| 单词 | straightlaced |
| 例句 | They pronounced their name with straightlaced A’s, as if from the South and not El Sur: Casas, like lasses, like molasses, like a girl stuck. Quinceañera with baby fever 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z This reflects the accord that develops between the straightlaced Charles and the farcical Oliver, whose friendship is rooted in a shared sense of caring for Mabel. "Only Murders in the Building" returns with an invitation to the familliar 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z When you read that on the page, it seems so straightlaced. Billy Crudup opens up about playing against his usual "shattered" type in "After the Wedding 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z With considerable elegance, Field worries about the status of live art – with all its "error-strewn otherness, its slippery relationship to authorship and originality, its theatrical unreliability" – in such straightlaced, institutional surroundings. Noises off: do institutions kill art? And radical theatre lives! 2012-07-13T12:13:09Z Quirky women make for a tidy foil for more straightlaced or average characters, especially in the sitcom or cable television format. The most authentic part of "Happiest Season" is Jane, who conquers the "quirky woman" trope 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z In fact, with its focus on order, perfection, and control, it’s straightlaced to the extreme. What is Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Even in his dealings with his friends, the chorus girls, there was a certain touch of humour which made it impossible even for the most straightlaced to say hard things of him. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Ah, well," went on Master Sturgeon, "I never did like Master Leslie, for he sent many a good fellow to Bedford Gaol, simply because they were not straightlaced Puritans like himself. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that since 1994, the party's mainstream outsourced its economic thinking to Gordon Brown, who in turn took his cues from straightlaced economists and the City. Britain's economy is broken. This is how to start fixing it 2010-09-21T20:00:00Z I had looked to do as much when I came to town, being, I must confess, as little straightlaced as most young men. Simon Dale The times were not of the straightlaced order and no one expected from an actress wonders of chastity or conventionality. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield You have become marvelously straightlaced all at once. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War Those straightlaced sensibilities have been thrilled by beauty, and bathed in the grace and glory of the life around them. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays I never saw such a stiff, silent fellow; he looks as if he had swallowed all his straightlaced Puritan ancestors. Castle Nowhere I was perfectly aware that by some excessively straightlaced people it might be termed a sin; but my ideas of sin were as easy and condoning as yours are. The Master-Christian |
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