| 单词 | prudery |
| 例句 | Some things were just plain unacceptable even when buttoned-up 1950s prudery was beginning its retreat. Older men, young girls: a common theme of 70s pop – but still wrong 2012-10-06T23:06:39Z This time it was apparently different, having to do with Mapplethorpe’s lack of inhibitions and his lover’s sexual prudery. Book review: ‘Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, a Biography’ by Philip Gefter 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z But Mr. Tucker has encouraged an Anglo-Indian accent, translated her first lines into Hindi and altered a bit of dialogue: “Lisson Grove prudery” becomes “Indian prudery,” and there’s a mention of Delhi. Review: A Playful ‘Pygmalion’ From Bedlam? Bloody Likely 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The Victorian era was notorious for sexual prudery. Weapons of crass construction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Their insistence on sexual reticence, even outright prudery, was much stronger than that of either the working classes or the very wealthy.” Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But when you strip away the social conventions from which a show’s crisis develops — prudery, repression, outerwear, what have you — you leave the action unmotivated and unmoored. Review: A Genderqueer ‘Cabaret,’ at War With Itself 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z I’m sorry to be the voice of prudery, but I can’t publish the name in The New York Times. Tom Ford Wants You to Be Really Fabulous 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The authors wage guerrilla war on prudery; they view sex as yodelingly absurd yet rather fun and, in this fantasia at least, consequence-free. A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Populating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop’s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z And, third — size rarely matters, though Schilthuizen does tell us that in that well-known era of prudery, the Victorian Charles Darwin discovered the most well endowed animal in the world. ‘Nature’s Nether Regions’: how birds, bees and all the rest do it 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The trouble with the sex in most movies isn’t a matter of prudery but of a stultifying failure of erotic imagination—and of dramatic imagination. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The case, however, made Comstock’s name synonymous with “prudery, Puritanism and officious meddling,” according to Broun and Leech. Column: Conservative attacks on abortion depend on a law that courts have snubbed for 100 years 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z The Christian right are the villains in "Footloose" and American attitudes towards the prudery caucus haven't grown any warmer since then. The GOP is getting unhinged about LGBTQ people — which will only make them more unpopular 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z DeSantis, with his "don't say gay" law and pro-censorship stance, just tips too far into the prudery camp to keep those voters from fading away. Ron DeSantis isn't a dirtbag. That's exactly why he won't beat Donald Trump 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The abortion issue doesn't just unify the Democratic base, it creates a wedge between the fundamentalists and the rest of the GOP base that isn't nearly so keen on the politics of prudery. Biden's bewildering response to Roe explains why he's so unpopular 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Forced by this aggressive prudery to actually talk about sex, progressives started, in many cases reluctantly, making the positive argument for consensual sex. The GOP's prudery is unpopular, to fight back, the left has to scold less and talk about joy more 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery. What the New York Times doesn't get about free speech and "cancel culture" 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Conservatives get away with this bad faith, because of a larger cultural prudery. Even if the U.S. did support mothers — and it doesn't — there will always be a need for abortion 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized. Urban warrior in Nikes and a hoodie leads charge against white orthodoxy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Told that some patients were refusing further appointments with him, Tyndall dismissed the reports as “innuendo” based on “nearly unimaginable prudery” by colleagues. Secret USC records reveal dire warnings about gynecologist accused of abusing students 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact. Review: David Henry Hwang’s ‘M. Butterfly’ takes flight in a more gender-fluid era 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Instead, they have fallen back on the very practice that enabled abusive priests to thrive: dealing with sexual conflict through a blend of prudery, euphemism, and evasion. What Do the Church’s Victims Deserve? 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Carlson knows that what modern conservatives want is sexism free of the prudery and piety of the religious right. Tucker Carlson is probably safe: He's too valuable to the GOP for Fox to cut him loose 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z And Twitter provides a smorgasbord of spluttering about the terrors of our new prudery. Nabokov's Lolita: the latest thing millennials have apparently ruined 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Offering up a sharp defense of art for art’s sake in his Gothic novel’s withering repudiation of Victorian prudery, he declared, “Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” Review: The Allen Ruppersberg show at the Hammer Museum is a don’t-miss tour de force 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Pleasure and its unfettered indulgence drove the latter, who refused to put up with the prudery of polite society. For Kitty Brophy, freedom from authority in some wickedly sensuous lines 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Indeed, the patriotism and prudery that regulated society for much of the 20th century were mostly enforced and defended by conservatives. There’s no crisis of free speech. Milo’s campus crusade is rank hypocrisy | David Shariatmadari 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z She was dubbed by Time "the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation," and rebutted by Mailer in his book "The Prisoner of Sex," in which he mocked her as "the Battling Annie of some new prudery." Kate Millett, feminist author of 'Sexual Politics,' dies 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Whether or not Huppert’s willingness reinforces assumptions about American prudery and French perversity, one could scarcely have hoped for a more accomplished or satisfying outcome. Isabelle Huppert enthralls in Paul Verhoeven's masterful rape-revenge thriller 'Elle' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Putin’s Russia, writes Owen Matthews in the Spectator, is developing a “state-sponsored culture of prudery” to make it a “moral fortress” against Western decadence. Vladimir Putin is bringing back the 1930s 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z It ignored the medium’s radical potential—how consensual B.D.S.M. could subvert power structures, or how erotic displays of imperfect or disgusting bodies could be a Rabelaisian weapon in a war against élite prudery. Making Sense of Modern Pornography 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z He complimented his daughter in ways that made most listeners uncomfortable, to show that society with its petty pruderies would hold no sway over him. The Picture of Donald Trump 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France. No sex in this city: the bare-faced cheek of Paris's most sensual museum 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z It isn’t prudery but decorum that compels me to say this. Lena Dunham’s bare, naked truth Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing? Aldi, what’s wrong with the word ‘slut’? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Further indifference to these conditions can only be attributed to culpable apathy or prudery. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The civil wars and the Empire degraded the character of the people, and the exaggerated prudery of republican manners only served to make the rebound into vice the more irresistible. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Naturally, a writer of this kind pays small regard to the demands of prudery. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z In the Bible the beauty of women is frankly spoken of without prudery or mawkishness as an influence in human affairs. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z They are generally incisive of speech, aggressive of purpose, defiant of political prudery, and even of political prudence. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Paul IV., in an unfortunate fit of prudery, was seized with the resolution of whitewashing over the whole of the Last Judgment, in order to cover the scandal of a few naked female figures. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z But when you compare the good done by Catholic social services to the harm done by the church’s anachronistic prudery, the good overwhelms the harm. Contraception Controversy: Could Rush Be Losing His Hold on the GOP? 2012-03-03T17:35:23Z He discovered that he hated everything in Denmark, the scenery, the climate, the prudery and provinciality of the inhabitants, the lack of Parisian Bohemianism—everything except the cookery of his mother-in-law! Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z If all had gone well, and she had stepped into the dead one's place, she would, outwardly at least, have been henceforth as demure as prudery could desire. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z There is the same difference between moral art and the product of true genius, that there is between prudery and virtue. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z But he put that down to her old-fashioned prudery, and had forgiven her for it, since she now seemed quite willing to leave Joan alone with him. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Was it a healthy rebellion against the prudery of repression or the adventitious excitation of imminent impotence? San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The 1940s carry the stamp of British prudery and paranoia. India Ink: In India, Free Speech With Limits 2011-12-12T03:55:11Z With a vast parade of prudery she insisted at first upon apartments being provided as remote as might be from my lord's. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Only a little while ago an article appeared in one of the magazines in which all women who did not dress according to the provincial prudery of the writer were denounced as impure. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z I felt even so soon, with prohibition a reality, that our national prudery was a very unfortunate influence indeed in Havana. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z A starched old maid like her would infect a whole regiment of young girls with her prudery. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:24.180Z Here and there a woman of pure Spanish blood stood on a balcony and glanced down with shocked prudery at the bold American, but Evelyn smiled at this. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z No. Nursing a wounded man is a woman's duty and, in view of that, prudery must retire to a corner. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z By instinct Miss Simpson was modest to the verge of prudery. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z It was, notably, a period of prudery, of all which, objectively, I disliked; while at the same time there had been the undercurrent of license that always accompanied an oppressive hypocrisy. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The nearest approach to those “good old times” which our modern prudery admits, is the short skirts and the “tights” of the ballet. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z There is a prudery which is not proper reticence that is cultivated by some people who happen incidentally to be religiously inclined. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z "Was it because the English prudery has disappeared in a corner?" Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z It is certainly a wonderful story; but the self-styled Anglo-Saxon has so much—prudery that even this innocent phantasy seems to shock his sense of the "proper." Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z I am advocating no moral prudery, nor religious bigotry. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z How like this woman to put aside prudery. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z All this is sheer prudery and when applied to sex matters represents really a neurosis of excessive precaution and inhibition with regard to some of the most natural things in the world. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z But all this prudery extends no further than outward forms, and it would be a grand mistake to suppose that there is more morality in Russia than elsewhere. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z "What affectation of prudery is this?" he asked, roughly. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z I was not inclined to prudery, but Piet Noona’s nephew was beginning to grow up, and his sumptuary condition was shocking. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z “I cannot affect,” she says, “a prudery which is not natural to me.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Civil statistics of these diseases mean very little, especially in English-speaking countries, because of our prudery with regard to them. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z It was a falsehood even prudery itself might deem pardonable. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The Bad Sex Award poses as a knowing blow against literary pretension while embodying the most retrograde prudery. 2011 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts 2011-04-18T19:53:00Z He had been favored with glimpses of Violet Wayne’s inner self before, and could discern the difference between a becoming prudery and actual abhorrence. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z Her purity of conduct was combined with no uncouth prudery. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z I don't think so, my Lord; you offered a bonus on prudery, and hence you met nothing but coyness. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z There was no prudery, and a slightly scandalous story might be told; but anything that was said or done was in the tone and manner of good society. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z "Neither my sister nor myself 'pose' for prudery, Sir Within; but the world says that you are—what shall I call it?—too—too—do help me to the word." Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Even prudery could not show excuse for keeping aloof. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z It is responsible, to deal solely with what interests us in our present inquiry, for the prudery and "hypocrisy" of which European criticism so universally accuses our Victorian literature and habits of thought. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z It's not about prudery, it's about having enough power to say no. Geoff Boycott's sensitive side? it's so well hidden 2011-03-27T00:06:33Z We think of it as a time of buttoned-up prudery and repression -- and it was -- but loosen the corset of 1860s England and out spills the kink. 250,000 crowd central London in budget protest 2011-03-26T19:32:00Z This may seem like vanity or prudery; but no matter what it appears, if it is right. Leonora 2011-03-22T02:00:21.627Z And so if, I have not the dragon prudery to guard me, I am to find a brace of dragons in my brother and his friend. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z So God forbid piety, but long live prudery. The Twitter Sex Approval Matrix: Do It in Provo, Abstain in New York 2011-03-16T21:09:55Z K. I. was in a blessed passion, and cursed my infernal prudery, as he called it. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Except this, and a most inordinate amount of prudery, she hasn't a fault on earth. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z She had needlessly irritated him by her childish prudery; one must take these great natures, always inclined to exaggeration, as they were, and not make them obstinate by quite uselessly checking and restraining them. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z There was no reservation in the act—no pretence of prudery. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z He laughs at religion, and, in a cynical way, scoffs at what he calls the mock pruderies of the world. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Mamma—and you know her prudery—is actually in ecstasy with them. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Or maybe he has the habit of the boy's series, that cuts all characters to the same fashion, the fashion of prudery. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z I know that your daughter often treats me coldly and indifferently, but I understand all this; it is nothing but the prudery usual to young girls. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z Nevertheless, she displayed no prudery, no sourness, in the practice of her peculiar virtue. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z There was in her no false pride or prudery, but unconscious of her own excellence, she was indeed one of those bright creatures so often bestowed where they are unvalued. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Seventeen years of fighting against vested interests, against the medical profession and the Army, against indifference, against active and persecuting prudery, and against physical violence were required, and the victory was not completed till 1886. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z I’m rather sick of all this prudery, though. The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z For the second time to-day his chosen one had fled from him, and her prudery began to be very annoying. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z England Prudes.—Tattling or Calumny? he New England descendants of the Puritans have inherited a more than British prudery. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z My making a difficulty about walking home with Mr. Marston would to him, who knew nothing of what had passed at Malory, have appeared an unaccountable affectation of prudery. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Even so, to view opting out of scanning as a matter of prudery blurs the parts of the thing we would do better to get in focus. The Way We Live Now: Scanners Gone Wild 2010-12-03T14:04:00Z That he will be assailed from the higher latitudes of prudery he has a right to expect. A Cursory History of Swearing French breakfasts of roll and chocolate were as little understood here as French pruderies and proprieties. A Blot on the Scutcheon Her innate womanliness was ever uppermost, never approaching prudery, but marking unmistakably her speech, gestures and manners. The Man from Jericho Susanna has told me everything, and Anna Maria, in her views of united prudery and onesidedness, has regarded as a deadly sin what was an innocent, perfectly innocent act on Susanna's part.' A Sister's Love A Novel For shame! to think of yourself and such school-girl prudery at such a time! The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec Yet one would hesitate to put a touch of description like that into a novel—curious the prudery of fiction, your realistic French author would describe contents of all the little saucers. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 With the too ready facility of her nation for adapting itself to environment, she laughed suddenly and gaily at her own passing prudery, and raised a bright face to Barnard's. The Gambler A Novel The social arrangements are all made with a carefulness which to the Occidental seems mere prudery, but which the accumulated experience of millenniums has convinced the Chinese to be not only wise, but indispensable. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology She was not strait-laced; she would have been beyond measure distressed had prudery, or any conventional limitations, been attributed to her—had she, in anyone's mind, been termed born�e. The Furnace Exquisite style, impassioned eloquence and glowing descriptions of nature gained indulgence for the incongruity between the rudeness of the personages and the refinement of the sentiments, and for the distasteful blending of prudery with sensuousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Her remark in reference to the servants showed him how far she was from any conventional pruderies. Shadows of Flames A Novel I sadly fear that, in losing what many call "our affected prudery," we lose the best safeguard of virtue. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Giraude did not altogether share the enthusiasm of her brother Aimery for those licentious verses, and not that she affects prudery. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades The word may be less shocking to your prudery. The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century It could seem to her now as a laughable piece of prudery and timidity, that she had endeavored at one time to exert an influence to remove Eric from the vicinity. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Indeed, in such matters it was rather the day of prudery in America. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) The latter had been carefully schooled as to the wise course to pursue, and played prudery to perfection. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Was it possible that official prudery had been shocked by the noble Lord's social derelictions? The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Though prudery, that usual mask of the impurest minds, may condemn him, yet those of the most chaste, though less gloomy turn, will allow, that in comparison with others, he might say,—Virginibus puerisque canto. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem "I was reserved even to prudery; I was the caricature of Anglo-Saxon propriety," said she, with affected austerity. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day But the prudery of the British women excited the admiration of foreigners, thoroughly satiated with the arts, the flaunting manners, and the gilded charms of the young women of the European capitals. Women of England But it appears that the separation is only public—an exaggerated prudery, one might describe it, though we may be sure that the sentiment lies infinitely deeper. The Woodlands Orchids Remember, monsieur, and when I say remember, I mean never forget, I am excessively prude; not of that school of prudery that repels, but of that higher tone which declares a freedom impossible. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly There is a graceful abandon, and total absence of prudery, which peculiarly characterise the frequenters of that interesting spot, and reminds one forcibly of the manners of the Golden Age. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 Oh, my dear Alamontade, what can be expected from a man who calls it a weakness, or one-sidedness of character, or prudery of mind? Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Even G�the's heavenly nature, his noble elevation, was seductive sensuality; and a refined prudery, which to me was in the highest degree disgusting, was to assume the name of virtue. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels Like most San Francisco women of her class there was a good deal of prudery under her gayety, and no instinct whatever for Bohemia. Ancestors A Novel Nevertheless, “we must at once rid ourselves of the scientific prudery of regarding the processes of life solely as the mechanical result of the molecular forces inherent in their constituent bodily parts.” Naturalism And Religion If she has any aversion to the power of inspiring so great a virtue, whatever notion she may have of her perfection, she deceives her own heart, and is still in the state of prudery. The Tatler, Volume 3 He well knew the weakness and the strength of the British social system, with its strange complacency, its “allowances,” its hysterical prudery, its queer amalgam of Puritanism and light hearted forbearance. The Silent Barrier In its imperishable prudery it refused to define her by ever so innocent a curve; all its folds were implicated in a conspiracy against her sex. The Return of the Prodigal I liked his being honest, and I liked his being down on prudery and humbug. The Crow's Nest The coarsest of these have been pruned away, but enough perhaps remain to startle readers of especial prudery. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Prejudices and pruderies, respect of persons, reverence of sentiments, and consideration for the corns of the dull are fatal. Pot-Boilers The attitude of the public, especially the American public, toward this subject is a curious mixture of prudery and gallantry. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself But she had then proceeded to scold herself for foolish shyness and prudery—the prudery of a French-school girl, who was not accustomed to the ways of men. Brooke's Daughter A Novel I never yet saw a girl so innocent and fresh, so perfectly modest without the least trace of prudery. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Forget wholly and for ever all small pruderies, and remember that you cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) He acquired a distaste for cant, prudery, facile emotion, and philanthropy; he learnt to enjoy the good things of life without fear or shame; to love strength and beauty, and to respect the truth. Pot-Boilers Such prudery in natural things is the rage, particularly in Germany, this big children's play-room. Woman under socialism He likewise passed Venuses, Eves, Truths, all nudities, without remark or pause, acquainted of old with the simple-minded prudery of certain Americans, and not disrespectful to it. Aurora the Magnificent As for the morality of the town and what he regarded as its prudery–he scorned it. In the Heart of a Fool There is all Ireland to be regenerated, and I have to learn the exact words which the prudery of the House of Commons will admit. The Landleaguers Ignorance combined with prudery conspires to perpetuate what ignorance alone began; and the sex life, in both its normal and abnormal manifestations, has been perpetually exploited in the interests of supernaturalism. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development It will be seen that these are wonderfully radical, and, in the eyes of our days, so rich in hypocritical prudery, even downright "immoral" views, that the great Reformer develops. Woman under socialism Naturally one would not expect prudery, conventionality, from the mistress of Storm, but in his experience quite declasée women guarded more carefully than this the morals of their young. Kildares of Storm It is, however, extremely difficult to fix the limits of what is licit, for prudery may also go too far and regard the most innocent allusions as provocations. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study If the last remnant of prudery had not taken flight before, this last act would have routed it completely. The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware Yet he sneered at himself for his prudery. The Man Who Wins The prudery of the English middle class was shocked at the idea of young women nursing in military hospitals. An Orkney Maid It was difficult to associate Beth with the idea of prudery or affectation. The Vagrant Duke Brought up to prudery, sometimes to an absurd extent as in England, these women lose their natural feeling and often suffer from the excitation, indignation, and perpetual fright, which result from it. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study He secretly despised his sister's prudery though he dared not acknowledge it. When Dreams Come True Mrs. Challoner’s prudery was up in arms the moment she heard of Mrs. Williams’s lodger. Not Like Other Girls Since this is so, we must strengthen the child against the dangers it will inevitably encounter, and must be careful not to pervert its imagination by a false prudery. The Sexual Life of the Child "What a slave to prudery and smug convention you are," she observed with amused contempt. The Gay Rebellion The latter has to avoid the slightest thing which might arouse jealousy, but all in vain; reserve and even prudery are regarded by the jealous husband as hypocrisy. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Never from that day to this had he thought of it as anything but a piece of wanton prudery. Tatterdemalion It has been said that, despite its alarming title, there is nothing in the book that even prudery, unless it were of the most irritable and morbid kind, could object to. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It is a false delicacy and mere prudery which would condemn and banish from sight all such objects.” Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 He regarded early-Victorian prudery with frank horror, and counted the narrowness of middle-class suburban life as directly traceable to this tainted spring. The Orchard of Tears However, her prudery made her prefer this state of things to a divorce, which would create scandal. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But Castara is a real instance of what some foreign critics very unjustly charge on English literature as a whole—a foolish and almost canting prudery. A History of Elizabethan Literature Now, since you know her, you ought to be aware that she would never refuse to assist a person in distress out of a sense of prudery. Major Frank But a minute afterward she rose, took a few turns round her room; then, without affectation, without false prudery, but nevertheless with a certain embarrassment, she returned and shut the window. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental In short, the most austere prudery prevails over the dwelling. The Regent's Daughter The exaggerations of prudery, moreover, easily lead to opposite excesses, or else degenerate into hypocrisy. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study I'm sick of this prudery which throws its own hideousness over all it sees. The Hero Such a type of woman was naturally dull enough, but it fairly came up to its own standard; and if its respectability was prudery, it still earned, and had a right to claim, man's respect. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) With their platitudes, their prudery, and their chastity, they make for death. An Anarchist Woman However, I welcome every effort against the conspiracy of ignorance, hypocrisy and stupid prudery, against the simplest manifestation of nature. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Another calls this a maxim of prudery and the legacy of a maiden aunt. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies It was so she construed friendship—to give herself generously without any mock modesty or prudery. The Fighting Edge This opinion, however, would be scoffed at on the other side of the Channel, and set down as a piece of English prudery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 After a pause of mingled admiration and shocked prudery, she sped to the kitchen. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley He went with his young mistress everywhere, and played the part of the "dragon of prudery placed within call;" but he was a very amiable dragon, and nobody minded him. Vixen, Volume II. To affectation and prudery the French women are equally strangers. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World The prudery of the newspapers is, like the prudery of the dinner table, a mere difficulty of education and language. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion They postured now in attitudes of prudery and terror; they protested; they proclaimed themselves victims of diabolic power, worshippers of the purity, the sanctity of English letters, constrained to an act of unholy propitiation. The Creators A Comedy “Farewell, fair prudery,” he chuckled, and in a series of fantastic hops and bounds he reached the edge of the pine wood and soon was lost to sight within its sheltering depths. The Proud Prince But there is my wife; she will set herself against my advancement, for I well know her Saxon prudery.” Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Common modesty is found in the Sacred Scriptures, it is true, but never prudery or a false sense of shame. The Pursuit of God In short, popular prudery is only a mere incident of popular squalor: the subjects which it taboos remain the most interesting and earnest of subjects in spite of it. Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. '6th. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Her prudery may indeed go some way towards accounting for, if not excusing, the fault. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography All which was hidden by prudery is disclosed in its viciousness, and this outburst of indignation is the result. Psychology and Social Sanity There will be much to overcome, much ignorance, prudery, false modesty, hypocrisy; there will be much vicious teaching and evil example to live down. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies A lover!" exclaimed Lord Linden to himself as he closed the door; "a rival to whom she listens in spite of her bewitching prudery. Fairy Fingers A Novel In avoiding French freedom, we often substitute an Anglo-American prudery. The Young Maiden “Be not afraid, Valerie; I conducted myself with such prudery that an angel’s character could not suffer.” Valerie Let the biographer be tactful, but do not let him be cowardly; let him cultivate delicacy, but avoid its ridiculous parody, prudery. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators True modesty is as far removed from coarseness as from prudery. The Education of American Girls Ere night this jealous garment will have lost half its prudery. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico "I cannot affect," she says, "a prudery which is not natural to me." Classic French Course in English That women should be handicapped in their locomotion in their own homes is simply a relic of oriental slavery and prudery, and the revolt against it is sensible and wholesome. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 There is not, either, any prudery in this. Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy He disdains the implied charge of prudery, and indeed his language is what could not have been used by an effeminate or a coward. Milton Her pruderies and her abandonments of prudery afforded between them an atmosphere as unwholesome as it was easily possible for a man of fervent temperament to live in. Despair's Last Journey Indeed, if a little touch of orthodox prudery had not made the Archbishop exclude the Stabat, hardly a hymn of the very first class could be said to be missing in it. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) One paragraph is conceived with all the prudery and the deep policy about trifles, which marked the character of Elizabeth herself. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth This display of patriotic prudery evidently aroused his failing dignity, for with a brief salute he made for his own door on tiptoe. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories Then Griffith observed how delicate and prudent his lovely wife was, without ostentatious prudery; and his heart was at peace. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 She was frozen in by maidenly prudery, by childish self-consciousness, by Madigan perversity. The Madigans The rough verdict pronounced his act a piece of political prudery. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Though he had little of the animal in him, and was never troubled by his appetites, he was quite free from prudery. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds. Europe After 8:15 There was no squeamish fastidiousness; no affectation of prudery, in this; but all natural as the pure flow of admiration in a well-bred lady could be. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Her moral prudery begins to appear ridiculous to her, and the so-called common-sense view predominates. Essays on Scandinavian Literature In the discussion which followed, an elderly clergyman insisted that the causes had not been traced far enough back, maternal ignorance being itself permitted in consequence of our national prudery. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses. Europe After 8:15 If death were so near, what did she gain by prudery? The Captain of the Kansas The crack of that great spark emptied the jar; the American people forgot all about their pledges and pruderies during the four years of Civil War. A Book of Prefaces But where vast organizations exist for the remedying of ignorance, prudery indeed is responsible for the neglect of ignorance on the most important of all subjects. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted a manifest and constant influence, sadly needed in a soldiers' hospital. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy She withdrew her hand after a time with a sudden hauteur and caprice of prudery, which was perhaps one of those delightful little ways to which Thorpe had alluded. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. As enlightenment grew in the world, intelligence and prudery revolted against it, and so it had to be abandoned. Damn! A Book of Calumny Puritanism and prudery have nowadays done their best to conceal the corruption and indecency beneath the surface. The Age of the Reformation It is not necessary to destroy the charm of innocence in order to remedy certain kinds of ignorance; nor are prudery and modesty identical. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles There are pious folk whose modesty is shocked by the nudity of Francis; but Italy is not Germany nor England, and the thirteenth century would have been astonished indeed at the prudery of the Bollandists. Life of St. Francis of Assisi Dryden, who was innocent of prudery, declared that there was "more indecency" in that drama "than in all our plays together." Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Now certain vices are opposed to shamefacedness, namely shamelessness and inordinate prudery. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province "Because of the prudery of a prison," said the Duchess. Phineas Redux Medical science cannot make distinctions between one disease and another, nor between one sin and another, as prudery does. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles His notion of chastity in no sense resembles this excessive prudery. Life of St. Francis of Assisi It was then also that Victorian "prudery" began: the great lords yielded on this as on Free Trade. The Victorian Age in Literature All factitious colouring disappeared—death rose like night, and, protected by its murky shadows the blush of modesty, the reserve of pride, the decorum of prudery were frequently thrown aside as useless veils. The Last Man We may take it that the obscene which affects normal men, affects only hysterical, inwardly discordant women who try to take shelter behind prudery. The Evolution of Love These are perhaps the three most important instances of the verbal, or perhaps more than verbal, issues that arise in the fight with prudery. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Marriage had surely subtly changed her, giving back to her desires, prejudices, even pruderies of feeling that she had thought she had got rid of for ever long ago. Bella Donna A Novel To me, I confess, it appears the very top of prudery to condemn these lovely creations, merely because they quicken some men's pulses. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art The prudery which sits in solemn and severe rebuke at a double entendre is only second in indelicacy to the indecency which grows hilarious over it, since both must recognize the evil intent. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society "Now, I do believe you are laughing at me—at my prudery, I suppose you think it." When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth It is not the purpose of the present chapter to deal with that which must be said, notwithstanding prudery, and in order that the price of prudery shall no147 longer be paid. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles The abandon of the others first created a reversion to prudery in her breast, and then developed a cynical indifference. The Parts Men Play This picture having passed to the son of the Regent, the two passionate heads so strongly troubled his prudery that he cut them out and burned them. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers This is not prudery; it is protection; and any young man's acquaintance is not desirable if he objects to such arrangements. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The days of Puritan prudery, the bothersome Puritan conscience, Puritan orthodoxy, and Puritan intolerance have passed, never to return. Atlantis Maternal ignorance, as we shall see later, is a natural fact of human kind, and destroys infant life everywhere, though prudery be or be not a local phenomenon. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles I believe with Voltaire that when modesty goes out of life it goes into the language as prudery. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 His humor was not squeamish; it delighted in dealing with themes that our Anglo-Saxon prudery prefers not to touch. Inquiries and Opinions The repartee had been simple and the caresses nothing more than a slight touch on waist or arm, repulsed by her with more alarm than prudery. Secret Bread There is a difference between prudery and modesty. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Let us now observe in brief the price of prudery thus arraigned. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles At once—with a haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent. Burned Bridges What encouragement do you give me, all of you, with your nonsensical prudery? publish the two Cantos, and then you will see. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals And yet the prudery of the age will hardly allow us poor women even this pleasure, innocent as it is. The History of Emily Montague And my prudery is consistent with the most laudable intentions, I assure you. The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts It is when the public has been educated in the elements of these matters, and has been taught to see what the consequences of prudery are, that the necessary forces will be brought into action. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles The fear of the public, the lust of popularity, feminine prudery, sentimentalism, Victorian niceness—one or other of these things prevented honesty. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Within the current lustrum the prudery which had already, for some seasons, been achieving a vinegar-visaged and corkscrew-curled certain age in letters, has invaded the ball-room, and is infesting it in quantity. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales If prudery mean false modesty, it is to be despised; but if it mean modesty pushed to the utmost extent, I confess that I like it. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. While yet a young man, he had read Pamela; and to ridicule what he considered its prudery and over-righteousness, he hastily commenced his novel of Joseph Andrews. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction It is that the means of our education, other than the schools, are also prejudiced by prudery. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles She was never concerned with a conscious prudery in the arrangement of her skirt. The Three Black Pennys A Novel A modest behavior is charming, but too much modesty is prudery. Sex and Society Many forms of skin disease, being the result of sexual infections, are allowed to develop because prudery and other motives prevent the early investigation of the cause, and hence delay its prompt treatment and healing. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration I hate and despise myself for my littleness and prudery; why, he’s a thousand times finer than I! The Man Thou Gavest Almost anything is tolerable if it be frivolously dealt with, but so soon as these intensely serious matters are dealt with seriously, prudery protests. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles The girl was imperious in her anger, which was caused by something deeper than startled prudery. Winston of the Prairie They call it cheap and inartistic: but this is mere pedantry and prudery. The English Novel As void of prudery as her husband, she listened impassively, absently, with her thoughts evidently afar, to the boldest of conversational imprudences. Là-bas The prudery that was itself a sin had penetrated the armor of her innocence. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance First, surely it is something that we merely recognize the price of prudery. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Romanticism, which extols sex as the prime and only thing of life, prudery which closes its eyes to it and makes sour faces, need special places in Dante's Inferno. The Nervous Housewife Indeed, she carried her virtue to the verge of prudery, and repelled with a freezing coldness the slightest approach to familiarity. Love Romances of the Aristocracy Nouns which end in ery, signify action or habit; as, "Slavery, foolery, prudery," &c. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Upon some occasion, Lady G—— reflected upon a lady for prudery, and was going on, when Sir Charles, interrupting her, said, Take care, Lady G——. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) Here prudery is greatly concerned, and our silence here involves much of the price of prudery. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex. The Nervous Housewife Was it innocence or artfulness, this assumption of childish prudery? Love Romances of the Aristocracy Similarly Coleridge asks 'What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Sprat in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing-gown?' Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles No difficulty alarms them, and prudery is not allowed to give a voice in their choice of subjects. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 It is not unimaginable that prudery might undergo a sort of transmutation. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles This last is because of the ignorance of men and women, an ignorance wholly due to prudery. The Nervous Housewife That is a charming friendship that asks nothing, makes no demands, needs no assurances, never falters, and is so frank that it disarms prudery and pretense. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors The nineteenth century, which witnessed the triumph of timidity and prudery in this matter, also produced the first fruitful germ of new conceptions of nakedness. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society It is evident that every tender and proud woman—and these two things, being cause and effect, naturally go together—must contract habits of coldness which the people whom she disconcerts call prudery. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism It is something to recognize in prudery an enemy that must be attacked, and to realize the measure of its enmity. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles She had no prudery in her nature; and she had not been sufficiently in society to acquire it. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Our prudery of speech is the natural result of the liberty permitted to women. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Parents educate their children from the earliest years in prudery, and vainly flatter themselves that they have thereby promoted their modesty and morality. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Antonyms: limber, flaccid, limp, flexible, lithe. stiff joint. anchylosis. stiff neck. obstinacy, contumacy, intractability, incompliance, stubbornness. stiff-necked, a. obstinate, intractable, perverse, contumacious, stubborn, obdurate. stiffness, n. inflexibility, rigidity, firmness; prudery, constraint, precision, formality; tension. Putnam's Word Book This muse, as may be imagined, is of a rare prudery. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations In this reticence was no prudery and no effort. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I She has pulled the dressing-gown perfunctorily over her shoulders, and continues her experiments with the scarf, not at all put out, and rather amused by Surge's prudery. Back to Methuselah I know that in the countries of exaggerated prudery there is much hidden corruption, more, one is sometimes inclined to think, than in less hypocritical countries. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Her prudery, her deceit, her lies made up to me a peculiarly obnoxious mixture. Five Nights Nothing to do under William III., a sullen prince, and exercising in his mode of reigning a prudery which he believed to be probity. The Man Who Laughs "So you see"— Damaris kindled, standing before him, flamed indeed to a rare carelessness of convention, of enjoined pruderies and secrecies.— Deadham Hard By-the-by, dear child, your prudery is excessive, I fear, and it makes a young girl, especially if she is not beautiful, so ridiculous! Miriam Monfort A Novel Whenever a new and artificial "modesty" is imposed upon savages prudery tends to arise. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society That it became a favourite story, in an age not given to prudery, for reading and for oral repetition, is not surprising. The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study If it be, it will fall until, from transition to transition, it at length reaches the deep gloom of political prudery. The Man Who Laughs The atmosphere of a Protestant middle-class home clung to him yet, begetting in him a squeamishness, not to say prudery, almost worthy of his hostesses, the Miss Minetts. Deadham Hard His strutty arrogance of manner, like excessive prudery in a woman, may have been a fortification to a garrison too weak to fight in the open field. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 He protested, for instance, against that prudery which, as the sun of the classic world set, had begun to overshadow life. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society "American prudery is narrowing in its effect on our art," I ventured, timidly. Abroad with the Jimmies There is besides, in prudery, a certain pedantry which is pleasing to women. The Man Who Laughs No timidity or prudery or underbred doubts about this thorough creature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 The extent to which social tabus and prudery may actually inhibit a woman's natural sexual development makes it possible, as we have seen, for her to marry in ignorance of what marriage implies. Sex and Common-Sense It is always consoling to remember this in an age of petty pruderies. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The girls, though full of spirits and somewhat saucy, have innate notions of propriety that make them modest in demeanor, though devoid of all prudery…. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Do you come hither to persuade me to hate prudery, as you call it, as much as you do? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 She has one other fad that is less harmful and just as deceptive--a carefully nourished reputation for prudery. The Eyes of the World The history of the "age of legal consent" has an importance which through prudery and a wilful ignorance of facts the public has never fully realised. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. Perhaps its intentions were good, but when the need came for precise knowledge a silly prudery has held it back, and it has left its children without viaticum.... Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society See, how the tabby watches Laura's eyes, Lest they should smile upon some pleasing spark, And violate grim prudery's tyrant ties. Poems (1828) He is a person of strict integrity himself, without pretence or affectation; and knows how to respect this quality in others, without prudery or intolerance. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits But over-cautious prudery, And coyness cold and cruel, When most I need it, these, like clouds, Its longed-for light refuse me. Don Quixote I'll do more than that; I'll drag that pattern of chastity, that pink of prudery, the delicate sister, through—' It might have been that even Ralph's cold blood tingled in his cheeks at that moment. Nicholas Nickleby Women, when their fine natural instincts have not been hopelessly perverted by the pruderies and prejudices which are so diligently instilled into them, understand the art of love more readily than men. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society When their intellectual outlook is narrow, they fall into all sorts of holy excesses, fanaticism or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature And this arises not from any merely Christian prudery or Puritanism, for it is as true for Greek tragedy and other high forms of dramatic art.” Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial We hardly think that any of our readers will accuse us of prudery. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Does not Thackeray lament that since Fielding no novelist has dared to face the national affectation of prudery? Tracks of a Rolling Stone On the contrary, it is the Victorian prudery and silence which is new still, though it is already dying. Heretics The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Mere prudery, affectation, and a relic of the dark ages of the Zenana. Beyond the City In showing that it would have no hesitation in provoking even a charge of meddling prudery, the Council probably gave a salutary warning to people who were inclined to sail rather too near the wind. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The precepts of prudery are often steeped in the guilt of contamination, which blasts the expectations of better moments. The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. Les Misérables "Besides all these excuses, pride, or prudery, or delicacy, or love of ease, keep one half of the world out of the way of observing what the other half suffer." Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Such was the modest, graceful dignity of Miss Portman's manners, that she escaped without even the charge of prudery. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 This may seem like vanity or prudery; but no matter what it appears, if it be right. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 He started at once for the automobile, and there was nothing for the girls to do, short of prudery or haughtiness, but follow him; nor for Larcher to do but follow the girls. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day It pleased me when you took them peacefully and promptly, without prudery—that sentiment which I ever dread to excite, and which, when it is revealed in eye or gesture, I vindictively detest. Villette With a face of much political prudery, which he well knew how to assume, he began to exculpate himself. Tales and Novels — Volume 09 French is now a superb instrument, while English is positively poorer than it was in the time of Shakespeare, thanks to the prudery of our illiterate middle class. The Man Shakespeare Affectation, I hope, I am never much addicted to, and prudery I know you would condemn. Satanstoe "But, without prudery, may not there be dignity of manners?" said the old lady, gravely. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 "Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling. The Heavenly Twins We expect her to demolish old systems of morals, a degenerate prudery, Dark-Age religious concepts, laws that enslave women by denying them the knowledge of their bodies, and information as to contraceptives. Woman and the New Race And all that women say to the heart that has once chosen the evil path is considered prudery, or ignorance, or perhaps a feebleness of nature which exempts from similar temptations. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. The abominable prudery and hypocrisy of the time lay behind the whole matter. The Philistines I softened their refusal as much as I could, but I might have spared myself the trouble, for she only retorted by something about English prudery. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 In England, the garden of Beauty is kept By a dragon of prudery placed within call; But so oft this unamiable dragon has slept, That the garden's but carelessly watched after all. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes And such purity in alliance with prudery and defensive hypocrisy makes any honest discussion or essential readjustment of our institutions and habits extremely difficult. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform She has stopped my mouth overlong with her pruderies and her scruples. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day And there is no prudery, no hesitation, no fear of consequences, for nature has plenty of food for all her children—except mankind. Married Some of the singular persons here affect vagaries and discuss pruderies or church matters, ethics and the like. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs She had none of the artifices of prudery. Sanctuary But what in another woman is prudery, or petty fear, or stupidity, is in you strength and womanly determination. The Precipice Cecilia, though ashamed of a charge in which prudery and affectation were implied, was compelled to submit to it, as either to send for Delvile, or explain her objections, was equally impossible. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 They were merry, laughing, comely damsels, with none of the exaggerated shyness, and affected prudery of the women of the plains. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter This seems to me a silly prejudice on their part, and the outcome of their general prudery. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism What power over her intimates does not possess a charming woman disembarrassed of conventional prudery, but vested with grace, high sentiments, and mental attainments! Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century Only figure the coalition of prudery, debauchery, sentiment, history, Greek, Latin, French, Italian and metaphysics; all, except the second, understood by halves, by quarters, or not at all. Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) Appointed Minister on the 2d December, he temporized, he exhibited a vague prudery, he did not venture to install himself in the Place Vendôme. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness The girls disposed themselves at a little distance--your mountain-bred young female is ever obviously shy, almost to prudery. The Power and the Glory And cheap journalism, cheap fiction, cheap prudery have not yet reached Spain. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories I dare not inquire for him, for fear of being discovered; I would send to my friend Clara, but then I doubt her prudery would condemn me. The Duenna How now, dearest cousin, are you going to spoil all by your prudery? Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 But because casuistry under that name, has been chiefly cultivated by the Roman Catholic Church, we Protestants, with our ridiculous prudery, find a stumbling-block in the very name. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 But," exclaimed she, "I am going on an errand which ought not to spread a blush on the cheek of prudery itself. Thaddeus of Warsaw The narrow theological spirit, the moralism à tout propos, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers. Italian Hours They were so used to their own social observances, that they thought those of the Europeans unwarrantable prudery. The Naturalist in Nicaragua I expect to be excommunicated every day for some offence against Pulcheria's prudery.... Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies. Without Prejudice What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Spratt in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing gown? Biographia Literaria About me and my health she was more civil than I can well tell you; not from prudery—I have none, in these records, methinks!- -but from its being mixed into all that passed. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 The Victorian convention of prudery has to a great extent been discarded. Religious Reality But over-cautious prudery, And coyness cold and cruel, When most I need it, these, like clouds, Its longed-for light refuse me. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 15 Considering that the ladies one meets at sea are much more clothed than the ladies whose diaphanous drapery one engirdles in ball-rooms, this prudery is amusing. Without Prejudice There are diseases of the mind as well as of the body, and one of them is called prudery. Sylvia's Marriage This, then, is the reason of Susanna's seeming prudery—the page, her lover! A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music He contrived to look the very incarnation of offended prudery, and she laughed at him with a voice like a golden bell. Guns of the Gods After what has passed between us, it would be prudery to refuse. An Original Belle All this seemed new and characteristic to the careless emancipated party which had arisen as a protest against the prudery which Fru Kaas, in her time, had combated. Absalom's Hair I thought to myself again: The horror of this superstition of prudery! Sylvia's Marriage He jeers at this, scouts such prudery, proclaims it far beneath the dignity of his standing as a southern gentleman. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter She did not own to much prudery, but the maids' eyes were over-curious. Guns of the Gods You see how nature sometimes breaks out in spite of religion and prudery, grandeur and pride, delicacy and `epuisements! The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Men had the right to dissolve in tears, and women that of talking without prudery …. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Among intimates of her own sex Irene had a reputation for a certain chaste severity becoming at moments all but prudery. The Crown of Life Our representative of temperate notions demurely consented that the Arab's pride of inflammability should insist on the prudery of the veil as the civilizing medium of his race. Complete Short Works of George Meredith Out of sight of privileged men prudery has no place, and almost no advocates all the way from Peshawar to Cape Comorin. Guns of the Gods Only figure the coalition of prudery, debauchery, sentiment, history, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and metaphysics; all, except the second, understood by halves, by quarters, or not at all. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 She sincerely regretted the step she must take, and to which she would not have felt herself driven by any ill-placed prudery of her own. The Unclassed The pleasure of vice and the honors of virtue, that is what the prudery of our age demands. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon In the extremity of his piety and prudery he slipped into the art-gallery of our eldest brother and destroyed Titian's most splendid paintings and the glorious statues of the olden time. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends A German prudery Sits on her still; more, kneaded by her arts There's no will left to her. The Dynasts We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here, young woman. Pygmalion But for Severne's habitual self-command, he would have treated this delicacy as ridiculous prudery; but he was equal to greater difficulties. A Woman-Hater There is the truth—stripped of poor prudery, and the mean fear of being called Vain! The Guilty River We will show to these dull dames what we think of their prudery. Frederick the Great and His Family But this was the prudery of the wilderness, which her husband joined us to ridicule, and we soon laughed her out of it. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson I even bless the torture which her prudery, her alternate coldness and friendliness cause me, as it comes from her, from the highest bliss of feeling. Old Fritz and the New Era Mr. Carlyle thought Joyce was taken with a fit of prudery. East Lynne Reform, timely, on the prudence of. —false, on the prudery of. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke The life which I have led was not one which makes for prudery. The Lady of the Shroud She knew no convention, no prudery, no doubt. A Mountain Europa He was not resigned to the usual pruderies—he suffered under them already. Greville Fane But the instances of this prudery were rare indeed. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 I assuredly esteem as a rarity this nunlike prudery which is preserved untamed amid those Bohemian girls who are so easily brought into subjection. Notre-Dame De Paris They spoke of "experience" and "sensations" and "seeing life," and when a smile ploughed over his face, concluded that his prudery was vanquished. The Longest Journey No, no; it is not delicacy; it is prudery. White Lies "Yes, sir," said Mr. Ferdinand, casting a glance of outraged prudery upon Mr. Sagittarius, who was attired in his usual morning costume, including spats. The Prophet of Berkeley Square Every one must remember that the Cabal set out with the most astonishing prudery, both moral and political. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. Like a true Frenchwoman as she was she had obeyed the frank dictates of her reason—the generous impulses of her nature—despising the conventional pruderies of the world. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 The prudery of many Americans about the juice of the grape is a thing very astonishing to a temperate Briton. Adventures Among Books At moments you shock me by the indecency of your expressions; at others you amaze me by the excess of your prudery. Scaramouche Mademoiselle de Verneuil appeared not to notice this manoeuvre; she continued to be simple without shyness and reserved without prudery. The Chouans Your bust is wrapped in so many folds that every one was laughing at your affectation of prudery. A Second Home This very natural instinct was what Carlos called prudery. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The days of prudery and prejudice are days gone by. The New Magdalen To it we owe the characteristic which, in some other countries, is expressed by the term English prudery, the accusation implied being part of the general charge of hypocrisy. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft And at the other end we find the snuffling and neurotic woman, with her bogus martyrdom, her extravagant pruderies and her pathological delusions. In Defense of Women Roger was struck by these words, spoken with the glad unrestraint that always carries a woman further than she intended, just as prudery often lends her greater cruelty than she feels. A Second Home Our representative of temperate notions demurely consented that the Arab’s pride of inflammability should insist on the prudery of the veil as the civilizing medium of his race. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit Fortunately, we do not have the prudery in South America that you of the north possess, and have open minds to consider these serious questions. Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author Unfortunately, in Shakespear's case, prudery, which cannot prevent the accusation from being whispered, does prevent the refutation from being shouted. Dark Lady of the Sonnets |
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