单词 | priggishness |
例句 | “Not at all, my dear friend. It is I that must apologize to you. The whole incident was entirely due to my priggishness and lack of manners.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z One hopes her taste for the work of Thornhill had not entirely lapsed by then—as her youthful priggishness had abated into the wise compassion, ironic humor, and psychological perceptiveness that characterize her novels. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The scene emphasizes the critic’s priggishness and the publisher’s stubborn indifference to language. | 'What the Public Wants': Vintage Comedy Recounts Old-New Tale of Journalism 2011-01-30T22:30:35Z And while Mr. Dancy stylishly conveys the severity of his characters, he provides few glimpses of the passion beneath the priggishness. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z Both advertised themselves as emblems of the sexual revolution, an escape from American priggishness and wider social intolerance. Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z He was still “Dutch”, to use his childhood nickname: a slim, bespectacled youth, serious to the point of priggishness. The decline of the American teenager's summer job 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Lampooning sexual mores, revealing racism and mocking priggishness, Oz incited fusty establishment elders in Australia and London and provoked what was, at the time, Britain’s longest and possibly most colorful obscenity trial. Richard Neville, 74, a Founder of ’60s Counterculture Magazine OZ, Dies 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z But it also inspires a pompous priggishness in its audience. Anthony Weiner and the Politics of Narcissism 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The shame-on-you-for-laughing hot take comes to us from Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs, with a headline that doesn’t even try to hide the priggishness of his position. Please mock Trump: As Gawker proved, pranking the Donald is a perfect way to knock him down 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Because I do see it as priggishness, prudishness, squeamishness. Stop Being So Squeamish About Sex, and Other Wisdom From Robert Christgau 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z "Will you stop this bourgeois priggishness?" the Canadian demanded, calling Paxman a "priggish, gullible British fool". Rewind TV: Newsnight; Panorama; Girls – review 2012-10-27T23:07:33Z There were always books to tell about and laugh over, or to admire, and there was an abundance of good talk with no shadow of pedantry or priggishness. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z I read; I gorged, in fact, on the best books, but I found it more convenient to go on living by the shallow priggishness of Cousin Judd's selection. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z In my essay the evil shape was a vision of "Science" in the form of abstraction, priggishness and sawdust, lording it over all. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Some innate fastidiousness or morality had led him to look on the looser pleasures of youth with disdain or disgust; now he smiled indulgently at himself for his narrow priggishness. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z He is free alike from intellectual priggishness and social aloofness. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z I know that even I myself have occasionally, and by people who didn't know me of course, been charged with priggishness. The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes 2011-10-12T02:00:49.553Z Little by little she arrived at the conclusion that refinement did not mean priggishness and that vulgarity was not humor. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z Avoid priggishness, which is detestable mental dry-rot; and flee from cant, the convenient domino of hypocrisy. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z "I hate priggishness, and I hate spitefulness," rejoined Martin Bransby, with a sparkle in his fine dark eyes. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z It is needful to assure ourselves of this, because in the later days it became purely intellectual, and dry in its priggishness. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Personally he was a very agreeable man, being gallant without affectation, and brilliant without priggishness. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z There is no denying that in the hands of a cold and mechanical person this production will display some priggishness and false propriety. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z He found that perplexing suspicion of priggishness affecting him again. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Not one bleat of priggishness is heard in all his intricate censure of the eminent British statesmen who sapped the Union. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Barbara's priggishness always put her into a temper, because she felt it, unconsciously, to be a reflection on her own infallibility as the eldest. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Fortunately Katrine possessed a sense of humour that counterbalanced the strain of priggishness in her composition. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life Clean and beautiful clothes sound like a mockery or priggishness. The Salvaging Of Civilisation "It's nothing on earth but offensive and very youthful priggishness." Sinister Street, vol. 2 This enclosed him in himself to a dangerous degree, bordered him on priggishness and on egoism. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z I should have been honoured by your confidence, and I cannot think why a wretched old-fashioned priggishness should have shown itself just when I least wished it would. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Just a touch of priggishness here; but remember, Henry was young. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life Her priggishness was so unconscious—so sincere, if one may say so—that it staggered me. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Because Martin was treading the path of knowledge alone he was driven by sheer force of necessity into intellectual priggishness and crudity. Years of Plenty The dirt and shabbiness and lack of plan and good humour and crime and indecency and priggishness—its life! The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary He went to no school and to no University, privations especially dangerous to a person inclined as he was to a kind of passionate priggishness. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Archie kicked over a chair or two and expressed himself volubly, now that it was safe, upon the priggishness and meanness of such folks as Mr. Solomon Smith. Clark's Field And yet, as I turn the leaves, I get occasional glimpses of real thought shining through the overstrained self-consciousness, illuminating my youthful priggishness of demeanour. An Ocean Tramp But it was not mere priggishness that animated him. Years of Plenty This was what he knew in his heart—although he would never have put it into words—as her adorable priggishness. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Add more verbosity, and a strong extract of priggishness. Punch, or, the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 8, 1890. "I should be glad to die for Ireland," Marsh replied, and it was said so simply that there was no priggishness in it. Changing Winds A Novel They had tacitly ignored it, and yet there had not been the least priggishness about the relationship. Beside Still Waters The slight taint of priggishness which occasionally is there did not reveal itself to a child's eye. Children's Books and Their Illustrators My priggishness—talking so much about Truth and then—the things I do. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Before literary England had quite recovered from its surfeit of Victorian priggishness and pre-Raphaelite delicacy, Kipling came along with high spirits and a great tide of life, sweeping all before him. Modern British Poetry It is coming to stand for a mental and moral attitude—in fact, for priggishness and moral timidity. Penguin Persons & Peppermints He will do no good till the priggishness is knocked out of him.’ Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster The curates she despised for their narrow priggishness? Emily Brontë With exquisite concision she sets her carefully selected facts and types before you, and being the antithesis of priggishness in a priggish city, she glorifies "the common growth of Mother Earth," and compels your agreement. American Sketches 1908 But priggishness about knowledge is not more hurtful than is the arbitrary use of it to limit action. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 But I am not sure that Johnnie Maddison might not have been nicer if he had escaped a suspicion of priggishness and lost a trifle now and then at progressive whist. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 No moral priggishness dried up the tenderness with which he regarded the most forlorn specimens of humanity. Dr. Johnson and His Circle The phrase hardly needs explanation; it corresponds somewhat to what the French mean by intellectuel, but with an additional touch of moral priggishness which exactly suits Sumner. A History of the United States A man may be excused even such infamies of priggishness, but truly he ought not to go and write them down, especially to his son. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women A good chum prevents one becoming a prig, and there is nothing short of actual vice which is so hateful in a boy as priggishness. Boys their Work and Influence He was prepared to out-Herod the metropolitan press; he took solemn precautions against priggishness, he exquisitely outraged taste. Embarrassments Religion, indigestion, priggishness, or discontent may drape the panes. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People He was consequential, dogmatic, and with all the self-asserting priggishness of young Oxford fresh upon him. She and I, Volume 1 I’d give anything to catch him out in anything that wasn’t quite square, just to pay him out for his sickening priggishness. The Willoughby Captains When, therefore, James II. seemed to menace this practising communion, he aroused something at least more popular than the mere priggishness of the Whig lords. A Short History of England There may be specimens there, for priggishness is just like painter's colic or any other trade-disease. Memories and Studies We are terribly afraid in England of what we call priggishness. Joyous Gard The fact that the Camellia Buds did not share in the dishonesty was set down to priggishness on their part, Bertha and Mabel often making jokes at their expense. The Jolliest School of All It is difficult to convey an idea of the learning I gained from my good friend, and yet to show how free he was from priggishness, or from always playing the schoolmaster. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son I will not say that priggishness is absolutely unknown among the North Italians; sometimes one comes upon a young Italian who wants to learn German, but not often. Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals He constantly ridiculed the austerities, pedantry, priggishness and sciolism of the old-time Churchmen, and when a new question came up, he asked, "What good is there in it?" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers That is the essence of priggishness, to feel that our reasons are better, our motives purer, than the reasons of other people, and that we have the privilege of setting a standard. Joyous Gard We get the impression of a preciseness of manner and purpose which must have given Catharine a certain air of priggishness, not entirely unbecoming, perhaps, but very strange in that loose theatre of William III. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters He was a Victorian in the bad as well as the good sense; he could not keep priggishness out of long poems. The Victorian Age in Literature There was never the smallest touch of affectation or priggishness about his attitude, and he had none of the cautious and uneasy reverence which is apt to overshadow men of piety. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Feeling, ostensibly expended upon external beauty, can become an odious form of self-admiration; and priggishness is the least of the diseases that will ensue. Nature Mysticism To avoid the appearance of priggishness, which he dreads with some reason, he even went so far as to procure a herb tobacco, which he smokes with the help of frequent sulphur matches. Certain Personal Matters Yet even then the mingled purity and priggishness encouraged by years of repression forbade any vital change in his sentiments. Nobody's Man By the blood of the devil, his son's statement indicated a certain priggishness, which he, Don Miguel, could not deplore too greatly. The Pride of Palomar As a child, and always throughout his life, he was absolutely free from any touch of priggishness or precocious piety. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Their amiability and jollity and loyalty to each other give the book an air of attractive truthfulness and refinement which well replaces the priggishness generally to be found in innocuous French fiction. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 He is in many ways a successful hero, and acts his part without either insipidity or priggishness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. What was and is the matter with all of them is literary priggishness, and dullness. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 She was right though he hated priggishness, though he longed to be natural and human, to let himself be swept away on the tide of some irresistible impulse. One Man in His Time He was forcing me into an attitude of priggishness which I regretted. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment Every one of the things on that list mark a stage in Cecelia Anne's progress away from priggishness and toward health. New Faces The recital really was interesting and entirely outside the priggishness of Science, but it was marred in consecutiveness and simplicity by Mrs. Rossiter's interruptions. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement "Now, there you go with your infernal priggishness," protested Ellsworth, testily. Heart's Desire It would seem to be the product of 'the higher education,' a university priggishness, poor as proud. Prose Fancies Can it ever be established, for example, by the detached and self satisfied intellectual priggishness of the subsidised sixpenny review, or by the mere violence of the Labour extremist's oratory? Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Who would have thought that narrowness and priggishness could rub off on a person's mind like that! The Brimming Cup I was always peculiarly sensitive about priggishness in those who professed themselves to be religious openly, and generally thought I detected priggishness in any "Bible circle" or similar institution that I came across. A Student in Arms Second Series It is a name that conveys to you, perhaps, some associations of priggishness and pedantry: almost whereever you see him written of you find suggestions of the sort. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Though somewhat lonely, there was neither priggishness nor precocity in her disposition; she was just herself—unspoiled from the hands of God and of Nature. Lancashire Idylls (1898) I know that even I myself have occasionally, and by people who didn't know me, of course, been charged with priggishness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 The amount of love, patience, excellence and priggishness shown in "The Cotter's Saturday Night" never existed, except in a poet's imagination. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors What really makes the transformation complete is the absence in "Alice" of that half-comic sententious priggishness which, as soon as we have ceased to be children, we find so curiously irritating in Kingsley's "Water Babies." One Hundred Best Books Even after only a few minutes' vocalisation on this subject a deadly infection seems to creep into the air—the infection of priggishness. The Human Machine The red squirrel as usual feigns business of importance among the butternuts, but this is pure priggishness. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Possibly this type of culture may exist near Cambridge and Boston, there may be specimens there, for priggishness is just like painters' colic or any other trade disease. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice If one should stoop to pick flaws with the Chivalric ideal, it would be to point out a certain priggishness and intolerance. Chivalry For real school-life, real boyhood, is full of the things of which Eric is full—priggishness, a crude piety, a silly sin, a weak but continual attempt at the heroic, in a word, melodrama. Heretics Now, as I look back, I think it was sheer priggishness to resist so human and yet so reverent an impulse. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance In her behavior Anna was a harmless girl, mild except where her prejudices were concerned, neat and industrious, with no graver fault than priggishness; but her mind had really shocking habits of classification. The Song of the Lark Despite priggishness, he had genuine sympathy for the Indians; he knew the Sioux, Nez Perces, and Cheyennes intimately, and few books on Indian plainsmen reveal so much as his. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations He shed his priggishness once and for all somewhere on the "Great Divide." The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 I know of no School Arithmetic which does not groan under a weight of sham practical work, and that does not, with an absurd priggishness, exclude the use of algebraic symbols. Mankind in the Making "It's like seeing how a book turns out, to watch her priggishness and smuggishness all melting away," Nancy said. Mother Carey's Chickens What priggishness, too, is that which objects to Shakespeare on a stage because no acting can realise the ideal formed by solitary reading! The Revolution in Tanner's Lane It is an atmosphere impregnated with priggishness and a sense of superiority. Nonsenseorship "Sets" are the rule, and priggishness is rampant, even in the primeval forest. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II And this novel which begins with passion ends with something not far removed from priggishness. The Eve of the French Revolution And I actually believe that, in time, you will be free from priggishness, and become a brilliant conversationalist; and—suppose we wander on to our proper places in the scene.... Mrs. Falchion, Complete And I actually believe that, in time, you will be free from priggishness, and become a brilliant conversationalist; and—suppose we wander on to our proper places in the scene. Mrs. Falchion, Volume 2. The essence of priggishness is setting up to be better than one’s neighbour. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler It was not priggishness, but submissive affection, and she read it aright. Fletcher of Madeley Self-reliance is the more common name for similar independence among children; and it is no more nearly related to priggishness in their case than in the case of adults. How to Study and Teaching How to Study I hope I am not a prig, and, whatever I am or am not, priggishness had no part in my feelings then. Kent Knowles: Quahaug The subtler sins of the spirit— thoughtlessness, for example, or snobbishness or priggishness and pride—though we are quick to remark upon them in others, are apt in our own case to pass undetected. Religious Reality It was good to have a brother all to oneself, who was incontestably a dear, in spite of a little priggishness and narrowness. Winding Paths The priggishness comes in when you begin to compare yourself with others, and to draw distinctions. The Upton Letters And if we teach them to judge and criticise freely, are they not very likely to develop priggishness that will result in immodesty and disrespect for others? How to Study and Teaching How to Study Indeed, not only do these three virtues not save a man from priggishness—they sometimes even plunge him in irreclaimable depths of superiority. At Large There is nothing in this of priggishness or unreality. Religious Reality Perhaps this is not a very exalted type of education; it certainly seems to fulfil its purpose very wonderfully in making them alert, inquisitive, eager, and without any shadow of priggishness. The Altar Fire The result is a pedantry, a priggishness, a solemnity about games which is simply deplorable. The Upton Letters If these precautions be taken, the danger of priggishness is reduced to the minimum. How to Study and Teaching How to Study The possession of it saves a man from priggishness; and the possession of faith, hope, and charity does not. At Large That anecdote was regarded with undisguised amusement, and it was simply thought to be a piece of priggishness. Where No Fear Was It was not a rebuke for priggishness; it was the unpresentable statement of a fact. Simon the Jester After all, priggishness is often little more than a failure in tact, a breach of good manners; it is priggish to be superior, and it is vulgar to let a consciousness of superiority escape you. The Upton Letters What about the threatened priggishness and related evils that may result when the responsibility for passing judgment frequently is laid upon children? How to Study and Teaching How to Study In spite of everything he did, he had a spice of originality about him that compelled Peg to overlook what might have seemed to others unpardonable priggishness. Peg O' My Heart But even worse than the use of puns is the peculiar pedantry, not to say priggishness, that haunts the English expression of humour. My Discovery of England Geoffrey, conscience-stricken into priggishness, wished to tell her that she would do well to marry Owen Davies, and found the matter hard. Beatrice And if he were to reply that the Headmaster fulfils these conditions, I would say that the Headmaster is a prig in this one point, that he is so desperately afraid of priggishness. The Upton Letters I will not say that priggishness is absolutely unknown among the North Italians; sometimes one comes upon a young Italian who wants to learn German, but not often. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino At this time I was a mixture of childishness and priggishness, of curious knowledge and dense ignorance. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments It relieved her from the suspicion of priggishness to which, now and again, her grave moods and appropriate words laid her open. Phyllis of Philistia Mixing more with men, his priggishness would be laughed out of him. The Fawn Gloves He is a typical middle-class Englishman, deeply tainted with priggishness in his earlier years, but in great part freed from it by the sweet uses of adversity. Erewhon Revisited Were it not for a certain priggishness which these places infuse into so great a number of their alumni, genuine work would become dangerously common. Erewhon You keep your eyes open and if you feel priggishness coming on just stop in time. The Railway Children It was in such dark moments that Benham was most persecuted by his memories of Amanda and most distressed by this suspicion that the Research Magnificent was a priggishness, a pretentious logomachy. The Research Magnificent His exaltation is self-centred, is priggishness, his fall is unrestrained by any exterior obligation. God the Invisible King He weighed the cold uningratiating virtues of priggishness against his smouldering passion for Amanda, and against his obstinate sympathy for Prothero's grossness and his mother's personal pride, and he made his choice. The Research Magnificent All cultures must be judged by their reaction and fatigue products, and Confucianism had produced formalism, priggishness, humbug.... The Research Magnificent For if one is to disavow all pride and priggishness, if one is to find the solution of life's problem in the rational enjoyment of one's sensations, why should one not use opium? The Research Magnificent He made no written note of his heartaches, but he made several memoranda about priggishness that White read and came near to understanding. The Research Magnificent It was in consequence of that regret and his controversies with Prothero while they travelled together in China that his concern about what he called priggishness arose. The Research Magnificent He fled from priggishness and the terror of such sublimity alike to Prothero. The Research Magnificent |
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