gauche

• “If I were strapping a sword and a main gauche, that is.”

  Ode to a silver hair found in my hairbrush:

• “Like, when one of the characters extolls Beowulf's deeds and says how his story will live on forever, and you think, yeah, until a millenia and a bit later when it'll get dug up, rewired into a monstrously misshapen thing, painted in gauche muticolour, and made to dance like a monkey-puppet in a Follywood Spectacular.”

  Archive 2007-11-01

• “Admission: I'm a southpaw myself, but my main gauche still lags behind its more popular sibling in terms of technique, so I'm not sure how much this would help me.”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “They had begun at once to employ upon him the oldest arts known to woman, and he was not flustered or "gauche" -- a word Winona had lately learned.”

  The Wrong Twin

• ““Bella,” chided Mrs. Griffiths, while Myra, recalling a gauche uncle and cousin who had come on from Vermont several years before to visit them”

  An American Tragedy

• “Nixon worked his way through a crowd, shaking hands, and in his "gauche" (Brown's word) way, tried to connect with people by asking them, "How does it feel to be free?”

  Only Nixon could go to Ghana

• “I'm not sure: was it considered "gauche" or did the chomping frazzle my father's ...”

  Stephanie Gertler: Left-Overs

• “I'm not sure: was it considered "gauche" or did the chomping frazzle my father's nerves?”

  Stephanie Gertler: Left-Overs

• “Who's the friggin' "gauche" one, you placenta-burying, nipple scalding freak?”

  Belly Achin'

• “Hippy Dippy told Blondie she was "gauche" for asking why she didn't just throw it out.”

  Belly Achin'

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