she remarked, "is positively the most gauche thing about you. The Yellow Crayon As it was, he felt unusually timid and gauche, not quite knowing what to say, a fact which seemed to amuse Mlle. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is. The Egoist I may be said, myself, to have belonged to the centre gauche, that being my accidental position in the fabric, when it was a natural consequence to obtain sentiments of this shade. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief |
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