Sentence examples similar to a gauche attempt from inspiring English sources

But though Borrell also shares his idol's predilection for stripping to the waist, it's a shame the Razorlight frontman's toplessness feels less like a tribute to Mercury's bare-chested raucousness than a desperately gauche attempt to curry favour with the ladies.

Hugely controversial for what was viewed as a celebration of thuggery, what stands out now are gauche attempts at moral distance: a TV news report and a faux documentary coda explore what makes the football hooligan tick.

My parents and I came to the United States from Belgium when I was a child, and I suffered the typical child-of-immigrants embarrassment at my parents' valiant if often gauche attempts to imitate American rituals.

What irked them more was the news that he had made somewhat gauche attempts to suppress the story by threatening Kai Diekmann, editor of Bild, Germany's biggest tabloid daily, with "war" when he learnt that the newspaper planned to print the home-loan story.

A gauche intellectual and a disturbed, manipulative fan?

A gauche, boxy cardigan with a virtuoso Lesage appliqué of trailing vines.

But Mr. Collins, who owns a Kiton jacket, described that as a gauche habit.

But on Sunday they had a gauche exuberance that suggested a first encounter.

Beryl Bainbridge brought a quizzical genius to her picture of a gauche outsider in Young Adolf.

I loved watching Laura Elphinstone as a gauche, febrile woman burning herself up with anxiety.

Bardith did not accept credit cards — a gauche nuisance — until a few years ago.