| 单词 | prim |
| 例句 | “See you tryin’a talk all prim and proper,” she whispers, lifting her nose up as she moves down the line. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Wesleys were professional people, prim and proper, but not in a stuck-up way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was something almost prim about the way she sat there, and yet she had just made a modest proposal that I join her in a very revolting ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Laurences had been what Jo called ‘prim and poky’, she would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy and awkward. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, she looks plump and respectable, but for all her prim and proper, Aibileen can still tell a dirty joke that’ll make you tinkle in your pants. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it. Now go and answer your note, and let me finish this splendid story.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a quiet, intense little girl, rather prim in her way, and this outpouring was unusual. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "Drive us to the station, please," my grandmother said, looking prim. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He fluttered down to the armrest of the rocking chair and made himself as prim and still as he possibly could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As might be expected, Serjeant Clippinger had no interest in the case, and enjoined me to cease my prim bickering. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Up until recently, Milton thought of Tessie as his prim cousin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The word felt like a deception—strangely prim, an antique. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Shame on you!” he scolded severely, breathing virtuous fire down and upward into his rusty mustache through his billowing nostrils and prim lips. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The woman has an upturned nose and a prim smirk that I can’t quite call a smile because there’s no joy in it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The kind who put on a certain face to go out, a prim and proper mask. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Petersburg is a small town, and prim by Alaska standards. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Blushing with alarm and embarrassment, she pushed her skirt back down with a number of prim, sidelong glances about the restaurant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Sitting straight and prim in her gown, the halo of light glowing around her hair, I can’t keep from rolling my eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “He was a frisky one. Fluffy was much more prim and proper.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The residents were a reserved bunch, save for when Jimmy’s barbecue came out—prim ladies used their elbows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This girl was very pretty, sure, but she was also prim and proper and preppy. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I cannot picture prim Oriana doing such a brutal, brave thing—pressing the point of her knife into flesh, finding the right spot and slicing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had one picture of Ashley, dressed in her prim sweater, her smile shy. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z My face would be set in a prim, conventional smile, my voice would be saying, “Look at that funny old man over there, I wonder who he is, he must be new here.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I looked at his back, prim as a parson’s, tried to imagine the two of them together. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo’s prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When she talked, it was in the prim and proper voice of someone who understands flower shows and country homes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z That is to say, a statusconscious, prim and proper audience of sternly respectable burghers. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I even recognized her dress—navy with a prim white collar and cuffs, buttoned tightly. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He gave two more prim rings of his handbell. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A prim woman with bobbed hair and a throaty French accent asked Felicia to remove her shoes and knee socks, then made a note in a calfskin ledger. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Straight-backed, prim Mary set up a modest but respectable home near the city center, a part of town where blacks and whites lived peaceably together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She wasn’t deaf or anything, like her brother, but I was hoping if Miss Love had any ears left, she would hear me and run sit down prim and proper in the parlor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We’d cackle until our ribs hurt, imagining our prim, professorial uncle meeting Dad’s unruly crew. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I am suddenly self-conscious in my prim blouse and modest skirt, my sensible shoes and churchy earrings. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to loot the citadel for you,” he said, prim. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Scheibert, the beardless Prussian, moody, prim, was dressed all in white, white coat, floppy white hat, the inevitable glittering monocle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were fat Dutch bams, prim German orchards. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Once or twice the language lapses into bathos: you feel Victor's bride might come up with something less prim than "We'll have none of that" when the Creature paws her breast. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z Ivanka Trump, who is also an adviser to the president, chose a prim aesthetic for her stay in England. Perspective | Trump’s catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z While girlie, they weren't prim or dowdy, which is surely important to Stuart's typically young customer - someone like Emma Roberts, who sat in the front row. Color, color everywhere on NY Fashion Week, Day 3 2011-09-10T20:41:11Z In keeping with the theme, several models wore glasses, and prim looks dominated the runway, with high, Edwardian-style collars or dresses reminiscent of early 20th century ladies riding outfits. Lagerfeld successor brings demure librarians to Chanel catwalk 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z In the 60s, her voice was prim and weirdly stilted, as if she was struggling to read the lyrics of the folk songs and Donovan covers she sang from an illegible cue-card. Marianne Faithfull: Broken English (Deluxe Edition) – review 2013-01-31T15:30:01Z There’s no way that forward-thinking bands of the sort that played the Pitchfork Music Festival would ever consider introducing an instrument so prim, so saccharine, so shrill into their music. Critic?s Notebook: Back to the ?90s, Tootling a Flute 2011-07-18T23:12:24Z She and the other inmates are trying on outfits for a mock job fair, under the prim tutelage of an adviser from Dress for Success. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Taystee Gets Her Moment 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Her Southern Gothic-style depiction of the town of Jubilee in the 1960s, with its prim, elegant exterior masking a seething social dysfunction, reinforces the macabre mood. Killer prose 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Like the gun-flags, the Lego assemblage is prim and sleek yet with a hint of violence. In the galleries: Photos that take twists and turns at Civilian Art Projects 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z She was very prim and proper, with her hair in a tight bun. How We Made: Airplane! 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z The send-ups goes for humor by juxtaposition, playing Austen off of her prim reputation for laughs or shock value. Fifty shades of Mr. Darcy: A brief history of X-rated Jane Austen adaptations 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Sex belongs on this list, too, but Selin — and “The Idiot,” in fact — is curiously prim. An Unassuming Heroine Envies Her Harvard Classmates the Confidence of Their Convictions 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The Poland-born German artist usually portrays girls and women, often in prim period costume and usually at night or in shadow. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Martin Bernheimer concurred in The Los Angeles Times, calling the performance “all too prim and wan.” Keep Going, Keep Going, Even at the Met 2011-04-03T02:14:50Z STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — For tourists, this prim colonial town is the gateway to a spectacular mountain region dotted with wine estates. Stellenbosch Triennale, a Bold Experiment 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z That’s the focus of the thickest painting and the strongest hues; even the prim verticals and horizontals decay as they reach the edges of the compositions. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps the media were more prim, or more squeamish, than they are now. I was at the Lorena Bobbitt trial – 25 years later it still makes me wince 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It’s a fantasy about turning Roberts herself into a modern-day Audrey Hepburn, prim and elegant and absolutely certain to know which type of fork is appropriate for each course. Pretty Woman at 30: conservatism, materialism and glowing star power 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Watching Lynda Carter whirl around on repeat and trade a prim suit for spandex and golden manacles serves as a reminder that what was supposedly empowering about Wonder Woman was actually pretty silly. ‘Total Art’: A new vision of videos at National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition Slobs-versus-snobs comedies were the studios’ bread and butter during the latter half of the century, pitting a collection of lovable losers against the prim and proper fobs from the rival team/camp/fraternity. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z That’s delicious in more ways than one, and, as often happens, the prim and proper lady will surprise him. Book World: ‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst And Friday morning, Jonathan Anderson’s collection at Loewe was filled with delicate lace, filmy dresses with patterns that hinted at sand dollars and satin ones that were elegant without being prim. Olivier Rousteing said his Balmain collection was inspired by his millennial childhood. That’s not fair to millennials. 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z However, she also appears to be “the most prim and proper lady in the land.” Book World: ‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst Likewise, Fuel's devised piece The Summer House shows a stag do in Iceland that moves from prim to partay. Latitude festival roundup: my theatre highs and lows 2011-07-18T15:40:33Z Clinton looks over at Bush and sees him dressed as a prim little old lady. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Yet in doing so, and in moving from Joyce to the fevered Frida Kahlo, the cosmic Georgia O’Keeffe, the grand Radclyffe Hall and the prim Eleanor Roosevelt, her original sexts-versus-letters argument begins to fray. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z I approached the character of Mary – a very prim, uptight individual – with suspicion. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z Never mind that the stew of bright hues on view here causes one character, a prim visitor of more classic tastes, to recoil as if before a wall of fire. Review: Clashing Lives in Tennessee Williams’s ‘Creve Coeur’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The danced sequence in which Louise is rejected by prim Maine society and seeks comfort with a vagabond fairground worker doesn’t entirely track. Review: A ‘Carousel’ That Spins on a Romantically Charged Axis 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Allstar Collection The love story of the prim cocker spaniel and the mutt from the wrong side of the tracks is one of Disney's most enduring and enchanting animations. TV highlights Christmas Eve 2012-12-21T12:40:28Z The space was formerly home to Alison Eighteen, whose prim sconces and buttoned booths remain, the latter now in military drab. Hungry City: The Gander in the Flatiron District 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Even as the term evolved over the 20th, it continued to seem a little prim. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z More often, though, Ms. Williams wears prim necklines. Michelle Williams Keeps It Sweet, Not Saccharine 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z That broader society, in turn, is represented in Gaignard’s collages, which are composed of photographs and text cut from magazines and prim wallpaper. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Andrews, 75, became one of Hollywood's biggest stars by playing prim and cheery nannies in the 1960s movie musicals "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music." Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton win lifetime Grammys 2010-12-22T18:43:11Z Williams’s rambunctious father loathed his wife’s prim, smug attitude toward the world, her hatred of sex, not to mention what black elders might call her “sanctified” background. The Man Who Queered Broadway 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But when Kenny’s prim, disapproving mother suspects the affair, she dispatches her son across the state to live with his father, a recovering alcoholic. Movie Review: ‘As Cool as I Am,’ Starring Claire Danes and James Marsden 2013-06-07T01:06:31Z And when other networks are ready, they will have hundreds of thousands of stories — some prim, some racy, some with pirates, some with werewolves — to choose from. For Television and Romance Novels, Love at Last? 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Kuhn conveys as much insight and empathy as more overtly dramatic singers without straining for a showstopping theatricality; her delivery is refined but not prim, her intonation impeccable. Judy Kuhn’s Homage to a Family of Composers in the American Songbook Series 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Director Chris Fields and his superlative performers do full justice to their deliciously uncouth material, which is not for the prim. Not-so-nice corporate shenanigans in Echo Theater's 'One of the Nice Ones' 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Similarly, the prim Orange scolds her new companion whenever a curse word escapes his mouth, and repeatedly derides his lack of manners. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z She’s the prim, gracious librarian to Fisher’s raspy-voiced, irreverent wordsmith, and one appreciates and accepts the other’s mojo even if they don’t completely get why the other person does the things she does. HBO gives us one last postcard to treasure in “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Nicole Cabell’s soprano began to bloom a few numbers in, but she seemed cool and prim next to Ms. Bullock’s charismatic sensuality. Review: Exploring Langston Hughes in Song, Locally 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z McCartney transformed an otherwise prim long silk dress in aubergine to diva stature by adding a ruched band just above the knees, thereby focusing the roomy form on the body. Stella McCartney pinstripes dominate Paris runway for winter 2013-03-04T13:01:30Z So there I was, at the kiosk, furiously weighing cost-benefit analyses, when there was a prim cough behind me. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This is how a neurotic makes a decision 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Sally is a prim little number, a control freak. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z I feel like the prim and proper news supervisors do not do that in this field. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But it’s the partygoers, garishly prim and meticulously put together, who are the stars. A Rediscovered Archive from California in the Seventies 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z There are freckled little kids and rouged old biddies, elegant fashionistas and prim gentlemen. Lunchtime Portraits: The Passing Parade 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Unlike several other recent TV musicals, this glossy revival is not live, which adds another layer of prim detachment. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In his earliest TikToks, his hair is prim and short, and he has braces on his teeth. How Bailey Zimmerman Charmed Nashville 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The problems can be enumerated with a prim scowl and a wagging finger. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z Hollywood continued to maintain the Motion Picture Association of America’s prim Production Code, which had been enforced since 1934. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z When under the influence, they talk about their fantasies — Michael Fassbender leads the list — but they are basically prim, well-behaved spouses whose wild college years are well behind them. Movie Review: Bored Housewife Searches for a Spark in ‘Afternoon Delight’ 2013-08-29T23:11:04Z If nothing else, Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan have rescued suffragist reality from antique newsreel footage of proper ladies wearing prim little hats and carrying signboards. The ladies who planted bombs: Inside the Oscar-bait drama of “Suffragette,” an urgent lesson in activist history struggles to escape 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z She became one of Hollywood's biggest stars by playing prim and cheery nannies in the 1960s hit movie musicals "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music." Julie Andrews, Ramones receive lifetime Grammys 2011-02-13T02:57:07Z It doesn’t matter if you’re fat or skinny, tiny or tall, tattooed or prim: at the Gathering, people are going to accept you, and embrace you, and that can be incredibly validating and healing even. Who’s the real insane clown posse? Trump fans give Juggalos a run for their money in “7 Days in Ohio” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The designers chose a familiar image, showing an older Tubman in a black coat with a prim white collar, her graying hair pulled back in what might be plaits. The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z In Fares's latest collection, the Girl With a Pearl Earring sits prim alongside geometric tetrahedron studs and diamond rhombus rings. Why we're watching: Noor Fares 2013-07-07T06:07:04Z What amuses me about this song is the distance between the freaky music, the anti-establishment lyrics and the prim tones of the vocalist. Readers recommend: hunting songs 2010-07-29T23:03:00Z She moves from prim scold to maniac princess to frat-boy aggression with alacrity — and without ever seeming as if she’s working too hard. Review: As Amy Schumer Evolves, So Does Her Arena Show 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Their futurism here is rather prim, conveying the sense of industrious designers working dutifully to solve specific social problems. ‘The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility’ Review: Future Imperfect 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Singing with velvety yet focused tone, Ms. Leonard comes across as prim and pretty rather than formidable as Ada. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Jessica is thrilled, but her mother, a devout Catholic with a prim disapproval of Tinseltown’s loose morals, fears for her daughter’s soul. ‘The Hollywood Daughter’ of Kate Alcott’s novel learns to speak out against intolerance 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Her characters may seem together, even prim, but beneath their floral smocks lie simmering itches, strange vices. Laura Linney: 'America's very puritanical' 2013-01-13T20:00:00Z Ms. Duke played, as the infectious theme song put it, “cousins, identical cousins”: Patty, a fun-loving stereotypical American girl from Brooklyn Heights, and Cathy, a prim young lady from Scotland. Video: Remembering Patty Duke 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z There are patchwork corsets, prim shirtdresses and this sophisticated trench coat. Your Denim Upgrade: 4 Brands to Know 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “Urban” stacks city life into a prim pile, with apartments atop offices. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z And though Musgraves talks in the title track about not being Miss Congenial, the album’s rather prim arrangements hardly suggest an outlaw hellbent on upsetting the apple cart. Kacey Musgraves is not here to flatter your progressivism 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z A prim but left-leaning British couple — Perry, an academic, and Gail, a lawyer — are vacationing in a plush tennis resort in the Caribbean. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z With Johnson Zhongxin Li, a 9-year-old pianist of striking technical prowess and an almost untenable maturity, Mr. Lang played Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in D for four hands with an appropriately prim energy. Music Review: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie 2013-06-04T22:07:16Z With its bathetic title and prim Yorkshire setting, Last Tango in Halifax looked like it might be a rather twee affair. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z Is it her voice, her smile or the way she wears her impressive spring blouse that turns prim into fabulous? T Magazine: Flirt in a Skirt 2011-02-26T14:00:57Z Mr. Canet’s Zola, who resembles William Hurt in one of his more prim, buttoned-up roles, seems miscast as the author who maintains an unswerving loyalty to Cézanne in his life if not in his writing. Review: In ‘Cézanne et Moi,’ Zola and the Artist Are Pals. However ... 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Patel gets the patter of the Indian-American household just right; the prim palaver around the tea salver strikes the right balance of nosiness and restraint. A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z On those seats are as dull a parade of prim pantsuits as you could imagine, suggesting 50-something executives in their work wear. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z Yet it's a rather prim and chilly experience, not joyless exactly – the end is an exquisite delight – but detached, uninvolving and played at the same subdued level throughout. A Magic Flute ? review 2011-03-24T12:15:30Z When McKinney describes her life as a prim young woman, running around with a "friend" who was a wild child into sex and drugs, well, the audience is entitled to wonder: who is this friend? Tabloid revives memories of the 'Manacled Mormon' 2010-10-12T07:50:00Z Much of each episode is devoted to the characters riding bikes on their way to deliver babies — lots of babies! — while wearing prim uniforms. Call the Midwife Stars on Delivering Drama, History, and Female Empowerment 2013-03-29T17:06:30Z It was a filibuster of false manners, a prim reminder that she would not be yielding the floor. Perspective | Farewell to Kellyanne Conway, the ultimate Woman for Trump 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z As Oliver, Turner is sympathetic as the quintessential artsy dreamer — a little self-absorbed, but his heart’s in the right place; Coleman’s Bernadette is prim and sharp, very much the yin to his yang. ‘Lemons’ Review: A Fun Thought Exercise, Without Deep Thoughts 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The prim prescriptions of “Escape to Margaritaville” don’t allow for any scene that coarsely colorful. Review | Jimmy Buffett’s music comes to Broadway and, well, the beach party’s a dud 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The intoxicating effect of Italy on the prim young Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch could determine her choice of spouse, and hence her entire future. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z I know I did, since her writing suggested a casual daily sensuality I hoped might be the antidote to the atonal dullness of the prim Connecticut suburb where I lived. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z I realise, "perfect" seems dangerously prim and old-hat, an ultimate proof of hopeless gentility. Brief Encounter: No 1 2010-10-16T10:54:00Z They undo all the prim notions of conventional decorum that often attend tutu ballets. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z The comical images of midwives administering nitrous oxide to women in labor are something of a shock to US viewers schooled in images of a prim, Bronte-influenced British countryside. PBS seeks Downton-esque Brit hit with Call the Midwife and Mr Selfridge 2013-03-29T17:04:00Z But while Pecis’s work is lush and expressive, Suss’s is drier and more prim, and the differences are enough, when you encounter them one after the other, to set up an entrancing visual dissonance. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The speaker is the prim Christian missionary Miss Rose Sayer, played by Katharine Hepburn, having breathlessly piloted a rickety old boat through some rapids. The African Queen ? review 2011-03-03T22:00:01Z The willowy Courtin-Clarins sisters wore combinations that were both prim, with high necklines, and slightly provocative, with see-through panels. On the Runway Blog: At a Vuitton Celebration, Concerns About an Era's End 2011-09-22T16:19:23Z A marble staircase leads to a lounge with gilded bookcases, ruby walls and a painted Napoleon III Giltwood piano, which sits, prim and ornate, in a corner. Two Venice Hotels, Two Sides of a Celebrated City 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z His genial hostility was a grinning rebuke to propriety, his brattiness a breath of fresh air in a prim and anxious culture. | 'Jack and Jill': Adam Sandler in ?Jack and Jill? - Review 2011-11-10T23:57:03Z Manipulating the young women around her like a psychological puppetmaster, Mrs Klein particularly relishes tormenting her daughter Melitta, a successful analyst who nevertheless becomes petulant, prim and powerless beside her mother's selfish potency. Wild mothers and mild daughters in theatre | Molly Flatt 2010-03-30T14:43:00Z But that book, a self-idealized account pegged by Entertainment Weekly as “strangely prim,” fell painfully short of Mr. Ritz’s usual benchmark for emotional candor. David Ritz Opens Up About Aretha Franklin and Others 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Let her see you as a loving cheerleader, not a prim critic. My Daughter Is Dating a Polyamorous Woman. But That’s Not the Problem 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I cursed him and his new object of desire: may she be prim and inarticulate and a morning person. Twitter is for lovers 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z The transformation of the prim and crinolined Victorian lady, hair grimly upswept, into a romantic Bohemian woman, was achieved through art. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z It is a prim ladies’ lunch served on flowery china, complete with a dessert cart carrying crystal goblets full of a fluffy strawberries-and-cream concoction called “German cloud.” Attica Summer Camp, Outside Melbourne, Is a Dreamy Distraction 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The first half of the program included two older Bowen McCauley works with choreography a bit too prim for the music. Bowen McCauley Dance celebrates 20 years with new and vintage pieces 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The grandiose opening of the Tchaikovsky concerto is ripe for overemphatic clangor; instead Mr. Lang played with an almost prim decorum and restraint. Music Review: Need a Gala? Tchaikovsky Is a Go-To Guy 2011-01-02T23:00:20Z Seated on a sofa next to her husband, Hillary, prim in a blazer and headband, asserted her independence. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z There are prim flats, extravagant heels, ballet slippers, work boots. Review: The Footwear Follies of ‘Zapatografía/Shoegraphy’ 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Indeed, the recent resort collections featured more calico than an alley of cats, and a chic Elaine specter hovered over lines as diverse as Prada and Rebecca Taylor, each with a multitude of prim prints. The Elaine Benes Look Re-appears as New York Style 2010-08-18T20:40:00Z But it might also be something to do with Edinburgh's split personality: that stark division between the New Town, neoclassical Georgian, prim and proper, and the shadowy medieval muddle of the Old Town. Edinburgh festival from dusk till dawn 2010-08-11T20:31:00Z On this day, the mood of dread washed over the rolling hills, the prim pathways, the polished signs. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Throughout most of its six episodes the U.K.-based Canadian comedian labors to stuff crass punchlines into starched settings populated by prim and etiquette-obsessed Brits. "The Duchess" proves that not every stand-up comedian should get a series 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The newsreader's prim warning alerts us to the stretching of what can decently be shown, from ruined cities and dying fields, in competition with the car crashes and decapitations of the internet sump. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z His body language, like that of the man in the pictures, is prim and closed. At the Chance Theater, 'Parade' marches to the drumbeat of history 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, at Vera Wang’s fall ready-to-wear show, Mr. Paul’s slightly messy beehive with tousled locks at the nape captured an ingenious blend of prim and seductive. | Fall Fashion: A ?60s Bee Updates Its Hive 2010-08-24T22:45:00Z The Café des Sports aside, Lectoure is a typical prim and prettified French village, and in this respect is an anomaly in the Gers. Is Gascony the Most Delicious Corner of France? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Linney's body language is prim, self-contained, only hinting at what lies beneath; a quality that she brings to her most famous roles. 'Comedy is a way to survive' 2011-02-08T08:00:00Z The authors, so frank on de Kooning’s private life, turn prim and almost anthropological when it comes to Bacon — and not even on the rough stuff. New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The problem with melding a prim adulthood with a suggestion of sly puberty is that has been there so many times before. Special Report: Ballet Russes Takes a Bow 2010-09-21T10:50:00Z But when she first appears in a relatively prim orange crocheted mini-dress and a neatly combed hair-do, the narrator describes her as “looking just like she swore she would never look.” Clothes and Character: 'Inherent Vice' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z This month, she stars in "Miss Meadows," a low-budget indie about a prim schoolteacher who seems all rainbows and cotton candy but secretly fancies herself a gun-toting vigilante. Nothing personal, but Katie Holmes is all business 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z But on closer inspection, she really wasn't all that prim and proper. Gaultier's last Hermes collection ends Paris shows 2010-10-06T21:32:00Z Betty is virtually untouched by the roiling revolution churning elsewhere: Unlike her pal, she’s still a stay-at-home mother in a prim June Cleaver dress. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: The Dark Knight Returns 2014-04-28T11:54:49Z “But I don’t want them to sag,” I told him with all the vigor of a prim librarian. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Forster’s “A Room With a View” in his latest novel, which opens with a young woman, Lucie, traveling to a friend’s wedding in Capri with her prim cousin. 13 Books to Watch For in June 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Her family lived on the second floor of a brick bungalow owned by a prim great-aunt and her fastidious husband. Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The white Establishment was still terribly prim and proper. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It sounds like of strange to say, but in this sense "Entourage" is weirdly prim and conservative. "Entourage" recap: 8x2 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z Her switch into an operatic style for her high notes felt prim, an imperfect melding of different vocal techniques. Review: A Singer Brings Her Splendid Sound to an Eclectic Recital 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Taking the opposite view — that the opera is essentially mild — was the prim prima donna Renée Fleming. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z Fans have pondered how far MacFarlane the impudent creator of "Family Guy," might push the normally prim and proper Oscars. Waltz wins supporting-actor prize for 'Django' 2013-02-25T02:06:10Z The logo, Mr. Limo, based on the work of the Tanzanian artist George Lilanga, felt chaotic, the opposite of prim. Critical Shopper: Put Your Money Where Your Taste Is 2011-04-05T22:20:27Z Between songs, she was a dowdy, chatty young woman in a prim frock: pointing out her “mummy” in the audience, detailing drunken karaoke exploits and cheerfully announcing “I can’t dance to save my life.” Music Review: Songs About What Went Wrong, but Performed So Right 2011-05-20T08:52:26Z Unwilling to add even more clutter to my bathroom, I left with a bag of samples: scrubs and washes and lotions, all in prim white sachets. Critical Shopper: MenScience Opens Flagship Store in New York 2013-01-08T22:21:00Z Ms. Weston’s prim gait and gape of astonishment signal effectively how appalled Lesley is at Lucy’s carefree attitude toward both her job and her life. | 'Alphabetical Order': The Withering Heights and Depths of a Dying British Paper 2010-09-29T02:02:00Z Unlike many popular summer destinations in Maine, Vinalhaven has no shacks selling fried clams, or tourists clad in stripes and prim boat shoes. Wanted: A Nice Dinner Place for a Maine Island With a Long, Hungry Winter 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Swift, while wide-eyed and easily awestruck, is prim and difficult to ruffle. Arts & Leisure Preview: Taylor Swift Is Angry, Darn It 2010-10-20T22:06:00Z One 1988 image features the poignant sight of a prim new pair of shoes sitting alongside a filthy mattress. Photography's best-kept secret: How Anthony Hernandez put a distinctly Los Angeles lens on picture-making 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z “Strange Taxi: From Africa to Jamaica to Boston in 200 Years,” a 1991 photomontage, depicted her mother and aunts, prim in white dresses, hovering above a brick mansion. Lorraine O’Grady, Still Cutting Into the Culture 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Though the festival embraces music, film, art and design, the primary focus is fashion, with a pop-up high street and rows of tents selling everything from prim twinsets to vintage lingerie. Goodwood vintage festival salutes blitz spirit, bathing suits and the Beatles 2010-08-13T16:46:00Z "The National Museum of African Art in no way condones Mr. Cosby's behavior," says a prim disclaimer on a sign posted at the show's entry, in case we had any doubt. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Inside the bright restaurant, every Formica table was packed with prim office workers enjoying some air-conditioning with their lunch. Choice Tables: Authentic Thai Cuisine Moves in From Sidewalk Stalls 2010-11-28T04:30:00Z The program opened with a dull rendition of Mozart’s Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, which while notable for its polish, sounded overly prim and decorous. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Fans had pondered how far MacFarlane, the impudent creator of “Family Guy,” might push the normally prim and proper Oscars. ‘Argo,’ ‘Pi’ split honors 2013-02-25T06:12:59Z She's a little less like the clever intern without enough to do of previous series, but she's still wasted in this thankless, prim facilitator role. Is it third time lucky for 10 O'Clock Live? 2013-04-25T10:05:00Z Taylor Swift wore a prim gold metallic floral cocktail dress by Jenny Packham to the pre-telecast awards before changing into something a bit more revealing for the red carpet. AP Photos: Grammy Awards feature plenty of skin 2013-02-11T01:49:10Z Accompanied by the soaring sounds of a Mozart Adagio or more threatening show music, the exhibition looks at the underbelly of prim Victoriana. Exhibition Review: Alexander McQueen in All His Dark Glory 2011-05-02T13:00:52Z Important life lessons are learned, along totally predictable lines: Women are shallow, needy, whorish and/or prim, but wind up subjugating us anyway. "The Change-Up": Bateman, Reynolds buddy comedy gives us the willies 2011-08-05T23:01:00Z Wearing little black dresses and prim updos, she worked a style that was quick and brash and often angry — at men, at her mother, at a world weighted unfairly against women. The (Elegant, Brazen, Brainy) Pioneering Women of Comedy 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Equally captivating is the clothing for sale, ranging from pleated lace skirts and prim pastel coats to statement-making runway dresses printed with howling wolves. What to Do in Milan 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Sure, the town is prim and smothering, but wouldn’t you rather dance your troubles away than return to that pile of tedious self-help books about how to save a lukewarm relationship? Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ Has a Song in Its Heart, and Everywhere Else 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z But at this age, his first “erotic dream” becomes ludicrous, especially when it is represented by commonplace prim operatic ballet. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Brandon Holley, editor in chief of Lucky magazine, liked that a single outfit could have the toughness of a military look combined with a prim lace collar. NY Fashion Week finishes up; shows begin in Europe 2012-02-16T22:21:16Z "As with some of the other rather prim rooftop signs along South Michigan Avenue, it actually adds a nice touch of after-dark color to the skyline when viewed from Grant Park or Lake Shore Drive." End of the line for Santa Fe sign? 2012-04-30T20:29:00Z "Like Hannibal Lecter in a Mary Poppins outfit, Missy was an unsettling mix of prim and predatory, even while shackled to an upright gurney." Doctor Who: How was Peter Capaldi's debut series? 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z An effigy of the deceased, that is, as well as a portrait of her — a prim, kind-faced woman with short white hair. In Indonesia, Many Islands and Many Faces 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Its movie analogue is, of course, the scene in which the prim little town busybody Felicia begins uncontrollably vomiting hundreds of the very cherry stones the witches are discarding at a soiree across town. Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick 2010-07-15T18:59:00Z Even the drive up is nice, past prim timbered country pubs offering wild boar luncheons. The Big Chill: day one 2011-08-06T11:29:53Z However prim the women, none is strictly virginal. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z Swift, while wide-eyed and easily awestruck, is prim and difficult to ruffle. Taylor Swift is angry, darn it 2010-10-23T00:16:00Z That would have been a proper, prim and English answer. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z And his nasal voice and prim diction wonderfully underline his crasser bits. Embattled comedian Katt Williams comes to Seattle 2012-11-22T14:14:42Z Scarcely a word is breathed about religion, sex, race or money, as though Mr. Pollak were convening a prim dinner party at which such matters could not be mentioned. Review: ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ Puts Stand-Up in the Spotlight 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The story begins in 1958 at the Lovegood College for women, one of those prim academies corseted by tradition and good manners. Review | Gail Godwin has been writing novels for 50 years. Her latest proves she has no intention of coasting. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z And the way we are, it’s not the perception people have of a girl: We’re filthy, not prim and proper. Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie Are Coming Into Their Power 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Dressed as prim students in perfect pleated uniforms, the actresses endearingly unleash their inner clowns. ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’: There’s life in the warhorse yet 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Sheridan specialised in decorous English heroines, giving moderately prim performances in an era when being "ladylike" was considered desirable rather than off-putting. Dinah Sheridan 2012-11-25T19:52:38Z As a prep school survivor, he surely had fun concocting the prim, jerkily cadenced “Faculty Quadrille” for the addled teachers. Review | The kids steal the show in ‘School of Rock’ at the National Theatre 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z After so many prim bonnets and noble epaulets, I sent myself on a scavenger hunt for freak-show specimens. A history spree in Ellicott City, Md. But there is nothing prim about the austerity here. Richard Meier Designs a Minimalist Home in Luxembourg 2013-12-17T05:00:00Z First came “super nanny,” with a prim bowler hat and black and white tailored outfits, often with pleated skirts and little white socks. Fashion Review: Stella McCartney 2011-10-03T18:27:47Z And later, the tabloids discovered that her interest in bondage did not come from some prim manual. Tabloid revives memories of the 'Manacled Mormon' 2010-10-12T07:50:00Z The “Notable” set, meanwhile, includes the dress Brooke Astor wore to Truman Capote’s Black-and-White Ball: a prim, almost bridal-looking princess gown of white lace with a black rose corsage at the waist. Art Review: How the Other Half Dressed 2010-09-16T21:44:00Z In one work, “The Wet Nurse,” she draped the large, enveloping figure of a black woman over the shoulders of a prim Southern white woman in a black-and-white photograph. Anita Steckel, Artist Who Created Erotic Works, Dies at 82 2012-03-26T00:00:07Z "Well, we tried the whole pink thing," the prim mom in the prim cardigan chirps through gritted teeth, while her khaki-and-camouflage-clad daughter happily plays with her blocks. Does Tide hate tomboys? 2011-08-10T22:01:00Z It made the competition, he wrote, “seem prim and tight by comparison.” Alfred Leslie, Artist Who Turned Away From Abstraction, Dies at 95 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Trashy and kitschy, and the exact opposite of the prim outfits he sent down the runway on week 6. "Project Runway" recap: What tools 2010-03-05T15:06:00Z These days Wordsworth generally gets bad press because he grew prim and conventional as he aged. Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z I had a dated fantasy of the place as a prim, WASPy finishing school for artistically inclined girls. My ironic sorority disaster 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Movies haven’t abandoned this scenario since a madcap Katharine Hepburn besieged a prim Cary Grant in the 1930s. Review: ‘Heisenberg,’ With Mary-Louise Parker, Mines the Extraordinary in the Commonplace 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z You heard Austin bring a prim sensuality to “Satin Doll” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” 'To Ella With Love' a missed opportunity at Hollywood Bowl 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In a prim royal gown and with her face framed by an eerily high hairline, she looked like some spectral figure out of Bergman’s “Seventh Seal.” Music Review | Metropolitan Opera: At the Met, What a Piece of Work Is This Man 2010-03-18T00:00:00Z But the Persian’s prim, manicured aesthetic is no longer en vogue. You Thought Your Cat Was Fancy? 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z He is prim, charming and ultrafastidious; he is vain but considerate, sharp but deferential, faultless about manners and etiquette but, when it is time to issue a verdict, thoroughly ruthless. What Makes a Good Hercule Poirot? (It’s More Than the Little Gray Cells.) 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But this time the prim dresses and harlequin-patterned cardigans were all about the light: vivid, saturated, neon-bright colors like green, shocking pink and orange, without a neutral shade in sight. Special Report: Ballet Russes Takes a Bow 2010-09-21T10:50:00Z One novel I still have a copy of, and it's an embarrassing read – what a very prim person I was in those days. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z By the day of her wedding, she had become a prim churchgoer and Republican. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z There is nothing remotely prim or saccharine about the latest interpretations of this look, with their distinctly urban overtones. Maxi Skirts Making a Comeback 2010-05-26T20:49:00Z She seems prim and proper, but that white substance caked on her nostrils tells another story. Denise Mina’s ‘Blood, Salt, Water’: An atmospheric, chilling thriller 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The fast-paced British play freely imagines meetings between the prim queen and the steely Iron Lady, and they don’t agree on much — not even, in this comically self-aware show, whether there should be an intermission. Review | Thatcher and the queen square off in ‘Handbagged’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Bailey’s proud refusal to seem prim or judgmental blossoms into a troubling tendency to join the fray. In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The evening’s most effective weapon by far is Hurley, looking entirely Poppins-like in her prim blue jacket, dancing with graceful precision and singing sweetly while flashing an inscrutable smile. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z But it’s the usually prim Constance, suddenly unleashing her robust sensibilities, who steals the show. ‘Girl Waits With Gun’ review: A feisty heroine inspired by a real detective 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Olivia and her ladies switch from black turbans and sunglasses to hot-pink bathing suits trailing layers of chiffon, both accompanied by prim parasols. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Twelfth Night,’ at Hartford Stage 2013-05-31T23:50:19Z For the big day, she is dressed in a primarily white suit with a prim brownish trim. Clothes and Character: Colleen Atwood on 'Into the Woods' and 'Big Eyes' 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Hence, the sweet naughtiness of clothes that hinted at school uniforms in prim colors — but they had windows on the body with inserts of mesh, lace or crochet. Sporty? It's the Olympics, Stupid! 2012-09-18T17:23:29Z This gleefully profane musical comedy about a pair of Mormon missionaries seeking converts in Uganda is not for the prim. The Broadway Shows to See Now 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z This is a prim and often bland dessert that does little for the apples; they may as well be parsnip slices or sashimi-grade tuna. A Foolproof Tarte Tatin Recipe From Gotham Bar and Grill 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z They look less prim and fussy, cool in both senses of the word. On the Runway Blog: At Gucci, Assuredly 'Made in Italy' 2012-06-25T15:52:33Z Prestini surfaces those messy emotions in music of candid vulnerability, making Edward’s aloof, prim silence all the more glaring. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z It might sound a prim precaution in the bohemian world of entertainment, but in an industry where the casting couch is still a tacitly recognised route to the top, it may have its place. Cinema trains lens on role of nude scene: artistic, erotic or gratuitous? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z He took off, and right away we were in the countryside, passing wet, green fields crossed by the prim brick arches of an aging aqueduct. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z Just shy of six feet tall, with a loose brown bob and prim features, she seems proper but speaks in profanities. Being ‘Fleabag,’ From Stage to TV and Back Again 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s there in the brilliant odd-couple comedy The Heat, where she provides a shambolic contrast to her prim co-star Sandra Bullock. The making of Melissa McCarthy: how Bridesmaids star kept it real and cleaned up 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z It is beautifully turned, and yet its chaste, prim melodies can sound more than a little anaemic. The Staves – review 2012-11-20T17:50:02Z The second printing of “Observations,” from 1925, winnowed “Poetry” from twenty-nine lines to thirteen, ending on the prim pronouncement that “enigmas are not poetry.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The room has the prim, clean feel of a Ladies Auxiliary; it features a stately grandfather clock, bright yellow tablecloths and a view of Mont Ventoux. Choice Tables: France?s Luberon Invites You to Lose Yourself 2010-04-30T15:51:00Z A cutout in the back kept a lace Gabriela Hearst design for a 92nd Street Y appearance from feeling too prim, Ms. Ehrlich said. Brie Larson’s Gowns, From Calvin Klein to Wes Gordon 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z In court, women are often told to dress conservatively, or appear quiet and prim. Taylor Swift Spoke Up. Sexual Assault Survivors Were Listening. 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Still, the Pretty Things had a better name and an image so feral even his former bandmates looked a little prim by comparison. The Pretty Things: SF Sorrow 2010-05-06T14:30:00Z Their clothes may sometimes seem too prim and covered up for the modern world. Ending on a Grace Note 2012-07-04T17:30:51Z A portrait of a prim young lady in bright brushstrokes was being sold for $5,190. North Korean art sells in China despite UN sanctions over nuclear program 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Feinstein, always prim and proper, at times seemed an odd icon of the leftist city. 'I always think of her as mayor': Dianne Feinstein's legacy lives deepest in San Francisco 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z "It's not this prim and proper stadium as it would be in Wembley or London. It is what we are as a community and what Luton is." Luton Town: Living next to football's most memed away end 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, a high white collar had a prim 19th century feel, while a dark velvety coat with a big collar sported a beautiful textured thickness. Paris Fashion Week channels historic men’s styles 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z State delegates with their lapel pins and prim white wines circulated and smiled. Perspective | At Wes Moore’s inaugural ball, no one danced harder than Black women 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Running throughout is Harry’s desire to be a different kind of prince — the kind who talks about his feelings, eats fast food and otherwise doesn’t hide beyond a prim facade. ‘Spare’ but not stingy: takeaways from Prince Harry’s memoir 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The good news for Chargers fans is that their SoFi Stadium games sound prim and proper compared to the sophomoric nonsense I heard the last time I was at a Rams game there. NFL readers Q&A: What's with all the screaming at Rams, Chargers games? 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z However, the more I get to know her, the less I like her; she’s prim, pretentious and humorless. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Spontaneity isn’t the only way to spice up their sex life 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z But he inadvertently became intoxicated after drinking too much of the “secret recipe” served by the Baldwin sisters, two prim and proper recurring characters who didn’t seem to realize they were bootleggers. At 50, TV’s ‘The Waltons’ still stirs fans’ love, nostalgia 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Mister, I’m to be on the TV tonight,’ she told a stranger, squinting up happy and prim. Francis X. Clines, Lyrical Writer for The Times, Dies at 84 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Native Americans lived alongside the beaches for thousands of years, and Yankee newcomers found them irresistible, in a prim sort of way at first. Actors, bandits, priests and one English bulldog: The names behind L.A. beaches 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “I’m trying to dismantle how classical music is just for the elite and you have to be prim and proper to enjoy it,” Kelly says. How violist Jim Kelly would spend a perfect day in D.C. 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Reading gingerly from a crumpled piece of paper, Theroux rhymed, in a distinctly prim English accent: “My money don’t jiggle, jiggle, it folds / I like to see you wiggle, wiggle, for sure.” 'Jiggle Jiggle': How documentarian Louis Theroux took over TikTok with a novelty rap song 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z When Summers discovered the place, it was a prim, all-white dress shop that she transformed into a club for L.A.’s comedy misfits. Jiaoying Summers' joke about China's one-child policy made everyone laugh — except TikTok censors 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z A lot of her early clothing in the ’50s was very constricted — prim and proper. Aretha Franklin had her own ideas about fashion. 'Respect' lets them shine 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z DNA was a messy addition to genealogy, a sleepy, prim discipline of aristocratic origins in which the paper trail was sacrosanct. Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z We first had drinks in a very prim and proper members’ bar. A sketchy life in London's seedy Soho? This writer embraced it all 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z There has been some rather prim displeasure expressed in some quarters at the level of high‑end quality dished up of late in the Premier League. Liverpool's Curtis Jones enjoys the midfield battle and comes of age | Barney Ronay 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z That apparently means prim and modest, but no one is quite sure. Crop tops or ‘republican’ dress? France debates schoolwear 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Trump and Boris Johnson goad liberals by flaunting their contempt for prim and proper political norms. A Biden victory cannot bring normal back | Tom Blackburn 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z By the time I parked near the race start, I felt prim. In a Naked Pandemic Race, You Can Leave Your Hat On 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Discarded masks are often spotted on sidewalks, a once unimaginable sight in the prim city-state, where littering carries heavy penalties. The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a tidal wave of plastic waste 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The freewheeling discussion was rare for the normally prim and sedate halls of federal court. In wild hearing, federal judge grills L.A. officials over coronavirus and homeless shelters 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Before exploring the various sets, Ng, dressed in a prim, mauve-colored sheath dress, sat inside the Richardsons’ formal living room, filming a scene with Witherspoon and Washington for the second episode. Hollywood changed 'Little Fires Everywhere.' That's exactly what its author wanted 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Novelist Charlotte Brontë cemented Henry’s prim and proper vision, complaining in 1850 that “the Passions are perfectly unknown” to the late Austen. Perspective | Five myths about Jane Austen 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z I have never cried in front of a doctor before, but there she was, straight backed, prim and discouraging. ‘It’s as if I’m falling from a 50-storey building’: a year without sleep 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z A prim teacher works in a New York nightclub run by a gruff ex-bootlegger and his suave partner. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z An artist wants to design some flattering clothes for a prim Quaker woman. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z She claimed she was told she had to be “fun”, an image that Luke’s label intended to capitalise on, revealing how revelry could be just as confining as its prim counterpart. New rules: the destruction of the female pop role model 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z A fun-loving ski instructor and his pupil lead their friends against a prim counterpart for supremacy of the slopes. Movies on TV this week: 'Casablanca,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Terminator' and more 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Clark’s Margaret, wearing her prim costumes with the authority of a general in full uniform, sang her numbers as an outgrowth of her characterization, blurring the distinction between speech and song. Review: Renée Fleming brings radiant star power to a flickering 'Light in the Piazza' 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He and his team at the studio House House loved “the kind of Englishness that seems very proper and prim,” he said, which runs “very counter to the chaotic course of the goose.” This Video Game Fulfills Your Fantasy of Being a Horrible Goose 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z “People think I’m kind of a prim and proper goody-two-shoes, just because I inherited my dad’s sort of squeaky-clean image,” said Boone. Pat Boone's daughter Debby says she's not 'squeaky-clean' like dad, details connection with George Clooney 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The novels began as prim and proper stories for kids but quickly evolved as the character changed over time. 'Nancy Drew' breaks from wholesome roots with dark, sexy reboot geared for adults on The CW 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The players are dressed in colorful wraparounds, not prim British whites. Samoa’s lively version of cricket turns Jefferson Park into ‘a little piece of home’ 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z But he has agitated some of the old guard by cutting perks and often rejecting the prim orderliness that once defined the county executive’s office. With Amazon arriving next door, Fairfax’s top bureaucrat aims to shake things up 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z The aforementioned male skinny-dipping contrasts amusingly with the prim Victorian bathing costume Charlotte dons for her own ocean plunge. Sex and nudity spice up Jane Austen drama 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z One episode tasked a prim lawyer with becoming a garage MC and he never got over how unlike him it was to rap. Are you really the ‘real’ you? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z In her prim white blouse and skirt, she appears destined for some peril that will undo that neatness. Review: Zombies are the threat in the dark fairy tale ‘Endzeit — Ever After’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Next to that, Mara sat, prim, her orange coat bunched in her lap. “Son of Friedman” 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z When the prim Norma sternly advises her that “men don’t like candy that’s been unwrapped,” Louise looks at her like she just fell off the moon. Review: Shades of ‘Downton Abbey’ color ‘The Chaperone’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Through the 1960s, many romance novels had stayed relatively prim, with the sex mostly implied. Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Rem Koolhaas sees “pea soup and a complete absence of coffee” and “‘Little England’ all over again — a small-minded, prim and grim place.” Essential arts: Why ‘Art in the Age of Black Power’ is the show for right now 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z For the European sophisticate, long a part-time London resident, Brexit would mean “Little England” all over again — a small-minded, prim and grim place without espresso. Will Brexit spell bust for architecture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Greta lives in Brooklyn, in a prim little house, with a piano, a ripe French accent, and no visible pals, though she does have a rich and varied set of neuroses. The Genius of Julianne Moore in “Gloria Bell” 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z On my beach, I suspect it was also a gentle protest against the prim, Anglo-Saxon mores of a metropolis where cops were known to set up speed traps for cyclists. Letter of Recommendation: Naturism 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z That means a clean, prim, and proper aesthetic is maintained no matter what. My best friend at CES was a Douchebag 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z They’re a far cry from the prim studio portraiture that dominated prewar Japanese photography. 'Ravens and Red Lipstick' unearths an unexpected portrait over 70 years of Japanese photography 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The president has succeeded in casting journalists as the prim foils on his never-ending reality show, much to the delight of those who cheer him on at rallies. Trump’s Attacks on the News Media Are Working 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Even if Curtis is just in the movie to remind horror-hounds of “Halloween,” she’s likably earthy, and very different from the prim babysitter she played in her breakout role. Review: Two years after the original 'Halloween,' John Carpenter's 'The Fog' rolled in - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be nice to prune these plants to look healthy, prim and pretty now? Garden cleanup shouldn’t be too thorough 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z His goal, he said, was to awaken architects “from prim dreams of pure order.” Robert Venturi, Architect Who Rejected Modernism, Dies at 93 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The Royal Box - preserved for all things illustrious, prim and proper - are meant to be the best seats in the house. Who is allowed in Wimbledon's Royal Box? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z What started as a poignant domestic drama devolves into sitcom territory as prim and proper Willa exchanges her manicured golfing community in Arizona for a gritty, working-class neighborhood filled with quirky characters. Review: Anne Tyler’s new novel is about second chances 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z His Alabaster is prim, peculiar and possibly psychotic. Review: Pattinson elevates the melancholy western ‘Damsel’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Seducing us into textual minutiae with the prim tone of the academic before pieing us with vulgar prose? The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In Markle’s next role, will she get to be the “strong, confident mixed-race woman”? Or must she be the prim, polished duchess tradition requires? The making of Meghan Markle: A 'confident mixed-race woman' marries into the Royal family 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z And also: a life that puts a ton of pressure on a woman being prim, proper and perfect. Perspective | Yes, Duchess Kate looked flawless after giving birth. No, this isn’t normal. 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z But Frankie sees too many inconsistencies at the scene, and her further investigation uncovers evidence that Eleanor had dark secrets and a history of violence, despite her prim and proper demeanor. ‘Too Close to Breathe’ excels with realistic characters 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z While it begins with prim kilts and matching jackets, it quickly evolves into patchwork blazers, macramé dresses, and embroidered frocks that call to mind Woodstock. Review | Dior wants to dress you like a 1960s student radical. But what’s the message supposed to be? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Her light makeup and modest, even prim, clothes were a contrast to those of her fashionably dressed sister-in-law, Ri Sol-ju. Warm Welcome Home From Olympics for Kim Jong-un’s Sister 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “It was like some place in the south of France,” he later wrote, “with its palm-bordered streets and low stucco dwellings. Somewhat more prim, less rambling, but the same radiant sunshine.” Man Ray in LA: what happened when the pioneering artist hit Hollywood 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Sanders accessorizes her ensembles with a signature strand of prim pearls, sensible block heels . . . and dramatic eyelashes. Perspective | Army jacket and pearls: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the White House’s great master of image 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Takahashi’s were wearing prim little dresses, both in white but one draped in red beading like streams of blood. Review | In dark times, fashion grapples for the next right look. Will these styles get us there? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z While most awards shows try to keep things prim and proper, MTV’s Video Music Awards errs on the side of controversy. MTV VMAs: Kendrick Lamar leads, but will Katy Perry and Taylor Swift steal the show? 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z The process was expected to begin early Tuesday at the prim post cemetery on the grounds of the Carlisle Barracks, which today houses the U.S. A century after deaths, Native American students return home 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But at least someone still remembers what was really important about him: he was super anal-retentive and kinda prim about it to boot. Game of Thrones, The Spoils of War is the dragon payoff we’ve been waiting for 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z O'Connell's co-star Sienna Miller is also called upon to bare all during a staging of Tennessee Williams' classic that is certainly no place for the prim or the prudish. Benedict Andrews: the man the stars bare all for - BBC News 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The woman inside may come across as prim. Louise Steinman, through the library's Aloud program, invites writers and thinkers to ponder L.A. and the world 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Luxuriousness, mocking revolutionary heroes, any portrait of national disunity or deviation from “Chinese values”: all are banned from the internet in language so prim and unselfconscious that it’s hard to take seriously. Homophobia is back – it’s no accident that nationalism is too | Zoe Williams 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Where Purves was the school swot and Singleton the prim head girl, Noakes was the boy at the back of the class disrupting the lesson. John Noakes: The action man of Blue Peter - BBC News 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z On a spring afternoon, Haggerty’s outfit includes a prim blouse punctuated with a lipstick-shaped pin on her collar and black block-heel sandals with large red lip designs across the top of each foot. Meet makeup artist Vlada Haggerty, Smashbox Cosmetics' new 'lip editor in chief' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Alone in the bamboo chalet, Harry and nice prim Thelma fumble through their belated moment of 1960s swing with an awkward married tenderness. Arsène Wenger squeezes sadly into last season’s tactical skinny jeans | Barney Ronay 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z In fifth grade my homeroom teacher was William Younger, a prim, rather humorless man. Weird, wonderful, or both? We asked the newsroom which teachers they’ve changed their minds about 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “The floor was definitely not a place for people who were cute, prim and proper,” Ms. Fitzpatrick said in a recent interview. New Head of Soros Fund Has Defied Markets, and Expectations 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Its downtown resembles many others in northern France: a prim cluster of gray, Norman-style buildings that are home to shops, restaurants and bakeries. The Prophet of France’s Fracture 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The prim, desiccated formality associated with libraries is absent here. An Elegy for the Library 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z She says she turned down dozens of scripts before “Get Out,” most of which offered roles that resembled her “Girls” character, Marnie Michaels, a prim, vain but well-meaning singer-songwriter. How Allison Williams mined the horrors of white privilege for 'Get Out' 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Unlike newcomers aiming for attention, Negga often keeps covered with such prim signatures as hems to the wrists and ankles, high, round necklines, flowing sleeves and skirts, and all-over figurative embroidery. Oscar nominee Ruth Negga's red carpet style blends demure and bold 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z White’s prim Fonsia responds to Brown’s energy with bemused looks that graduate to insulted dignity when Weller loses again and again and starts swearing, even tossing furniture around the decrepit porch. Go fish: ‘The River’ and ‘Gin Game’ angle for small fry 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z In the autumn of 2012 Diekmann moved to Silicon Valley for almost a year to explore the digital media economy, ditching his prim look for a hipster beard. Donald Trump's German interviewer is bête noire for the left 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Though premature and rather callous, at least by the prim standards of German politics, these remarks seemed tame compared to the frustrations that regular citizens were expressing online. How the Berlin Terror Attack Exposes Angela Merkel's Weakness 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Brown said prim and proper behavior gets noticed and helps toward success if education and the other right elements are there. After-school program turns girls into sophisticated ladies 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z “If you are the President of the country, you need to be prim and proper,” he said. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z At the University of Northern Colorado, they are cheery and polite, an odd mix of the prim and the profane: schoolteachers and churchgoers in sensible shoes, paunchy middle-aged men in tattoos and biker leathers. Notes From the Campaign Trail: A Measure of U.S. Fever 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Who would doubt that this damaged, diffident hunk of brainpower would make Kendrick’s prim good girl swoon? In ‘The Accountant,’ Ben Affleck is part ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ part Batman 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In this industrial northwest Indiana city, hundreds of families who live in a gated public housing community with prim lawns and a new elementary school next door are searching for new homes. Special Report: Flawed CDC report left Indiana children vulnerable to lead poisoning 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z A typically prim and controlled political spouse poses in jeans and with windblown hair. Fashion photographs are all about fresh narratives, but Ivanka Trump is selling the same old story 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z In his dystopian feature “The Lobster,” such casual barbarism is set against a prim, archaic backdrop: an old-school resort for hapless singles to find a mate—and fast. Your wedding season anxiety antidote: The weird, wild, unlikely romance of “The Lobster” 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Their prim, priggish formulations in this awkwardly disconnected article demonstrate the embarrassing lack of sophistication that passes for theoretical expertise among their over-paid and under-educated professors. Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fossilized, fearful media can’t touch Donald Trump 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled. Stylish cover-up: inside International Modest fashion week 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z From a certain perspective—that, for instance, of Democratic opposition researchers—one strange thing about the Republican primary was how narrow the attacks on Trump were, how prim and how fussy. The Real Never Trump Campaign 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The next number she tried on had the silhouette of a Victorian morning dress, with leg-o’-mutton sleeves and a prim collar. China’s Homegrown High-Fashion Designer 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Pressed on CNN, Bush got a bit prim: “Well, he is a whiner, and I’m defending the honor of people I really respect. And I think that’s more than appropriate.” The Bush and Trump Family Grudge Match 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Beyond the prim uniform, the old-fashioned rules proved frustrating to the Hawaii team. Bloomers. Basketball. When grannies play, it’s all about fun 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z It is also no longer fashionable to think there is no place for a brash quarterback in this prim league. Cam Newton proves there’s a place for a brash quarterback in today’s NFL 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z So far, it has ignored the steadily growing petition from the 90,000-plus fuming members of the public who want Fury banned from its eternally prim, rarely controversial, end-of-year Sports Personality of the Year awards. Tyson Fury has no fear of retribution – he will say and do as he pleases | Kevin Mitchell 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z I was not prim or prissy, or had strong feelings from a religious perspective. The Prosecution Resets in a 1964 Obscenity Case 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Often this is portrayed as a choice between being a prim European nation, a muscular geopolitical pivot, a mercurial trading post or the 51st state of America. The spectre of past glories 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Management played badminton on the lawns of the prim Officers Club, built in the style of a small English manor. The picture is bleak at a state-run Indian film factory 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z A prim, handsome woman, she wore a large metallic button emblazoned with a photo of her mother. After Charleston 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z They elongated blazers, used a black-and-white photo print of a busy Wall Street corner as a design element in dresses, and turned prim, pleated skirts into mini-aprons layered over dresses. Here’s what you’ll be wearing next spring — and the designers who do it best 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Many of the outfits were prim and chic, if not adventurous - perfect work wear for some. London Fashion Week kicks off 5-day whirlwind of shows 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Many of the outfits were prim and chic, if not adventurous — perfect work wear for some. Lights, cameras, high heels: London Fashion Week kicks off whirlwind of runway shows 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z There is that side that’s very, um, not prim but controlled, and then there’s a side where you let go, you allow yourself to have a bit of fantasy in your life. Fashion Week: Carnations, espadrilles at Oscar de la Renta 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The Donald is as boorish as ever, his schoolyard put-downs as crass as ever, but nobody but the professionally prim and civil seems to care. WESLEY PRUDEN: Can Republican candidates ‘catch the moment?’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z And in an environment of prim conformity after the housing bust, it may be viewed as a fascinating test case: Can bankers venture beyond the guardrails to make riskier loans without getting into serious trouble? A Internet Mortgage Provider Reaps the Rewards of Lending Boldly 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z "Can you tell us how economic sanctions can stop crimes against humanity?" the petite 15-year-old demanded in prim yet staccato bursts. 3 days of nerves, tears and joy: U.S. expats lead debate nerds in China 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The French aristocracy under Louis XIV was titillated by tales of nude demonic ritual, and the prim and proper Victorian period saw a spike in interest too. The Evolution of Modern Satanism in the United States 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z My Secretary in those days was a very nice, prim and proper lady of high religions upbringing,” he told Newsweek. Ex-CIA disguise expert reveals how sex dolls tricked KGB during Cold War 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Canada's prim capital is suddenly focused more on the state of people's affairs than the affairs of the state. Ottawa, the city fun forgot, tops on infidelity website 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z There had been some doubts whether the picturesque venue, renowned for being prim and proper, was the correct choice for hosting a Davis Cup tie. Murray brothers carry Britain to brink of Davis Cup semi-final 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Underwood and Reamsnyder decided that Mrs. Key was a prim and proper lady, almost reminiscent of Mrs. Doubtfire or a traditional English nanny. Storyteller shares tales to youngsters through telephone 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The classes, which were prim and undemanding, bored me in a way that school never had before. Surfing into Adolescence 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z Although Alice was created in the Victorian era, she is anything but drab and prim: she is, more than many other literary heroines, thoroughly modern. How Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Stays Modern 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z "I thought I was starting a website about a pretty flower. I didn't realize how emotional Texans are about them," said Wickham, who favors prim Oxford shirts and is never without her lipstick. Deep in the heart of Texas bluebonnet country 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Jones had already seen half a dozen actresses when Milana Vayntrub sat down in the waiting room, wearing glasses and a prim plaid dress with a white collar. Allison Jones, Nerd Hunter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Across town, Wickstead’s catwalk was all prim and buttoned-up, its muted pastels, calf-length skirts and gowns with trains evoking a bygone era of elegance and romance. London Fashion Week Day 2: Sequins, retro looks, Cinderella 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Across town, Wickstead's catwalk was all prim and buttoned-up, its muted pastels, calf-length skirts and gowns with trains evoking a bygone era of elegance and romance. London Fashion Week Day 2: Sequins, retro looks, Cinderella 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Or will he put something more prim, foreshadowing a more restrained presidential campaign? The Revealing Titles of 7 Upcoming Books by Presidential Contenders 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Sound bite: “C’mon, at this stage of my life, in my career, aren’t I a little too prim and proper for all that ice bucket water dumping?” 9 most Sarah Palin being Sarah Palin moments in 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z “The girls I knew got so sensitive. My brothers were not prim and proper.” Allison Jones, Nerd Hunter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Eventually, yes, you will want to settle down with the Internet’s finest, but in the meantime, why waste time being prim and proper? How Tinder's More Serious Rivals Kill the Mood 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Some cultures are more autocratic, centralized, prim and obeisant- more in the eastern cultures. Leveraging Innovation Today for Tomorrow's Company 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Catherine, as prim job applicant Barbara O’Leary, confidently rattled off to the interviewer all the degrees that she held—a bachelor of mathematics from McGill, a masters in business administration from Columbia, and so on. An excerpt from Martin Short's "I Must Say" 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Asked if the Patriots might pick up Rice, Kraft offered a prim word: “No.” In Lucrative and Ludicrous N.F.L., the Show Goes On 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But the Broncos, following in the prim footsteps of the N.F.L., have taken a position of sniffy disapproval. Marijuana Seeps Into Some Colorado Pregame Rituals 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z "We are not snobs," declares a prim housewife on a 1930s newsreel, stiffly posed on her doorstep, flanked by windows hung with neat net curtains. 'Poor doors': not the worst thing about social housing 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The notices offer a prim reminder of the local water rules and the drought. Californians Keep Up With Joneses’ Water Use 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z She and her bestie, plus their pastor’s prim but kindhearted wife, head to a trendy eatery, leaving the kids in the care of their dads. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Godzilla,’ ‘Million Dollar Arm’ "A skinny, pale youth, he sports jeans, T-shirt and a short-back-and-sides, and has the slightly prim and earnest air of a social worker trying to bring some order to the chaos of a problem family." Five people compared with Adrian Mole 2014-04-11T15:49:47Z McGraw — tiny, ghost pale, and outwardly prim — is an unlikely source for such biting words. Jenkins: Muffet McGraw, Geno Auriemma: These two plain don’t like each other 2014-04-07T22:43:54Z Mr Walker, the 46-year-old son of a Baptist minister, could pass for a youth pastor: all prim amiability and very neat hair. Lexington: If Walker runs 2013-11-28T15:58:36Z LBJ could be brutal, but never prim or self-righteous. Lexington: Hey! Hey! LBJ! 2013-09-26T15:05:59Z This magnetic leader seemed so different from the dour Konrad Adenauer of Germany or the prim, old-world, patrician Macmillan of Britain or the gracelessness of the brutish Khrushchev. How JFK's Berlin speech gave a city hope 2013-06-25T00:17:28Z Ms. Cox, a Broadway veteran, plays Monica Reed, Essendine’s prim but worldly secretary, to a fare-thee-well, wringing laughs seemingly out of thin air. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Present Laughter,’ at Two River Theater Company 2013-06-15T01:22:06Z Most were dressed in everyday clothes, contrasting with the dark suits and prim dresses of the largely African-American congregation in the historic sanctuary of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ. Church Tithing Slips in Harlem Even as Neighborhood Improves 2013-05-25T01:41:53Z The essence of Thatcherism was to oppose the status quo and bet on freedom—odd, since as a prim, upwardly mobile striver, she was in some ways the embodiment of conservatism. Margaret Thatcher: Freedom fighter 2013-04-11T15:18:13Z You can easily spend the first 15 minutes of the game wondering the streets, soaking up the prim culture and listening to a barbershop quartet cover the Beach Boys. Game: BioShock Infinite Review 2013-04-10T04:00:00Z The essence of Thatcherism was to oppose the status quo and bet on freedom—odd, since as a prim control freak, she was in some ways the embodiment of conservatism. Margaret Thatcher: The lady who changed the world 2013-04-08T12:35:37Z There were prim girls in neat-buttoned cardigans, hip ones in bell-bottom trousers with sash belts, daring ones in miniskirts and knee-high boots that showed off their trim legs. Book excerpt: ‘Sum It Up,” by Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins 2013-02-24T19:46:18Z Dapper and prim, he met me that day in his office, which is decorated with a portrait of Putin and a little porcelain statuette of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. Behind Moscow's Law to Ban U.S. Adoption of Russian Orphans 2012-12-20T23:35:31Z The actors dress like eery wax museum copies of a black chamber maid in prim uniform and a leering hotel guest in a bathrobe. Paris Play Re-Imagines Encounter Between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a Maid 2012-11-28T01:06:48Z While Burnett was creating campaigns for Travelocity, it did not change the character, which continued to speak with a prim accent supplied by the English actor Harry Enfield. Advertising: A Gnome Is Back Home, but Still Likes to Wander 2012-09-30T21:29:52Z Khorshid, 15, dressed, as always, in a brightly colored tunic over prim trousers, is a skateboarding sensation who dreams of winning the girls’ world championship one day. Young Afghan Lives, Lost in the Fog of War 2012-09-15T19:03:40Z Who can blame Erin Davie’s prim Julie Jordan for recklessly giving up her mill job, not to mention her heart, at the prospect of an evening by his side? | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Carousel’ at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn. 2012-08-26T03:30:04Z This filial defense, almost Victorian in its chasteness, followed minutes after an earlier tweet—swiftly deleted—that was rather less prim. Russian Roulette, Fuming Frenchmen 2012-07-09T05:00:00Z With the little ginger triangle on her chin, the schoolteacher wearing a prim summer dress resembles a wannabe Lenin. La Barbe: France's bearded feminists 2012-07-01T23:53:37Z Besides, he was a Roman Catholic, and that didn't please such prim persons as Mendelssohn and Hiller, not to mention his own fellow-countryman, Joseph Joachim. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z For months now he had lived in it, and had been carried to business in it every morning, much to the disgust of the prim little housemaid Liza. The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie 2012-05-22T15:16:50.277Z The result was unsatisfactory, for it made her look too prim for a heroine; she therefore undid the pigtail and tied her hair loosely back with a nut-brown bow. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Six students from Grace Dodge Career & Technical High School in the Bronx, dressed in prim business attire, argued gamely in a wood paneled courtroom in Manhattan Criminal Court for three hours Tuesday night. SchoolBook: For a Closing School, Mock Trial Team Successes Are Bittersweet 2012-04-18T20:57:02Z They are prim of manner, they wear black of formal cut, and in every way their appearances have changed. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z There was the bed, too, and the half-drawn curtains, and the gentleman in black, sitting by the bolster, while a young prim assistant walked about on tiptoe, for the soothing dose or the cooling drink. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z It's only at the castle when they give us such lots of lessons and everybody is so prim and so cross if we're the least bit late. Christmas Tree Land 2012-04-06T02:00:25.787Z She wondered what that girl would have done with somebody like Danny Lewis, and she felt sorry for the prim and dutiful young creature who could never see Jay Cohen sitting in a slop-pail. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The prim Hargreaves was as much taken aback by this suggestion as her colleague Hopkins had been taken aback by Jasmine's attempt to borrow a chemise on the evening of her arrival. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z She soon lost her ugly hat, with its prim bows of drab ribbon edged with black lace; but she never even noticed its loss. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z And the golden Helen departed for the prim little, grim little kingdom of Sparta with her liege lord, Menelaus. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The picture on page 16 of the Gippsland railway running through a cleared track gives some idea of a prim�val forest in Victoria. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z “I certainly sha’n’t come now,” he said, in the prim voice that was so maddening. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Constance stood wistfully, anxiously, watching the prim white sail disappear. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Sally sat up prim, as if she were pinned to the chair-back; her hands crossed genteelly upon her lap, and her eyes looking straight into the fire. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The prim path must inevitably triumph over the primrose path. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z There was a vase of chrysanthemums on the large centre table, but the rector thought they must be wax, they were so prim. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z She tried to look prim and penitent, but danced down the stair the moment she got the door shut behind her. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Like all prim old maids, her heart was full of unrequited romance, and here was something she might spend its floods upon without let or hindrance. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Even prim President Thiers tried to kiss her and her indignation was epical. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Even though his rather prim biographer, Ticknor, has gone over Prescott's letters with a fine-tooth comb, there still remain enough of these Doric gems to make us wish that all of them had been retained. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z And so the wild rogue is this instant rattling up her prim ladyship. Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z They were terribly prim at first; but when they found out that I was just a clavering old wife and nothing more, they lost their grand manners. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z It might be a new sensation to kiss Susan, always so prim and offish. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z These were all derivative of prim, meaning precise. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z "Stiff as a poker, looks as if his only thought was to catch a chance to fire someone," observed Knight, watching the prim, dignified official crossing the tracks below. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z Mrs. Ratcliffe's pose grew perceptibly primmer as he proceeded, and he recognized that any confidence she might have had in him was being severely shaken. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z In six months she looked like a rather prim little nursery-governess: in two years she could have taken the chair at a Mother's meeting. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Ah, mein Gustav,' murmured the little maiden; she turned away and tied on her stiff bonnet, furtively wiping off a tear with her prim handkerchief folded in a square. Solomon 2012-02-29T03:00:26.127Z She is cross enough to stop a clock, sober and prim and crabbed, with eyes like a fish. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z It is a prim and delightful old-fashioned apartment, with low walls, a wide and cheerful fireplace, and pleasant windows which look out among the trees and lilacs upon a long reach of lawn. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z The section to the southwest is bordered by a prim hedge, thrifty and green, evenly trimmed, and so low that a man could leap across it with ease. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z The flowers of the pearly everlasting have a peculiarly pure pearly look before they are entirely open, and their sharp-pointed little scales give them a prim, set look, like very regular, tiny white roses. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Venerable trees shaded the walls, leafy vines climbed to and overran the roofs, and a quaint garden of prim squares and formally trimmed foliage lay at one side. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z On the fly-leaf it bore in prim handwriting the name of a lady who for many years must have treasured it. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Instead, "Then be good enough to follow me," she replied, with something of the prim dignity of the school-mistress. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The idea of the collection was a “prim girl who’s under the spell of the wrong kind of guy,” and meets him in a hotel. On the Runway Blog: Tory Burch's Runway Narrative 2012-02-14T16:05:40Z His black silk dress and mittens were lovely—he looked really a prim old spinster and managed his skirts so well. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Who shall blame the prim shapes and economical culture where even gross deception shall pass for a virtue if it be successful! Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z His collar was low and round and upright, its junction with the shirt concealed by a small, prim black tie. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z Indeed, she was as prim and “old-maidish” as any spinster lady possibly could be. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z Louise was better than all the conventions—all the prim English maids in prim white caps—in the world. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z A mile to the east of Upware we can see how mighty a task those men of old undertook who cut these lodes through the prim�val jungle. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z We were to have an artistically natural world, not a naturally artistic one; the face of the landscape was to be purged of its modern look and made to look prim�val. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z He saw, beyond the parapet, the precipice continue to the prim�val forest, the trees of which presented a blurred mass of lancelike points to receive him. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z "Very good, your lordship," was the prim reply. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z And the dearest creature—but rather cold and the least bit prim.” The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z Their northern escarpment is, at this point, still in its prim�val condition, a steep slope of virgin turf, known as Royston Heath, the common property of the township. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Primula, prim′ū-la, n. the genus of plants to which the primrose belongs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z They had that prim air of being dressed, which is different in the case of girls not quite grown up from that of their elder sisters. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z He was divided between a brotherly disgust at my lapse, and delight to have caught the prim Olivia tripping. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z So prim little Annabel was sent home, and the exhausted aunties left Rose to her own devices for a day or two. Eight Cousins Or, The Aunt-Hill 2012-01-15T03:00:12.507Z Along this ridge of the East Anglian Heights the prim�val forest was of old so dense that no artificial defence was needed to check the progress of an invading army. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Poor old thing, it could but screech in answer to Lettie's fingers flying across it in scorn, so the prim, brown lips were always closed save to admit the duster. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Finally, breathless and panting, they stopped, and demurely Tavia, for all the world like a prim little girl in Sunday School, sank to a low stool, with Bob at her feet. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z I fancied a prim English girl in a similar situation, and I began to wonder whether all this artlessness was really as genuine as it looked. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z The prim� facie conclusion will obviously be that there is a causal connection between the death and the apparition. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The sight of his daughter regarding Aubrey with a sweet, prim attentiveness supplied him with what he desired. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z He who is not fortunate163 enough to enter deeper into the interior, at least obtains here an idea of what constitutes a prim�val Brazilian forest. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z My poplars are like ladies trim, Each conscious of her own estate; In costume somewhat over prim, In manner cordially sedate, Like two old neighbours met to chat Beside my garden gate. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z To think of that prim old snuffers imposing himself on that pure young flame! Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z They looked very prim and demure without, these men and women, with their varnished boots and their satin gowns, but what if they were all hypocrites, walking about without stockings! The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z What! that prim needlewoman so averse to young gentlemen, and who, moreover, was betrothed to a young man named Cosme? The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The letter continued, in a different handwriting—prim, correct, and formal:— Elsie has gone to bed. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z It was like herself, this chair—straight, tall, dark, and prim. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Fancy going to these clean and prim old ladies in such a plight! My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z All the Kitchen Folks were in their places, prim, and quiet, and scared, just as Aunt Maria had left them, but when they saw her they brightened up, and smiled a welcome. The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People 2011-12-06T03:00:20.300Z May some few outlandish nooks and corners of Europe be left as God made them, where prim�val conditions may yet survive, and wild nature reign in uncontaminated glory—at least during our time. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z "I shall never dare go to visit my cousin Barbara, who is as prim and proper as——" Nothing was prim enough for the comparison. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z My father’s study—properly dusted and disinfected in order to thoroughly exorcise the ghost of Colonel McReady’s cigars—became our schoolroom, the high-backed armchair our prim preceptor’s throne. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Alicia sat up suddenly, as thin and straight as a new reed in her prim nightgown. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The maid's manner was a trifle prim; she plainly wished him to understand that she was still a little out with him. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z It struck Hollister, who was standing quite near her, that she looked delightfully prim. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The widow curtsied the Beau out of the room, and, having heard the front door closed, she watched in prim disgust for the entrance of Betty. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Mind you, we always did think auntie somewhat prim, though it would be neither polite nor politic to tell her so. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z There was a little pink box of a house on its farther side, with a few bunches of trees round it, and among them a pigmy village of prim wooden huts. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z She wore her faded creamy-pink, creamy-yellow Japanese kimono, held in prim plaits by the broad sash, a big obi bow at the back. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Dear Miss –– is rather prim in her story, but it is pretty and quite correct. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z The members were all clipped to a pattern and displayed a wealth of blooms in a prim setting. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z She was far less prim and stern with Jill and me. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z His face was dingy, his lips were grey, From primming sparrowbills day by day; As he turned his boot he heard a noise At his garden-end and he thought, "It's boys." Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Your life is about to catch fire, and when it does, you are going to be wearing a prim new pencil skirt. For the professional Washington woman, Ann Taylor is her muse 2011-11-17T02:28:00Z The style of the book is thoroughly easy and colloquial; and the girls talk and act like girls, and not like prim little women. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z At the table sat Vernon and Lovely face to face, and the green baize made a prim battlefield for the debonair antagonists. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Imagine that prim old couple having such a delightful surprise.” The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z The two hats are as different as the two men: Adonijah's prim, Puritanic, severe; Charles's three-cornered, with a flowing plume. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Never till this afternoon had a man kissed her, and that kiss had struck her as being a little prim and proper. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Very prim and neat, with easy chairs everywhere; stained glass, and a pious little bar, with nothing visible but a moral ice-pitcher and a butler like a bishop. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z "What you two prim busybodies don't appear to understand is that Miss Courteen prefers to remain with me." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The speaker was leader of the influx; a prim, middle-aged woman whose sincerity of soul shown through two sparkling brown eyes. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z "Something to read, ma'am, before I go?" asked the prim foreign maid, placing the shaded lamp on the table by the fire and drawing up the arm-chair. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z I do not think, therefore that even prim would be a word sufficiently dignified for the situation and context; much less is its diminutive primsie. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z That prim little picture below her portrait shows the house when it was new. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z He was Adam greeting Eve with the mystery of woman all about her in that prim�val Spring. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z And she assumed a prim, shocked expression so funny that all laughed. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z She paused for just that decisive but infinitesimal moment of first impression, as she took the measure of the spare figure standing on guard in the middle of his prim New England parlor. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Climbing excitedly out of one of the big cars came Mr. Barnard, his usually immaculate pink face smutty and weary; his sparse white hair rumpled giddily, and a worried pucker on his kind, prim face. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z And he put up at an old-fashioned inn, with a prim garden in front, with tiny pebbled walks, and a fountain, and four stunted clipped acacia trees. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Her elder and primmer sister only half liked him. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z There is a quaint charm in the results of the topiary art, in the prim imagery of evergreens, that all ages have felt. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z We are not, you know, expected to sit prim all the day, as the girls do, and play the lady. Jemima Placid or, The Advantage of Good-Nature 2011-09-25T02:00:16.800Z The term is evidently connected with, or formed from, the English prim, which has the same sense. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-09-25T02:00:16.433Z "Let me look out," said the second lady, who was, if possible, older and thinner and primmer than the first. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z You shall not watch me like a prim wise cat. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z While girlie, they weren’t prim or dowdy, which is surely important to Stuart’s typically young customer — someone like Emma Roberts, who sat in the front row. Splashes of yellow, beach parties and flora dominate runways for spring at NY Fashion Week 2011-09-11T01:15:29Z She was not a prim, angular, starchy, “tawsey”-looking old maid by any means. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z My solicitor, a prim white-haired man, said he was so glad to see me, though I do believe he was a little afraid of me. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z "That little prim man, as neat as a doll, and who looks as if he drank verjuice." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z She pursed up her prim old mouth, wished me good-morning and rustled away. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Judy, with a prim air, abruptly changed the subject, but in five minutes they were back to it again, like cats to cream. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z He looked prim and too much an old bachelor for so comparatively young a man. The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire 2011-08-31T02:01:23.303Z I exclaimed at last, in a voice that made the prim solicitor almost spring off his chair. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z She followed lightly after Cho Seng until she could see the prim top of the residency building gleaming white through the trees. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z |
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