Sentence examples for sort of a boy from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, with the slightest of touches, Williamson does manage to convey what burgeoning male sexuality does feel like to the boy concerned; if, that is, he's a highly romantic, nature-loving sort of a boy.

Naturally enough, Cole resembled both his leads: like Woozy, he was soft-bodied, somewhat dishevelled, and no city slicker; like Plastic Man, he was tall, pointy-nosed, and "very likable…a straight arrow — sort of a Boy Scout in some ways," as Gill Fox, Cole's close friend and his editor at Quality, described him to me.

He did become sort of a boy toy in both worlds.

This is a sort of a "Boy Interrupted," with a haunting young voice telling his coming-of-age story in a psych ward.

It's not the sort of thing a boy of 20 would be keen on.

The sculptures — of radios, speakers, receivers, and such — have the eerie charm of clay burial artifacts, the sort of thing a boy pharaoh obsessed with his stereo system might commission for his tomb.

"I was sort of a golden boy for Elsevier," he says.

So I think if I were a pro wrestler, first I'd need to bulk up, and second I'll need to get sort of a bad-boy persona".

I thought I was doing sort of a Beach Boys thing with stripped-down guitars and a sparse organ, but it ended up sounding more like I was trying to rip off Vampire Weekend than The Beach Boys.

Before television screens and magazines were filled with the intimate personal confessions of people you did not know, he had written a column for the Independent on Sunday of such startling introspection that he had become a sort of poster boy for a new kind of journalism.

"It's sort of a good-old boy Ted Stevens deal," he said.