As for the author's detection of racism and sexism, I would argue this kind of prissiness makes inevitable the rise of. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Bellow despised prissiness and meanness of spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Saul Bellow: Letters - review] Reference
A more insufferable prissiness would be hard to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference
Cf. my discussion of squeamishness v.v. prissiness at this post. From Wordnik.com. [Post Script | Her Bad Mother] Reference
I have a wee bit of prissiness still lingering from a childhood of parochial schooling. From Wordnik.com. [Head and shoulders, knees and…? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
And it is a joke on the culture of pre-offended prissiness that I, for one, don't want. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: A religion still seeking definition.] Reference
This means we must lose our ideological prissiness and start listening instead of preaching. From Wordnik.com. [The Cudgel Manifesto] Reference
Kudos for your site and the work you are doing, but rein in the prissiness, m'kay? posted by Dr. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
His royal prissiness, does not like snow, in his defense, I forgot to put on his winter jacket. From Wordnik.com. [wendchymes Diary Entry] Reference
But he later complained that Doubleday's prissiness about language deprived him of Billie's authentic voice. From Wordnik.com. [Street Diva] Reference
The sound of boys' voices is so terrific - that pure, clean sound with wonderful energy behind it, lacking prissiness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
With full employment only avoided by prissiness about jobs, it is bizarre that scrounging should become an ‘life choice’. From Wordnik.com. [Ironic Ducks] Reference
Well, the fast lesson, for me, was that there are some good reasons for overcoming one's prissiness regarding language which, hello?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
Still on the bleeding edge I see Metro, you are exporting hot house flower prissiness to an enviroment where its inappropriateness is epic. From Wordnik.com. [would you watch Saddam Hussein die? « raincoaster] Reference
There was a streak of prissiness in Marshall; his most illustrious student, Maynard Keynes, once described his as "an utterly absurd person.". From Wordnik.com. [Should Advertising Be Abolished?] Reference
Shatner physical hamminess-- along with Nimoy's ability to imbue Spock with emotional tension--saved the show from unbearable prissiness, I'd say. From Wordnik.com. [Star Trek and Sixties Design, #18: An Interesting Plainness] Reference
This prissiness was exploited, I might add, by my exuberant mother who always revelled in the ease with which she could cause me extreme embarassment. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-19] Reference
And so she was really impatient with a lot of the prissiness that characterized a lot of the other writing and kind of attitudes about the Harlem Renaissance. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Me to Harlem] Reference
Now she couldn't believe anyone would be interested in him, with his prissiness and his pedagogy, his insistence upon the details of life that did not matter. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Wheeler concludes, in part: Like the original 2003 novella, The Empress of Mars is the story of the triumph of pluck over adversity and of pints over prissiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress of Mars: An interview with SF author Kage Baker and a review of her new novel] Reference
That was mostly about prissiness, what you can say. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Gyapong] Reference
Maybe Emma's prissiness blinds some viewers to the brilliance of her wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I loved her for her daring, her openness to new experience, her lack of prissiness. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
Every time I consider making one -- esp. triangle-shaped -- I can't get over my antipathy to prissiness. From Wordnik.com. [b r o o k l y n t w e e d] Reference
Whereas Mr. Gurung manages to take lightly the notion of feminine packaging, Mr. Wu treats it with a prissiness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"This prissiness about the idea of giving organs to somebody after you have died - I think it's something that's not supported by the public.". From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
1. Cf. my discussion of squeamishness v.v. prissiness at this post. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-19] Reference
Well, the fast lesson, for me, was that there are some good reasons for overcoming one’s prissiness regarding language (which, hello?. From Wordnik.com. [The Vagina Dialogues | Her Bad Mother] Reference
BHO especially can’t quite shake the prissiness. From Wordnik.com. [More on Remnick and Obama] Reference
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