| 单词 | strait-laced |
| 例句 | I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family’s strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed more sedate than I remembered it, more perpendicular and strait-laced, with narrower windows and shinier woodwork, as though a coat of varnish had been put over everything for better preservation. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is a strait-laced performance from Day, and I’ve never got the sense of real emotion here. Doris Day: the wholesome face of postwar American optimism 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s a classic odd couple, in that one is a strait-laced doctor and the other is literally a horse with stripes. The worst TV pilots ever: a Waterworld prequel, drag-racing PIs and furry fetish 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z As he and his strait-laced new roommate slowly fall for each other, Josh offers up what may be the most quintessentially romance-hero line I’ve ever seen: “His capacity for longing terrified him.” Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z First staged in 1936, You Can't Take It With You details the comic mishaps that ensue when an impending marriage brings the bride-to-be's family of oddballs together with her groom's strait-laced relatives. James Earl Jones returns to Broadway 2014-04-25T08:25:08Z Still, Mr. Williamson loved to infuriate his strait-laced, professorial father with his love of comics. Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Goldsmith is sober, strait-laced, punctilious; Chuckie sounds like he’s telling it like it is, except when he’s not, which is often — a trick he learned out of professional necessity. ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Works like this were stylistic aberrations in the otherwise strait-laced careers of composers like Weinberger, who were pressed by publishers hoping to capitalize on pop-music fads. When Classical Composers Did the Fox Trot 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z For someone so connected to New York’s various subcultures, Fab 5 Freddy recalled, Mr. Dougherty had a “strait-laced veneer” and an Orchard Street apartment that was “orderly, quaint, middle-class.” Peter Dougherty, Who Brought Rap to MTV, Dies at 59 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z This was the second night of the program, the opening reportedly more strait-laced. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z They were the alternative to the strait-laced establishment press and the successors to the ragtag “underground” papers that had raged against the Vietnam War. Perspective | What we’re losing when we say goodbye to alt weeklies, the rebels of journalism 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z “Coming off ‘House of Cards,’ playing someone so strait-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents,” he said, chuckling. Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Worrell, although not entirely strait-laced himself, brought a dose of discipline and organization to the group as its musical director. Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z You see, my father, a strait-laced middle-class Jewish kid from Los Angeles, enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. Critic?s Notebook: Heads Bowed in Grateful Memory 2011-03-16T22:13:38Z This previously strait-laced suburban father finds that drug manufacturing is everything that teaching in an Albuquerque comprehensive isn't. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z The antics, especially those in which Todd figures, are supposed to be hilarious because Roger is a strait-laced fellow who is on the verge of running for Congress. Review: ‘Brother Nature’: Fish Out of Water With the Future In-Laws 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s the perception that she is strait-laced that makes it funny just hearing her say the names of her guests, often hip-hop artists: “We had Lil Yachty. Do you know him?” Forget the handmade wreaths. Now Martha Stewart hangs with Snoop Dogg and makes weed jokes. 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes he would comment on how he thought I’d be happier with a “Pacific Northwest lumberjack type” who wasn’t as “strait-laced” as he was. Cropped Out of My Own Fantasy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Agnew capably holds up the more strait-laced half of this historic equation, but because Weddington’s professed vulnerabilities do not extend much beyond the parameters of the case, the character remains fairly one-dimensional. At a pivotal political moment, Roe v. Wade unfolds again, this time on stage 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Written and directed by Madeleine Olnek and starring Molly Shannon, “Wild Nights” provides a funny and moving antidote to the strait-laced portrayals of decades past. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He brought those years of not making it to Henry, a would-be actor whose career has been deformed by a series of beer commercials, and to Ben, a strait-laced accountant with a disreputable past. In ‘Severance,’ Adam Scott Gets to Work 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “The traditional buddy cop dynamic is that there’s always a strait-laced one and a loose cannon,” he said. Dax Shepard Is Not Afraid to Direct Naked 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Lee’s fictional snapshot of a strait-laced lawyer gave Alabama a civic mythology it could live with, but non-Southerners may not appreciate the role of the “Mockingbird” industry in the region’s endless literary wars. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Likewise the flutist James Galway, for all his popular appeal and crossover success, is eminently capable of turning in a high-minded, strait-laced performance. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara are on the run in the new buddy comedy "Hot Pursuit," which tells the story of a strait-laced cop enlisted to escort a drug lord's wife to testify against him. 'Hot Pursuit': Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara land in review jail 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z “I don’t know how I got this image of being this strait-laced girl,” she said. Way Back in Time With Two Friends Who Go Way Back 2011-04-01T20:53:01Z A strait-laced neighbor complained that it was a “ragbag of smalltown outcasts, intellectuals and / would-be revolutionaries, downright slouchers who wouldn’t / fit in anywhere.” This Novel Recounts a Haunted Sibling Relationship in Epic Verse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Good Catholic” is almost as strait-laced as its protagonist. Review: No Right Way to Keep the Faith in ‘The Good Catholic’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Noah said he was still having trouble shedding his own strait-laced skin and getting into character. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Willow's out, Sasha's in as competition twists, turns 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The emerging-artists show, “On the Cusp,” resided in a more strait-laced setting, a classic Cape Dutch manor house in the center of town, made available by Distell, a Stellenbosch-based liquor company that sponsored the section. Stellenbosch Triennale, a Bold Experiment 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Today, it seems that the plum role of villain Professor James Moriarty is set to go to Jared Harris, best known for playing strait-laced Brit Lane Pryce on the sublime US TV show Mad Men. Jared Harris nabs Moriarty role in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes sequel 2010-09-29T12:33:00Z In her smoldering delivery, being strait-laced sounds positively glamorous. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In those wee hours, we feel the freedom to think any thought, dream any dream, safe from the scrutiny and judgment of the strait-laced world. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z “Let’s run away,” she tells her strait-laced fiancé. Movie Review: In ‘Highway,’ a Bride Falls for Her Kidnapper 2014-02-20T23:40:13Z In contrast to the strait-laced Downton Abbey, the loud, brash trailer sees Hurley's Queen swigging from a wine bottle and dancing on a table. Elizabeth Hurley plays British royal 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Ahead of the royal wedding, the theatre is promoting it as an "alternative to a strait-laced love story", with an inner-city setting. This week's new theatre 2011-04-08T23:08:36Z My fairly traditional and strait-laced family sat nervously in the lounge while Ethan talked nonsense, his father eventually explaining: “He’s not well again.” Why I went back to my ex-boyfriends, one by one 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Bill Haley later had a hit with it, and eluded censorship from strait-laced radio stations, despite keeping the lyric about the one-eyed cat peeping in a seafood store. Readers recommend: innuendo in songs – results 2013-04-25T13:52:46Z It’s a schematic setup — strait-laced suburbanites versus groovy artists — but this book works because it’s got a great protagonist. The Babysitter Knows All 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z As adapted from the 1891 Frank Wedekind play, the strait-laced period setting raised the stakes on the anguish of transgression, featuring sex, suicide and the emo touch of characters whipping out anachronistic microphones. ‘Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known’ Review: Rock ’n’ Roll High School 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z They are building a case, day after day, that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III — a Republican known for his strait-laced integrity — is out to destroy the Trump presidency for partisan reasons. Perspective | Why I started saying ‘reality-based press’ in 2017, instead of ‘mainstream media’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Curiously, though, it's the most strait-laced work here, Brahms E minor Sonata Op 38, that benefits most; textures are transparent, climaxes never become overpowering, giving the music a buoyancy that seems very fresh. Brahms; Debussy; Shostakovich: Cello Sonatas, etc – review 2012-11-29T22:40:01Z Almost all of the book’s characters speak fluent brag and dis, with the exceptions of strait-laced Isaiah and his beloved older brother, Marcus. Review: In Joe Ide’s ‘IQ,’ a Street-Smart Sherlock 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Sinan, the only man in the group, spends his days as a strait-laced office worker but leads a secret life at night. After Her Heart Stops Beating, a Woman Continues to Think 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The movie zeros in on the hypocrisy of strait-laced parents who condemn their daughters’ profession but welcome the money it provides. Big Issues (and, Yes, Amour) Hit Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z In a generation, those policies remade Toronto — once a genteel, strait-laced, Anglophile town — so that half the sprawling, tolerant city is foreign-born. While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But, unaware that Keanu once belonged to a notorious drug lord, the strait-laced pair must navigate the city’s criminal underbelly to reclaim Keanu when he is stolen from them. With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — Kittens in Tow 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z It's the repertory works, however, that inevitably define the quality of the set overall, and these tend to be just too strait-laced and undercharacterised. Schumann: Complete Chamber Music with Piano – review 2012-06-28T21:24:01Z Becky is a strait-laced high school social sovereign — everything she does is front-page drive-in news — who discovers the counterculture degradations of sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll, albeit not in that order. Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Coffin’s strait-laced parents were also less than instrumental in inspiring or encouraging their son’s always good-humoured creative endeavours. Pierre Coffin: Me and my Minions 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z In one “Modern Family” episode, weed supplies the jokey premise in which two strait-laced characters finally let loose. A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Shika, 42, is the transgender singer and guitarist of Tingtong Ketz, a Malaysian three-piece band whose upbeat songs about queer and transgender life are unique in the strait-laced Southeast Asian nation. Transgender guitarist strikes a different note in conservative... 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z “With Matthew there was a lot unsaid, and it was more strait-laced, more withdrawn,” she said. Paul Gross Joins Kim Cattrall in ?Private Lives? 2011-11-04T03:30:21Z Sterling work, too, from Felicity Jones as Gyllenhaal's more strait-laced sister, an underwritten role of which the rising star makes the most. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-13T00:05:29Z We are in an upmarket boarding house, owned by the strait-laced Prossers, in a remote Welsh village. The Devil Inside Him 2010-05-12T20:30:00Z Whippet-thin and strait-laced, he stands in dour contrast to Neruda, a plump sensualist with a robust sense of mischief and an inexhaustible appetite for pleasure. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z In her decades-long career in film and television, Ms. Kellerman was best known for her role as the strait-laced but alluring Army nurse in “MASH,” which landed her rave reviews and a Golden Globe Award. Sally Kellerman, Oscar-Nominated ‘MASH’ Actress, Is Dead at 84 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Don’t you want to watch America’s strait-laced Auntie stiffly flirt with Wiz Khalifa? The weird high magic of “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The people who fed the world strait-laced cinema like “The Philadelphia Story” and perfect-family television like “I Love Lucy” were often quite the opposite of prudish in private. Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood 2012-01-27T22:08:45Z He was raised in Davenport, Iowa, in a strait-laced German American household. ‘Bix’ Review: A Jazz Legend Fondly Remembered 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The pair have different temperaments: Corie is a lovable “nightmare” with “zero chill,” said Matafeo, while Paul is more strait-laced with dry humor. How Rose Matafeo Shaped the Romance in ‘Starstruck’ 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z It was there that he first got his hands on Superman and Batman comics, suppressed in strait-laced 1950s United Kingdom. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z In a world of staid agency bureaucrats, they were “spooks who played by their own rules, kindred spirits who validated each other’s quirky approach to their strait-laced profession.” Two Spies, Two Opposing Sides, One Fast Friendship 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Georgie, strong-willed, strait-laced and Methodist by upbringing, stuck stoically and, some observers thought, foolishly by her husband while maintaining a considerable intellectual independence and finding outlets in social work and feminism, which irritated Burne-Jones. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z While those performances are sometimes a bit more strait-laced expressively than today's much suaver period-instrument bands, there is a wonderfully uncomplicated directness about the singing and playing that is always fully engaged. The Complete Bach Edition on USB – review 2013-04-17T15:30:21Z The work is far from minimal or strait-laced, but it doesn't sprawl and slouch quite the way it once did. 'Frank Gehry' at LACMA is well framed but still needs build-out 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Still, it is a canny move by Boss, which tends to be typecast as the workplace outfitter of choice for strait-laced white-collar professionals everywhere. Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Suit is Back 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z In contrast to strait-laced Seattle, where suds stopped flowing at 2 a.m. and never on Sundays, Georgetown’s unregulated taverns, eateries and roadhouses were open round-the-clock, serving laborers the hoppy product of their labors. Sudsy stories flow dramatically from this once-rowdy Georgetown saloon 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z This strait-laced hamlet of thatched roofs, wine tasting rooms and chocolatiers is obsessed with its image as a charming Danish village. Copenhagen mayor to California's 'Danish Capital': Stop acting homophobic 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Although a strait-laced Presbyterian and stodgy academic, Wilson immediately bonded with Edith, 16 years his junior, finding her beautiful, stylish, charming and vivacious. Review | Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z On several occasions, CNN’s strait-laced daytime shows, airing at off-hours like noon and 1 p.m., garnered bigger audiences than the new nighttime offerings. CNN’s Prime-Time Experiment Is Off to a Slow Start 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Both Republican and Democratic politicos and appointees described him as a strait-laced administrator who played it by the book. Judge issues warrant for Roy McGrath, Hogan’s former chief of staff 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Lives lived: Bud Grant was a strait-laced Hall of Fame football coach who led the Minnesota Vikings for 18 years and took the team to four Super Bowls. The First Book of Spring 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Beck never worked too hard to fit in on a D.E.A. squad that was heavy with strait-laced Mormons. The Cienfuegos Affair: Inside the Case that Upended the Drug War in Mexico 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z She did not miss her strait-laced Christian parents. Jane Smiley's latest? A Gold Rush-era California sex worker mystery 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z After a tepid reaction to the strait-laced stage adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast,” Disney’s executives took a gamble and collaborated with the avant-garde artist Julie Taymor. Divided Government 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Because you were more strait-laced back at home? From lovable weirdos to queer icons, the B-52's dance this mess around one last time 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z His last assignment was as the assistant special agent in charge of a small field office in Tucson, where friends and former colleagues say he developed a reputation as a strait-laced and thorough investigator. How DHS watchdog under fire in Jan. 6 investigation pushed to get his post 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z On Chinese social media platforms where trendsetters trade fashion tips, young people — mostly men — have been sharing pictures of themselves dressed like their strait-laced, middle-aged dads working in Communist Party offices. So Square It’s Hip: Gen Z Tries on the Communist Cadre Look 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The normally strait-laced Associated Press has hired a democracy news editor. American media wants to save democracy. Is it helping? 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z As a teenager in a fundamentalist church, Corinne idolizes strait-laced Enoch Miller, the eldest son of the people who brought her family into the fold. 12 noteworthy books for July and August 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Boric marks a break from the Andean country's traditionally strait-laced leaders and remains a beacon for those citizens fed up with inequality in one of the region's wealthiest nations after violent protests in 2019. Chile's new leftist president gets reality check as support wanes 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z A strait-laced and reserved lawmaker, Mr. Schiff’s turns in the spotlight as a top investigator into the Trump administration have also made him a favorite foil for Republicans. Adam Schiff: A former impeachment manager brings a prosecutor’s eye. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Hatch, a strait-laced former Mormon bishop who grew up in a working-class Pittsburgh family, could scarcely have been more different from Kennedy, a fun-loving scion of East Coast political royalty. Orrin G. Hatch, longest-serving Republican in Senate history, dies at 88 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z His role is to illuminate the finer points of the game but also entertain as the kooky sidekick to the strait-laced play-by-play man. Perspective | LeBron James’s tweet on Glenn Consor: An eagerness to judge and a reluctance to think 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Nunzio was next, the son who was so strait-laced that his brothers referred to him as Bob Dole, the U.S. senator from Kansas. The First Family of New Jersey Football 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z He was meticulous, strait-laced, the type of person who always played it by the book. Hogan expressed support of hefty severance package, says former chief of staff Roy McGrath 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Most assume that a victorious Scholz - a strait-laced finance minister and a former mayor of Hamburg - would include the Free Democrats as a moderating influence in his coalition. German conservatives raise spectre of far-left rule ahead of election 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z She was so fed up with strait-laced Seattle at the time that she thought she might never return. For 20 years, Shary Flenniken of Seattle lampooned her hometown in hilarious comic ‘Trots and Bonnie’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z A strait-laced father whose open grief over his own father’s passing provides a rare glimpse of his inner life. Britain watches, wonders: Will brother princes make peace while grieving grandfather's death? 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The elder was strait-laced, and the younger was forever getting into trouble. Losing a Loved One Twice: First to Prison, Then to Covid 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z That assessment echoed the appraisals of several current and former co-workers, who said in interviews with The Times that the inspector was quiet, low-key and strait-laced. N.Y.P.D. Anti-Harassment Official Accused of Racist Rants 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z “My dad was a strait-laced, sweetheart, Catholic chemist” who kept pens in his shirt pockets, she said. Her father’s beating by police launched a life of faith and advocacy 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z He was considered a nonconformist in a strait-laced league. Sam Wyche, innovative and volatile NFL coach, dies at 74 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z A strait-laced screen presence, Mr. Hemmer is unlikely to replicate Mr. Smith’s pungent opening monologues, in which the anchor frequently derided Mr. Trump. Fox News Picks Bill Hemmer to Take Shepard Smith’s Old Slot 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Throughout, Hus switches style like a boxer switches stance, murmuring in pidgin and patois before breaking into strait-laced English during the final verse. Did you see what I done? How J Hus became the voice of young black Britain 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It was Representative Adam B. Schiff, the strait-laced former federal prosecutor who was on the brink of prosecuting his biggest defendant yet: President Trump. Adam Schiff, a Trump Punching Bag, Takes His Case to a Bigger Ring 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago, many viewed modestly sized Washington as a sedate, strait-laced, southern-flavored city. Perspective | Yes, D.C.’s a world-class city — but it’s really only affordable to people with world-class incomes 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z As host, Cornelius emanated a distinctly Chicago brand of cool: smooth, drily witty, somewhat strait-laced despite his flashy threads. 'An ad for blackness': how Soul Train made America do the Hustle 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z So far, no one has investigated whether Google engineers zipping around on Razor scooters to Lego-building stations innovate more freely than do their counterparts at more strait-laced firms. Do luxe labs shape science? 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Director Marielle Heller front-loaded her "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" story of Israel with an opening scene in which she raises a middle finger to the strait-laced annoying bosses after swigging whiskey at work. Three cheers for the iconoclasts, rule-breakers, outsiders and runners-up of history 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z But Kavanaugh’s earlier descriptions of himself as a student — from high school through law school — were of someone far less strait-laced. Kavanaugh vs. Kavanaugh: Supreme Court nominee has offered conflicting accounts of his teenage drinking - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Ms. LaVoy, strait-laced in affect and business casual in dress, doesn’t present as a working-class hero. In Michigan, Female Candidates Target a Key Trump Bloc: Union Voters 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z Quite a change for the US TV which is usually more strait-laced than the UK. Five things the US can expect from Love Island 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “My background is in journalism, and often my presenting has been pretty strait-laced. There’s only so much room for jokes and that sort of dry humour. I love the fact I can really be myself.” ‘One winner played on the toilet’: inside HQ Trivia, the hit quiz app 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z At one point Ginsberg, loquacious and impassioned and hirsute, sporting jeans and a workingman’s cap, posed a question to Kennedy, the devout and strait-laced father of 10: had he ever smoked pot? The day Robert Kennedy met Allen Ginsberg: 'Have you ever smoked pot?' 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Tucci stages much of “Final Portrait” in the artist’s studio, here designed as a chiaroscuro collection of layered grays and chalk-whites against which Lord’s spotless navy jacket stands out like a primly strait-laced rebuke. Review | Geoffrey Rush delivers a winning, ferocious performance in ‘Final Portrait’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z You also learn the origin of the term “strait-laced.” Corsets to bloomers: a women’s history lesson through underwear 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The result was an eerie juxtaposition of strait-laced suburbia and five men who looked, Mr. Seidemann said, like “mutant transplants from Jupiter, fresh out of their flying saucer.” Bob Seidemann, photographer of Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, dies at 75 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Here, in strait-laced Washington, it fits into the athletic fabric perfectly. For Nationals, a crazy night ends with anguish and a season-ending loss to Cubs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Many of Radio 1's presenters were drawn from the ranks of pirate radio - but they found the BBC a lot more strait-laced. 50 facts about Radio 1 & 2 as they turn 50 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Middle-class American society in the 1950s was notoriously strait-laced and the combination of tastefully photographed women and intellectually stimulating articles appealed to the post-war urban male. Obituary: Hugh Hefner 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z While prosecutors have taken a strait-laced approach to closing arguments, Brafman has entertained the jury with props and stories. Martin Shkreli, borrowing from Trump, calls case against him ‘silly witch hunt’ 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The policy part of the Obama administration’s Force of the Future initiative, which aimed to make the strait-laced, male-dominated U.S. military more inclusive. Trump bars transgender people from serving 'in any capacity' in the U.S. military 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z At this point, Mr. Trump defended Mr. Petraeus as “a strait-laced guy” and “beyond reproach.” Fact-Check: Trump Has Been Far Less Forgiving of Past Leaks Than His Own 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z She said that Mr. Stiller was disillusioned with the repressive politics of East Germany, but also frustrated with a career that had stagnated and with a strait-laced German society that abhorred his lavish, womanizing lifestyle. Werner Stiller, East German spy and defector, dies at 69 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Whippet-thin and strait-laced, he stands in dour contrast to Neruda, a plump sensualist with a robust sense of mischief and appetite for pleasure. ‘Neruda’ review: Outlaw poet vs. Chilean dictatorship in inventive biopic 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The initiation was unusual for a strait-laced Chinese kid, but he was thrilled to be part of an American posse. The Parachute Generation 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z So for many Cavaliers players, hairstyle is a form of self-expression within a famously strait-laced program. The buttoned-up Virginia basketball team learns to let down its hair 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The strait-laced guy who comes to find that no one respects him isn’t a new comic conceit, yet Cranston has enough skill that we can see the fear that informs his character’s behavior. ‘Why Him?’ celebrates family values while simultaneously trashing them 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z His strait-laced parents loved goofy jokes and stressed education. A Man Is Shot in the Back, and Only the Police Are Kept in the Dark 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Like any smart performance artist, he’s made the strait-laced audience part of his act. Trump as Lady Gaga 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z As a boy, he was expelled from his strait-laced Jesuit school for squirting blue ink on a priest, recalls Mr. Dureza. Behind Philippine Leader’s Break With the U.S., a Lifetime of Resentment 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar says. You can leave your hat on: Scholar says Puritans were sexy 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z A leading Puritan scholar says the famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think. You can leave your hat on: Scholar says Puritans were sexy 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The strait-laced Communist Party is getting into the spirit of things, too. Clairvoyants See Good Fortune in Capitalist Vietnam 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z A strait-laced, silver-haired former altar boy, he waved hello to his mother and to his wife of 31 years, and promised that Mr Trump would bring “no-nonsense leadership” to Washington. At his majesty’s pleasure 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Malley shouts during a hilarious verbal fusillade so foul that his more strait-laced listeners might expect his mike to be cut in protection of civil discourse. In Cleveland’s Public Square, Rights Are Exercised. Loudly. 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z A second person briefed on the meeting described it as an awkward encounter for the strait-laced Mr. Pence. A Grounded Plane and Anti-Clinton Passion: How Mike Pence Swayed the Trumps 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Trump maintained a reputation as a strait-laced teetotaler, but he loved to be in the mix late at night, especially among beautiful women, according to his own accounts. The man who showed Donald Trump how to exploit power and instill fear 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z A week later he was offered the role of Eli Gold, the strait-laced political strategist on The Good Wife, then in its first season. Alan Cumming: ‘Now I can play men in suits’ 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z The story is about a strait-laced, conformist school boys' prep school whose harmony is disturbed when a teacher — played by Robin Williams in the film — arrives to teach English. The world premiere stage adaptation of "Dead Poets Society," a David Ives play and a revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures" are the highlights of the Classic Stage Company's upcoming season 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z One of the more intriguing people in the film is the strait-laced journalist who declines to partake of his subject, and who is eventually taken off the beat. ‘Rolling Papers’ looks at the intersection of journalism and marijuana culture 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z A de-mob happy atmosphere filled the austere building as normally strait-laced politicians enjoyed the last hours with singing and laughter. Myanmar ends parliament and military-only rule with a party - BBC News 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z He'll be expected to be more strait-laced in his interview responses from now on. What does the Chris Gayle row reveal? - BBC News 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z A growing controversy over a Singapore concert starring openly gay US singer Adam Lambert has highlighted a widening cultural divide in the strait-laced city-state. Adam Lambert concert sparks Singapore culture debate - BBC News 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z A strait-laced family quickened their pace while passing him. ‘Grandpa Woodstock’ Spreads Peace and Love on a Village Green 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z And yet he is inevitably cast as the strait-laced villain to those more flamboyant heroes, as stern and sinister as Terence Stamp in Superman II, not so much General Zod as General Djok. The bad guy who has done nothing wrong 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Hanger didn't do interviews, but that didn't stop locals from talking about the strait-laced trooper. After Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh's arrest almost went unnoticed 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Judge Hanen came to the Federal District Court here almost 13 years ago from a strait-laced law practice in Houston. Judge Blocking Obama on Immigration Has Reputation for Fairness in Texas 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The man charged with stopping Stern and his outfit was a strait-laced British inspector named Geoffrey Morton. A World War II manhunt 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z BERKELEY, Calif. — Tom Dalzell looks too strait-laced to be the arbiter of the eccentric. A Step-by-Step Guide to Berkeley’s Many Quirks 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The plot centers on a young woman who must introduce her fiance’s strait-laced family to her rather more eccentric family. Anna Chlumsky to join ‘You Can’t Take It With You’ 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “He was strait-laced, a proper child,” Green said. FBI agent Matthew Lowry’s alleged fall: ‘How in the world did it get to this?’ Glenn Garvin wrote in The Miami Herald, “ ‘Granite Flats’ is solid evidence that family entertainment need not be strait-laced or simple-minded.” A Formula for Pop Culture and Religious Sensibility on a Mormon TV Network 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z “My daughter is so strait-laced,” she said, “and I knew she hadn’t gone to a party.” The doctor and the teenager 2014-04-28T17:36:41Z People who deal with her in Hoboken, a thickly populated waterfront city across the Hudson River from Manhattan, depict her variously as strait-laced, aggressive, serious, unassuming and not always the easiest person to bond with. Making Claim, Town’s Mayor Gains Notice 2014-01-23T02:56:11Z For Casual Friday, Miller says, the tipping point was Alcoa, the strait-laced corporation in Pittsburgh. The case for Workout Wear Friday 2013-12-31T19:20:00Z The current Giants were a little more strait-laced. Result Is Often Sour, for a Week, Anyway 2013-09-05T01:40:02Z He wasn’t technically an animation major — he was on the university’s more strait-laced computer-science track. When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to Mormon Country 2013-05-23T11:01:10Z For now, many analysts consider the Mail Online a growth source for a strait-laced media company. Britain’s Daily Mail Web Site Makes Foray Into America 2013-05-09T16:03:57Z The Made in America brand once embodied ruggedness and a kind of strait-laced patriotism, but recently it has morphed into a symbol of artisanal design and environmental sustainability. 'Made in the USA' Gets a Makeover 2013-02-09T05:00:00Z Asian education institutions are sometimes seen as being strait-laced and more focused on exams than creativity, which made “24 Hours in a Tower” all the more notable. Students Pitch in During Musical Marathon 2012-11-19T07:55:31Z There was nothing strait-laced about him, and the boring, linear fastball was not a path to success for him. Opinionator: R.A. Dickey and the Knuckleball 2012-07-14T00:00:10Z Jurors got a glimpse of that strait-laced personality. Andy Pettitte testifies in Roger Clemens perjury trial | Baseball 2012-05-02T03:24:03Z In strait-laced ways and to all demure modesty, Eliza was reared. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z "And, madam, in these days people are more strait-laced than they were; it is not fitting." Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z The strait-laced moralist of this generation may turn to the volumes of the Carlile’s Trials, and find that Mrs. Carlile was indicted for publishing a paragraph justifying assassination of tyrants. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z I thought directly I saw you that you were a bit of a prig—I beg your pardon, I should say, rather strait-laced. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z The mar�chal is not strait-laced, heaven save the mark, how should he be? and seeing you quite happy, will be satisfied. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z He was as orthodox a divine as ever lived, but not strait-laced, and he liked children to read fairy tales. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Even the most strait-laced Americans see nothing odd in recycling a surname as a given name. Baby names: Thanks, mum 2012-01-12T16:04:23Z It may seem to your relatives and friends very strait-laced, strict, and narrow, if you tell them you cannot go to the races or the theatre with them. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Perhaps I am not quite so strait-laced as you seem to think. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z My mother was very strait-laced and puritanical, as I have said, and, naturally, by reflection and association, I was the same. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z I have asked two gentlemen to dinner; that will be livelier, not so strait-laced; we can laugh and enjoy ourselves. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z No candidate wants to be seen as a strait-laced sentinel, and Mr. Romney will sometimes cannily fob that role off on an aide, especially when handling reporters. Parker on the Trail: Romney Seeks Order in Chaos of Campaign 2011-10-29T04:28:29Z The fact that the Phœnix Park at Dublin is laid out in a fine, picturesque way does not forbid a great straight road through it—a road finer than in any strait-laced park in France. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z Our strait-laced, old-fashioned, Puritanic America doesn't know enough to appreciate such a picture of this free European world, where relations between men and women are different from those between high school boys and girls. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Stuart Stevens, 58, has detractors in the small but intensely competitive universe of Republican strategists, and in many ways his proclivity for extremes makes him starkly different from his strait-laced client. Stuart Stevens, Redefining Romney?s Presidential Run 2011-09-19T19:52:01Z These semi-learned reflections will perhaps certify to the truth of this Étude, though some of its details may scandalize the improved propriety of our age—a little too strait-laced perhaps, as we all know. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Lord M.'s pupil considered that dear Albert was strait-laced, and, in a brisk Anglo-German missive, set forth her own views. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z It might seem to be an odd-couple fit -- strait-laced government types with their rules and missions trying to recruit hackers who by definition want to defy authorities. Government hankers for hackers 2011-08-02T05:03:00Z In a stroke of inspiration — or perhaps luck — Mr. Bender added glasses with thick black rims, the kind he felt a strait-laced man like Mr. List would wear. Frank Bender, ?Recomposer? of Faces of the Dead, Dies at 70 2011-07-30T22:59:44Z Sir Mervyn was not so strait-laced in other matters as to make it incumbent upon him to frown down horse-racing for the sake of consistency. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Is it out of mere strait-laced modesty that they are so cruel here? The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Though he never spoke much in the clubhouse about his religious convictions, Pettitte became known among the Yankees for his strait-laced life. Clemens Goes on Trial for Perjury With Pettitte as Key Witness 2011-07-05T16:52:22Z And subsequent conversation with Major Mitton elicited the fact that Augustus Cheffington had been looked upon as a "black sheep" even by not very fastidious or strait-laced circles many years ago. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z He was chairman of the Dispensary Board, and being of a strait-laced and somewhat evangelical disposition, he could not tolerate the exuberance of spirits displayed by the dispensary doctor. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z "As if I had time to trouble myself about your strait-laced proprieties!" exclaimed she, coloring slightly; she evidently did not like this allusion to her little indiscretion: "I have something much worse to think about." Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z It would be a mistake, however, to think of these nuns—or of any I ever met—as pious, strait-laced, lachrymose creatures. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Morris, besides, is a strait-laced fellow that would be shocked at a trifle. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Surely the strait-laced nurses would never be guilty of indiscretion, and yet they commit strange blunders. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z “Bobby wouldn’t be herself if she got too strait-laced,” remarked Chetwood. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z In the strait-laced , players are bound by a dress code that regulates almost everything to ensure uniformity and formality. Giants Enjoy Relaxed Dress Code During Camp 2010-08-07T01:30:00Z Though she said nothing of a garden, I imagined a very strait-laced one with rectilinear, timidly-flowering walks, the sort of garden that is not cherished with love. Woman They know that you don't belong to that strait-laced set of humbugs that want to frown down all mankind. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Not very strait-laced, she thought her old neighbour exaggerated his fault immensely. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 It would be vain for Seraphin to try to give up the unbelieving Louise, whom his strait-laced faith makes it his duty to avoid. The Progressionists, and Angela. She was not strait-laced; she would have been beyond measure distressed had prudery, or any conventional limitations, been attributed to her—had she, in anyone's mind, been termed born�e. The Furnace The Quais had not yet got as strait-laced as they are now, and the river flowed its pleasant course without much police supervision. Fragments of an Autobiography The strait-laced bourgeois or bourgeoise was shocked, and did not repeat the visit. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections It was true the Continent was not Hyde Park,—the most strait-laced and well-conducted did fifty things there they had never ventured on at home. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day There they were received as saints and confessors; and Davenport, the strait-laced pastor of the colony, seems to have taken them under his especial patronage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Her father was a country parson, very strait-laced, they gathered; and she had little sisters, years younger than herself. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur And yet I saw some young fellows about the smoking-room who seemed, in the eyes of one who cannot count himself strait-laced, in need of some more practical sort of teaching. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Not that Mr. Howells is strait-laced, prudish, narrow in his views—but he puts his foot down on the expression of the tragic, the unusual, the emotional. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Only three months married, and to find my husband an obstinate, vindictive, strait-laced country bumpkin! The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly It was natural, therefore, that he should offer his boy to the strait-laced Muses of Queen Anne's time; that the precocious boy should lisp in heroic couplets, and that he should endeavor to be satirical. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition I had a strait-laced parson for my father—so had you. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur Outside in the yard certain young folk who had been reared to hold dancing ungodly indulged in those various "plays" as they called the games less frowned upon by the strait-laced. The Roof Tree Though our neighbors are not strait-laced, so far as bathing-costume is concerned, they are less tolerant of the nude than we are in this highly-favored land. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) It is probably a narrow, strait-laced way that the cloth have of looking at this question, in common with all other questions, save prayer-meetings and almsgiving. The Chautauqua Girls At Home The ultimate philosophy, we may therefore conclude, must not be too strait-laced in form, must not in all its parts divide heresy from orthodoxy by too sharp a line. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy I frankly stated that I considered bribing a legislator as a low-down crime and that I did not believe it was done in our strait-laced old Commonwealth as freely as they all seemed to imagine. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated So that at last, I being quite released From this strait-laced Egoity My soul will vastly be increased Into that All Which One we call, And One in itself alone doth All imply. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries He’s awfully particular and strait-laced, just like that brother of his. St. Winifred's, or The World of School When orthodoxy becomes so strict and strait-laced and legalistic, when it stands up so erect as to lean backward, both the interests of the Truth and of the Church are bound to suffer. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) No one, I tell you, not even the most strait-laced or censorious. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance This was no time for convention, for placid weighing of this consideration against that, for strait-laced repression. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Some strait-laced Conservatives, who were a little shocked to see the announcement of "Mr. Balfour on the Film," were comforted on its being pointed out to them that Mr. Chaplin set him the example. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 Mr. Keeler was a very strait-laced individual, and wont to raise his hands in horror at the mention of fighting, or anything, in fact, that partook of violence. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast I think I had naturally a bright disposition, and so in the first freshness of my surroundings did not mind the little disagreeables attending my 'strait-laced views,' as Nelly called them. Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story As he left the house the Doctor declared to himself that the man was a strait-laced, fanatical, hard-hearted bigot. Dr. Wortle's School The ladies were not too strait-laced; dull care was banished. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert The vigolite upon her upper lip might look a little bizarre in an assemblage of Saxon dames, just as her sprightly spirit would offend the sentiment of a strait-laced Puritanism. The Lone Ranche As much as she could trouble herself to dislike any woman outside her own world, she disliked the rigid, strait-laced spinster, and was fully aware that the dislike was returned. Flaming June “No,” said I. “Ah!” he replied, laughing, “you’ll find him a very nice boy; just a little too strait-laced for me, but he’ll suit you.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life The experience had clearly made him cynical, but tolerant also, and human, with a tendency, as far as he was personally concerned, to being morally strait-laced. The Letter of the Contract Some people thought her old fashioned, strait-laced, prudish. The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too strait-laced out here. Under Fire Even I, whom you consider an epitome of all that is stiff-necked and strait-laced, can see no harm in that. The Farringdons It is difficult to be strait-laced with a lady who had so much old point, and whose silks are so stiff that she can rustle down your remonstrances. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls They think her a little free and easy, or too particular and strait-laced. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. Of course they are not nuns, they are not even Roman Catholics, but they are just as strict and strait-laced about certain things as if their house were really a convent. The House of Martha "They are too good for me, too orthodox, too strait-laced," exclaimed the Russian one day in his quiet, jeering way. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 They have always been strait-laced and honest and I hear that the mother—she came from Piping Tree and was one of the Hawtreys—is violently opposed to her son's marriage with Molly Merryweather. The Miller Of Old Church He quarrelled with Ballantyne, partly for his depreciatory criticism of Count Robert of Paris, partly for his growing tendency to a mystic and strait-laced sort of dissent and his increasing Liberalism. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) But how could a person of that persuasion be so strict, so strait-laced? The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Maybe I'm wrong, and I often feel that I am strait-laced about such things. Phineas Finn The Irish Member How old and strait-laced you are for a young man; why Dr. Henry often went and looked on, and his daughter danced, and people liked him all the better for it. Divers Women He suspended on this occasion all the usual strait-laced etiquettes of the quarter-deck discipline, and permitted the harassed soldiers to lie down and read between the guns, or wherever they pleased. The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels But let his uncle or aunt,—or his strait-laced methodical brother, say what they would to him, nothing should induce him to make himself a slave to an earldom. An Eye for an Eye Will Congress be too strait-laced to carry the constitution into honest effect, unless they may pass over the foundation laws of the State governments, for the slightest convenience to theirs? Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 It's up to me to do something, for I know, with your strait-laced notions, you never will! The Witness He had taken the pledge from Father Mathew before he left Ireland, and had kept it faithfully; but he was not strait-laced. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned Clever, amiable, good looking, not too strait-laced—she's just the girl I want. Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst Yet the severe and strait-laced censors are not perhaps so much of a nuisance as the sternly-cultured and emotional persons who "yearn" a great deal. Side Lights And the strait-laced old simpleton took and altered his will on the strength of it. Verner's Pride Helen, on the contrary, was unusually cool, confirming him in his opinion that she was strong-minded and self-willed, and making him resolve to remove Katy as soon as possible from her strait-laced influence. Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering I am not strait-laced, but I draw the line at murder. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance There was in society, though it was not strait-laced or puritanical, a general standard of "good form." The English Novel Is a strait-laced negative from the Commission to echo back his neigh? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 I am not strait-laced, and I can keep counsel. St George's Cross They described her as "good fun and not a bit strait-laced." The Elephant God It must have puzzled those who kept up the notion of her being “strait-laced” to see how indulgent she was even to Epicurean tendencies,—the remotest of all from her own. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time "Too strait-laced, sir?" he suggested with the suspicion of a smile. Charles Rex Is my liberty to be restricted by the narrow scruples of ‘strait-laced’ Christians? Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) They preached a narrow, strait-laced, Old Testament religion, but it went deep. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution In that of Dudley we see the typical narrow-minded, strait-laced Calvinist for whom it is so much easier to entertain respect than affection. The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty To be too much on the defensive points to a secret desire for attack; the shy woman is not strait-laced. The Man Who Laughs We think it one result of their great freedom from any strait-laced conventional ideas, that no point of character is more frequently noticed in the subjects of these sketches than wit and humor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 There had grown up between Queen Isabel of Bavaria and Louis, Duke of Orleans, brother of the king, an intimacy which, throughout the city and amongst all honorable people, shocked even the least strait-laced. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 She pleased his fancy, and was not more strait-laced than the duke was scrupulous; and Fulbert, the tanner, kept but little watch over his daughter. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 It must have puzzled those who kept up the notion of her being "strait-laced," to see how indulgent she was even to epicurean tendencies,—the remotest of all from her own. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 So you see, Miss Miriam, that we are getting to the point,—even my strait-laced lady made her opinions about church-going give way before high art in her cook. The Girl at Cobhurst Be not governed by your father's strait-laced and puritanical opinions. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire I'm not strait-laced, but I tell you we got to have decent women in our schools. Main Street Then she could always plead moods and nerves, and the right not to be held too strictly to account; and even in the most strait-laced societies the laugh was always against the husband. The Age of Innocence It had been bestowed on him by the old Duke of Broadmorlands, who was the most strait-laced old boy in England. The Shuttle Old Mr. Cayley, though not the least strait-laced, was a religious man. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Then, too, your father and mother and mine are so strait-laced—it'd give 'em a terrible jar to find out. The Cost Philip, strait-laced in matters of truth, was a little shocked by this airy attitude. Of Human Bondage A proper, strait-laced, soft-voiced lad he has ever been, and, as a consequence, he throve in the world, and joined land to land after the scriptural fashion. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Educationists and advanced thinkers generally would fain see a less strait-laced routine, a less stringent supervision, more freedom for play of character. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" I do not intend to have my reputation sacrificed to yo' strait-laced Yankee conscience. The Gray Dawn Nearly all the big men got coats which fitted them like strait-laced jackets, while the little ones had garments which hung upon their shoulders in balloon fashion. The Life of John Clare She stopped on the path outside the decorous strait-laced houses and put her cool gloved hand up to her burning cheek. The Cathedral I do not wish to be strait-laced and narrow, but I do not wish, either, to be so broad as to obliterate altogether the distinction between Christian people and others. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Romantic fiction in Hebrew, which the strait-laced life and the austerity of the educated had rendered impossible up to this time, now made its first appearance in the form of translations of modern romances. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Needing herself no indulgence, she could be indulgent; and would by no means favour that strait-laced morality that would constrain the innocent play of the social body. Coningsby "I'm not one of your strait-laced moralists, but an old man of the world, begad; and I know that as long as it lasts young men will be young men." The History of Pendennis The young Benjamin, having no liking for the opinions, manners, and customs of this strait-laced town, or for his cold and overbearing brother, concluded in his seventeenth year to run away from his apprenticeship. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders To that quiet village, in those quiet strait-laced times, he was a horror and a portent. The Secret of the Tower We been a little rough," he went on after a moment, "and some folks is strait-laced. The Mystery And for this he must not be thought narrow-minded, strait-laced, or unduly dignified. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Well, for any gentleman who is not strait-laced, who loves a pretty girl, a bottle, and a jolly companion, he is the very thing. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 She was the reverse of strait-laced; her morals were nothing in particular, and her ideas on all subjects, whether on righteousness or wickedness, the broadest of the broad. A Girl of the People Now our new captain is a strait-laced sort of man, you see; but the cantin' fellow of a master you had on board before, warn't above a dodge of this kind. Nature and Human Nature My theory was repudiated with scorn, and I was told that I was strait-laced, visionary, and impracticable! Autobiography of Anthony Trollope She consoled herself, however, with the story of the inheritance, no longer calling Lisa a strait-laced prude, but a thief who kept back her brother-in-law's money, and assumed sanctimonious airs to deceive people. The Fat and the Thin Mrs Pipkin's morals were good wearing morals, but she was not strait-laced. The Way We Live Now He even declared publicly that our theatre had become far too respectable for his taste, and tried to convince me that good theatrical performances could not be given by a strait-laced company. My Life — Volume 1 "But the Burgesses all used to be such serious, strait-laced people," said Mrs. MacHugh. He Knew He Was Right For instance,—see how old-fashioned and strait-laced I am!—I wish I had been miles away from St. Rest before I had ever seen you smoking! God's Good Man Life moved languidly in the strait-laced city, even to a young gentleman a-tiptoe for adventure and framed to elicit it as the hazel-wand draws water. The Valley of Decision Miltoun's being so extraordinarily strait-laced makes it all the more awkward. The Patrician They are prim, strait-laced, exclusive people themselves; but it is a house worth going to.' Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife The soldiers are not strait-laced gentry, and if they should become troublesome, with a couple of dollars, eh? Dona Perfecta Was He a strait-laced, self-righteous Pharisee, too good, too religious to have anything to say to those who disagreed with Him? We Two, a novel Lord M's pupil considered that dear Albert was strait-laced, and, in a brisk Anglo-German missive, set forth her own views. Queen Victoria |
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