7 Sentences With "prissily"

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It's no fun prissily adhering to grammatical rules if it's mandatory.
Instead he just turns a page of his newspaper prissily, not even looking up.
We each turned to Antonio who was gazing prissily at his nails, examining them closely.
It was perched prissily on the pillow of Mr. and Mrs. Chonce's neatly made bed.
But as Terpsichore, Sterling Hyltin was too much of a debutante, prissily playing hard to get.
Alex Jennings is superb, too, as the pained, prissily fastidious Britten … while Frances de la Tour as the stage manager, and Adrian Scarborough as the biographer Humphrey Carpenter, give performances of comic perfection.
Florine Stettheimer honored her friend by painting two works that are about, or include, him. Her 1922 portrait, an affectionate satire (in the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art), shows McBride prissily seated on a plump cushion while keeping score at a tennis match (the critic as score-keeper?), against a rollicking background filled with fanciful allusions to artists McBride liked: Demuth, Lachaise, Homer, and Stettheimer herself. Her 1942 Cathedrals of Art, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, portrays McBride daintily waving STOP and GO signs at the foot of the grand staircase of the Metropolitan, deciding which artists shall enter its precincts and who shall not. He was also the subject of a portrait bust by Gaston Lachaise as well as drawings by Peggy Bacon, Jules Pascin, and others.