Sentence examples for coquette from inspiring English sources

Their hits included such songs as "Coquette" (1928) and "Let's Do It" (1929), the latter featuring singer Bing Crosby.

As originally drafted, the novel featured Pansy O'Hara, a spoiled and strong-willed coquette who comes of age just as her family's life on a cotton plantation is ravaged by war.

The latter depicts a coquette somewhat past her prime having lunch with her young lover in yet another of Manet's bold attempts to portray controversial subject matter in a decidedly modern manner.

In his own words "Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette – the more you woo her, the more apt she is to elude your embrace".

Her Anne is sometimes a mercilessly ambitious coquette (as damning historians would have it), but Brenton's line is that Anne was also a clandestine Lutheran, on a mission to rid the land of Roman Catholics.

With women in general his letters convey a message of conspicuous gallantry, playfully flirtatious in the manner of a male coquette.

He turned to size her up, wondering if she knew that she sounded like a coquette.

Richard Foreman wrote, directs, and designed this play, about a coquette and the man she brings to his knees.

But soon her mother's forgetfulness returned — like a painkiller kicking in — and she'd go back to playing the coy dingbat, the innocent coquette from the cocktail parties of Ann's youth.

His mother was a pretty and stylish provincial coquette with great legs, who, Saint Laurent says enigmatically, "is still a child".

She tweaked her assigned role of coquette by making it clear that she could whisper ecstatically, on pitch, or sing hard enough to break bulletproof glass — who cared if she writhed around in the video?