Cultivate the hard g's of the Gazan dialect if you don't want to sound girlish.

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Susan Hilferty's costumes had the Duke looking dashing, Rigoletto frumpy and Gilda girlish.

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Personally, I find the smooches symbols overly friendly and a bit girlish.

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Like many Nouvelle Vague reinventions, the lyric for "The Killing Moon" is delivered in a girlish deadpan, removing the song from its sad sentiments.

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Alexandra Coghlan, writing for The Arts Desk, said that Lloyd's cast "certainly give the lie to any weakly girlish image of the female".

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It is above all Monica's story, breathless, girlish, reckless, clueless.

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Her embodiment of such girlish emotions as curiosity-streaked ardor and such womanly ones as do-or-die willfulness enables her director, Zhang Yimou, to eschew melodramatic inflation while crafting a visually eloquent tribute to rural life.

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Evert wore a girlish ponytail.

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