graceful-seeming

Updated: May 6, 2025

His graceful-seeming body, his puppyish awkwardness, his quietly belligerent dignity, his eternal quest of new things, won him respect; though he was too boyish to rouse admiration, except in the breast of fat, pretty, cheerful, fuzzy-haired, candy-eating Mae Thurston.

Sinclair Lewis - The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life