Graham Greene, infamously, reviewing Wee Willie Winkie in the London weekly Night and Day, wrote: "Infancy with her is a disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult … her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong searching coquetry … watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity.
As played by Hall, Charlotte is a mix of ingenuousness and coquetry, a femme fatale with a very diffident air.
She preferred to keep the genteel preliminaries — coquetry, foreplay, drinks, a friendly hello — as brief as possible.
In his books, he speaks of Queenie's coquetry, and of her jealousy, which he regards as a female characteristic.
Wariness and avidity, coquetry and rage, preening and despair — unrelenting egotism plays on her face like sunlight on a fast-moving stream.
Once she stopped breast-feeding, she became "a monster," Pozdnyshev says, deprived of "the only means that could've spared her from coquetry".
That can be seen in your quote from her novel "New Year's Day": "The most perilous coquetry may not be in a woman's way of arranging her dress but in her way of arranging her drawing-room".
After their night of kissing, fumbling and (on her part) hostile banter meant as coquetry, Emma, upright and uptight, announces that she can picture Dex at 40, in a tiny sports car: "You've got this little paunch tucked under the leather steering wheel like a little pillow and those backless gloves on, thinning hair and no chin.
Her Act III solo with a fan became an expression not of conventional coquetry but of impish joy in the moment.
"The veil," Ms. Habib continues, "interrupts the circulation of coquetry and of paying homage, in declaring that there is another possible way for the sexes to coexist: strict separation".
