Word: girlishness
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...sort of Jane Fonda Workout of rewriting. He has stripped it of dialogue fat and added muscle and connective tissue. The piece, which took place on a bare stage, now roams through a handsome Quebec abbey and beyond. Within or outside the convent, however, Agnes would be a girlish anachronism. She is of another age--perhaps 13, perhaps the 13th century. She believes, like a medieval ascetic, that any seeker of sanctity should flagellate the sins out of her body, and she is convinced that the child she carries is a gift from the living God. The blood that pours...
...than 24 hours before her 10-lb. son Franklin was born, blue and breathless. The doctor urged that she avoid further pregnancies, which she may have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...
During a screening, Ahn says there tends to be “lots of girlish squealing and laughing”—completely understandable, she says, since “the movie just makes you giddy...
...even though playing a pole dancer seems like a stretch, Portman doesn't see this character as being that radical a shift from her past roles. "I was the precocious one when I was younger, and now I'm the girlish one," she says. "Which ultimately means I've stayed the same. Which is not a good sign." Though it's precisely what makes all those men worship her. By Joel Stein
Davis’ exploration of the ensuing controversy also revealed deep biases against artists in American society; the members of the Academy were depicted by the popular press as girlish, French, and, most insultingly, “vegetables who decry patriotism...