| 单词 | prudish |
| 例句 | She is ten years younger than my mother but looks older, especially now as her face turns long and prudish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I’m not prudish, Kitty, and yet every time they give a blow-by-blow account of their trips to the bathroom, which they often do, my whole body rises in revolt. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I’ll tell you how we handled this problem; you may find it unseemly of me to bring it up, but I’m not so prudish about matters of this kind. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I'm sure the reputation isn't entirely undeserved, but how prudish can we be when almost everyone I know has engaged in a three-way? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Only time, a prudish veil of hours, prevented her brother from seeing her as she had been. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “And once I fall asleep, all we’ll have is that fire to keep us warm. I can see you shaking from here. Are all Fjerdans this prudish?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He backed off looking deeply injured and left me feeling guilty and dirty and prudish all at once. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “He’s not prudish. But seeing your dad naked is a lot for a lad to take.” Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Like many of the other new brands, much work has gone into Daye’s tone, which is humorous and blunt where Tampax is euphemistic and prudish. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z But satire on racial snobbery also blends with low farce when the preacher and his prudish wife inadvertently stumble upon their son's copy of The Joy of Sex. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-18T13:41:53Z “I’m pretty prudish,” Smith said, “but I can mug it. And I happen to have a plastic Santa outfit.” Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Some of the posters are provocative, explicit or overtly sexual; others are straightforward, tame — even prudish. 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z Even the deeply religious Alba — who replies in Spanish even when spoken to in English and is so devout and prudish she made Jane promise to remain a virgin until marriage — has a secret crush. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z He could be petulant, unreasonably stubborn and prudish. Seymour M. Hersh — the Journalist as Lone Wolf 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But reviving “Gigi” in 2015 is a challenge for another reason: the paradox that Americans are, more than fifty years on, after a revolution in mores, less prudish yet more moralistic than their parents. Good, Clean, Fun: A Revival of “Gigi” 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, then, these ads are offending no one — not the stoners they’re stereotyping or prudish parents — and they work for companies, who St. Pierre says benefit from “acknowledging a massive subculture.” Marketing the munchies 2012-07-21T13:00:00Z I don’t think it’s overly prudish to wonder just where the line of decency is as audience bloodlust continues to get chummed. John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornography 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z England has sometimes been one of the world’s most prudish countries, as in the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries, and sometimes one of the most debauched, as in the mid-18th and today. A once and future realm 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Framed against some of their extreme musical predecessors, Butcher Babies' mammaries-forwards brand of raunch rock could even be considered rather prudish. The 'slut rock' of Butcher Babies pales next to music's true female adventurers 2012-07-05T14:16:37Z There are so many misconceptions about asexuality – that we are prudish; that we “haven’t found the right person yet”; that we don’t feel love or emotions – that I don’t feel strong enough yet. My life in sex: 'I like hugging, holding hands and kissing, but don't feel sexual attraction' 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But Mueller’s Marian never comes across as prudish, or pitiful, or needing a man to awaken her. Review | Trouble? Ya got none in Kennedy Center’s revival of ‘The Music Man.’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In the car, Leno talks about his mother and her prudish nature. Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots Obviously the co-creators and their writers intended that, showing their hand from the opening scene by featuring her drive onto campus with her sweet, prudish parents. "The Sex Lives of College Girls": Here's to the girl who tries our patience, but in the best way 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z This is a problem to be sure, but it is exacerbated by our sometimes prudish attitudes towards sex and the human body. Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Tran Anh Hung told The Associated Press in an interview on the sidelines of the Shanghai International Film Festival on Tuesday that Chinese censors - known for being prudish - asked for few changes. Tran's 'Norwegian Wood' clears Chinese censors 2011-06-14T06:32:08Z The dialogue aspires to a kind of farcical, dreamlike dottiness, and once or twice I did feel the prudish grimace that had settled on my face cracking with something approaching mild amusement. House of Holes by Nicholson Baker ? review 2011-08-11T13:30:01Z I'm not madly prudish but TV is awash with pathologically un-shy people exposing themselves for no obvious reason. Is TV's obsession with embarrassing ailments unhealthy? 2012-07-17T11:05:22Z He frequently talked about how the sweeping away of prudish attitudes benefited nobody more than it benefited women, which was probably true. Perspective | Hugh Hefner was a feminist (if you believe feminism is pretty women having sex with you) 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But he ended by saying, "The people who want to ban books are prudish, small-minded, and self-righteous, and they need to get over it." Building bridges with the book-banners 2010-09-29T11:00:00Z She left, apologising, telling him she was too prudish to go along with it. The allegations against Harvey Weinstein: what we know so far 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Ekland, who was always “very prudish”, knew it was a bluff. Britt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare' 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In a few others, they challenge society’s more prudish and puritan tendencies. Natalia Arias’s ‘Femininity Beyond Archetypes’ photos strike unusual poses He says I'm being prudish and rigid and that it's no different from regular modeling. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom, confronting mess, needs to lose it 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective. Memories on High and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z While the American reserve and squeamishness about sex speak to the influence of the early Puritans, it's not entirely fair that we use their name to mean prudish and anti-sex. Why America is so weird about sex 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The British Board of Film Classification was more prudish, slapping the film with an 18 certificate, meaning anyone younger will not be permitted to see it. 'Fifty Shades' of ratings: Banned in Malaysia, OK for French teens 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z So dirty, my strangely prudish kids wouldn’t watch it, but hilarious, humane, and honest. My Not-Top-Ten Television List, 2018 Edition 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z In a work that is so unabashedly Romantic, Mr. Fischer negotiated the fine line between overindulging in its emotions and prudish self-censorship. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-22T23:20:20Z I think I'm quite... not prudish in an extreme way but... Mercurial Marling 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z He’s lived in Los Angeles, and spent time in cities such as, yes, Amsterdam, so it’s fair to say that he’s not particularly prudish in his social life. It’s summer, and Washington smells like weed. Everywhere, all the time. 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z Each allegedly featured some form of queerness yet each example was so prudish and so underplayed that you’d be forgiven for not realising it was even there. Finally, a major Hollywood franchise movie with a gay romance | Benjamin Lee 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Knight's "Great Expectations" isn't for the prudish or for purists, which those who saw his rendition of "A Christmas Carol" probably guessed. Olivia Colman on her "Great Expectations" for Miss Havisham: “There's such darkness inside her" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z "Not," he added, "that I was disgusted from any prudish angle." From the archive, 16 March 1973, Macs give 'Tango' a miss 2013-03-16T00:05:01Z All of which may startle Americans, who tend to be more prudish than the British. Sarah Lucas, Unmasked: From Perverse to Profound 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z That wouldn’t fit in to a flawed-but-caring parent narrative by today’s more prudish terms. Poor, capable and funny: the return of Roseanne, the sitcom that broke all the rules 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Many critics, including this one, lament the prudish attitude contemporary American movies tend to have toward sex. 'A Good Old Fashioned Orgy' Is a Better Idea Than You'd Think 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z This wasn’t meant as a compliment: it was the prudish publisher’s way of calling the book bawdy. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z I didn’t want to seem hickish, prudish, and tied down — the traits I saw in many members of my family. Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Lane's translation of the Nights, while certainly scholarly, had been excessively prudish, as Lane excised stories and incidents with erotic content. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z In a recent interview, you said we were all getting very prudish. Tom Ford Wants You to Be Really Fabulous 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In the 1960s readers were too swinging to see how evil he was and now readers are too prudish to see how charming he can be. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z That said, it’s also not fair to write off the criticism as prudish religiousness run amok. A Half Man Turns on His Own Sitcom’s “Filth” 2012-11-27T15:48:45Z The other annoying thing is that it constantly bleeps out the many F-words, making it seem like a prudish aunt rather than a rebel-rousing contemporary. Spotless: a bloody good crime clean-up tale from Esquire 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Again, my face right now, a sort of Munchian scream, probably reveals me to be the kind of prudish matron that carries doilies with which to cover up seductive table legs. The bald truth about shaving off pubic hair | Eva Wiseman 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z It’s certainly not prudish — the opening scene alone is testament to that. 10 Recent Netflix Originals Worth Your Time 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z That particular Robin was a prudish killjoy who seemed to derive pleasure solely from socking crooks in the jaw and making terrible puns. The Next Batman: Is John Blake the New Bruce Wayne? 2012-07-25T12:00:15Z I myself am a bit prudish, so I think some of that is my inherent prudishness. "Zola" director on making a stripper and sex movie that looks and feels "consensual" 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The narrative plays into our sense that society is getting more prudish. 'Paddington' film: Lovable bear is at center of PG rating debate 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Few shows on basic cable will make your prudish or feminist friends more uncomfortable. Critic’s Notebook: Hapless Men in Tow, ‘Legit’ Returns on FXX 2014-02-25T22:09:14Z We’ve defied the prudish version of modesty that makes nudity gross or necessary to hide. Motherlode Blog: Naked, With Children ? but for How Long? 2012-04-02T00:48:51Z But I’m still really good friends with the owner, who says that I’m the most prudish employee he’s ever had. Snapshot: Paloma Faith Releases ‘Fall to Grace’ in America 2012-11-29T15:22:41Z “Now, of course, it’s prudish, it’s predatory, it’s bad.” Rush Limbaugh’s new definition of consent: “No means yes if you know how to spot it” 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z I was brought up Catholic, my generation was very prudish. Show Us Your Warhol! 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z His Murdoch might drive The Sun down-market, but he’s prudish about his editor’s proposals for Page Three. He’s Playing Rupert Murdoch as More Than a ‘Pantomime Villain’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z For a franchise that centers on one person dating about 30 other people, it’s surprisingly prudish about sex. Perspective | The 20 defining moments of 20 years of ‘The Bachelor’ 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Not for those who only want to remember Liberace as an amazing showman, and definitely not for the prudish, but it’s a fairly solid tale of a rocky relationship. Sunday TV Picks: HBO’s ‘Behind the Candelabra’ 2013-05-22T23:20:39Z The biting political commentary, the violent scenes and use of foul language are standard fare for Hong Kong cinema but are questionable for mainland China's more prudish film censors. Johnnie To collaborator delivers HK thriller 2011-03-10T14:16:04Z “In my own life I’m very prudish about my body, or at least I have been in the past,” Mulligan has said. Cinema trains lens on role of nude scene: artistic, erotic or gratuitous? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z “She was very prudish ... I even had to watch my language. If I said, ‘This scene needs more balls’, she’d walk off the set.” Dorothy Malone obituary 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z We have all been silent for too long about common acts of sexual cruelty, for fear of making things uncomfortable, for ruining the atmosphere, for coming over as prudish or illiberal. Dating after #metoo: he secretly took off his condom during sex – it's a thing 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter does not make clear whether Knightley is to play the prudish Rose or the enigmatic and charismatic Odalie. Keira Knightley to star in The Other Typist 2013-06-27T11:24:46Z Could it be possible that it’s of interest to men at extreme ends of the spectrum – prudish or sleazy – and not the guys who you really want to meet? Why do I mainly get messages from guys interested in sexual encounters? 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Imagine her at last weekend’s Women’s March—pumping a fist despite herself, but too prudish for a pussyhat. Everything I Learned from Mary Tyler Moore 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Part of the reason there is a culture of silence, which is not unique to Harvey Weinstein, is that in this industry you can be made to feel a bit prudish if you are uncomfortable. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Nowhere more so than in England, with its prudish sense of decency and fair-play. Power and glory: how to tackle Shakespeare's revolutions 2012-06-20T17:59:07Z But he breaks into an explicit hymn to Venus, which exposes both his erotic secrets and a world of extreme sexual experience beyond the comprehension of prudish Thuringian society. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z Rose Baker is a plain, prudish young typist in a scuzzy police precinct on the Lower East Side. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell – review 2013-06-07T09:01:01Z As evidenced by the titles, Daisey’s work is not for the prudish. A&E highlights: Opening Day, Chick Corea, Paul Havas show 2013-04-29T22:08:48Z My friends would agree I’m the last person to be prudish. Cybersex before meeting? That’s not for me 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z That kind of prudish behavior is very human. Alexander Skarsgard, of Sound Mind and Body to Play Tarzan 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Yes, and in one case, it indicates the curator’s prudish streak. In New York, modern art is going to the dogs 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Certainly, some historians can be prudish to the point of actual censorship of their subjects' lives, but here the movie is just being silly. 1776: the original constitutional nightmare 2010-08-12T08:22:00Z “We live in such hypersexualised yet totally prudish times. People have this expectation about everyone else’s relationship to their own bodies. ‘Surely you must have shame about your body? Alien: Covenant’s Katherine Waterston: ‘We live in hypersexualised yet totally prudish times’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z The story, Thank You For the Light, is only a few pages long, and follows a widow in a new, prudish town. The New Yorker Publishes F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Previously Rejected in 1936j 2012-07-31T18:07:57Z The people who fed the world strait-laced cinema like “The Philadelphia Story” and perfect-family television like “I Love Lucy” were often quite the opposite of prudish in private. Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood 2012-01-27T22:08:45Z You also write about this prudish attitude we’ve had about the subject — it’s something we still see today. From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z When they were growing up — as attested to in passages from diaries they find in their old bedroom — Kate was hedonistic and adventurous, while Maura was prudent and prudish. Review: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Come Home in ‘Sisters’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z One painting features a woman in a bright-red bikini, unusual for typically prudish North Korea, where women, when not pictured in military uniform, are usually shown in long, loose-fitting skirts and dresses. South Korea's 'Hidden Treasures' shows another side of North Korea art 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z She overcame her compunctions about her parents seeing her naked in the film – so much so that she protested about the censor’s prudish cuts to The Dreamers when it was released in the US. Eva Green: ‘I don’t want to be put in a box marked Weird Witch’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Its harmonies sounded almost prudish after such a decadent evening. Music Review: Stirring the Late Romantics? Libido 2010-02-18T00:40:00Z Hollywood, it turns out, is even more prudish than you imagined. Cannes 2013: 10 things we learned at this year's festival 2013-05-23T18:07:49Z He didn’t say whether he was also addressing the prudish cheerleader who, at the end of the clip, is banished from the party. LMFAO's Redfoo apologizes after backlash to 'Literally I Can't' 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z I noticed more prudish fans tweeting their disapproval, but when Jon Hamm bleated, “Please,” it revealed so much about his Don: his compulsive need for control, his desperate insecurity. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: The Woman in Room 503 2013-05-13T13:20:23Z Because of his prudish upbringing, he is disgusted and backs away from the budding relationship. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But a refusal to embrace Mr. Weiner's renewed political aspirations is neither prudish nor particularly judgmental. Motherlode Blog: What People Magazine Could Do for Huma Abedin (but Not Anthony Weiner) 2012-07-18T21:20:15Z Experts warned that Seek McCartney’s approval should not necessarily be hailed as a sign of a relaxation of censors’ usually prudish attitudes. China approves cinema release of first film about gay relationship 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Thought feminist rockers were all po-faced, prudish killjoys? Lez Zeppelin, Vag Halen and AC/DShe – meet the all-female tribute bands 2013-05-31T05:00:01Z He updated Sherlock Holmes, creating a brilliant but socially awkward, obsessive-compulsive detective who assisted the police while milking comedy from the protagonist’s discomfort and prudish fussiness. Review: ‘The Good Cop’ Emulates ‘Monk’ but Misses Tony Shalhoub 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots. Review: Abortion bans make 2023 America feel even more like ‘Spring Awakening’s’ 19th century Germany 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Gay activists who thought she was too prudish. Column: In last farewell to Feinstein, San Francisco celebrates its 'forever mayor' 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The embrace of a misleading and prudish term like "abortion trafficking" also illustrates why Republicans are having such trouble reskinning themselves as "moderate" or "compassionate" on the issue of abortion. Republicans think they can trick voters with abortion word games — but it will just backfire 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z “How prudent some people are here,” one user quipped, perhaps meaning to say prudish instead of prudent. Heidi Klum doesn't care what you think. She's posing in lingerie with her kid anyway 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z "Weirdly, considering I'm quite prudish, I've found it really fun tapping into this world," says Ware. Jessie Ware: 'Slightly classy with a bit of innuendo' 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Eugene Tan, an associate professor of law at the Singapore Management University, said, “People might regard Singapore laws as being somewhat prudish, that these people should be free to express themselves.” They Shared Erotic Images in a Group Chat. The Fine: $17,000. 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Yet there are some subjects that we are far more prudish about than our historical counterparts. Ancient Egyptians were so into oral sex, they put it in their religion — and religious art 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z The embrace of a misleading and prudish term like "abortion trafficking" also illustrates why Republicans are having such trouble reskinning themselves as "moderate" or "compassionate" on the issue of abortion. Republicans think they can trick voters with abortion word games — but it will just backfire 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z How dare the rest of Americans say "no thank you" to the policy preferences of the resentful, prudish white minority who think of themselves as the only "real" Americans? The hell with "compassionate conservatism": In 2023, expect all MAGA sadism, all the time 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The prudish resistance may be a colonial import, she said, but it’s entrenched. Bringing Sexy Back — To Fight H.I.V. 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z To be fair, the mainstream media has made it far too easy for Republicans to tell themselves a story about how the rest of America is as prudish as they are. Republicans learn the hard way that sex is still popular 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Also, some of those countries are a little bit less prudish, as you put it, about the way they talk about sexual health and therefore it fitting into the rest of their nationalized healthcare. How Magic Johnson's HIV diagnosis changed the conversation about AIDS in America 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z “I’m much more prudish than most of my friends. I don’t see my work as a breakout or brave — I see it as part of a lineage.” 'The self-care is the writing': Women essayists destroy clichés at the Festival of Books 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The nosy neighbor, the scolding church lady, the prudish mother who bans her daughter from dating, the teacher who shames female students for wearing miniskirts: Female bullies are all around us. An army of Republican Karens unleashed: Meet the faces fighting to end legal abortion in the U.S. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Kirk's tweet, which he did not care to explain any further, drew all kinds of responses from critics on the left, many of whom derided Kirk over his prudish tendencies. Charlie Kirk mocked by AOC after calling Super Bowl halftime show "sexual anarchy" 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Like McArdle, their opinions on the issue are shaped not by facts, but by sexism and a prudish unwillingness to talk frankly about sex. We doomed Roe: Too many Americans are ignorant about abortion 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The uptight decorum and prudish manners of the era are reimagined through a modern lens. The 75 best TV shows on Netflix right now, according to our experts 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z That included some prudish cuts — don’t look at Joey in a bathrobe with Ross’ picture stuck on his groin! — and politically related trims made to appease the Chinese Communist Party. 'Friends: The Reunion' isn't quite the same in China thanks to censorship 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Yet Loyola Chicago, full of know-how three years after its trip to the 2018 Final Four failed to charm only the prudish, soon began cutting and screening and backdoor-ing and splashing down shots. Loyola Chicago recaptures some of its NCAA tournament magic in win over Georgia Tech 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z In our supposedly enlightened culture about sex work, she was surprised by the prudish response. Dua Lipa: 'You have to be made of steel to not let words get to you' 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Similarly, a licensing process for cosplay live streams earns criticism from fans who object to a prudish dress code and sweeping contract agreement. What the world would look like without YouTube 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Dayuse.com is not prudish about what people might be doing when they book hotel rooms by the hour. 'A romantic gift': the sites offering hotel stays by the hour 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “I am a prudish person. I wanted to get out of there so I left.” Former Bond girl Britt Ekland claims ex-boyfriend Rod Stewart 'would wear my knickers' 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z There is a widespread perception that the prudish platform is especially censorious regarding same-sex content while remaining oddly lax when policing homophobic hate speech. Facebook ads are spreading lies about anti-HIV drug PrEP. The company won't act 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z “They were so prudish in those days,” she continued. ‘Nanny and the Professor’ star Juliet Mills explains why an on-screen romance with Richard Long never happened 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z It was 1958 and the nadaístas – Colombia’s equivalent of the beatniks – were on the verge of notoriety both for their iconoclastic verse and the bohemian lifestyles that antagonised prudish Medellín society. Poetic justice: Colombia's verse rebels vindicated but defiant after 60 years 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z For someone who prides himself on “being able to name things,” he was curiously prudish. Can Emmanuel Macron Stem the Populist Tide? 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Queen Victoria is sometimes remembered as prudish, buttoned-up and disapproving, but a new display reveals a woman well in touch with the more sensuous side of her nature. Queen Victoria's risqué side revealed with nude-filled collection 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Duran, 59, has refused to step down, describing himself as a proudly sensual gay man who lived through a sexual revolution colliding against a prudish #MeToo movement that’s too quick to judge. Gay mayor accused of sexual harassment, sparking #MeToo reckoning in West Hollywood 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z But mainly, people are increasingly prudish about bodily functions, he contends. In a House With 16 Bathrooms, There Are Lots of Choices 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Indignant “netizens” subscribe and then cancel their subscriptions, “ranting on forums / about my prudish act.” Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “You could ask a lot of people in my childhood and they’d say I was very prudish about showing off skin,” she replies. 'Every step I take is a defiance': Rain Dove on modelling, Asia Argento and 'gender capitalism' 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “She was open to nudity and the sensuous – more open than Albert, who perhaps surprisingly was the more prudish of the pair.” Queen Victoria's risqué side revealed with nude-filled collection 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z “Absolutely. It turned me into a very guarded person, and a very prudish person on a lot of levels.” ‘I bathe in milk': Mariah Carey on bossiness, breakups and being bipolar 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Marina Kostalevsky, co-editor of the new volume, said: “In our book, all texts are presented in their entirety and hence are not distorted by either prudish censorial cuts or selective cuts.” Tchaikovsky and the secret gay loves censors tried to hide 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z But then Trump’s tastes on foreign policy took a hawkish swing, and generals are notoriously prudish about starting wars. Opinion | The Tinder presidency 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z British writer West worked to win votes for women, but, Dean writes, "found the suffragettes both admirably ferocious and unforgivably prudish." The women who wielded a pen like a weapon: Michelle Dean's 'Sharp' 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z But it is comparatively modest and prudent, prudish, about these matters. Can Jenna Fischer and Zach Braff remake TV comedy magic in 'Splitting Up Together' and 'Alex, Inc.'? 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The stink of censorship has some South Africans recalling the prudish days of racist apartheid where so many films were banned. Why an Oscar-nominated South African film was rated as pornography 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The Victorians are always getting criticised because they're supposed to be prudish. 'Censored' nymphs painting back on show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Since finding fame on the show, Mr Zhou had shown no inclination to upset prudish censors by returning to his gangsta-rapper roots. Why hip-hop scares the Chinese Communist Party 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z She said this lead to her developing an image that was "prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious". Natalie Portman: I was sexualised at 13 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “There is a longstanding commitment to the notion that the French do gender relations differently — especially from prudish Americans — and that has to do with the French understanding of seduction,” she said. ‘Revolt’ in France Against Sexual Harassment Hits Cultural Resistance 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Roberts remembers apologizing on the way out, telling Mr. Weinstein that she was too prudish to go along. Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z With high necklines and long, full sleeves, rendered in fluid fabrics like silk georgette and crêpe de chine, these are not prudish throwbacks but blank canvases for designer whimsy. Fall’s Statement Blouse: Jolt Your Work Look 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Tang received acclaim for “Lust, Caution,” and her breathtaking transformation from prudish girl-next-door to voluptuous femme fatale won a best newcomer prize at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards. Tang Wei's spectacular career comeback after being banned in China 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z O'Connell's co-star Sienna Miller is also called upon to bare all during a staging of Tennessee Williams' classic that is certainly no place for the prim or the prudish. Benedict Andrews: the man the stars bare all for - BBC News 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “There is a longstanding commitment to the notion that the French do gender relations differently — especially from prudish Americans — and that has to do with the French understanding of seduction,” she said. ‘Revolt’ in France Against Sexual Harassment Hits Cultural Resistance 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z The foul-mouthed rant was unusual enough to prompt even the usually prudish New York Times to print his remarks in full. Tracking Trump: Scaramucci speaks out and Priebus is out 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z "British people are known for being quite prudish but we're not really," he said. Naked skydivers bid for world record in plea for British unity 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Country is famously prudish and reactionary – it took the Dixie Chicks 14 years to come back from criticising George W Bush – so I comment on her relatively daring Instagram post. Maren Morris: ‘Country music shouldn’t always be about the guy’ 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Some of the city’s queer events are now dominated by the tech industry, which has a reputation for being prudish, and government crackdowns on sex work have also eliminated jobs. 'End of an era': porn actors lament the loss of legendary San Francisco Armory 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s the most prudish place in the world, actually, at least according to a 2008 survey cited by the South China Morning Post. The 25-Year-Old at the Heart of Hong Kong's Political Crisis 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z To some readers, that may feel prudish or like a cop-out; to others it may seem like superior judgment. If David McCullough wrote about dating apps. . . 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “All of a sudden the liberals are prudish?” Trump's 'Access Hollywood' unmasking and the searing power of video to shape the historic moment 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The retired funeral director is at odds with her prudish neighbours in the latest skirmish in a global war on washing lines. Washing-line snobbery: why can’t I hang my knickers out to dry? 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z And if there’s otherwise a lot of coverage, as with Mr. Youssef’s shirtdress, prudish concerns that the look is too bare for the office fade away. The Big Reveal: Looks That Show Off Your Back 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Their swimming outfits would have been considered prudish even by the standards of 1922, when the pool was built. Pool Rules: No Running, No Eating or Drinking, No Men 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Another male in the 36- to 49-year-old bracket said, "Nobody's perfect. People need to lighten up and stop being so prudish." Is Trump Immune to the Attack Ad? 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Boni's prudish sensibilities wouldn't let him recognize what was before his very eyes, says Jansen. The secret history of ancient toilets 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But Germany is a nation where public nudity at parks and beaches remains relatively common, and where blunt public discussions of sex are comfortably held without prudish reserve. Germany is trying to teach refugees the right way to have sex 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Esquire, no prudish publication, derided the campaign as “Ridiculously Sexual and Definitely NSFW.” Calvin Klein new ad campaign draws fire with upstart Instagram photo 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Shared bathrooms, I dont see it as an issue, some people are just too prudish...? Transgender Fight in North Carolina May Hinge On 1964 Law 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Even “Pamela,” prudish and didactic as it is, feels far less limited or quaint than we might expect. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z While it may seem superficially prudish, this declaration does make some valid points. Utah declares porn a public health crisis, hazard, and epidemic 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Far be it from me to deny anybody any of those feelings nor to be prudish about how anybody goes about achieving them. I might have gotten high on headphones 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z When the prudish Victorians began using bouquets of flowers to telegraph their feelings to loved ones in a messaging system known as “floriography,” roses were cemented as a symbol of romantic affection. The completely unromantic — but real — reason we give roses on Valentine’s Day 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Photograph: James Wasserman for the Guardian Even so, China’s love motels remain a distinctly prudish shadow of their Japanese counterparts, where water slides and S&M rooms have long been par for the course. China's love hotel boom shows nation's changing attitudes to sex 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Less prudish, it appears, are some of India's neighbours. 'Sanskari' James Bond: Indians ridicule cuts to Spectre kisses - BBC News 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Her shows are not for the prudish or faint of heart, but they’re always memorable. New York Comedy Festival: Ellie Kemper, Bill Burr and more shows to see 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z A number of sponsors abandoned her, including a marathon race series and the prudish Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association. What Made Suzy Run 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest danger of pursuing a career as an advice columnist is that your words may one day sound outmoded and prudish. Read Sex Advice for 1960s Teens From Ann Landers 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z But this is no exercise in prudish innocence. Review: ‘Sleeping With Other People’ modernizes the rom-com 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It is also something we must do, or else be declared pathetic, prudish and undesirable. When Your Sex Life Doesn't Follow the Script 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The Times’s critic Michael Kimmelman described the mayor’s campaign as “prudish grandstanding” and a “harebrained scheme.” New York Today: Transforming Times Square 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Between government regulators, NIMBYs, and businesses who dislike competition, this country has a lot of prudish people, and nothing works up their neuroses quite like alcohol laws. America Needs More Boozy Taco Bells 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But the AAU rejected the idea of these too, a "bizarre" decision Hubbard interprets as a prudish judgement that it was not right for scantily clad men and women to cavort together in the water. Why can't men be Olympic synchronised swimmers? - BBC News 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Where “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina” presented the life of a corrupt society with astonishing richness and subtlety, “Resurrection” is relentlessly preachy, prudish, and joyless. Hillary Clinton's Resurrection 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Connoisseurs of bowdlerism may note that the National is twice as prudish as the Bush, removing the “c” as well as the “u” from the nerve-inducing word. To curse or not to curse: the problems of publicising a potty-mouthed play 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Feeling prudish, I turned him down at first, but that month my paycheck was barely in my bank account before it was thoroughly spent. Dirty Talk and Dostoyevsky on the Night Shift 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z But basketball players increasingly cover their lower bodies, mostly out of fashion, partly out of protection, sometimes out of prudish modesty. For College Basketball Players, Skin is No Longer In 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Botticelli’s naked Venus rose above the waves to indicate the reborn triumph of pagan flesh over prudish pedantry. The World’s Weirdest Library 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Mattes, who worked with Dr. Willke for more than two decades, said that although the doctor and his wife were sometimes seen as prudish, they were actually pragmatic. John C. Willke, Doctor Who Led Fight Against Abortion, Dies at 89 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Still, buying lingerie is a risky proposition for guys, seeing as the recipient could be insulted if the article in question is deemed too slutty, too prudish, or the wrong size. 5 Valentine's Day Gifts If You Want Her to Break Up With You 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z It turns out that many men in the adult industry are strangely prudish when it comes to Page 3, and the music videos of Beyoncé and Rihanna. Sex doesn’t sell: the decline of British porn 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Indian society is notoriously prudish, with a dizzying and dynamic list of topics considered taboo. India’s new wave of comedians laugh in the face of taboos 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Are we meant to avoid it in order to be politically correct or prudish? Aldi, what’s wrong with the word ‘slut’? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The norms of Bollywood film content are prudish in comparison to Hollywood. India's film censor arrested for alleged bribery 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Mortified but afraid of being labeled prudish or difficult, I made no fuss. Harassment in Science, Replicated 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z The peculiar overlays of Indian history — with its prudish Victorian viceroys, Mughal harems, Hindu reverence for celibacy and soft-focus Bollywood fade-outs — have left behind a complex set of prohibitions about sex. 90-Year-Old Sex Columnist Shatters Taboos in India 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Hakim thinks in some cultures, such as the British, people are too prudish. Should you ask someone's permission to kiss them? 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Wells’s mistress of the moment, “turned to the Aga Khan, asking him to back up her opinion that the English were prudish in public but ‘lubricious in private.’ A gifted writer and sexual glutton Though in retrospect, that statement seems a tad prudish, Post had a point. A Guide To Business Etiquette: What's New? 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Doing news searches on Chinese websites is not for the prudish. Sinosphere Blog: Sina Apologizes, Twice, for Posting Porn 2014-04-28T12:13:02Z On the Internet, some said the authorities were being too prudish. Sinosphere Blog: Nude Sunbathers Ordered to Cover Up 2014-02-10T03:32:24Z Official Soviet broadcasts and publications were prudish, to be sure. Sex, gay rights, women’s rights in Russia: Fighting oppression behind closed doors 2014-02-09T16:00:00Z It was a moment of moral reckoning in a city that few would call prudish. Forgive? No, a Night to Forget for Scandal-Tarred Candidates 2013-09-12T02:22:18Z Like a prudish spoilsport, the European economic crisis is rapidly changing Italy’s social mores. So Long Lover. You’re too Expensive. 2013-08-26T08:45:00Z But prudish Britain bans all such encounters; Ireland even mooted ending across-the-table contact and putting visitors behind a Perspex screen. Prison policies: Gilding the cage 2013-08-15T15:00:17Z I’ve just been a bit prudish about something that is at best sad and at worst tragic. Wealth Matters: From a Divorce in the Affluent Class, Lessons for All 2013-08-09T17:57:41Z “Like off-color jokes, and was I going to be prudish,” she said. Breaking Bread: A Fascination With Sanitation Work (and the Résumé to Prove It) 2013-07-29T02:44:48Z If Macau is one of the more libertine places on the planet then in comparison, here in America our laws might be considered downright prudish. Online Gambling: A Pastime Whose Time Has Come 2013-06-30T13:27:00Z Even prudish couples keen for more innocent physical contact have options. Durex's vibrating pants: foreplay gropes its way to the future 2013-04-19T12:12:43Z "Teachers are prudish and out of touch with Thai kids today and they approach the topic like a biology class rather than talking about the emotional issues involved," said Visa. Thailand struggles to curb high teen pregnancy rate 2013-03-08T04:53:35Z But I think this production has no need to feature as much nudity as the original production did, and that’s not because we are more prudish today. The Return of ‘Let My People Come,’ Four Decades Later 2012-12-29T09:17:20Z Turkey Censors The Simpsons A prudish oversight council takes on pop culture. Turkey Can't Take a Joke 2012-12-10T05:00:00Z Europeans unvexed by nudity might then escape American advertisers’ prudish standards. Internet freedom: Free to choose 2012-10-04T15:05:52Z Still, there's no need to be prudish, according to the man overseeing the health of the Brazilian team. It's party time for Olympic athletes 2012-07-18T20:20:14Z But not in very much!There's already a prudish/middle class backlash against this, with "Outraged of Tonbridge Wells" carping about characterisation and style in much the way The Da Vinci Code was targeted. The 'mummy porn' author and the suburban bookshop 2012-06-25T10:04:07Z This isn’t because I’m some prudish pundit eager to rid the world of nipples and gore, either. 'Witcher 2' Developer On Sex In Pop Culture And 'Game Of Thrones' 2012-06-21T17:18:53Z And while I am not particularly prudish when it comes to swearing, adults yelling expletives at refs and players is, at the very least, bad manners. What sports readers are saying 2012-05-26T03:44:04Z "What a churlish idea it was to erect these barricades, Miss Dill!" said Stapylton as he seated himself at her side; "how unpicturesque and how prudish!" Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z At any rate she thought that it would be prudish to demur, and she took one of the seats in the lee of the screen. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Girls whom she knew, and from whose plain-spoken gossip she had turned a prudish ear, would sneer in her face. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Zola seems prudish after some experiments of the younger crowd. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In England we have been too prudish to advocate it so clearly, although it is, of course, essential to the most enlightened Positivism and Secularism. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Wasn't it you who suggested a French governess should be given the freedom of Church Row and who laughed at me for being an old beaver or some other prudish animal because I objected? Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z It also became stiff and artificial, and in the later and more prudish half of the 18th century the ladies received bouquets instead of kisses in dancing the gavotte. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z A second reason is our tawdry national love affair with violence and our prudish suspicion of unclothed human bodies. TV?s Real Indecency: Our Concern Over Nudity and Swearing is Misguided 2012-01-13T12:00:29Z England produces something very humorous: this is the prudish model, who comes to an artist's studio, refuses at first, hesitates long, and finally offers to pose in tights. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Come, don't be prudish," said she: "my conduct in the eye of the world is irreproachable. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z This, beyond question, proceeded from the people themselves, and not from commissions; an enormous majority, except for that national whispered currency of obscenity, was prudish beyond reclamation. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z I have never been prudish, but I confess that I felt the color rising in my cheeks when I heard that woman's remarks. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Mademoiselle Rosette was neither stupid, nor pretentious, nor prudish. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z This girl, with her narrow prudish notions and cold-blooded nature, had presumed to condemn his comrade, unheard, for an imaginary offence. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Nay, my angel must not be so prudish. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z It was an inconsistency in Agatha’s prudish nature to consider that men might do things which could not be tolerated in the other sex, and that whatever William did must of necessity be seemly. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Ah, the thin, empty, lonely, melancholy American "beauty"—which I yet find a cold prudish charm in! The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Indeed, he was always laughing at my mother and me for our prudish ways; and my not marrying was always a joke between us. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z With more complex issues, like clashes with parents, she could be blunt and hardly prudish. Elizabeth Winship, Advice Columnist for Youths, Dies at 90 2011-10-28T04:02:24Z He was evidently more prudish than the rest of them—a man of sentiment who objected to either mode of death. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Part First may be read by the most prudish parent to a daughter, without an omission. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z There’s this prudish notion that just because the Fed is an independent institution in its marble palace on Constitution Avenue, it’s bad form to try to pressure its governors. Why Republicans Are Right to Pressure the Fed on Stimulus, Even though They're Wrong 2011-09-21T18:49:11Z In fact, the American press is perhaps dangerously prudish in its refusal to look at sex, which leaves a gaping hole if some potentially serious transgression occurs. The George Osborne Affair: Why the Press Doesn't Know How to Cover Sex 2011-09-14T22:47:12Z He was quietly insistent; but the girl was determined in her objection, which he had a persuasion arose from prudish reasons rather than indifference to the wound. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z One of the prudish detectives wasn’t a fan of the photos, calling them “disgusting.” Reminder: The Embarrassing Naked Photos On Your Stolen Laptop May Not Belong To The Thief 2011-08-30T18:54:04Z I'm not at all like other women—prudish and all that. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z The prudish youngster lowered his eyes and blushed till his ears tingled. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z She hesitated, saw Martha grinning into a hand, looked at the puncher’s expressionless face, and felt that she had been rather prudish. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z It will be objected that we are only more prudish, no better at the bottom. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Absolute and the prudish po-po tried to get the case dismissed. Reminder: The Embarrassing Naked Photos On Your Stolen Laptop May Not Belong To The Thief 2011-08-30T18:54:04Z I believe, also, I had wit, and wit goes far in that p. 90land of fogs and foxhunters, of prudish women and milksops, of cant and humbug.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z Not mealy-mouthed was Mrs. Behn, And prudish was satiric Jane, But equally they both shun men, As if they bore the mark of Cain. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z While brainless foreign movies get the prime-ministerial seal of approval, Thai filmmakers receive scant government attention — except from prudish censors. Bangkok's Lucrative Hangover: Sex, Drugs and Popular Sequels 2011-06-20T23:15:00Z This dignity secures, without prudish anxiety, female virtue. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The basis of the idea is that while the British are prudish and repressed about sex, the French are triumphantly open about it. Sex, power and the French 2011-05-21T07:18:34Z But Mrs Girdwood was not prudish—least of all, in the presence of such people. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z He said parents "had little faith in regulators or businesses taking their concerns seriously", but also were put off complaining be fears they would be seen as "prudish or out of touch". Children growing up too quickly, survey suggests 2011-04-11T09:51:04Z She is a dear old lady and not a bit prudish, but we're sure she would never approve of whooping the pot on a king and an ace and a seven spot. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Really, it is not only on Mimi's and morality's account that I do not dare try it with the Lanzberg--but she is so magnificently prudish! Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z She boasted of her good resolutions, went to church every Sunday, was shocked at the women who read French novels, and was altogether rather a prudish character. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z So my sister has been prudish to you, you old goat! The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z He cannot bear me, thinks me narrow and prudish. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z I should rather say teaching me, for Cary, bless the mark, has taken a prudish turn, and says she has no fancy for being pulled about, even by a lord! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Thus considered, it seemed natural to Randal's estimate of human nature, that Harley's more prudish scruples of honor, as regards what is due to women, could not resist a temptation so strong. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z "So I do: it is quite too lovely," says Lilian, feeling as though she had been ungracious, and, what is worse, prudish. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z That would be at least prudish, to say nothing of its being impracticable. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z How he could guess it she does not know, but she knows that it has all been lost by her hesitating, prudish delay. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z You may so lean upon your partner's arm, and so carry your figure, that the prudish can find but little fault, but you can also make the dance a most immodest one. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z Zeus insisted that women enjoyed sex more than men; the prudish Hera said that was not true. Welcome to the Zodiac, Ophiuchus. But Who Are You? 2011-01-14T00:25:00Z Only don't sacrifice yourself to a prudish modesty; don't make a fetish of the past. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Some readers' tastes, however, are neither prudish nor slovenly. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z I told you, my boy, that we had cornered the prudish Confederacy in Accomac, and "thrown our arms around her." The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z "No one in this room is prudish enough to think that locker-room language isn't coarse." Tiger Woods has cortisone shot in ankle | Golf 2010-12-22T02:34:04Z "No one in this room is prudish enough to think that locker room language isn't coarse." NHL's Bettman doesn't mind Boudreau's cursing 2010-12-21T18:59:13Z For this he gets the gong, despite the prudish but irrelevant disapproval it engendered among his neighbours in Sutton-on-the-Hill in Derbyshire. The Fiver Christmas Awards 2010 2010-12-21T13:25:30Z Nearly all others of this kind are prudish, priggish, and inartistic. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z Why, my dear Mary, don’t be so prudish. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z Were people in biblical times less prudish than we are today? Q&A: 'God and Sex' Author Michael Coogan on the Bible 2010-10-27T10:15:00Z After all, who knows what they’ve done to our nation’s image in prudish cultures overseas? Essay: A Stimulus Plan, Disguised as Censorship 2010-10-09T16:45:00Z To argue against either man was to feel prudish. Ijaz Butt's blurtings reveal the beauty of having an inner bookie 2010-09-23T23:06:00Z As for Jeter, there is something puritanical and prudish to the charge that he cheated. A Boy Scout Pulls a Fast One 2010-09-18T19:29:00Z I'm not prudish and can understand professionals carrying on like so – they're being paid. Confessing secrets to strangers online 2010-05-30T13:00:00Z Her frequent semi-nude appearances in the comic strip meant it did not do well in the rather more prudish US newspapers. Comic queen 2010-05-31T11:56:00Z That sort of growth means it is now far too prudish to allocate a mere 10 percent of one's portfolio to developing powers such as Brazil and India. Viewpoint: The Lessons of the Recent Recovery 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z It was May 2001 and I was going through a prudish phase in my early relationship with gambling. Claims Five: Bad betting tales 2010-05-14T12:19:00Z Is it prudish of me to want that book to be kept discreetly out of sight, or to have the profanity covered? The curse of public swearing | Ryan Gilbey 2010-04-01T11:00:00Z "Do you see the resemblance?" asked his sister, with an almost prudish smile. The Undying Past Bai Jove! why, what a prudish little creature you are!” By Birth a Lady For the deep Christian feeling, which has given to Beowulf its almost prudish propriety and its edifying tone, is manifested by no direct and dogmatic reference to Christian personages or doctrines. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn She was prepared to hear that he had made some Magdalen a home in this prudish country place. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode Then there's something old-maidish about her, something sharp and prudish that I don't quite fancy. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers This delightful creature, whom at a first meeting he had thought prudish and narrow, had developed amazingly. The Gay Adventure A Romance The world in which you live is used to seeing fall the veils and coverings with which we drape ourselves in the prudish society of ordinary mortals. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. You have a larger nature than ordinary women; what's the use of these half allusions, this shame-faced, prudish reserve, where the point in question is the happiness of your life? The Children of the World At this possibility Jimmy's kindness and charity stood out graciously in strong contrast to the prudish judgment. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode With a prudish simper she placed hers behind her back. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Never was there a society less ungenerously prudish, and yet there were cases—this, one of them—which transgressed all conventional rule. The Fortunes Of Glencore "I must submit to let you think me a prudish fool, who takes offense at every light word, Herr von Schnetz," said she, with some asperity. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. She had no prudish objection to his drinking in reason. Shadows of Flames A Novel I played the part of a prudish youngster, exaggerated the virtues of my neighbour, and protested that I had never so much as set foot in her house—which was indeed, the truth. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second When the fathers agreed that the affair with Martina would now be easily broken off, the Forest Miller laughed, and said, "Young people are become very prudish now-a-days." Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. We countryfolk are very prudish about these things; and, as you are the lion of the party, I should get into a sad scrape were I to appear to monopolise you.' Jack Hinton The Guardsman This chaste folk was led to the pasture by old and prudish Shepherdesses. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) There is nothing so prudish as a sailor. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Women have never been less prudish under pretext of duty, and there has never been so little affectation of virtue. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Of late years there has become quite popular a prudish notion that it is indelicate to say leg when one of the limbs that supports the human body is meant, limb being preferred instead. Every-Day Errors of Speech She is exquisite, but a little monotonous and a little prudish. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June He is sure she isn’t prudish enough to refuse him a kiss, and if she is, she wins not only his admiration, but that which is vastly better—his respect. Threads of Grey and Gold Skim-milk in this instance has passed for cream, the prudish millionaire's wife, her honour saved for the world at large, is now revealed as a hypocrite to her astounded and snobbish husband. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Ah-ha! these old mistresses, once they marry you, there's no one more prudish. Letters from my Windmill However, the96 affair was too ludicrous to be at once altogether dropped; and, so long as the prudish publication was in existence, it enjoyed the sobriquet of "My Grandmother's Review." Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Lady Usk feels shocked, but she does not like to show it, because it is so old-fashioned and prudish and arri�r� nowadays to be shocked at anything. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June He eventually married a young girl, well educated but extremely prudish. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study In America the sentiment of the etiolated, the brainless, the prudish, the hypocrite is the censor. Ivory Apes and Peacocks When she had left him on the veranda he laughed at his prudish fancies that had pestered him a fortnight ago. The Man Who Wins He was a mere girl, I tell you—a sensitive, slender, shrinking, peevish girl, a born prudish spinster, and would shiver if any one looked at him. Melomaniacs With all his feeling for religion, he was seldom prudish; his amazing vitality never led him into excess or intemperance. Six Centuries of Painting And this was arrived at, not by prudish questionings and criticisms, but by remembering that this relationship between men and women is His thought, His plan, not ours. The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers Not that Mr. Howells is strait-laced, prudish, narrow in his views—but he puts his foot down on the expression of the tragic, the unusual, the emotional. Ivory Apes and Peacocks There are traces of a tiff about the middle of the next month; she being prudish and fidgety, as he was impassioned and reckless. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges It was Maria Angelina, her dark hair braided as usual about her head, her eyes a shade downcast and self-conscious, withdrawn and tight-wrapped as any prudish young bud. The Innocent Adventuress So my very discreet, prudish little Harriet never lets man enter into her head; tho' it is pretty notorious somebody has enter'd into her heart long ago. The Politician Out-Witted Here again was a good goddess, a bountiful one, more mother than virgin, despite her prudish frills.... Rosinante to the Road Again I'm in earnest; I don't want any prudish weights on this conversation. Sunlight Patch I would not interfere with your little prudish ways for the world. Our Bessie Though not prudish there were words she couldn’t get used to. The Dust Flower Ethel, not wishing to be thought prudish or ill-natured, first extinguished the light, and then threw off her chemise. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies So why take this narrow-minded, prudish view of it? In Brief Authority The theatres are all open, and the casino, sacred by the royal presence of Christian, lures, with its sweet tones of operatic music, the prudish Englishman from thoughts of Paradise and the fourth commandment. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition I will willingly do so, if you really wish it; it would be only prudish to object—under the circumstances, as you put it. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure He seems to have disgusted even the Princess Mathilde, one of the staunchest of friends and certainly not the most squeamish or prudish of women. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The account is outspoken enough, and not the least prudish; the bridal pair embrace each other naked, penetrate each other and dissolve in love, melt in rapture and pain. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts It betokens a prudish mind, ungracious pride, and not seldom mistrust. The World I Live In They have disembowelled the great lovers of antiquity till Cleopatra serves to adorn a prudish tale and Lancelot to point a moral. The Hero Moreover he was unable to frame a sentence without an oath, though a good-natured one, and his speech, albeit offensive only to prudish ears, in print would seem coarse. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands If he had sent her few gifts and given her no titles nor farms, it was because—either of nature or to enhance the King's appetite—she shewed a prudish disposition. Privy Seal His Last Venture All I could see was her gingham shirtwaist suit with its prudish white linen cuffs and collar, and her rough straw hat.” Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall The Commonwealth was prudish in art as in manners, and the Restoration was a reign of revel and wild license. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 We now and then hear complaints by prudish people of the boys bathing on Victoria Arm, on Deadman’s Island and elsewhere without a full bathing suit. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria The physical perfection of the man had an effect on her, though she was essentially prudish. Prescott of Saskatchewan She was not unduly prudish, and indeed, after being left alone in the impressive solitude of the wilds, she would have been glad of the reassuring grasp of a human being. The Long Portage There were some few among her accusers, demure and most proper—even prudish—women, of whom, were the truth to be told, so little could not be said. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters Do you think my proud, prudish little Myra would take you, knowing me to be alive? Witness to the Deed These prudish dames perform the best of services; but seeing they busy themselves therein for money, we distrust their disinterestedness. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country To Fred Brent the awakening had come,—early, if we would be prudish; not too early, if we would be truthful. The Uncalled A Novel A tiny bit of arid garden in front gave it a prudish air of withdrawing from the life and traffic of the thoroughfare. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science And then at the Fields there isn't the same sort of prudish life which one is accustomed to in England. An Old Man's Love Why here is a little Brook," continued the voice, "a dainty, prudish, modest Brook, collected in a hole to die! The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 These conditions exist as a result of the prudish attitude of society in the past toward all questions affecting sex hygiene. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The rector has also had good offers for "Hold Tight, Please!" and he's busy toning it down before it's given in front of the dear old prudish public. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 What is prudish, puritanical, fastidious, affected, pharisaical, etc.? Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals He was more prudish about such matters than whites fresh from the mother-country. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance This was done by the command of some prudish Pope, who was as surely wanting in right and pure feeling as in a proper comprehension and appreciation of art. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta The proof-readers have not dealt kindly with The Luck of Roaring Camp; but the first of that ilk to mutilate the story was also the worst, to wit, the aforesaid "prudish 'young-lady' proof-reader." The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 It is bashful, for nature is ever so; but it is not prudish, for only corruption is prudish. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works I don't give a whoop how much fun they have; but you know as well as I do just how prudish public sentiment is. Masters of Space Pat Valdo is dressed as a prudish old lady with an enormous bustle. Pipefuls Symons' Meteorological Magazine is especially prudish in this respect and regards as highly improper all advances made by other explainers. The Book of the Damned After-thoughts, and a few prudish hints given by good-natured friends, had made her feel both ashamed and frightened at having taken such a doubtful prot�g�e. Olive A Novel Their abominable dressing, too, a bust and a brooch and a hooped skirt—their grocers' conventions, prudish, almost obscene, avoiding of the natural in word, deed, or thought.... The Wind Bloweth The truth is that in my harem life, I have contracted prudish alarms and real susceptibilities which are excited by things which would not have affected me formerly. French and Oriental Love in a Harem Toni cast a doubtful look at herself in this queer garb, and then determined, very sensibly, that it was no good being prudish and silly. The Making of a Soul These data are so improper they're obscene to the science of today, but we shall see that science, before it became so rigorous, was not so prudish. The Book of the Damned Mrs Brigadier Bomanjoy declared that she was puritanical and prudish; but she was in reality truly religious and modest, without a particle of nonsense in her composition. The Young Rajah While the speeches were in full swing, she forced her way into the banquet-hall, and won over the prudish burghers by jumping on the table and dancing to them. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Her purist's pride was wounded; her prudish maiden's modesty was outraged—that her own father should believe it of her! The Madigans We don’t begin by being dowdy and angular, and dogmatic and prudish; we begin by being pretty and cheerful like you. The Independence of Claire Perhaps, after all, these fellows are not so bad as I have fancied, or perhaps I am prudish.” The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch She drew herself up with a prim prudish air. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House His thin pride and prudish self-respect were unutterably affronted, and he quite understood that the ridicule of the mysticism of Théot was an indirect pleasantry upon his own Supreme Being. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre The clown exerted his low talent, throwing out at each moment some low jest, some immodest pun, to which his master, simulating a prudish indignation, responded by thumps on the head. Ten Tales Some people thought her old fashioned, strait-laced, prudish. The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure The fisherman did not believe that I had been in earnest in the prudish and unreasonable notions I had propounded when he left me the other evening. Cape Cod Folks We need not be prudish in our judgment of impassioned poetry; but when the passion has this false ring, the ethical coincides with the æsthetic objection. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series I had dimly hoped that one of the exceptions to the rule might fall to my lot, but if not, I wasn't going to be prudish. The Fifth Wheel A Novel Let the world's prudish owl unheeded flutter by; Freedom converts the grub into a butterfly! Love's Comedy I am very frank, you see, and doubtless you consider me peculiar, probably prudish, but only a husband's lips can touch mine, only a husband's arm encircle me. Infelice Aunt Maria was too prudish and too indignant. By the Light of the Soul A Novel I am not prudish enough to confine the delicacy of affection to wishes only. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe The few female portraits exhibited in their windows are robed with an amount of drapery which would satisfy the most prudish “sensibilities.” Rome in 1860 His morality was not that of pharasaical tartuffes, nor of prudish knickerbockers, who with wide phylacteries, sit in the high places to be seen of men. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer She is not a book-worm but she studies, she is not prudish but she is high minded and pure, she has fun but it is wholesome and clean and kind. The Girl and Her Religion Luther was never a prudish man or fanatic. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation She thought, while her busy fingers were at work, that she had perhaps been too prudish in objecting to her mother's plan. The Bread-winners A Social Study Many critics quite the reverse of prudish have found its ethics somewhat difficult of digestion, while conservative musicians hold up their hands in horror at its harmonic audacity. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. It is an absurd thing, after all, to be prudish and to thrust away the dish that is offered you. His Excellency the Minister I always felt that it was very prudish of the police to stop that play just as it was commencing its run. Love Conquers All It was an affection which his passing pride as romanticist would have made him think it prudish to discard, while the deep, underlying elements of his nature made it inconceivable that he should indulge. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant This is now generally recognised everywhere, except in the English-speaking countries, where the supposed interests of a prudish morality often lead to a refusal to look facts in the face. Little Essays of Love and Virtue It was too infernal for even the prudish Anglo-Saxon souls of us to wear clothes beyond a breechclout, and shoes, to protect our feet from the harder hoof. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The strong Sark air had got into all their heads, and whatever prudish notions might have been working in Margaret, she had bidden them to heel and took her pleasure as it came. Pearl of Pearl Island Modern Europe is probably prudish to excess, but the general practice of mankind testifies that words and acts too nearly connected with sexual things cannot be safely permitted in the temple. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 And writing about Tony's medal reminded me that I would have to write something about myself, or seem to be prudish. Phyllis None of the great writers of the Church were prudish. The Cathedral And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness. The Brimming Cup So when next he goes where statues are, we'll do our best to hide them, Since to prudes all things are prudish, lest his modesty take hurt. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 9, 1892 This is, then, the modest, prudish Sister whom I must not presume to touch! Sister Carmen Betsy is both a nice and a good girl—"thoughtless" up to specification, but no fool, perfectly "straight" though the reverse of prudish, generous, merry, lovable. The English Novel And they were not a whit more prudish or less audacious than sculpture. The Cathedral Did you not The other evening speak of English dress As something prudish, not quite to your taste? Cromwell Their names, however, we suppress, in deference to the two ladies, whom malicious or prudish tongues might reproach with levity of conduct. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes I don't think I'm prudish, but you can't keep your adventure secret, and school managers are censorious people. The Lure of the North Even the prudish admit the pleasure of the sex-life, and that seems to be their fundamental aversion to it. The Nervous Housewife "Before all the men!" she said to herself, half in prudish dismay at his effrontery, and yet pleased that he did not sheepishly seek to conceal his preference. The Frontiersmen Here, too, she will receive friends of either sex, and, the French being far less prudish than ourselves, nobody considers that there is anything wrong or indelicate in the practice. A Love Episode She was distressed, but sympathetic and not prudish. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Half a century later, in England, Mandeville, in the Remarks appended to his Fable of the Bees, refers to the almost prudish modesty inculcated on children from their earliest years. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The French always have been, and still are, very candid in the use of language; whilst we for a long time past have been prudish to an extent sometimes comic. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" I am very good to trouble myself about the freaks of a prudish screen-painter! The Cross of Berny She is cold and formal and prudish; she is not capable of loving you as I do. Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2 His book, since it delineates the numerous details of a normal sex life, can be sold, thanks to our prudish public, only to the profession. Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise The flacon of some defunct prude is placed side by side with the vinaigrette of some jolie danseuse who was any thing but prudish. The Idler in France The mood in which Graydon had returned predisposed him to prompt action, while she had lost her influence for the present by a course that seemed to him so unnatural as to be prudish. A Young Girl's Wooing The most prudish woman in the world will grant slight favors when sure they cannot be abused. The Cross of Berny One of the consequences of our deplorable self-consciousness in the matter of sex is that we have been too prudish frankly to train our girls to become successful wives and mothers. Analyzing Character “And you think I am going to insult my own mother and sisters to please any woman’s finical prudish notions’? The Three Brides Mrs. Richman has ever been a beloved friend of mine; yet I always thought her rather prudish. The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton “A pretty change—this custom adopted by a prudish society!” Against the Grain The harshest, prudishest adversary of valsing, were he to see Barbara valse, would be converted to thinking it the most modest of dances. Nancy We may be prudish, but as yet the moral questions you speak of have not such a hold on our young republic that they need drastic measures. Abroad with the Jimmies "I have about made up my mind to be less prudish and enjoy myself, as I am sure Clarence cannot be any more jealous than he is," you say. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters He emerged with a perhaps almost prudish distaste for the ugly, the vulgar, and the unclean,—and with distinct delusions of grandeur. By Advice of Counsel Do you wonder if the term "old maid" has become synonym for everything that is narrow, and hard, and prudish and repressive? Sex and Common-Sense She had a paniclike impulse to begin to talk of Dory; but, though she cast about diligently, she could find no way of introducing him that would not have seemed awkward—pointed and provincially prudish. The Second Generation The angry painter placed his portrait in Hell with a mark of infamy that cast too lurid a light upon this prudish speech. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts To present-day readers, this may appear absurd, prudish, but not so to the men and women of that day. Reminiscences of a Pioneer Call me to them over-nice, petulant, prudish—what you please call me to them. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 I'm neither little enough nor prudish enough to deny a feeling that's big and clean. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest He put forward with the shy, prudish shamefacedness of the New Englander the sound financial basis of his undertaking, as its main claim on his interest, as its main value. The Bent Twig He was taking the prudish, conventional point of view. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Our author is himself a little jealous of the prudish fidelity of his homely Muse, and tries to justify himself by precedents. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Others said that I was too prudish, and would be an old maid, that I was looking for perfection in young men, and would not find it. Trial and Triumph For that asinorum pons I have crossed without assistance, And of prudish paragons One, at least, is in existence! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan At the same time, thee conventions of a prudish age make it undesirable that a second bath should be installed in one of the rooms already existing for that purpose. The Brother of Daphne Why do that pair of flaunting girls, with the pert, affected laugh and the sly leer at the by-standers, intrude themselves into the same rank with yonder decorous matron, and that somewhat prudish maiden? Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories He seemed to find his audience somewhat prudish. She Stands Accused The de Noailles’ château of Maintenon is an inheritance from Louis XIV.’s prudish favorite, who founded and enriched the de Noailles family. The Ways of Men I was flattering myself that it was working well; his vocabulary of late has become almost prudish. Dear Enemy Her fine temper, he said to himself, was a trifle cold and conscious, her purity prudish, perhaps, her culture pedantic. Roderick Hudson "Perhaps it was too prudish," she said repentantly. Jude the Obscure It had a certain success, but the person who was most severe in her judgment of it was Sophie-Victoire, George Sand's mother, who had very prudish tastes in literature. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Only one person had preceded Tess up the hill—a ladylike young woman, somewhat interesting, though, perhaps, a trifle guindée and prudish. Tess of the d'Urbervilles But then she had been very guarded; not stiff or prudish, indeed, but frank and cold enough with him, and that was comforting. Wylder's Hand The word 'fast', for example, would have been quite grotesque as associated with her, though she was by no means prudish as to subjects of conversation, nor prim in the middle-class way. Love at Second Sight I detest the use of the word "wish" in place of "want"; I don't know why, but I always associate it with prim, prudish, highly-conventional old ladies. The Four Faces A Mystery He had not expected her to be prudish, but it was clear that the situation did not appeal to her. Vane of the Timberlands She will not be pleased—perhaps she will scream—English people are so prudish when they are in bed! The End of Her Honeymoon Did you ever hear, madam, anything so prudish as her remarks? Joseph Andrews Vol 1 She had no prudish horror of such a position, only a natural girlish shyness in the presence of a stranger. The Lovels of Arden Russell will forgive me when he hears how I was worked upon by those parasites and prudish busybodies, who infused their vile suspicions into my mind. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 This girl, with her narrow prudish notions and dispassionate nature, had presumed to condemn his comrade, unheard, for an imaginary offense. Vane of the Timberlands There were on his part the small gallantries of daily life, and on hers the responsiveness of a not very prudish widow quite willing to be adored. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It was a prudish and whimsical notion of my good old housekeeper's. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The Hottentot has them both in his strip of cloth; the Esquimau, in his double case of skins over all except face and fingers;—the most elegant Parisian, the most prudish Shakeress, has no more. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 You can have a chair, if you are too prudish to use my coach, but it shall be got for you at the moment. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger This impulse was followed instantly, by an instinct of withdrawal from the embrace about her shoulder, which was in turn succeeded by a fierce scorn of being prudish in such circumstances. The Gray Dawn She just gave a little smile and nodded back, not blushing, nor embarrassed or prudish - but grave and confiding as though she had expected it. The Bride of Dreams To object would have been prudish in the last degree. The Golden Calf He received an office afterwards from the present King and Lord Bute, the most prudish man in the world.' Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 He had shown himself less prudish than he had been thought. Tales from Bohemia Lady Allonby had no reason to be ashamed of either, and the last mode in these matters was not prudish. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes She was neither bigoted nor prudish, however the alien circumstances in which she was placed made her appear so. The Pagans I am not prudish as to scandal in general," continued she, laughing; "'a chicken, too, might do me good,' hut then the fox must not prey at home. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 She was not in the least prudish, and she understood everything; but there was a certain sublimity in her manner. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth Though I, perhaps, should have been too prudish to own to it just now—with poor Everard hardly in his grave. A Fountain Sealed And already she is fond of you; but unfortunately the Duchess—with every possible deference,—is a trifle prudish. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes But any ordinary prudish word of blame, even for his silence towards her, never occurred to her. The History of David Grieve The quiet life she had led had made her almost prudish, and there were times when Genevieve's conduct shocked her. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories They were essentials of propriety then - natural, and never viewed as prudish. Chantry House Byron now made a strangely ill-judged marriage with a Miss Milbanke, a woman of the fashionable world but of strict and perhaps even prudish moral principles. A History of English Literature The most prudish old woman would have found nothing to find fault with. The Grip of Desire Victorine talked in her most prudish goody style to "the Remorqueur," and never addressed me; while poor Mademoiselle Blanc was so nervous trying to speak to both. The Visits of Elizabeth In those days it was far from prudish and Mozart was always of unusual fascination for women. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 He dared say that she was not as prudish with the methodist parson. Two Years Ago, Volume I But six or seven years after his return to England Lord Hartfield married Lady Florence Ilmington, a beauty in her first season, and a very sweet but somewhat prudish young person. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The unsaddened heart, no longer prudish, will not now, I hope, give the sable turn to every address of the man she dislikes not. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 At the supper-tables of her palsied husband she had been gay, unstilted, and simple; but with the King she became formal, prudish, ceremonious, fond of etiquette, and pharisaical in her religious life. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women She was certainly not a child; she was not even a very young girl, at twenty-four; she had never been prudish, and she did not affect the pre-Serpentine innocence of Eve before the fall. The Primadonna How all that is prudish and artificial flees before it! Yeast: a Problem Yet when Maulevrier came in quest of her, and entreated her to join them in a ramble, she was not too prudish to refuse the pleasure she so thoroughly enjoyed. Phantom Fortune, a Novel But while Valentine laughed wildly, and Constance put on a prudish air, Morange, in whose voice tears were again rising, spoke these words, fraught with supreme regret: "Ah! you are right!" Fruitfulness And then, to talk of your conscience, which was becoming prudish. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 It was a mere fact; therefore, why be prudish and affected about it. The Head of the House of Coombe I say, that extremes meet, and prudish Manichæism always ends in sheer indecency. Yeast: a Problem Men will discuss their love— if they must—with the most prudish decorum; women undress it. Once Aboard the Lugger I am, perhaps, rather prudish in my view of life, but this is one of my inviolable rules. Vicky Van For if ecclesiastical opinion in the past has been both prudish and Pharisaic, the public opinion of the world is frankly cynical. Religious Reality I am neither prudish nor over strict; I know how to make excuses for youthful folly, and what I have permitted in my own presence is sufficient proof of this. Emile No girl did more honor to Heath Hall than she who, at one time, was held up to derision and laughed at as odd, prudish and uninteresting. A Sweet Girl Graduate And how he chromaticized the prudish, rigid garden of German harmony, how he moistened it with flashing changeful waters until it grew bold and brilliant with promise! Chopin : the Man and His Music Nancy was not prudish, she had seen wine on her father's table since she was a baby, she enjoyed it herself, now and then. Undertow Indeed I question whether any but the prudish will loudly blame "Mac" even because he spent it a bit too freely and brought up in Empire dispensary. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers The flower girls of Athens are beautiful, impudent, and not at all prudish. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life To object to it seems to me to be a species of prudish conventionality. The Altar Fire Some prudish persons may affect indignation at the frankness of these confessions, but Heaven pity them! Barry Lyndon Doubtless it was much that she showed neither annoyance nor prudish reserve. Born in Exile "But," he continues, "there is another element in the Nights, and that is one of absolute obscenity, utterly repugnant to English readers, even the least prudish." The Life of Sir Richard Burton We become more and more prudish as what we call civilization advances. The Emancipated There'll be changes before long"—she looked about her with prudish embarrassment—"but, of course, we shall be seeing you again. The Town Traveller I have no designs upon your friend, and you need not be prudish with me. The Malady of the Century "Oh, for Heaven's sake, don't let us play the prudish or sentimental!" cried Madeleine, in a burst of impatience. Maurice Guest He could always talk to her in a genial, teasing way, even tender, for she did not offend his intellectuality with prudish or conventional notions. The Titan But the king not only scourged the pope with his satirical pen—the modest and prudish Empress Maria Theresa was also the victim of his wit. Frederick the Great and His Family I pray you not to be so prudish, so reserved. Old Fritz and the New Era Paula, who was not prudish when a direct appeal was made to her common sense, answered with ready candour: 'Yes, from the point of view of domestic politics, that undoubtedly is the case. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day On the other hand," the architect went on, "there's no doubt we've become absurdly prudish in this country. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth The mere fact of his having ascertained the truth is imputed as a blame to him, in a sort of prudish cant. Plays and Puritans "Well, then, I will sit quietly; but may I not be permitted to ask my shy prudish mistress why I must do so?" Frederick the Great and His Family It amuses me infinitely to see you so stubborn and prudish, and increases my love for you. Old Fritz and the New Era But even a man of passions and experiences can, when he respects a woman, be shocked—even prudish—where his own opinion of her is concerned. The Lady of the Shroud "Oh, sir, this is so sudden"—that prudish phrase exactly expressed her when her time came. Howards End "Oh, sir, this is so sudden"--that prudish phrase exactly expressed her when her time came.� Howards End I daresay I am a trifle prudish," he replied, "but after what has happened I do not wish Lucy to associate with Mrs. Jasher. The Green Mummy I seldom dance round dances except with our boys, but that night I did because the girls laughed at me for being so 'prudish,' as they called it. Rose in Bloom What will your uncle—your virtuous, prudish, incorruptible uncle—say when he learns of it? The Trampling of the Lilies |
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