| 单词 | gaucherie |
| 例句 | The throat pain always returns, though, unless I tell what I really think, whether or not I lose my job, or spit out gaucheries all over a party. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to our table, looking straight before me, and immediately paid the penalty of gaucherie by knocking over the vase of stiff anemones as I unfolded my napkin. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My shyness and gaucherie became worse, too, making me stolid and dumb when people came to the house. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I am very different from that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with an intense desire to please. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z With her background and Boethian worldview, she would take a very stoic and fatalistic view of whatever sexual gaucheries and blunders he committed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sommeliers look a bit shocked if I order a pretty pink rosé, and although I’ve tried to defy it, my mother’s commandment about the gaucherie of wearing white after Labor Day haunts me. Why Do We End Summer So Early? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The American’s attempt to seem sophisticated is thus taken by the waiter as a mark of irredeemable American gaucherie. Notes on the End of Restaurant Tipping 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Determined to escape the gaucheries of the family’s exclusive Turtle Creek enclave, Yvonne ascends from cheerleader to top majorette baton twirler to debutante to sorority girl. Edmund White’s High-Octane Saga of Twin Sisters and 1950s Texas 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Tillerson does not let fall from his lips such gaucherie as “radical Islamic terrorism.” Rex Tillerson is a patriot — and a swamp denizen 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The youngest girl, whose hat was lying upon the platform some distance away, hung her head in a very pretty attitude of shy gaucherie. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z The blood flew to her face again and it was with an embarrassment, a gaucherie, the like of which she could not remember, that she extended her hand toward the errant sunshade. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z There was a shyness in his resumption of our relations more than could be accounted for by the native Taylorvillian gaucheries of emotion. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Nor were there any gaucheries at dinner that night, for both Alfred and Gladys were silent and constrained in manner. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z She looked very tired, and I committed the gaucherie of saying I was sorry to hear she had not been well. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z His incredible gaucheries apart, I had no reason for hating him. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z But my poor sister’s given over, I hold, to a fine Boston gaucherie that has rubbed off on her by being there so much. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z I hoped indeed that my blush might pass with him for a denial of the very thing it confessed, or at least for mere shyness and gaucherie. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z “I think my gaucherie needs some apologia too,” she confessed. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z After all there is some slight excuse for her gaucherie; she has been spoilt with a superabundance of this world’s goods—quarter of a million of money is rather inclined to blunt the finer sensibilities.” The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z To the rest it had been at most a gaucherie, a parallel which, if perhaps not felicitous, had been without significance and would be readily forgotten. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z But, in the latter case, it is Diana bending the bow, and brandishing the darts of Cupid; and with an unsuspicious gaucherie, which now and then turns the point against her own bosom. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z It was Helena who, pitiful for the gaucherie of the girl, saved the situation by raising the issue of tea. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z At these revolutionary remarks, Mr. Bowles started, and for a moment he almost forgot his breeding; then he withdrew into himself, and let the gaucherie pass with the contempt which it deserved. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Carson had scarcely been struck by Miss Chard's cleverness—considering that on both his first and second meeting with her she had had odd lapses of something very like gaucherie. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z In her air there was no awkwardness—not the slightest sign of humble origin, or the gaucherie that usually springs from it. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z But the oddness of such an encounter—its gaucherie—would be all upon his side? The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Her frankness was more the frankness of a child than the outspokenness of gaucherie. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z Over the long distance he got Colonel Wallifarro's house, with the amused assistance of an operator who saw only his rustic gaucherie, and who missed entirely the simple, almost biblical, dignity of his bearing. The Tempering The gaucheries were turning the last screw, But there was still the island in the sea, The harridan chorus of eternity, That let her smile because he saw she knew. Sonnets from the Patagonian Sparkling with sheer delight at his gaucherie, Susan put out both hands. The Book of Susan A Novel "I don't know," he confessed with unconscious gaucherie, "I simply couldn't get you out of my thoughts." Patricia Brent, Spinster Her manner, without a suspicion of gaucherie, is nervous, almost appealing; and her smile, because so rare, is very charming, and apt to linger in the memory. Faith and Unfaith Saul, as a man of the world, refrained from this gaucherie. The Tempering Irene would ask, and Jenny, resentful, would scowl at the gaucherie. Carnival The necessity is to hold the tale in mind before writing until its totality of character is realized, then to strive to commit no gaucheries in execution. The Technique of Fiction Writing Meanwhile, try and unlearn all those gaucheries you picked up with that strange Lady Hester. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Maybe there's a sort of gaucherie about it. Old Crow And as for a certain gaucherie, that was the spice to his whole manner. The Missourian Inadequacy, helplessness, gaucherie, prove that the feelings are bigger than the eloquence. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Bunsen, however, was never put out by my gaucheries, but gave me friendly hints in feeling my way through what seemed to me a perfect labyrinth. My Autobiography A Fragment Some intimation of his gaucherie made him stumble. Nobody General Merritt in his official report refers to this destruction of property as a mistake and characterizes the action as "gaucherie." Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War Despite all her magnificence and the absence of any gaucherie in her movements when off the stage, all natural grace disappeared the moment she attempted to be somebody else. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real And, of course, environment had something to do with it: moon, opportunity, Frederick Augustus's indolent gaucherie. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess His deportment is always admirable, and he would carry himself through a drawing-room without any sensible gaucherie. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand And it was only a certain gaucherie, a gawkiness on Anna's part that irritated her against the girl. The Rainbow Notwithstanding the gaucherie of her years and her apparent unhappiness, she carried herself with a certain dignity and grace of movement which were wonderfully impressive. The Master Mummer No; this would be an acknowledgment of having committed an act of gaucherie—to which man’s vanity rarely accedes, or only with extreme reluctance. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Bernhardt takes advantage of my day-dreams—My husband's indolent gaucherie—Violent love-making—Ninon who loved families, not men—Does Bernhardt really love me? Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess There is an awkwardness in men that women like; there is a gaucherie that women detest. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Mrs. Clibborn was continually mortifying her daughter by this kind of illiterate gaucherie. The Hero She was as tall as I, and a certain grace of carriage which she had always possessed, and which had grown with her years, redeemed her completely from the gaucherie of her uncomfortable age. The Master Mummer "He might have been well enough in his woods; but why should you bring your poor devils into civilized society, and expect me to bear with their gaucheries, in addition to your own?" A Pessimist In Theory and Practice It was some strangeness in her, possibly some unconscious gaucherie, that so often called his attention to herself. The Opened Shutters It is a sign of gaucherie, however, to allow the top of either sock to protrude above the puttee or legging. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 He left her standing with heightened color blaming herself bitterly for her gaucherie. Tam o' the Scoots Right now, on top of her other gaucheries, she was unscrewing the comb from her wrist—an unfriendly if not quite a hostile act, as anyone must admit. The Night of the Long Knives But I had gone too far; his mother was shocked by my gaucherie, and he was humiliated and justly exasperated. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Faint and far-away voices came to her, and she wondered if Mr. and Mrs. Lenox were discussing her and laughing, as she would do in their place, at her gaucheries. Jewel Weed His most original song is "Orpheus with His Lute," which reproduces the quaint and fascinating gaucheries of the text with singular charm. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions They committed gaucheries, but the fount thereof was kindliness. Nights in London Her unconcealed adoration and devotion to himself had awakened affection in return, at least her gaucheries no longer exasperated him and they were daily growing less. The Lady Doc He was somewhat surprised at her agitation, and her evident desire to leave the place unseen; for Nell was usually so perfectly self-possessed and free from nervousness or gaucherie. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Miss Edna Best was an admirable flapper, with just the right note of gaucherie. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 "Is that an impertinence or a gaucherie?" she asked. In Direst Peril But it is obvious that, however much political strength was assured the President by his instinctive appreciation of popular feeling, this was largely offset by the gaucherie of his political tactics. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. At such times Symes himself talked rapidly to hide the gaucheries of her speech, and they were ordeals which he took care should be as few as possible. The Lady Doc “Certainly not,” stammered I, somewhat ashamed at my gaucherie. The Rifle Rangers I should then be certain that she extenuated my gaucherie at her party, whether I got speech with her or no. She and I, Volume 1 No doubt much of Meighen's democratic gaucherie about garments was abandoned at the Imperial Conference. The Masques of Ottawa But for all that, it would hurt you to see people smiling at your husband's little gaucheries, wouldn't it?' The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton I believe that gaucherie on my part helped though a little, her fine senses understood it was because I was so nervously anxious to offer comfort—a much kinder note came into her voice—. Man and Maid She was free from the affectations, gaucheries, commonplaces, wearinesses of many good women he had known. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers She scarcely felt like pointing this out, however; and the compliment of Smith's real concern at her departure would compensate for a little gaucherie of expression. White Ashes The gaucherie of that “still” struck upon Mark’s artistic sensibilities, trained in Italian habits of speech. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Miss Lucilla Stone listened with a little personal discomfiture, for she was, like Mrs. Jennings, so thoroughly mistress of herself and the situation, that any gaucherie or boisterous indiscretion was positive pain to her. A Houseful of Girls He had risen and stood watching her awkwardly, longing to comfort her, but ignorant how to go about it, and feeling acutely his helplessness and his gaucherie. The Long Night This was the pleader of the court-house rally, and she forgot the gaucheries and limitations of a moment since. The Henchman Though she might choose to defy the world’s censure, she never dreamed of giving an opening to its ridicule; she was less capable of gaucherie than of a crime. Sword and Gown A Novel Why, then, go on parroting gaucheries that Schumann himself, were he alive today, would have long since corrected? Damn! A Book of Calumny It was more curiosity than gaucherie that prompted her to hold the hand offered her and scrutinize the features as if to evoke from the significant, etched wrinkles the tremendous past of this hostess. Visionaries Lolling, gesticulating, fidgeting, handling an eye-glass or watch chain and the like, give an air of gaucherie, and take off a certain percentage from the respect of others. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society On her first appearance her manner was purposely full of gaucherie, her costume badly considered and all awry, her singing careless and out of time. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag That good Chinfeather has not quite eradicated our gaucherie, it seems. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 It was a piece of gaucherie which he would find it hard to forgive in himself, and Lightmark might well resent it. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Insolence and gaucherie are on the one hand, coolness and finished grace on the other, and, although there are several moments of hatred between the two, their affection is the proper theme of the book. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 And if anybody noticed the gaucherie it must have been just your brother! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Mrs. Baker thought that the sooner one was allowed to slough off the gaucheries of the Young Person, the better. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man How she would save his quiet wife, not to say himself, from the gaucheries of which both would be guilty until the ways of the polite world could be learned! Sevenoaks I was surprised at finding in the gyn�ceum of a class of society of this description, such agreeable and easy manners, untainted by the least gaucherie or awkward pretensions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 He isn't apt to find fault, but I am conscious that he is secretly criticising my dress, my dinners, the gaucheries of the servants, my moral qualities, even the way I turn my sentences. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 I tell you plainly I only trench on them, and intrench in them, from gaucherie, pure and respectable ... The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 But calm, sweet and composed as the most fastidious would require, Rosalie greeted the visitors without a shadow of confusion or a sign of gaucherie. The Daughter of Anderson Crow "Of course not," I retorted, looking a little pained at such flagrant gaucherie; "but you can't cast off a respectable blood relation because he happens to live on charcoal and hot water." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 So far from any external gaucherie, she seemed quite as much at home here, and quite as fit here, as England's plenipotentiary. 54-40 or Fight She tried, too, to be gracious and gentle, and committed no gaucheries and made no ignorant errors. Patty and Azalea But there were other events than death which could make the utterance of his wish a gaucherie. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories I sat looking down at my plate with the gaucherie of a silly child. Spanish Doubloons It is as though there were, despite his passion for liberty, equality, and fraternity, a certain gaucherie in his relations with other human beings, and he were at his happiest as a solitary. Old and New Masters A short time before the tragedy of Mayerling, Crown Princess Stephanie had a very nasty fall, owing to the gaucherie of a cavalry officer with whom she was waltzing. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) Proctor came to similar grief for a similar gaucherie, and even so famous a man as Lord Kelvin suffered in like manner. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe There is always a certain air of gaucherie in resuming your seat and repeating the ceremony of leave-taking. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette I blushed often, smiled foolishly, and was afflicted with a general apprehension in regard to gaucherie. The Morgesons "Rather propitiate the offended deities by a crumb tossed over the shoulder," added I. "Over the left?" asked the Baron, to intimate his knowledge of another idiom, together with a reproof for my gaucherie. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 The tenderness that this gaucherie aroused in her made her the more merciless in her mockery! Madcap In them is held up to ridicule the gaucherie, the contracted notions, the vulgarity, the conceit, and the general snobbism of the middle-class English abroad. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook There is always a certain air of gaucherie in resuming your seat and repeating the ceremony of leave-taking. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette She detested Erik; gloated over his gaucheries—his "breaks," she called them. Main Street But Vivian Grey was a graceful, lively lad, with just enough of dandyism to preserve him from committing gaucheries, and with a devil of a tongue. Vivian Grey There was a shyness full of charm, a graceful gaucherie delightful to watch as the gambolings of young animals. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California "Ain't I always said Bill was a good mixer?" called Cousin Egbert, but his gaucherie was pointedly ignored. Ruggles of Red Gap To offer to carve a dish, and then perform the office unskilfully, is an unpardonable gaucherie. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette "I entreat your pardon, sir, for any gaucherie of which I may have been guilty, and desire to extend to you my appreciation of the honor you have done me." Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Never eat all that is on your plate, and above all never be guilty of the gaucherie of scraping your plate, or passing your bread over it as if to clean it. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Cope announced, with a breathless particularity not altogether disassociated from self-conscious gaucherie, that he should be unable to go. Bertram Cope's Year When he got up to go, he took leave of her with all the old timid gaucherie. The History of David Grieve Sylvia, at first listless and uninterested, looked inquiringly from the major to Quarrier, surprised at the suppressed feeling exhibited over so trivial a gaucherie. The Fighting Chance Nor, I must add, did Venables show any ill-will to me for the gaucherie which had caused me to rake up this painful episode in his career. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 A gentleman be should careful, in entering a carriage, not to trample upon ladies' dresses, shut their shawls in the door, or commit any other gaucheries. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. He sat down again quickly, feeling hot and cold with shame, just as he remembered he had been wont to feel when he had committed some gaucherie in his early days in England. The Broken Road Lady Driffield also shook hands, but, with constitutional gaucherie, she did not second Mrs. Wellesdon's remark; she stood by silent and stiff. The History of David Grieve Your eminence," she said, "you must pardon Bobby's gaucherie. The Turquoise Cup, and, the Desert He had a remorse running to despair of his social gaucheries, and walked miles and miles to get the twitchings out of his face, the starts and shrugs out of his arms and shoulders. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 There is some gaucherie in his walk, from his attempts to conceal his lameness. Byron His gaucheries frequently set her teeth on edge. The Prince of Graustark That might have happened in the romantic decades of the early nineteenth century; but our English literary tradition was a saving influence which kept us from gaucherie, even if it set limits upon our strength. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism At any other time the gaucherie would have annoyed him exceedingly; in the existing circumstances, no more fortunate incident could have happened, since it brought Evelyn Forbes herself unwittingly to the rescue. Number Seventeen By this time, however, a girl whose personal charms were few, whose poverty was apparent and whose gaucherie was even now often extreme, was more than filling the place left vacant by Maggie. A Sweet Girl Graduate The only real shadow of early shyness is the quite disproportionate amount of unhappiness that conscious gaucherie brings with it. At Large Alone of all his lady acquaintances, Madame Steynlin liked him all the better for this gaucherie. South Wind A statesman who should show that gaucherie would exhibit a defect of imagination, and expose an incapacity for dealing with men which would be a great hindrance to him in his calling. The English Constitution There is a cynical doctrine that most men would rather be accused of wickedness than of gaucherie. Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Now little Molly Gibson has a certain gaucherie about her which would disqualify her at once from any clandestine proceedings. Wives and Daughters It was not like ordinary shyness, the gaucherie of a big, awkward lout unaccustomed to woman's society but able to be at his ease and boisterous in the midst of a crowd of men. The Garden of Allah I was sorry that I had spoken English before him so heedlessly, and resolved that I would never be guilty of such gaucherie again. John Bull on the Guadalquivir But she cared not—she saw a gathering school and rising church, which eclipsed all thought of present inattentions and gaucheries. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations For a few moments he became aware of a blind rage possessing him and he cursed deeply his stupidity and the gaucherie of his manner. The Major On such occasions he begged Mrs. Dolly Madison to act as hostess; and a charming and gracious figure she was, casting a certain extenuating veil over the President's gaucheries. Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty They had, not unreasonably, expected some original audacity or gaucherie from the blacksmith's daughter, which might astonish yet amuse their guest, and condone for the situation forced upon them. A Phyllis of the Sierras Your fine is coarse, your bright is dim, your grace is gaucherie. The Madonna of the Future A silence, until Margaret tried another question, equally briefly answered; and, after a short interval, the young lady contrived to make her exit, with the same amount of gaucherie as had marked her entrance. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Her personal appearance? some gaucherie in her dress? Tommy and Co. Its people should not find him lacking: he would wear their manner and speak their language—no gaucherie should betray him, no homely phrase escape his lips. His Own People His oddness of speech, his gaucheries, his ignorances and nervousness had all been so lightly treated that they had been brushed away almost insensibly. A Millionaire of Yesterday Every rash remark, every "break" in social form, every gaucherie was seized upon and ridiculed with-out mercy. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War He was carefully and correctly dressed in clothes borrowed from his new tailor, and he showed not the slightest signs of strangeness or gaucherie amongst his unfamiliar surroundings. The Malefactor Consequently the breach of the laws of etiquette, that is, any impoliteness or gaucherie, any impropriety, or an inappropriate remark, though quite accidental, will cause the most intense blushing of which a man is capable. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals |
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