| And the little coquette was charming because that was the award given to soldiers in the Civil War for loyalty. |
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| This month marks her cinematic debut in a leading role, though as another corseted coquette. |
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| Charles is understanding and compassionate with Mrs. Lee, the aging, ageless coquette, who dances through an army of Puerto Rican gigolos. |
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| Isabelle is Bertolucci's confused coquette, the question mark drowning in repressed opprobrium. |
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| Therefore, Sand's version of the opera seduction scene, featuring a mysterious Italian coquette, clearly informs d'Agoult's account. |
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| She would flirt with every man in the room and play the cold-hearted coquette in order to make him jealous and make his move. |
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| The poor man, caught senseless by the little coquette, dropped his mallet and his cheeks began to redden with embarrassment. |
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| The only time seduction doesn't involve warmth and feeling, says Greene, is when it is performed by a coquette. |
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| The coquette Lady Betty Modish is led to accept the suit of the honourable Lord Morelove by a plot to excite her jealousy, followed by reproaches from Sir Charles. |
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| With women in general his letters convey a message of conspicuous gallantry, playfully flirtatious in the manner of a male coquette. |
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| He turned to size her up, wondering if she knew that she sounded like a coquette. |
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| Against jarring juxtapositions of Chopin melodies, he tackles stereotypical female images such as coquette, bride and mother with a gaggle of flying baby dolls. |
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| Adele took Lin up on that dinner offer, and Lydie had to sit through the whole night watching Adele act like the little coquette she was and flirt madly with Lin. |
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| I can't say that her Manon is exactly prismatic or that she explores every facet of this self-destructive coquette and her lightning mood changes. |
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| I have just returned from 10 days in Panama where my favorite birds were White-tipped sicklebill, Rufous-crested coquette, and Brown-billed scythebill. |
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| Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it. |
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| After that go all out, play coquette, come hither with your wardrobe. |
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| But soon her mother's forgetfulness returned — like a painkiller kicking in — and she'd go back to playing the coy dingbat, the innocent coquette from the cocktail parties of Ann's youth. |
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| As originally drafted, the novel featured Pansy O'Hara, a spoiled and strong-willed coquette who comes of age just as her family's life on a cotton plantation is ravaged by war. |
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| The latter depicts a coquette somewhat past her prime having lunch with her young lover in yet another of Manet's bold attempts to portray controversial subject matter in a decidedly modern manner. |
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| Massimilla was no coquette. She had no second string to her bow, no secondo, no terzo, no patito. |
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| Southeast Brazil has a wealth of special birds, few more impressive than the tiny Festive Coquette. |
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| Coquette and cocotte were equally part of the era's imaginary representations of women. |
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