girlishness

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Ms. Hoffman’s Desdemona has a pronounced, wide-eyed girlishness that makes her confusion at her husband’s suspicions and growing antagonism pitiful to watch.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

“There was a girlishness to Shiv back then, but she has transformed into a woman,” she said, “and that reflects my own journey as part of the series.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2023

In the script, she wrote herself the stage direction “HEIDI releases any last remnants of the buoyant, performative girlishness that is one of her lifelong coping mechanisms.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019

Ms. Birkin, around 40 at the time of filming, retains a slightly breathy girlishness that complements her largely cheery, open personality and her intrepid intelligence.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015

She had lost the fawn-like girlishness that would take flight; there was no nun-spirit within her now to cry "Help me!"

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert