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You ever worry that the boyishness of your voice will start to feel emotionally inappropriate for your age?

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

There was a boyishness to him that seemed to excuse his characters’ worst behavior, on “Friends” and in later roles.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Instead, a silky Jonathan Groff now prowls around menacingly, his boyishness having been nicely weaponized for his role as a sly trickster.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Roberts, throughout the day, had lost his own famous bloom of boyishness till he looked more and more like his predecessor William Rehnquist.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2020

He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother’s, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother’s was of lingering boyishness.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini