| 单词 | prissy |
| 例句 | The kind I wouldn’t mind squatting in under different circumstances—although the decor is a little too prissy for my tastes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She was a figure of romance to them now, where before she had been too neat, too prissy; almost, somehow, too clean to be a real friend. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I said,”—three stiff, prissy notes—“‘It’s not proper, Mr. Blakeslee. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She pointed to an impressive but imitation oak desk at which sat a prissy, tiny, bespectacled individual, merged with his plethora of paperwork. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z This experience left me with the conclusion that our first president, besides having frizzy hair, a large red hooked nose, and apple cheeks, had a prissy, even old-ladyish mouth and a double chin. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And she laugh, kind a prissy, like it was all real funny to her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I like that it’s not too shiny or too prissy like the newer crowns, and yet, it has a presence. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I see,” said the principal, and you could practically see the wheels spinning in that prissy head of hers. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “So from sitting with the prissy pretty girl to sitting with me.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She walked in that same prissy, dainty way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He was one of those prissy retirees one sees frequently in New England, the sort who subscribe to antique magazines and carry those canvas tote bags they give as gift premiums on public TV. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Young Walter Taylor was up, annoyed, prissy, defending General Lee’s night’s rest even against Longstreet, who glowed once with the beginning of rage, and sent Taylor off to get the old man out of bed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie resolved not to glance his way, but she could see without looking the little rosebud mouth fixed in its prissy bow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z None of this prissy fish blanket business any more. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Elves are prissy. They have fine skin. Killing an elf slowly will be fun.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Lapp read the note, scanned it again, then wrinkled his upper lip, squinched his nose until the bridge was thoroughly grooved, and weighted down his entire prissy face with a formidable, puzzled frown. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer had expected Nita’s prissy distaste for the slums of the Orleans to continue, but she adapted quickly, with a fierce attention to whatever Tool and Nailer taught. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the prissy, uptight captain in Cabin Pressure. Cabin Pressure; In Concert: a week in radio 2013-01-10T18:00:01Z As it turned out, those weeks were all it took for my dad to capture my mother’s heart and her prissy Egyptian panties.” Irreverant stories of Arab-American women fill Randa Jarrar's 'Him, Me, Muhammad Ali' 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z He is utterly confident, exchanging banter with lesser, prissier contemporaries at the Royal Academy, tolerant of an envious failure who begs him for a loan. Cannes 2014: Mr Turner review – Timothy Spall plays artist JMW Turner with relish 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Both revel in bold, meaty preparations, which you can read as a giant razz at those prissy poke bowls. Review | The Block food hall is a daily party down in Annandale 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Upsetting traditional hierarchies, two metallic servants – the polished, prissy butler C-3PO and his squat companion R2-D2, apparently a dustbin with a brain – bossily managed the affairs of their accident-prone masters. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The Times had always been prissy about that. What It Was Like to Be Photographed by Bill Cunningham 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z In the thinking of popular culture, red wine is assertive and action-oriented compared with white wine, which offers a prissy, indecisive connotation. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Moschino, the Italian brand with a new store in SoHo, occupies a mirthful neverland in the world of high fashion: It is pricey but not prissy, inclusive in spirit if exclusive in sheer practical attainability. At Moschino in SoHo, a Tweety Bird Sweater and Other Charms 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z MB Ranting is not debating – and yet, when you start to say that, you don’t half look like a prissy academic. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z And the milieu is back-to-basics rock'n'roll, the Vaccines riding into town to reassert rock's fundamentals and kick all those prissy Klaxons and Vampire Weekends – and Drums – into touch. New band of the day ? No 882: The Vaccines 2010-10-07T16:08:00Z You might think this sort of person would be prissy, persnickety, overly regimented, or whatever fits your image of an annoying pedant wielding a red pencil or, in this case, a microscopically fine-toothed comb. Mary Norris Muses on a Lifetime of Literary Vigilance in ‘Between You & Me’ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z In the original show, this number at least gets a big choral send-off; in the dry, crackly hands of Dame Judi, it becomes a prissy, self-satisfied catechism. ‘Cats’: Did You See the Movie? Let’s Talk 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z "Ooh," he says, affecting the voice of a prissy, self-obsessed thespian. Mark Wahlberg: 'I've been hustling my entire life' 2013-02-17T20:00:03Z Harry, too, is Dickensian, but more like one of Dickens’s monstrous, red-eyed lawyers: He is cruel, peremptory and, with his dyed hair and prissy bow tie, dandyish in his self-regard. Review: ‘Hangmen,’ Offering the Last Word in Gallows Humor 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z As an editor, however, it is of the prissy, arbitrary, rule-besotted sort whom good writers want to kill. Gene takes Grammarly to school 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Many of his most popular performances were as child-men rampaging through the prissy adult world. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Love means commercial success; as an artist who functions in a marketplace, he cannot afford to be prissy or precious. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z Plainly there’s a big desire for feminine clothes that are relaxed rather than prissy. Fall Fashion: The Five Things You Need for Fall 2011-08-24T23:08:42Z Many of these prissy curbings of Michelangelo are still there. The real enemy of Michelangelo's Sistine art isn't us – it's the Vatican 2012-11-07T17:24:32Z It sounded a bit prissy when I first heard it, but it's true. Top writing tips: Robert Muchamore 2012-08-08T11:33:32Z For evening, there was a sculptural, folded gown with an open neckline in a floral print that was feminine without being prissy. Easy elegance, deceitfully simple, on NY runways 2011-09-12T20:18:12Z And when characters behave in ways that are untrue to themselves, even when their true selves are prissy and annoying, that’s cheap. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z He punctured the snobbery and rituals of the concert hall, and showed music as something that could be gobbled whole, without prissy distinctions between high and low. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z One of the standout characters in Rev is the archdeacon, a stage villain who swishes into each episode to spread crisp, prissy menace, like Malcolm Tucker minus the swearing. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z Post-independence India had stricter, prissier demarcations – between the polite and the profane, the admissible and the inadmissible – than the India energised by the free market. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Folksy without being prissy, Burnett has already written three memoirs, including a tribute to her eldest daughter, Carrie, who died of cancer at 38. Amy Schumer and Carol Burnett Tell Their Stories 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z An opening of prissy flowered dresses was soon sharpened up with strong tailored pieces, like double-breasted pea jackets. Fashion Review: Trousers Missing on the New York Autumn 2012 Runways 2012-02-13T16:51:14Z James Gilchrist, in superb voice, makes a wonderfully insidious tempter and a prissy, if dangerous Nebuchadnezzar. The Prodigal Son/The Burning Fiery Furnace – review 2013-07-07T17:20:00Z The prissy title suggests we're to tut at these ignorant plonkers, while treating their downfall as a giant warning triangle flashing red on the hard shoulder of the information superhighway. TV highlights 22/07/2013 2013-07-22T06:00:14Z It turns out that Jonah Hill is a prissy buffoon given to harping on about his Oscar nomination. This is the End: why actors love to play themselves 2013-06-06T18:00:00Z The white dishes with a gold rim are hand thrown and “feel elevated without being fussy or prissy,” said Jennifer Spector, Zola’s director of brand. Disrupting the Dishes 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Details are not prissy – indeed, the plastic is distinctly botched in places – but perfection is not the point. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z Loosely based on a Spanish play by Juan Mayorga called The Boy in the Last Row, it's set in a secondary school in an unidentified French town where the intense, prissy, humourless Germain teaches literature. In the House – review 2013-03-31T00:07:00Z In addition, footnotes — inserted by a prissy lawyer, the book’s supposed editor — repeatedly interrupt the main narrative. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Over lunch, Nellie, or at least her piercing stare and prissy voice, seeped out of Ms. Arngrim from time to time. Scene Stealers: From ‘I Hate Her’ to Icon 2013-06-14T21:32:52Z The thing you most certainly wouldn’t wear these dresses with is a pair of prissy heels. Perspective | Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Cherry and the performers make us care about all of their fates, even that of uptight, prissy Beth Ann and shallow, self-centered Simone. Smart Watch: Why is there yet another season of "13 Reasons Why"? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Don acts like Pete is being prissy for being offended by Mathis, but later on scolds him for his "foul mouth." 'Mad Men' recap: The vision thing 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z He disparages “the global diplomatic system” as anachronistic, prissy, overpopulated. The quid pro quos of Gordon D. Sondland 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z His wife, cultured and prissy, is Taylor, with an Upper East Side pedigree and an obsession for planning, meticulous packing and five-star accommodations. An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z And, most days, Frasier's psychiatrist brother Niles: younger, prissier – and instantly infatuated with Daphne. Frasier 2010-04-16T05:45:00Z Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite? Melissa McCarthy poster digitally altered to make her look thinner 2013-06-11T11:18:03Z Of Mr. Hare’s screenplay, he wrote that everybody “talks in the same peculiar mixture of prissy clichés from bad drawing room comedies.” Review: In David Hare’s ‘Plenty,’ Time Takes the Edge Off a Femme Fatale 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Unfortunately Ms. Englert’s Marina seems more petulant and prissy than so radiantly pure of heart that her words could turn sinners instantly repentant. Review: In ‘Pericles,’ Much Ado About a Lot of Things 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, complete with 'prissy curbings', in the Sistine Chapel. The real enemy of Michelangelo's Sistine art isn't us – it's the Vatican 2012-11-07T17:24:32Z The rest of the time he was busy, as he puts it, being "America's favourite tabloid presence", an off-the-rails celebrity bafflingly unlike the prissy Dr Crane. Kelsey Grammer: starting over 2013-03-23T09:00:00Z These incontrovertible but little-discussed facts will strike some as more of Carter’s prissy nagging. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Imagine if those chairs were filled with women in prissy afternoon dresses and tweed suits, while above their heads swung the young crowd of 1960s women who are so effectively shown on nearby screens. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z I figured that my prissy enthusiasm helped establish my reputation. A Working Vacation on an Umbrian Farm 2014-05-09T19:04:24Z Spears also played basketball in school and worked at a seafood restaurant cleaning shellfish and serving plates of food “while doing my prissy dancing in my cute little outfits,” the singer wrote. Britney Spears' highs and lows — a timeline from 'The Mickey Mouse Club' to her tell-all memoir 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Despite her San Francisco pedigree, Feinstein was despised by many on the political left, who found her personally too prissy and politically too centrist. Column: Feinstein's stubbornness kept her in office too long. But it also defined her success 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z UIC’s prissy bullies, like fanatics generally, have no sense of irony. Opinion | Even by today’s standard of campus cowardice and conformity, this repulsive episode is noteworthy 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Acknowledging this by seeking better language is a basic effort to be polite, not prissy. Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z So did a prissy Trump "freedom hat" pitched in a similar fashion. Short on cash, Trump campaign can’t keep up with Biden 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z In doing so, she allows the movie to be stolen by Elizabeth Taylor’s delightfully prissy and very funny Amy, who manages to triumph despite having to wear a weirdly pale-orange wig. The newest ‘Little Women’ movie opens soon. How does it stack up to the previous, beloved versions? 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “He was not prissy. Not at all,” she said.” How befriending Mister Rogers’ widow allowed me to learn the true meaning of his legacy 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “Mr. M” sees Tracy as emblematic of a strain of prissy privilege, deleterious to the great American experiment. Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician pairs perfectly with Election 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z People are choosing to be prissy about the rough-and-tumble of politics. Rory Stewart Insists That Brexit Is Different from Trump 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z There’s even an undercurrent of rebellion in their cheering, bucking the prescribed behavior of what older women “should” do and what the prissy Vicki deems an acceptable pastime. Review: Diane Keaton-starring ‘Poms’ lacks the requisite spirit 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s also—sorry to sound prissy—not O.K. to bribe police and other public officials to serve as unofficial collaborators. Bad Press 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z There is a fine line between celebrating female screw-ups, and undermining female success by making it look prissy and undesirable by comparison. Fleabag proves that women can do glorious failure, too | Gaby Hinsliff 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “It must have been Prince/ess Pie. If you ask me, it’s pretty sad for a street burly to get hammered for a routine that prissy.” A street performer falls for a radical privacy advocate in "Skin City" 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z He’s prissy and self-centered, and the way he casually discards his live-in lover when he sees Josephina as available could use some more narrative examination, and possibly a consequence or two. Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw feels like Robert Altman’s Final Destination 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Fifty years later, mega hectares of wilderness have been displaced by stucco communities as prissy about lawn maintenance as the golf courses, and Disney attractions, they border. Opinion | Red Tide, Take Warning 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Elves, on the other hand, seem to be prissy, elitist and vapid. Review: ‘Bright’ is when Harry Potter vomits on a cop flick 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z I initially typed “sexual favors” instead of “sex,” but that prissy formulation whitewashes the ugly reported reality; it feeds into Weinstein’s efforts to diminish the seriousness of his behavior. Opinion | Don’t let Harvey Weinstein buy his way out of trouble with pricey rehab 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “When I get too prissy,” she says, “I think about that.” Voices of the City: Robin Coste Lewis' fierce and arresting poetry has its roots in Compton 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “Time for miss prissy to get a real job instead of mommy and daddy taking care of her. Good luck in the real world Anita.” Eager to Create Blue-Collar Jobs, a Small Business Struggles 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s a hymn to blue-collar America, to rebellious young people who insist on being free spirits despite the prissy elitists and censorious prudes who want to tell them what to think. Is America at its greatest what Trump has in mind? 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z "I don't think we should be prissy about this, but I am not sure we're setting a good example to the next generation of voters." Should MPs be role models for young people? - BBC News 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z They also talked about how to rope former President Bill Clinton and Mr. Obama into fundraising for Priorities — though Mr. Mook said Mr. Obama is “kind of prissy” about super PACs. John Podesta, Clinton campaign aided super PACs despite stance against big money 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z What Frank of NJ thinks of as "masculinity," that part of him that those prissy Liberals have suppressed, is simply swinishness; what he thinks of "weak and effeminate" is what most people call "civil." What Our Sons Are Learning From Donald Trump 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z It categorizes them as prissy, spoiled, high-maintenance women who put too much emphasis on appearance. Stop Shaming College Girls for Fancy Dorms 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Nonfiction writers are prissy about being accurate and telling “the truth.” This real-life voyeur of sexual acts is worthy of fiction 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z On the contrary, it is a serious work of Christian art, from a self-confessed sinner whose belief is anything but prissy. Andres Serrano on Donald Trump: 'I never speak ill of people who've posed for me' 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The owners arguably ushered in the bathing trend by turning the baths coed and making what at the time were considered prissy additions: juice, mud masks and, later, an aromatherapy room. After 124 Years, the Russian and Turkish Baths Are Still a Hot Spot 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Her detractors caricatured her as prissy, bossy, a headmistress, “everyone’s mother in a bad temper.” Was Thatcher ‘that bloody woman’ or a boon to Britain? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It passed off the most recent SC coupe and roadster as a sports car, a prissy slope-backed thing that never managed more than 300 horsepower despite a V-8 engine. With the LC 500, it's time to show Lexus some respect 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z 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 With Drake’s delicate, prissy flicks of the wrist, this is salsa danced by the uptight, upstate twinset brigade of Dirty Dancing’s ballroom classes, not the staff partying upstairs. Get ur dad on: Drake's Hotline Bling moves examined 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Both flat-panel touch screens, for the climate and the smart functions, are hopelessly unresponsive and prissy. Honda HR-V: A Bigger, If Not Entirely Better, Fit 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z This is not the molded, prissy tartare you may expect from a fancy restaurant. Lobster rolls, oysters and cocktails with a kick at Catch and Release 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Rather than growing into a grande dame, the hotel started feeling dated and prissy. A South-Of-The-Border Star Shines Again: The New Four Seasons Hotel Mexico DF 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z He does not subscribe to any prissy idea of a somehow sexless image of the human body in art. Picasso or bust: why Fox and other puritans find his work so shocking 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Those weary of prissy, politically correct book lists and elitist commentary have an new destination. Inside the Beltway: CPAC begins with Ben Carson, Mia Love, Scott Walker 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Another Tynan recollection reflects one of the magazine's few weaknesses—its tendency to be timid and sometimes even prissy. 'The New Yorker at 40': Newsweek's 1965 Look Inside 'The New Yorker' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Jazz fans these days are fairly likely to be prissy liberals with an aversion to death sticks. Smoke signals 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s one thing for phones to be prissy about how you treat them, but they also succeed in controlling how you live as well. The greatest myth about phones is that you are in control 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Their characters weren’t prissy or snobbish in the slightest. The Lauren Bacall standard 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I’m not one of those prissy light followers on Twitter. How I 'Watched' The Oscars Through 14 Million Tweets 2014-03-03T17:40:00Z "I don't think we should be prissy about this, but I am not sure we're setting a good example to the next generation of voters," he told them. Leadsom: Speaker's insults 'hurtful' 2014-02-24T14:47:38Z But he said he did not want to appear "prissy" about the issue. Curb 'yob' MPs, Bercow tells leaders 2014-02-18T09:27:08Z She is also the arm and brain of women’s tennis, the rebel who broke some of the sport’s prissy traditions and made the revolution work. 'Battle of the Sexes' Turns 40 2013-09-20T00:05:21Z Once again, England's batsmen struggled badly, on a day where for much of the time the sun shone bright and the pitch misbehaved as much as a prissy school prefect. England collapse was no isolated slump 2013-08-09T19:31:17Z Some grammar defenders can be "extremely prissy", admits Harry Mount, author of How England Made the English. The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z Your mean stare and physical strut used to scare the living daylights out of some of the Premier League's more prissy pups. Stoke City v Manchester Utd – live! 2013-04-14T11:45:00Z But oh yeah lets get prissy about having to get health insurance. jortega41 @KariByron Enlightening article, thank you for tweeting it. Watch Live: Journalist Steven Brill Chats About His 'Bitter Pill' Cover Story 2013-02-22T20:05:21Z Cobby believed the reason for his victory was that his voice sounded "well-educated without being prissy". Brian Cobby obituary 2012-11-05T17:34:21Z The British Paralympic Association issued prissy advice to broadcasters, telling them not to dwell on competitors’ personal histories and to avoid comparing their performances with those of Olympic athletes. The Paralympics: Blades of gold 2012-09-06T15:03:14Z These bodies are not simply perfect, they are differently perfect; the rest of the time, the rules of attractiveness are circumscribed, handed down by a prissy marketing automaton who doesn't like smells. London 2012: is it wrong to, ahem, admire the bodies of the athletes? 2012-08-06T15:20:55Z The industrialists had very prissy choreography, they were constantly checking the ground for money, or dusting down their suits. Olympic opening ceremony a Labour party broadcast? Yup, that's about right 2012-07-27T23:28:45Z Robin van Persie announced his intention to leave Arsenal via a rather prissy statement on his website, casting a series of simpering glances in the direction of Manchester City and/or Juventus. Webber makes it two in a row for British Grand Prix at Silverstone 2012-07-10T12:59:06Z He also appeals to the moderator for rigid rule enforcement in a way many may find prissy. Mitt: All He Needs is Love 2011-11-30T14:10:27Z You are trying to fix a reputation for being pricey and prissy; still, you will neither serve burgers nor host a happy hour. You?re the Boss Blog: Southfork Kitchen Owner may Open New Restaurant in Brooklyn 2011-11-15T14:30:20Z You can keep me posted as to what goes on at the prissy school; provided anything of account happens there.” Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z There’s no reason to be prissy or censorious on the subject of politicians and their ghostwriters. What Does Newt Gingrich Know? 2011-06-30T17:19:41Z Critics slammed Chrysler for being too prissy about the whole thing. Say Nice Things About The Motor City. Or Else. 2011-03-11T16:58:36Z You haven't started making prissy demands and eating raw celery for breakfast since you started modelling? Magnus Carlsen 2010-12-10T00:06:00Z "Not renewing" is actually too prissy a phrase. Alex Ferguson's stance poses questions about Wayne Rooney's attitude 2010-10-19T21:34:00Z Kirstie Allsopp would doubtless get all prissy about the lack of dado rails, but I find it impossible not to warm to a place like that. Harry Pearson: The art of a dressing room stink 2010-10-07T23:06:00Z That was the end of the prissy approach. Claims Five: Bad betting tales 2010-05-14T12:19:00Z He comes on like some prissy fuss-pot poet, doesn’t have it together, drives a junk heap, claims to have quit his teaching job but was probably fired. E. L. Doctorow: “Edgemont Drive.” 2010-04-19T04:00:00Z "Well," remarked Miss Anspacher, using the side of the spaceship as a mirror by which to redden her somewhat prissy lips, "that makes it practically unanimous, doesn't it?" Collector's Item Where couldn't one find sex in print, even among the prissy writers? The Mighty Dead Miss Barnes could not have told why, but for the first time this abnormal, prissy child, with her self-assurance, and her impertinence, caught at her sympathies. The Cricket He's that sort, I can see, but, Lord! how I hate such prissy clothes! The Lady Doc Yet he was sure Ser Perth was serious; there was no humor on the face of the prissy thin-mustached man before him. The Sky Is Falling Cal's considerable of a prissy, but take it from me, Harry Prescott will see that all father's money doesn't pour into homes for the friendless—so there's something accomplished. The Visioning We must not think of him as "prissy" or snobbish, but he distinctly disliked crudity however expressed, and this dislike grew and was strengthened by his increasing devotion to the aesthetic. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness |
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