单词 | straitlaced |
例句 | “She was straitlaced and I was on the other end of the spectrum,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The orderly troupe of farm animals lined along the windowsill and the straitlaced dolls poised in the various rooms of their open-sided mansion waited for the gem of her first sentence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Piper knew what her friends whispered about Jason—he was too perfect, too straitlaced. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was time to put my straitlaced ways to rest. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The deputy DA, who wore horn-rimmed glasses and three-piece suits, was a straitlaced loner. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z Not surprisingly, Morrison didn't get along with his straitlaced military dad. 11 surprising facts about Jim Morrison 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Then there’s Chin’s straitlaced friend, with his realization that Vincent is now a martyr for a movement toward which he might have felt some ambivalence. The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Wagner, who portrayed the straitlaced Mrs. Hughes for all of those 54 years, died on Saturday at her home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Helen Wagner, Longtime Actress on ?As the World Turns,? Dies at 91 2010-05-04T03:38:00Z With your wholesome demeanour, you must be Ms Hudson, his straitlaced girlfriend. The Killer Inside Me: I could murder another Casey Affleck movie 2010-09-28T13:32:00Z The historic episode of “WTF,” buzzed about for days and discussed at the top of the Times home page after it was posted, was more straitlaced than usual. “WTF” with Barack Obama 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “We’re straitlaced individuals. It’s so embarrassing and it’s not really who I am today.” How we met: ‘Two girls had broken in. I threw on a towel and ran out to meet them’ 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The Americans fit into a production that, through the three episodes available to critics, is more straitlaced than its counterpart — that’s wary of driving outside the lines. Television Review: Toys for Boys, With an American Accent 2010-11-19T23:08:00Z But she would always be best known for playing Major Houlihan, a straitlaced, by-the-book Army nurse who is tormented by rowdy doctors during the Korean War in the army comedy “MASH.” Oscar-nominated ‘MASH’ actor Sally Kellerman dies at 84 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z And yet, so far, “The Good Fight” feels straitlaced, by the numbers. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Nonconformists of all kinds must be careful in the increasingly straitlaced England of the 1820s. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z “There were all these people going wild around me and I felt really straitlaced.” Oddball comedian Chris Fleming's special "HELL" goes beyond his awkward body of work 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Yet the media, then and now and for all the years in between, has continued to let Republicans brand themselves as a straitlaced anti-crime party. After Jan. 6, can we stop pretending Republicans are the "law and order" party? 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Even in worldly Boston, however, life in 1660 or 1670 was still simple and straitlaced by the standards of a century later. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Instead, they leaned into the nuanced version of this straitlaced person. Yvonne Orji needed convincing to buy that 'Insecure' finale: 'I never want to settle' 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z These are the kinds of stories you’d never find in the more straitlaced Star Wars canon. Star Wars: Visions has a lot more fun than Marvel’s What If…? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In “The Santa Squad,” a beautiful, unemployed teacher melts the heart of a wealthy, straitlaced widower as she teaches him and his adorable young daughters the true meaning of Christmas. Holiday TV wants to ignore COVID-19. The alternate reality insults viewers 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z At times, they appear to be doing a riff on The Odd Couple, with Whitman as straitlaced Felix to Katzenberg’s lightly chaotic Oscar. Meg Whitman’s Quibi plays the long game on short video 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Co-star Armie Hammer is poorly suited to satire; he’s so straitlaced, he recently got in a Twitter fight with a journalist who pointed out that he is “simply a beautiful, pedigreed white man.” Sorry to Bother You is exactly right about the horrors of viral fame 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Tiffany Haddish is hosting the show, and recent promos featuring the actress do their best to poke fun at more straitlaced industry awards shows. Black Panther and Stranger Things dominate MTV’s awards nominations 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Conditt was smart, “straitlaced” and “definitely came off as a little intense, and it was hard for him to get along with people and make friends,” said Jensen, now a freelance journalist living in Dallas. austin-bomber 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z West is straitlaced and silly in the role because comic book stories lend themselves to silliness, even when they’re trying to be taken seriously. It’s time to give Adam West’s Batman his due 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z O’Heir plays Lenny, a straitlaced CPA who hits the road with his inheritance from his deceased mother — a ’53 Oldsmobile — with dreams of achieving stardom as a standup comedian in Las Vegas. Dark, comedy 'Middle Man' goes on a violent crime spree with no payoff 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The straitlaced King, who giggled and cried throughout the segment, admitted that Rickles could make him laugh at hello. Watch Don Rickles in action as he lobs zingers at his friends and admirers 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The two are frequently in the company of a straitlaced “old bore,” the Reverend Everly Thomas, the closest thing to a Stage Manager in Saunders’s netherworld. George Saunders Gets in Lincoln’s Head 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Thursfield was a straitlaced man in his forties who had spent more than 20 years in risk management at Citigroup after joining as a graduate trainee. Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number | Liam Vaughan and Gavin Finch 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Following the discussion, Conboy’s film, which spliced performance footage from Death By Audio with scenes of Brooklyn changing into a more upscale, straitlaced borough, was screened. After Ghost Ship and a crackdown, L.A.'s DIY music scene plans its response 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z It is between North Campus, where the jocks and the straitlaced students are reputed to live, and South Campus, where the ethnic and arty theme houses lie. The New Activism of Campus Life 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s surprising enough that this touchy, straitlaced, and rather narrow man wrote a novel like “Pamela,” in which he deftly inhabited the turbulent emotional life of a teen-age girl. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z China’s burgeoning mistress culture shows just how much a once straitlaced socialist nation has loosened up. China's Other Women 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z His generally straitlaced nature allowed him little tolerance for even lovable rogues. The Journalist Who Was His Own Inside Source 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Though many of their policies, particularly segregation in universities, proved deeply unpopular across the social spectrum, they pushed ahead with their vision of a religiously straitlaced, globally antagonistic Iran. Arrests over the Happy dance video in Iran reflect hardliners' frustration 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Not sexual gratification, we are assured in this straitlaced play. Broadway Bummer: The Play’s Not the Thing 2014-04-24T00:00:54Z His biggest acting role was as the most straitlaced and scientifically inclined of the Ghostbusters team. Aykroyd mourns Ghostbusters' Ramis 2014-02-25T10:12:22Z There’s the China Daily, the government’s straitlaced, censored, flagship English-language daily, now sold widely overseas too. IHT Rendezvous: Satirizing China with the ‘China Daily Show’ 2013-04-25T06:22:18Z A gay rights march in Santiago in May drew thousands of people onto the streets Chile has long had a reputation as one of the most straitlaced, socially conservative and homophobic countries in Latin America. Changing times in Chile? 2012-06-23T10:40:24Z Odd straitlaced people, he explained, rose all of a sudden to the surface, who, if they had appeared sooner, might have done much to stop the ball. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Even old-fashioned, straitlaced people found their objections overcome by curiosity, and accepted her invitations. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z I suppose, as Bob says, I must have become straitlaced and sanctimonious; but I hate to look upon it in that light. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Not one; none, at least, who was free as Joan was free; not even Hattie Morrison, whose views upon the subject of such arrangements were strong, whom Joan considered straitlaced to the verge of absurdity. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z If I gave up these habits, I was certain that Narciss would be offended; for he dreaded exceedingly the ridicule which any look of straitlaced conscientiousness gives one in the eyes of the world. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z I often wondered: Was he truly the straitlaced and mild-mannered man he appeared to be amid a profession of frothing lunatics? Ohio State's Tressel resigns 2011-05-31T01:37:00Z "It is easy enough to see why our straitlaced neighbours do not take to him," said she; "he is too much a man of the world—too tolerant and forgiving for their notions." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z See no sullen nor straitlaced In our circle may be traced. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z In the course of his tenure with the Giants, Coughlin’s demeanor has bent to fiery and even funny from straitlaced and surly. Fate Hanging in the Balance, Coughlin Keeps Focus 2010-12-25T17:33:54Z Paul's Democratic opponent, Kentucky attorney general Jack Conway, tried to make hay of the fact that years ago, Paul joined an iconoclastic underground club while attending straitlaced Baylor University. The Party Crashers: Behind the New Republican Revival 2010-10-28T09:39:00Z After decades of playing square he-men and straitlaced authority figures, Mr. Graves was perhaps best known to younger audiences for a deadpan line in "Airplane!" Actor Peter Graves of 'Mission Impossible' dies at age 83 2010-03-15T17:53:00Z You know I had never been very straitlaced in my way of life or my adventures, and scarcely ever had paid for this frivolity even with remorse. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II That suits me all right if the girls have any pep and aren’t too straitlaced. Cloudy Jewel "The youth Andrew is not so straitlaced," she ruminated. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia It is a cold, insipid style of beauty, at the best; and she is as self-willed and as straitlaced as a lady abbess. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts It was not pleasant to be laughed at and called "straitlaced", because she would not evade rules or join in certain doubtful undertakings. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life The most sacred themes are worked into oratorio-books, and the most straitlaced portion of the community applauds their combination with music. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 She is an old-fashioned, old-world lady, with peculiar straitlaced notions of her own. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood I know it is the fashion now to cry out against one, even in good society, to call one straitlaced, if one respects certain conventions. A Comedy of Masks A Novel Even as he said it he could have laughed aloud at the thought of these straitlaced principles being applicable to the young person who sat at the table with himself and Ted. The Twenty-Fourth of June It is proper to add that Sedan, which is very straitlaced in its notions of propriety, has always been inclined to frown on Charleville, the city of laughter and levity. The Downfall A few people are straitlaced, and a good many feel they have been taken in. Lady Rose's Daughter Yes, by God, I would! though I'm not straitlaced or over-scrupulous at the best of times. Charlotte's Inheritance You know—my ideas are rather straitlaced,—I suppose you would say, Puritanical. The King in Yellow I was a young man then, Mark, not the straitlaced lad you've always been. Nuttie's Father He told straitlaced disciples that they would have trouble enough from other people without making any for themselves, and that they should avoid martyrdom and enjoy themselves whilst they had the chance. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion No corn-husking or wedding was complete without dancing, although members of certain of the more straitlaced religious sects already frowned upon the diversion. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond Every one isn't as straitlaced as you, and every girl has had one or two engagements. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's It was never, he declared with much spirit, found politic to put trade into straitlaced bodices, which, instead of making it grow upright and thrive, must either kill it or force it awry. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Old Isaac Ford was straitlaced and all the rest, and I know there’s no explaining it, least of all to himself. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii What's the matter?—Why, that woman—that infernal, haughty, straitlaced, cold-blooded brewer's daughter! The Bedford-Row Conspiracy These semi-learned observations will serve, perhaps, to vindicate the truth of this study, certain details of which may frighten the perfected morals of our age, which are, as everybody knows, a trifle straitlaced. Maitre Cornelius I don't think I'm more prejudiced or straitlaced than you: I think I'm less. Mrs. Warren's Profession |
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