10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «PRISSINESS» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
Entdecke den Gebrauch von
prissiness in der folgenden bibliographischen Auswahl. Bücher, die mit
prissiness im Zusammenhang stehen und kurze Auszüge derselben, um seinen Gebrauch in der Literatur kontextbezogen darzustellen.
1
Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints
My prissiness saved my life. With my germ phobia and a smidgen of good luck, I
eluded death. Being of a fastidious disposition, I always felt disinclined to engage
in those practices which increase the likelihood of contamination of any kind.
2
Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon
5.57-60) It may be significant that Phebe is more inclined to respond to such '
macho' posturing than to the Petrarchan 'prissiness' of Silvius. Ironically, Phebe's
attraction to Ganymede can be compared with Silvius's attraction to her, in that
both ...
W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman,
1996
3
Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language Policy ...
For example, Eckert (2008) discusses how the indexical field for /t/ release in
American English may consist of divergent meanings ranging from learnedness,
articulateness, formality, and politeness, to prissiness, artifice, annoyance, and ...
Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee,
2013
4
Cicero, Catullus, and the Language of Social Performance
"Love," says Charinus in the Merca- tor, "brings on every vice, worry, sickness,
and too much prissiness (uimi- aque elegantia)."49 Elegans appears in a
vituperative litany applied to a lover: blandiloquentulus, harpago, mendax,
cuppes, ...
Climbing High's ideal of the Englishman avoids the rugged manliness of Diana's
Canadian brother (Torin Thatcher), the wild unpredictability of the escaped
lunatic (Francis L. Sullivan), the prissiness of the advertising agency owner (Noel
...
Peter William Evans,
2005
As prissiness is a display of frivolous disgust and/or frivolous shame, so also is
machismo a display of resistance to disgust and shame. But insofar as machismo
is yet another reactionary response to shame and disgust (with a key additional ...
Clarence P. Yancy: real estate salesperson, insurance agent, mortgage broker,
occasional purveyor of used cars—and the reason I was off extramarital affairs.
Actually, he wasn't all that bad, if you can stand a surfeit of prissiness. And he did
...
8
Pansegrouw's Crossword Dictionary
... prissiness, prudishness, severity, strictness prudish coy, demure, nice, (over)
modest, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, pure, queasy, reserved, squeamish, strai(
gh)t-laced prudishness coyness, archness, backwardness, bashfulness,
prissiness, ...
9
Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology
you to see the delicacy en route to appreciating the prissiness: seeing the former
is part of the total experience of the painting I want to bring about in you. Just as
in the deer case, you might counter by denying that the figures are delicate.
Matthew Kieran, Dominic Lopes,
2007
10
Phonetic detail in sociolinguistic variation: its linguistic ...
If we grant that released stops characterized by a certain set of phonetic
properties (long, intense releases) can index prissiness, it is not difficult to
imagine how to take the next logical step, from prissiness to gay identity, since
prissiness may ...
Robert Jay Podesva, Stanford University. Dept. of Linguistics,
2006
10 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «PRISSINESS» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
prissiness im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
Why the Bloomsbury Group weren't all about bedhopping and …
Not that the three 60-minute episodes of Life in Squares can be accused of prissiness. Centred on the fraught and often agonised relationship ... «Radio Times, Jul 15»
Television: Quirky RTÉ hotel show well worth checking into
... she celebrated the centenary of the Women's Institute, an organisation notable both for its radical origins and its middle-England prissiness. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things …
The joke is entirely on Dante for his prissiness (“Try not to suck any dick on the way to the parking lot!” he says in a huff). Trainwreck, on the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Haute Couture Fall 2015: Elie Saab Strikes Gold
... Air's track “Playground Love,” and while they all sported a tiara, they also let their hair down, toning down the prissiness of the overall look. «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
Cambridge Allows Skirts for Me
NEW DELHI: One of the most uptight bastions of old world prudence, University of Cambridge, finally let go of some of its prissiness and ... «The Citizen, Jun 15»
Death in Venice, Garsington Opera, review: 'perfectly measured'
The problems are the idiosyncratic gargling quality to his delivery, and an over-egging of queeny pathos and prissiness: the character is only ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
My Father, the Card
I had always chafed at what I considered her prissiness, and I'm sorry to say I made no secret of thinking she'd refined him to the point where ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
John Doyle: Borgen is unsettlingly unfamiliar and magnificently …
It is very odd to see a political drama about a principled politician, but it never overreaches into Aaron Sorkin-level prissiness, preachiness and ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
Dick Meyer: Sentries of sanctimony, lighten up
It would be nice to report that the Thought Control censors -- the prissiness police, the sentries of sanctimony -- have cried wolf so many times ... «Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Mai 15»
Reading Ovid at Columbia
... revenant and ready to take offense. Even the vocabulary of rape on America's campuses hides the reality that prissiness is making a return. «The Weekly Standard, Mai 15»