But did he desire the well-groomed young woman in high-heels and with figure held firmly in place by a good foundation garment, as much as the callow, untidy girl, so soft to touch and hold, he had first known?
Lesbia poured out the tea with the prettiest air of domesticity.
'Can you really pour out tea?' gasped a callow lieutenant, gazing upon her with goggling, enraptured eyes. 'I did not think you could do anything so earthly.'
'I can, and drink it too,' answered Lesbia, laughing. 'I adore tea. Cream and sugar?'
Yolanda starts telling her own story, in chapters interspersed with Porrata’s, and where his voice is full of callow bravado, hers is more romantic, musical and melancholy, though if anything it’s even more controlled.
Jim Lewis, The New York Times, 18 February 2007, New York Times
reviewing Mayra Montero's Dancing to "Almendra". Amazon
Neil Westmoreland has a nice, callow face as Pinkerton, but his dancing is pretty callow, too.
Ismene Brown, Telegraph, 20 February 2002. Telegraph