For all his verbal roughhousing, the 41-year-old exudes a peculiar vulnerability and a boyishness in his taunts. |
It's not that a literal boyishness or immaturity is required or the eternally boyish Regis Philbin would have been more successful than Johnny Carson but a freshness of outlook must be retained. |
Though he's preternaturally young, his unmediated aggressiveness has tempered any bit of boyishness. |
These are boyish affectations, certainly, but boyishness is the realm in which these men seek inspiration, not a code by which they live. |
Its boyishness and immaturity, its stiffness and bombast, are perceptible on every page. |
In his attempt, Faulks delivers a much rounded Bertie, while retaining his boyishness and ineptness. |