priggishness造句

• In America, prurience and priggishness have always danced in tandem.
• Simpson said he was only seeking to puncture " priggishness ."
• E . Ornstein has carefully detailed the characteristics of Malvolio's priggishness:
• There is certainly a priggishness to both sides that any reasonable human finds dangerous.
• Any priggishness comes from Proctor himself.
• He was thoroughly broad-minded and interested in current events, with a keen eye for humbug and priggishness.
• Gentlemanly to the point of priggishness, Duncan Smith has so far been no match for the glamorous, telegenic Blair.
• He objected to the educational methods at school, as well as he was against priggishness and prudery of the teachers.
• The excellent Jennings has an intriguing, obliquely erotic air of menace that is nicely set off by Crowley's wounded priggishness.
• Alas, it falls to slutty Suzette to jolt Lavinia out of her priggishness and return her to the loose and lippy lady she was born to be.
• Where had I been, where had any of us been when miscegenation and cross-racial _ call it erotica, call it pornography _ became an emblem of social and political priggishness?
• Hundert's smug self-regard is hard to separate from Kline's, which comes through most strongly when the character cracks the shell of his priggishness to show warmth or humor.
• What makes this especially fascinating is the intensity of Russell's own self-examination, even when he was too blinded by priggishness and self-importance for self-examination to be of much use.
• "Upright to the point of priggishness, he fined all who swore in his presence ", according to Charles Carlton, a biographer of Charles I, who describes Henry as an " obdurate Protestant ".
• But then a minor concussion turns Sylvia into a sex maniac, and Ullman's made-for-scrunching face beautifully and hilariously expresses the woman's subsequent mood swings between addled ardor and sourpuss priggishness.
• Wilde might have been forecasting the current political and social climate, in which the jostling for the moral high ground _ whether by Bill Clinton or Bob Dole, the left or the right _ is covered in hypocrisy and priggishness.
• Lovecraft said of him : " He has nothing of the musty cleric about him; but dresses in sports clothes, swears like a he-man on occasion, and is an utter stranger to bigotry or priggishness of any sort ."
• Given the climate Benedict and Yaeger described and the priggishness of today's Hall monitors, we can expect the Pro Football Hall of Fame to become a tougher place to crack than the LPGA Hall of Fame was before it relaxed its performance criteria.
• That is until Harry resigns his commission, drawing disdain from his father, the general ( Tim Pigott-Smith, who's playing the same exemplar of British upper-class priggishness he displayed in " Jewel in the Crown " ).
• However, prison would be a crucial formative experience for Orton; the isolation from Halliwell would allow him to break free of him creatively; and he would clearly see what he considered the corruption, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country.