10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERTNESS»
Discover the use of
pertness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pertness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Notorious Sir John Hill: The Man Destroyed by Ambition ...
Writing with D'Israeli's book at his side, Wright visualized a Hill located at the
epicenter of taste's transformation from duncery to “Pertness.” His stunning
chapter on “The Reign of Pertness"—the strange word we have fleshed out in this
...
2
The Yankee Chick's Survival Guide to Texas
Pertness is a southern specialty virtually unknown to Yankee chicks. Pertness is
shrill-voiced, smiley-faced, scatter-brained, and fidgety. Pertness makes ponytails
bob, skirts flounce, eyelashes flutter. Pertness declares everything “precious.
3
Chickens Feed Capons: Or a Dissertation on the
Pertness of ...
Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.This collection reveals the ...
4
Southern Ladies & Gentlemen
In addition to being cold, hot, bitchy, and sweet, the Southern woman is required
to be something called "pert." Pertness grew out of psychological and political
necessity in the Old South. The slaveholder, secretly guilty and doubtful of his
clout, ...
5
Love Customs in Eighteenth-century Spain
This new concept was pertness (despejo). Pertness meant frankness, lack of
inhibition, the direct glance, boldness. The word despejo, perhaps of Portuguese
origin, contradicted in its very etymology the word reserve, as an apprehensive ...
Carmen Martín Gaite, 1991
Rapid alternations of a sense of suavity with a sense of pertness make, it appears
, a self-justified aesthetic combination, of which it might be said (2 [Wind that if
ever realised in musical intervals it would yield a beautiful melodic form.l But why
...
7
England Under the House of Hanover: Its History and ...
THE REIGN OF PERTNESS. 319 This goddess dwelt. Just rais'd above the
ground, Her palace varnish'd, silver deck'd around. Here stood her Mercury, here
she nursed her apes ;* Here magpies chatter'd in a hundred shapes : Jackdaws
and ...
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England Under the House of Hanover; Its History and ...
THE REIGN OF PERTNESS. 319 This goddess dwelt. Just rais'd above the
ground, Her palace varnish'd. silver deck'd around. Here stood her Mercury, here
she nursed her apes;" Here magpies chatter'd in a hundred shapes: Jackdaws
and ...
9
Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic
Cibber's pertness encompasses — is — in its most blatant, even militant form the
essential trait of all dunces and all mock-epic villains: this pertness runs
roughshod over all categories and distinctions, natural, social, and religious.
10
The New Monthly Magazine
... and whose interest is identified with popular delusion, should prate of" the
number of sacrifices he. is obliged to make of common sense to his interest and
self-conceit ;" that you, whose pages abound with a garrulous pertness and a
flippant ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERTNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pertness is used in the context of the following news items.
Wimbledon 2015: smash your way to a Wimblebum
When it comes to rear view, it is fair to say centre court displays only pertness and tone. What is encouraging is that you can make strides ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
Suzy Menkes at haute couture: day one
Even the short dresses, often airy and lacy, had a pertness that was tempered by wafting hemlines. The tone of the show was set by the ... «Vogue Australia, Jul 15»
Emotional 'Encore': PNB Bids Farewell to Carla Körbes and Kiyon …
... Eric Hipolito, Jr., in “Emeralds” from Jewels, while Jahna Frantziskonis sparkled with quicksilver precision and pertness in Jewels' “Rubies. «The SunBreak, Jun 15»
You Never Can Tell review: Shaw opener gets better and more …
Jennifer Dzialoszynski has the easier task of the two, and after an initial five minutes of exaggerated pertness she settles happily down into ... «National Post, May 15»
Once upon a time in the West Country: Richard Mabey on the …
... most beautiful wildflower in Britain: the soft primrose yellow of the ruff, the way six petals are cupped round the trumpet, the pertness of them, ... «New Statesman, Apr 15»
The diary of a Manchester Bridget Jones
As Hot Yoga Guy walked in, I gracefully inhaled and sat up straight for optimum boob pertness. The class started, I was on fire with my poses, ... «The Mancunion, Apr 15»
Tony-winner Lena Hall gets her girl (back) on
To view photos of Hall's transformation from her natural Katy Perry-esque pertness to the sideburned sadsack roadie is astonishing. “I'm happy ... «San Francisco Examiner, Apr 15»
Women drool over Poldark while calling Athena poster sexist, Tom …
True, we have yet to hear the austere Polly Toynbee's assessment of the pertness of the actor's buttocks or the hairiness of his pecs, but the ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
Greek bodies: the new British Museum blockbuster
A beautiful young man is seen side-on; pertness in profile. While Socrates may have looked at the same thing, however, he would have ... «The Times, Mar 15»
Tracey Emin and Henry Miller: a perfect match
What seemed wrong was their pertness, their perfection. The specifics may have changed, as one edition replaced another, but the bodies ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
