10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRISSILY»
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prissily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prissily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
I don't think there's anything more likely to create that sense of 'the prissily unreal'
than a metre that is as removed from everyday speech as it is possible to get. The
American modernists recognized that nearly a hundred years ago and it's ...
A. D. Cousins, Peter Howarth, 2011
... Crosse union hall, a man in his late thirties turned to his wife and said, "It's like
John Kennedy all over again!" But it wasn't: it was just John Lindsay, jacket
buttoned, rather prissily saying the same things Mc- Govern was saying rather
prissily.
Zoë is delighted when her widowed mother maries Simon, a generous older man who owns a villa in Nice.
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Tough Without a Gun: The Extraordinary Life of Humphrey Bogart
A Humphrey Bogart comes along only once in a century: someone who isn't conventionally handsome or particularly versatile, but who can convince an audience that whatever character he's playing is of great importance, because he represents ...
As a result, some prissily pompous towers by Philip Johnson and John Burgee
are likely to flush out the pizzazz of the area along with its menace. Last year, the
Coliseum site, on Columbus Circle, was put up for sale by the city and the MTA to
...
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Carte Blanche: The New James Bond Novel
Osborne-Smith sounded like a barrister before a witness. Bond was sweating
now. “But that's not what this is about.” Dunne was acting increasingly impatient,
his eyes focusing on Bond. “I beg to differ,” Osborne-Smith said prissily. “One of
the ...
7
Social Life and Moral Judgment
... the unevidenced knee- jerk reaction of the Archbishop's Commissioners was to
put this down to racism—although they did somewhat prissily allow that a lot of
unemployed black youths “had fathers...living away from home.”30 By sometimes
...
She wasn't. “That woman's always studying me,” I said. Emma pursed her lips
and twitched her nose. “That ain't true,” she said prissily. “Your mind is just
playing tricks on you.” “Then how come she's all the time catching me at
something?
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The Work of Self-representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial ...
... a method of discovering the Divine Will" does not "trivialize the concept of
Revelation," as Hyatt Waggoner prissily fears (13-14), but ties this inscrutable
force to a particular psycholinguistic mode that makes it available to inspired "
reading.
File cabinets lined one wall, but instead of seeing the room as an office, Squire
saw it as the dining room it had been before. Beside Tucci, to the rear, stood a
middle-aged man, overweight and bald, nobody's guard. He had his lips prissily ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRISSILY»
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prissily is used in the context of the following news items.
'The Strain' 2.02 Recap: “How's the Mad Scientist Business?”
Councilwoman Feraldo (sounds kind of like “Ferraro” crossed with “Geraldo,” which would be a very weird combination) storms out prissily, ... «High-Def Digest, Jul 15»
Ross Valley Players musical 'Pirates' defies logic but enchants …
Especially when the dainty daughters of Major-General Stanley prissily twirl their parasols, the bobbleheaded British bobbies stumble and ... «Marinscope Community Newspapers, Jul 15»
SS Records to Reissue A Frames' First 2 Albums
A Frames make most bands sound prissily fussy. They ruthlessly cut what some may consider extraneous elements from rock's repertoire, ... «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
Death in Venice, Garsington Opera, review: Musical splendour of a …
... a blocked middle-aged writer as he watches a beautiful boy cavorting on the beach, Britten's final opera is burdened with prissily over-literary ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Overcoming Intimidation at Oxford
I got it, and did a perfectly adequate job of leading the School Prayer in assembly once a week, prissily telling people off for not wearing their ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»
'The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,' by …
Leader seems to agree with those critics who accused Atlas of being hostile to Bellow, prissily disapproving of the life and stingily dismissive of ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
The voice of cricket
He was almost prissily bipartisan, though every word, not least his favourite “Marvellous!”, murmured west Sydney from the TV set. Cricket, he ... «The Economist, Apr 15»
'It Shoulda Been You' review: Tired plot, expertly done
What doesn't kill ya makes you drink!"? Or the prissily efficient wedding planner, the heartsick wedding crasher or the Jewish father who boasts, ... «Newsday, Apr 15»
The Novels of Jim Webb
In Something to Die For (1991), Webb's bloodless villain is a defense secretary—a product of Harvard, naturally—who prissily disapproves of ... «Reason, Apr 15»
Physician/Writer: Dual and Dueling Responsibilities
"As writers who delve into other people's lives, we can't stand on the edge of that slope prissily avoiding it. We are there. To operate ethically ... «MedPage Today, Apr 15»
