Sentence examples for but boyish from inspiring English sources

Nemtsov was 55, greying but boyish.

He was excited, talking fast, grizzled but boyish in his enthusiasms.

"Here in my lonely room," he sings, his voice exquisite and unearthly: not androgynous, but boyish and suffused with sorrow.

"It's an enigma in a lot of ways," Ellison, forty-nine years old but boyish in jeans and an untucked brown corduroy shirt, said.

Mr. Smith, a bookish but boyish 54, is officially a supervising librarian in the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

In the late 1960s, his recording company, Telefunken, seized the potential of his exceptional technique, allied to his heavy-lidded but boyish good looks, to produce a poster of their star performer for distribution with his long-playing albums.

Macpherson — bow-tied and white-haired but boyish-looking at 53 — should know.

He was charming but distractible, promising but perennially boyish — the youngest child you notice on the Christmas card and wonder about, the one whose broad smile hides an uncertainty about who he's supposed to be.

But the "boyish" atmosphere actually never gets boring.

But the boyish Mr. Tobias never ran with the titans of Wall Street.

Power in his case was absent, but his boyish Spartacus was intense, almost poetic.