Although he crows endlessly about dating a younger woman, he often seems ashamed by her gaucherie. |
He is an extraordinary amalgam of intelligence and foolishness, wisdom and innocence, grace and gaucherie, charm and histrionic offensiveness. |
I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite. |
They committed gaucheries, but the fount thereof was kindliness. |
His oddness of speech, his gaucheries, his ignorances and nervousness had all been so lightly treated that they had been brushed away almost insensibly. |
In the last 15 years, the mode of quick cutting has hidden some of the physical gaucheries, but it can't give them graces they don't possess. |