On the other side are priggish "wankers", who would destroy it by sterilisation.
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Seriously. The way you describe yourself, it's almost as if you thought you were priggish.
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She attacks modern feminism ("priggish, disingenuous, unforgiving") as if it had put her on trial.
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Seriously. The way you describe yourself, it's almost as if you thought you were priggish.
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Mr. Carvel's Rupert has a priggish and shy side, compellingly at odds with the vulgarity of his product.
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Parenting boards are shockingly priggish, whereas I had no problem asking an online mommy group about hormone-related vaginal dryness.
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Two more grandkids — priggish alt-right shitposter Jacob (Jaeden Martell) and self-righteous Meg (Katherine Langford) round out the pack.
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But in marrying Jo off to the priggish (and famously unsexy) Professor Bhaer, she broke the hearts of generations of readers.
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If the priggish aesthetic of dark walnut armoires and factory-made porcelain were reimagined, he reasoned the national character might be liberated.
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Ruff is a decent performer, too, but over and over she has been cast as a priggish black woman swimming in recrimination.
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A wondrously stealthy play by Simon Stephens that uses the classic madcap-girl-meets-priggish-boy formula to consider the infinite variables of life.
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Americans have always been able to identify with Eliza's Horatio Alger narrative of self-creation, but the priggish Higgins stands at a distance from our affections.
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It's not a perfect measure, but you can generally assume that when half a million British people agree on something, that something is stupid, selfish, priggish, and wrong.
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Such examples serve to signal that the league considers safety only slightly more important than the sensibilities of its more priggish viewers, who might be turned off by twerking.
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Mr. Kaufmann, meanwhile, wanted to thumb his nose at Pittsburgh's priggish ruling class, which declined to give a Jewish merchant (and noted philanderer) a seat at its power table.
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Ms. Hamill plays the sharp-witted marriage skeptic Elizabeth Bennet; Jason O'Connell, who was sublimely hilarious as a spineless suitor in "Sense," is her priggish yet magnetic Mr. Darcy.
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Historians considered James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, to be "priggish" and "colorless," but a debate over his resting place is stirring passions in Tennessee.
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I think Peter Strzok did not come across particularly well, kind of priggish and to me kind of snooty and indignant, I never think that works well for a witness.
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The league's signal failure, whether with its priggish policing of player behavior or its metastatic rulebook or its humorless and retrograde institutional preferences more generally, is a failure of imagination.
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The character has a priggish self-seriousness that worked for Mr. Radnor when he starred in "How I Met Your Mother" as Ted, whose emo intensity the show tweaked lovingly.
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It's true, of course, that if there's a treatment for cancer in another country that Americans were too priggish to pursue, that situation would be—to borrow Johnson's wording—intolerable.
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At its worst, baseball is self-regarding and priggish-unto-coppish and emotionally constipated; even at its best, it is a game without much space or much patience for expressiveness.
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Daisy (Sophie McShera), the tart kitchen maid, is making eyes at a saucy plumber, and a butler emergency coaxes Carson (Jim Carter), that reliably priggish defender of probity, out of retirement.
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Priggish and reactionary as Henry Ford may have been in other regards, he understood a simple truth: Demonstrate that your cars go faster than someone else's and consumer demand will rise.
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He was baited in the interview to show that, if elected, he would not be a priggish schoolmarm wagging a moral finger in the face of a nation that had just embraced the Sexual Revolution.
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There was nothing priggish about Henry Ford II. Known as the Deuce, the founder's grandson was a bon vivant with a sleek Italian wife and a sleek Italian Ferrari in his collection of fast cars.
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Both men's and women's media and every dumb sitcom joke about a guy wanting nothing more than his dick sucked by his priggish girlfriend (and maybe a steak afterward) have depicted blow jobs as sexual currency.
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Whereas the commenters on Melania's page are priggish and critical, the commenters on Ivanka's page are more, ah, submissive: But Melania and Ivanka are non-politicians, and thus their feet are a little less charged with controversy.
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Matta-Clark undertook cutting the "Day's End" project without filing for permission, and while New York City officials did not notice his activity during the artwork's creation, priggish police showed up at the opening after reading about it in a newspaper.
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Paul Alexander Nolan (who had a leading role this year in Broadway's "Bright Star") brings an expressive voice and wide acting range as a younger-than-usual Henry Higgins, the priggish phonetics professor who takes Eliza on as a student.
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Yet by Eizenstat's own description, Carter was also priggish and pedantic, correcting grammar in memos "as if he were my elementary schoolteacher" and immersing himself too deeply in details, as when he requested world oil reserve estimates in square miles instead of barrels.
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When the series begins, Serena Joy, who longs for Offred to bear her husband's child so that she can raise it as her own, is one of two examples of toxic white feminism in Gilead, that of the wealthy priggish prude who promotes Victorian mores.
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Despite Connecticut's deep roots in Puritanism, which generally frowned upon frivolity, the Constitution State is poised to shun its priggish past in order to boost its stagnant economy by legalizing sports betting and recreational marijuana — potentially generating hundreds of millions in much needed revenue, creating thousands of jobs and promoting tourism.
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Going from notorious partyer to entrusted shepherd of the priggish Academy Awards has to be one of moviedom's bigger personal turnarounds: At 5713 and long in recovery, Mr. De Luca has become a Hollywood role model — proof that overcoming substance abuse, even in a business in which addicts are frequently aided and abetted, is eminently possible.
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Here, the prospect that the presidential remains could be moved yet again has prompted rare fits of passion on the topic of Polk, a man historians have called "priggish" and "colorless," and one whose legacy is often overshadowed by his larger-than-life mentor, Andrew Jackson, who is buried at the Hermitage, his family plantation, a major tourist draw here.
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Just tracks (ugh). Too priggish and conceited. Sluggish indulgence instead of hoped for goth-ness. Coldly catatonic.
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In fact it is difficult to imagine anyone more divorced from the spirit of the Jazz Age than the priggish, puritanical, non-smoking, non-drinking young Popper.
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As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.
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The diarist James Boswell described O'Brien as "a lively little fellow, but priggish" and "quite the fine man about town". Lady Susan O'Brien (1743 – 1827), ca. 1761. The O'Briens later moved to live at a Strangways family property, Stinsford House, in Dorset. The couple had no children.
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Pamela and Cesareo's respective spouses are having an affair. When they discover this they meet. The initially priggish English lady is slowly seduced by the vibrant Italian. Unfortunately his joie-de-vivre is mainly due to alcohol and she too becomes dependent on it, initiating a decline and fall.
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" Dorothy Gale: The heroine of the original Oz books. From Liir's perspective, Dorothy is (like Glinda) nice, but self-centered and somewhat insincere. When she leaves to see the Wizard, he thinks: "She hadn't been much, that Dorothy. Priggish, in a way, proud of her wide-eyed charity.
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She played the priggish Claire Lindquist, daughter of a corrupt judge. Shooting took place mid-August–early November 1946. Unusual for such a small role, Wallis ensured Miller received 6th billing, after Wendall Corey, despite her role being little more than walk-on. The film was released August 15, 1947.
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Biagini, p. 222 After her death The Times praised her "unusually wide human sympathies ... her generous nature and real sense of humour".Quoted in Abrams, p. 235 Skidelsky, however, describes her unsympathetically as "a humourless and somewhat priggish person, with long black skirts and a voice that emitted a harsh cascade of sound".
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If he had perhaps too much of the goody-goody about him, at least he was not priggish; Hergé admitting as much, saying, "If Tintin is a moralist, he's a moralist who doesn't take things too seriously, so humour is never far away from his stories." It is this sense of humour that makes the appeal of Tintin truly international.
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Bond, p. 22 After the trauma of the Second World War, it was a time of hope, a period of progress and achievement heralding a "new Elizabethan age".Bond, p. 35; Pimlott, p. 180; Roberts, p. 82; Shawcross, p. 50 Lord Altrincham's accusation in 1957 that her speeches sounded like those of a "priggish schoolgirl" was an extremely rare criticism.Bond, p. 35; Pimlott, p. 280; Shawcross, p.
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The other part of Seymour's method involves the interrogation of the hated father and the detailing of his deleterious decisions and actions, as viewed more than a decade after his death. His character, that of a “priggish,” snobbish adolescent embarrassed by his parents, and a gently domineering father/husband too obviously desperate for a social status that he cannot achieve, is painted in exuberant English prose.
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Edwin is a self-righteous and priggish author who writes with ponderous difficulty about marriage, an institution that he barely understands. His young wife leaves him in order to find some pleasure before it is too late. He is unsure whether she will ever return, but then receives from her an unexpected gift in the shape of a mounted stag's head. He takes it as a token of her esteem.
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Katharine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography, New York, St. Martin's Press, 200; pp. 219-20. Baum wrote a new version of the book; the original manuscript is lost. The title character is Mary Louise Burrows. In the first books of the series, she is a fifteen-year- old girl with unusual maturity (though the other girls in her boarding school find her somewhat priggish).
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Dorothy is in love with her father's curate, Henry Sandford, a priggish, pompous and verbose young man. The Vicar prefers that his daughter marry Sandford's old schoolmate, Tommy Merton, son of a wealthy local landowner. To get Sandford out of the way, the Vicar, on the advice of his family solicitor, Mr. Bedford Rowe, turns High Church. Aghast, Sandford flees to become a missionary in the Cassowary Isles.
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Mateo, still unconscious and in shock, is conveyed to Medical straight away. While the Commander questions the other participants, an argument breaks out between Warren and Laura Adams, Mateo's girlfriend and willing accomplice. Having advised Mateo to abandon this dangerous avenue of research, the priggish old man is indignant at having caught him proceeding without authorisation. The girl is furious that Warren's interference could have cost Mateo his life.
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Illya, a carefree prostitute, plies her trade in the port town of Piraeus outside Athens. With no set rates, no pimp, and an inclination to sleep only with men she likes, she differs dramatically from the other local ladies-of-the-evening. Their pimp, Garbage, works for the mysterious No Face, who charges the girls exorbitant rents. Into her life comes Homer Thrace, a priggish American in search of the glories of Ancient Greece.
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Fanny, with her constant illnesses, timid disposition, submissiveness and fragility, conforms outwardly to Rousseau's ideal woman.Kirkham, Margaret “Feminist Irony and the Priceless Heroine” pages 117–131 from Jane's Austen's Mansfield Park edited by Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House, 1987 pages 124–125. This leads some reviewers to consider Fanny priggish. Even Sheehan, who is deeply sympathetic to Fanny, describes her as pure, poor, plain, timid, sickly and without wit, and also rather prudish.
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Scobie is passed over for promotion to commissioner, which upsets Louise both for her personal ambition and her hope that the local British community will begin to accept her. Louise asks Scobie if she can go to live in South Africa to escape a life she hates. At the same time, a new inspector, named Wilson, arrives in the town. He is priggish and socially inept, and hides his passion for poetry for fear of ostracism by his colleagues.
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In December 1905 McKenna was appointed, in preference to Winston Churchill, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He then served in the Liberal Cabinets of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith as President of the Board of Education, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908–11), and Home Secretary. He was considered methodical and efficient, but his opponents thought him priggish, prissy and lacking in charisma. McKenna's estimates were submitted to unprecedented scrutiny by the 'economists' Lloyd George and Churchill.
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His column is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Harsanyi is author of First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun; The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong): The Case Against Democracy; Obama's Four Horsemen: The Disasters Unleashed by Obama's Reelection; and Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. He left his position writing op-eds for The Denver Post to work for TheBlaze.
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Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety. A tendency to be overly fearful of what others might think is sometimes referred to as grundyism. Mrs Grundy originated as an unseen character in Thomas Morton's 1798 play Speed the Plough. References to Mrs Grundy were eventually so well established in the public imagination that in Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon, the goddess Ydgrun, an anagram for Grundy, dictates social norms.
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She then lived with the French tenor Ernesto Nicolini for many years until, following her divorce from Caux, she was able to marry him in 1886. That marriage lasted until his death and was seemingly happy, but Nicolini cut Patti out of his will, suggesting some tension in the last years. Patti's last marriage, in 1899, was to Baron Rolf Cederström (1870–1947), a priggish, but handsome, Swedish aristocrat many years her junior. The Baron severely curtailed Patti's social life.
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The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession. Lydia is portrayed as a moral and intelligent woman (although "priggish" according to Shaw) and is constantly contrasted with the "ruffian" Cashel. Lydia was advised by her recently deceased father to find a husband with a profession, as opposed to an idle gentleman or an art critic like her father. Cashel’s childhood ends when he runs away from school to Australia and becomes apprentice to an ex-world champion boxer.
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As a result of the accusation, Hexam is shunned by his fellows on the river, and excluded from The Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters, the public house they frequent. Hexam's young son, the clever but priggish Charley Hexam, leaves his father's house to better himself at school, and to train to be a schoolmaster, encouraged by his sister, the beautiful Lizzie Hexam. Lizzie stays with her father, to whom she is devoted. Before Riderhood can claim the reward for his false allegation against Hexam, Hexam is found drowned himself.
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The Good Men Do. Ivor Brown also published a play, William's Other Anne (1947) in which Shakespeare returns from London to meet Anne Whateley eight years after their broken engagement, just as Anne is about to marry a priggish schoolmaster. Shakespeare and Anne are reconciled, and Shakespeare saves his father from bankruptcy at the hands of Anne's vengeful mother.Drama: the quarterly theatre review, Issues 1-15, British Theatre Association, 1946, p.37. The play was broadcast on BBC television in 1953 starring Irene Worth as Anne and John Gregson as Shakespeare.
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Written between January and February 1950 and published on 15 September 1952, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader sees Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, return to Narnia, three years after their last departure. Once there, they join Caspian's voyage on the ship Dawn Treader to find the seven lords who were banished when Miraz took over the throne. This perilous journey brings them face to face with many wonders and dangers as they sail toward Aslan's country at the edge of the world.
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David Harsanyi mentioned the hamdog in his manifesto against the nanny state, Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. He claimed a group of activists, whom he called "Twinkie Fascists", were trying to prevent him from eating the meal. While some people might not enjoy it as much as he did, that was the beauty of being a free citizen. Harsanyi described the hamdog as "perfect", "greasy", and "scrumptious", but mentioned he could only finish half.
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He also earned a reputation for sticking to the rules, both in the courtroom as well as in investigations, to the point of being considered sanctimonious and priggish, especially by Harm. This pattern is also seen in his brief appointment as acting JAG between the leave of Rear Admiral Chegwidden and the arrival of Major General Gordon Cresswell. This further annoys Harm, who continually berates him. This leads to great animosity between the friends, finally leading to a verbal confrontation between the two when Sturgis recommends against him in an investigation on Harm's alleged shooting down of a plane carrying an Iraqi official.
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He described himself as > "a chaste, puritanical, priggish, rather narcissistic little boy, more > repelled than attracted to sex, which seemed to me a furtive, guilty, > soiling thing, exciting, yes, but nothing whatever to do with those feelings > which I had not yet experienced but about which I was already writing a lot > of dreadful sentimental verse, called romance and love."Parker, p. 16. His father gave him a generous allowance and never insisted that he follow him into the business. Failing his entrance examinations for Cambridge University, Ackerley applied for a commission in the Army and went off to the First World War.
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"Paste" is one of James' briefest and lightest fictions, but the story explores the contrast between reality and illusion that often fascinated its author in such longer and weightier tales as The Turn of the Screw. By his own account in the New York Edition preface, James consciously reversed Maupassant's grim melodrama of a fake necklace thought to be real into a pleasant comedy of a real necklace thought to be fake. In such a very short story, the characters can only be sketched in miniature, but they all come into focus. Charlotte is charming and naive, Arthur priggish and pompous, and Mrs.
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Her sister Gertrude, engaged to the priggish clergyman John Prescott, also suffers, her intended suddenly developing cold feet at the news of Alice's indiscretion. Perhaps the height of Alice's suffering is reached when Harriet, having lost her own child, importunes her to let her have Anna instead; persuaded it would be in the best interest of her daughter, Alice finally complies. In time her enduring patience effects her moral recovery in the eyes of the town, and her example succeeds in inspiring Tom to complete his own personal regeneration. In the conclusion Harriet's death frees them to marry each other, and the two depart Genoa to begin a new life together.
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Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to overturn what they considered the priggish, learned, and highly sculpted forms of 18th-century English poetry and to make poetry accessible to the average person via verse written in common, everyday language. These two major poets emphasize the vitality of the living voice used by the poor to express their reality. This language also helps assert the universality of human emotions. Even the title of the collection recalls rustic forms of art – the word "lyrical" links the poems with the ancient rustic bards and lends an air of spontaneity, while "ballads" are an oral mode of storytelling used by the common people.
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In his speech he told the delegates: "half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time..., but that others would have to live with consequences of a Labour Government if it stayed in power". Writing in his diary at the time Kenneth Rose noted that Peter Carrington told him that "he and several other frontbench Tories were nauseated by the much-heralded speech of a sixteen-year-old schoolboy called William Hague. Peter said to Norman St John Stevas: 'If he is as priggish and self-assured as that at sixteen, what will he be like in thirty years' time? Norman replied: 'Like Michael Heseltine'".
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Mame then meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. The trustees of Patrick's father force Mame to send Patrick off to boarding school (the fictional St Boniface, in Massachusetts), and Mame and Beau travel the world on an endless honeymoon that stops when Beau falls to his death while mountain climbing. Mame returns home a wealthy widow to discover that Patrick has become a snob engaged to an equally priggish debutante, Gloria Upson, from a bigoted family. Mame brings Patrick to his senses just in time to introduce him to the woman who will eventually become his wife, Pegeen Ryan.
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Amis reserves his most serious criticism for what he considered to be academically pretentious rejections of the Bond books, a theme implicitly informing much of the Dossier. Each of the 14 chapters deals with one aspect of the novels — 'No woman had ever held this man' defends Bond's attitude to and treatment of women: "Bond's habitual attitude to a girl is protective, not dominating or combative"; 'Damnably clear grey eyes' describes M., the head of SIS: "a peevish, priggish old monster"; 'A glint of red' is about the villains, who have in common only physical largeness and angry eyes; and so forth. According to his first biographer, Eric Jacobs,Jacobs, Eric Kingsley Amis: A Biography.
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He just comes over as a strangely charmless, somewhat priggish gay young man." Michael Billington in The Guardian had few good things to say about the production as a whole, but highly praised New's performance: :One idea that does pay off is the casting of a young male actor, Chris New, as Viola. Since the character spends much of the play in masculine attire as Cesario, our attention is constantly drawn to Viola's preoccupation with the sinfulness of disguise and the pathos of her situation. New, clad in an Edwardian cream-coloured suit, has an especially good moment when, in response to Olivia's enquiries about his origins, he pauses guiltily before announcing: "I am a gentleman.
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She described her students there in a letter home as "very serious about their work but [having] a gaiety which saves them from being priggish." Her friend, the China specialist John Gittings, later remarked that her contact with these students, many of whom came from working class backgrounds, "gave Davin an intuitive understanding of the Chinese that would enrich her long academic career" and that at this time she already showed "a mature sensitivity for the contradictions of revolutionary China." She then returned to England and enrolled at the University of Leeds, where she completed a B.A. degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. degree in 1974 in the Department of Chinese. While a student, Davin visited Paris and Hong Kong on research trips.
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John Lawrence, Viceroy of India and other council members. c. 1864 In 1826, as a young man, Trevelyan joined the East India Company as a writer and was posted to the Bengal Civil Service at Delhi, India. There, by a combination of diligence and self-discipline together with his outstanding intellectual talents he achieved rapid promotion. He occupied several important and influential positions in various parts of India, but his priggish and often indiscreet behaviour endeared him to few of his colleagues and involved him in almost continual controversy. On return to Britain in 1840 he was appointed as assistant secretary to HM Treasury, and served to 1859, during both the Irish famine and the Highland Potato Famine of 1846–1857 in Scotland.
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She refuses all pleas to come inside, denouncing Gerald for narrow-minded meanness, Rick as a priggish brat, and Muriel for wanting a phantom pregnancy. Tony appears and opens an umbrella and the storm ends in time for what initially appears to be Lucy's wedding, but Tony and Andy appear to be some sort of race stewards, and Lucy, although dressed as a bride, seems to be taking part in a "brides race". Meanwhile, Bill becomes a clichéd bookie, Muriel is a heavily pregnant French maid, Gerald is an Archbishop and Susan's real son Rick (now an odd-job man), to her horror, seems to be the groom for her imaginary daughter Lucy. All kinds of snippets relating to her real life mesh together as a surrealistic nightmare.
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Also hailing from New York City, Susannah is a black woman (although as a woman of 1964, she prefers the term "Negro" over the term considered appropriate in Eddie's time, "Black") with two major afflictions: her legs below the knees were severed in a subway accident, and a childhood head injury left her with dual personalities, which Eddie incorrectly labels schizophrenia. She is "The Lady of Shadows", the second companion predicted by Walter to be drawn into Roland's world via the mysterious doors. Initially, her dominant personality is that of Odetta Susannah Holmes, a well-mannered but priggish woman active in the civil rights movement. At times, however, she is taken over by Detta Susannah Walker—murderously psychotic, incredibly crafty, completely unbreakable—whom neither Eddie nor Roland can control.
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Chan, "a priggish mother of two and president of the parent group Two Million Moms". In a 2017 interview by The Guardian, she addressed barriers facing Asian actors: Chen's performance as a "tactless doctor" in a bit part in the 2018 film Game Night was reviewed in The Village Voice as "a deadpan gift", in a scene described by The Hollywood Reporter as "one of Game Night's funnier scenes", and by The New Yorker as making "memorable impressions". Also in 2018, she guest-starred in multiple episodes of Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. as robbery-homicide department secretary Grace Kim. She had a starring role in the independent pilot "I Was a Teenage Pillow Queen", premiered in September 2018 at the Tribeca TV Festival, and in November 2018, she guest-starred in two episodes of Single Parents.
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Miller had envisaged an Alice "with no stage experience, not very pretty but curiously plain, sallow and a bit priggish"Quoted by Philip Kemp, loc.cit. After advertising the part, he cast Mallik within twenty minutes of meeting her, having asked her (as Mallik recalled) to recite the poem "You Are Old, Father William" which Alice performs for the Caterpillar. Miller's first impression of her was of a "rather extraordinary, solemn child" who proved to be "naturally expressive" and "not amused by anything [she was] surrounded by".Jonathan Miller and Anne- Marie Huxstep, Arena, 31 March 2012 In similar, though less complimentary, vein, the biographer of Peter Cook, who played the Mad Hatter, has described Mallik's Alice as "a sullen, pouting, pubescent with no sense of bewilderment", noting also that, in his view, "the whole piece was strangely lacking in either humour or fear".
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Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #2 A spell by Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom inadvertently causes a wave which inverts the moralities of all the heroes and villains present. With his basic morality inverted, Loki becomes romantically involved with Amora the Enchantress, although soon finds that his inverted morality is not as straightforward as for the other villains. While before Loki was devious but likeable, Verity quickly sees the new Loki is pious, priggish, and while 'good', disloyal to a fault; he betrays Lorelei and Sigurd to the returned All-Father, Odin, knowing full well that Odin will punish their small crime with a heinous overblown punishment. Later, in the final battle of AXIS, Loki fights his brother (whose morality is also inverted) on the moon, and to their surprise, Loki is able to lift Thor's hammer and beat him with it.
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In George Bernard Shaw's preface to Three Plays he wrote, "I have noticed that when a certain type of feature appears in painting and is admired as beautiful, it presently becomes common in nature; so that the Beatrices and Francescas in the picture galleries of one generation come to life as the parlor-maids and waitresses of the next." He stated that he created the aristocratic characters in Cashel Byron's Profession as unrealistically priggish even without his later understanding that "the real world does not exist...men and women are made by their own fancies in the image of the imaginary creatures in my youthful fictions, only much stupider." Shaw, however, disagreed with Wilde on some points. He considered most attempts by life to imitate art to be reprehensible, in part because the art that people generally chose to imitate was idealistic and romanticized.
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This is a beautiful mixture > of pride, ambition, an almost priggish sense of justice and yet – the saving > grace of the character – an ironic self-awareness. John Chapman of the New York Daily News wrote, > This is by no means a historical tract or a sermon on the birth of this > nation. It is warm with a life of its own; it is funny, it is moving... > Often, as I sat enchanted in my seat, it reminded me of Gilbert and Sullivan > in its amused regard of human frailties.... The songs and lyrics are, as I > have indicated, remarkably original.New York Daily News review of the > original production The New York Post noted, > In this cynical age, it requires courage as well as enterprise to do a > musical play that simply deals with the events leading up to the signing of > the Declaration of Independence.
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In an August 1957 article, "The Monarchy Today", Grigg argued that the court of Queen Elizabeth II was too upper-class and British, and instead advocated a more "classless" and Commonwealth court. More personally, he attacked the Queen's style of public speaking as "a pain in the neck": > "Like her mother, she appears to be unable to string even a few sentences > together without a written text – a defect which is particularly regrettable > when she can be seen by her audience." Grigg also criticised the Queen's speeches, normally written for her by her advisers: > "The personality conveyed by the utterances which are put into her mouth is > that of a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team, a prefect, and a > recent candidate for Confirmation." Grigg's article caused a furore and was attacked by the majority of the press, with a minority agreeing with some of his opinions.
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On a rainy afternoon in Paris, debonair actor Philippe Martin (Francis Lederer) goes to a darkened movie theatre for a romantic assignation with his married mistress, Yvonne (Liev De Maigret), but sits in the wrong seat and kisses instead lovely Monique Pelerin (Ida Lupino), the daughter of a powerful publisher (Joseph Cawthorn). Monique, who is engaged to powerful Count Alfredo Donstelli (Erik Rhodes), makes a public accusation against Philippe, and the priggish head of the Purity League (Eily Malyon) exploits the incident until it becomes a national scandal, with Philippe dubbed "The Kissing Monster". When Philippe is tried, his defense is that he was overcome by Monique's beauty, and that it is a Frenchman's nature to be romantic, even to perfect strangers. His punishment is to spend just three days in jail, but when he is released, he discovers that Monique has paid his fine, supposedly to avoid more publicity, but actually because she is secretly attracted to him.
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" Regarding the suppression of Manichaean heresies by the Christian authorities West says that whilst "it is our tendency to sympathise with the hunted hare... much that we read of Western European heretics makes us suspect that here the quarry was less of a hare than a priggish skunk." Nonetheless Manichean influence persists in an unpublished draft of West's own memoirs where she writes: "I had almost no possibility of holding faith of any religious kind except a belief in a wholly and finally defeated God, a hypothesis which I now accept but tried for a long time to reject, I could not face it."Rebecca West, unpublished typescript, McFarlin Special Collections, University of Tulsa West's interest in Manichaeanism reflects her lifelong struggle with the question of how to deal with dualisms. At times she appears to favor the merging of opposites, for which Byzantium served as a model: "church and state, love and violence, life and death, were to be fused again as in Byzantium.
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Not wanting to be outdone, or considered any less moral or less concerned than Caroline for the child's welfare, Lilia's mother-in-law sends Philip and his priggish spinster sister Harriet (Judy Davis) to Monteriano to obtain custody of the infant and bring him back to Sawston, where he can receive what she perceives to be a proper upbringing and education. Everything about the journey—especially the heat, the uncomfortable accommodations, and her difficulty communicating with the locals—distresses repressed and xenophobic Harriet, but Philip and Caroline both begin to find themselves attracted to everything Tuscan that had appealed to Lilia. Philip and Caroline also begin to sympathise with Gino and his loving relationship with his son, but though Philip says he 'understands everyone', he vacillates to even broach the subject of getting custody of the boy to Gino. Philip can't seem to 'settle it, and do the right thing', as Caroline reminds him.
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Some librarians felt that Blyton's restricted use of language, a conscious product of her teaching background, was prejudicial to an appreciation of more literary qualities. In a scathing article published in Encounter in 1958, the journalist Colin Welch remarked that it was "hard to see how a diet of Miss Blyton could help with the 11-plus or even with the Cambridge English Tripos", but reserved his harshest criticism for Blyton's Noddy, describing him as an "unnaturally priggish ... sanctimonious ... witless, spiritless, snivelling, sneaking doll." The author and educational psychologist Nicholas Tucker notes that it was common to see Blyton cited as people's favourite or least favourite author according to their age, and argues that her books create an "encapsulated world for young readers that simply dissolves with age, leaving behind only memories of excitement and strong identification". Fred Inglis considers Blyton's books to be technically easy to read, but to also be "emotionally and cognitively easy".
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Set in not-quite-yet Swinging London, The Millstone focuses on the life of Rosamund Stacey, an attractive Cambridge graduate who is writing her thesis on early English poetry while living alone in the spacious flat of her parents, who have gone to Africa for a year on a philanthropic mission. While Rosamund is convinced of both her qualities as a literary historian and her Socialist—and in particular Fabian—ideals, she is rather reluctant when it comes to sex. To avoid being considered old-fashioned or priggish, she has managed to make her small but intimate circle of friends believe that she is carrying on with two men at the same time whereas in fact she is still a virgin and only enjoys her two male friends' company. Each of the men also thinks that she is sleeping with the other one so neither of them presses her to have sex with him.
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