ladylike

Joking aside, she adds, “People were telling me I was weird, that what I was doing wasn’t very ‘ladylike.’”

“The unflappable Pointer sails above the general mayhem with a ladylike aplomb that makes her subsequent emotional epiphany all the more moving,” The Times wrote about Pointer’s performance in that show.

Female athletes made their debut at the modern Olympics in 1900 but were limited to a few sports deemed suitably ladylike, such as golf and croquet.

Her mother, Anne, was a stickler for “pure” and ladylike behavior, which cramped Alice’s imagination.

If Ms. Rush’s portrayals had one thing in common, it was a gentle, ladylike quality, which she put to use in films of many genres.