Inadequacy, helplessness, gaucherie, prove that the feelings are bigger than the eloquence. |
I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite. |
Mr. Bright felt how unfortunate was this gaucherie, into which the speaker had perhaps unintentionally been led. |
He is an extraordinary amalgam of intelligence and foolishness, wisdom and innocence, grace and gaucherie, charm and histrionic offensiveness. |
Although he crows endlessly about dating a younger woman, he often seems ashamed by her gaucherie. |
Her gaucherie was painful to her and evident and very dear to the man perceiving it. |