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I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
His churlishness isn't compelling, it's just an embarrassment, a callow cry for attention.
Floyd is making me believe more strongly in a Divine Power: From the moment yesterday that I professed to you my belief that acts of God are now invariably overhyped, this one began heading directly toward metropolitan New York--toward me, I'm thinking, and my flip, callow hubris.
But since I was recently called a "callow, superficial, self-obsessed bunny" by one of Slate 's readers (I didn't mind the adjectives, but "bunny" kind of hurt), I guess I should skip the Kevin Smith and Moesha ruminations and get on to the "grown-up" news (damn, that means I have to skip the Journal feature on the @ symbol!)
In fact he renders his message in such appealing, facile strokes that one wants to believe he just panicked after the success of High Fidelity and turned out a callow rush job.