| A certain savage uncouthness seemed to have fallen upon him during the last few minutes. |
| The comforts that his books offer children are primal: revenge, candy, cheerful uncouthness, and the knowledge that a grownup somewhere sympathizes with them instinctively. |
| His consequent rebellion may exaggerate hardships and magnify restrictions, and he may join in such things as protest demonstrations and uncouthness to show his resistance. |
| And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. |
| Uncertain what to be more mad at, Eric's drugs, Eric's uncouthness, or his own inability to think, he turned his head back towards Bryan's smirking cousin. |
| The uncouthness of his personality and, to Parisian taste, of his art made him a misfit on the scene. |
