Carole McDonnell 7:54 pm: Christianity defined as properness. From Wordnik.com. [Transcript: Speculative Christian, The « Coyote Con] Reference
How then can I, not having been birthed with properness become into one. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Maids of Far Cathay] Reference
Anyway, I appreciate the properness of your introduction of the song because it IS "S-S-S-Saturday.". From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Loudmouths, Raiders & Soup Bowlers: Conversations with Jaret Reddick, Mark Lindsay and Jim Bianco] Reference
The Victorian era was known of a time of prim properness, where ladies were ladies and men acted like gentlemen. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Gropers: Molestation Hits a New Low « Colleen Anderson] Reference
The Venetians have a properness and sense of decorum which is not shared by all of the masses moving through the city. From Wordnik.com. [50 Euro Fine for Torsonudismo] Reference
There are some PP's that transcend their category for me--I forget their properness because I am too busy enjoying their beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Divine by Divine and thoughts on Proper Perfume] Reference
Given the “properness” that people from this era show each other, it seems odd that Hilton would call Don at home at such an odd hour. From Wordnik.com. [Mad Men: Wee Small Hours – Season 3 Episode 9 Review] Reference
Hmmm… Frum wut Ai kan determyne, teh moast biggest problum ov teh trolls iz there grate stuffynesses adn mush boringest properness, wich awl srsly resultz in a eenormuss lack ov a sence ov huumor. From Wordnik.com. [invisible - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
In addition, how can one forget entirely the fact that Ereignis normally means "event," and that there are very good reasons to believe that, by understanding Sein verbally, and transitively, Ereignis does designate something like the recurrent event of being, as the giving or granting of ownness or properness?. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
Julian Fellowes had a lot of explaining to do in his new costume drama series Downton Abbey, though the opening sequence probably gave us more footnotes about Edwardian grate-blacking and the pecking order of domestic drudges than was entirely absorbable amid the squawk of maids and cackling cooks and general dawn uproar of an aristocratic household being dustpan-and-brushed to its full English properness. From Wordnik.com. [Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon] Reference
You don't research the "properness" of the sign. From Wordnik.com. [Once Again, Texas Leads the Way] Reference
It was simply a question of the degree of properness. From Wordnik.com. [In the Cage] Reference
"It was his properness that stood out for all us westerners," Olmsted recalled. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
There is also some question as to the properness of loans given to some reputedly "shady". From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
The sun shining so hot that you could go in your house-dress but for the properness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
And it must be that you do all see with me in this matter, and commend me that I thought with properness. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 7] Reference
And truly, you shall say, there was some properness to her heart, in that she could abide not but to watch me. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 12] Reference
Curtis creates stark contrasts to make his point, from the oppressive properness of the British government to the free-for-all debauchery of the radio world. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
And you shall well believe that I did make the light not more oft than I did surely need; for it was no properness of wisdom to use the power of the Diskos, save for mine extremity. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 8] Reference
And now, being well assured of the properness of the kite, the bo'sun bade us to draw it in, the which we did only with difficulty, because of its bigness and the strength of the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Boats of the Glen Carrig: Chapter 14] Reference
Where, in the beginning, they might set up their desperate scheme by offering touches of refinement and properness -- the thespians are American stereotypes of British men, after all -- they give us unruliness and bad manners. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And because some had thus abetted that which they knew to be against the Law, which was framed to the well-being and safety of all, there were certain floggings, which might the better help their memories in the future as to the properness of their actions and wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 4] Reference
Yet, as you shall suppose, I said naught unto the Maid concerning the creeping and the poisonous things; for I did mean that she have rest and happiness the while that we did stay beside the fire-hole; and afterward, I should tell her, and so she be the more ready to see the properness that we go elsewhere to our sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land: Chapter 11] Reference
It wouldn't suprise me in the least if his season tickets were actually in the South Stands. i'm with you and steve mt. reggie brings a little inbred high brow properness to an otherwise rough collection of raw moderately edumacated football genius's. i know i didn't spell more than on thing right. but thats the fun of basterdizing something. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
It wouldn't suprise me in the least if his season tickets were actually in the South Stands. i'm with you and steve mt. reggie brings a little inbred high brow properness to an otherwise rough collection of raw moderately edumacated football genius's. i know i didn't spell more than one thing right. but thats the fun of basterdizing something. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
There's the river, close by; you can hear it all night, tumbling along behind the mills and the houses; there are the woods just down the lane beside the bakehouse; and here is the door-stone and the shady trellis, and the yard crowded full of flowers, as if they had all come because they wanted to, and knew they should have a good time, like a real country party, instead of standing off in separate properness, as people do who 'go into society.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Girls] Reference
Why, Phillida, you are as much superior to that woman as the sky is -- "He was about to say," as the sky is to a mud-puddle, "but nothing is so fatal to offhand vigor of denunciation as the confirmed habit of properness. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference
Paige Anderson Bowen notes: the official language of uganda is english, but it’s not an english an american would necessarily recognize or understand. most languages (all?) spoken in uganda are bantu languages, so the pronunciation of spoken english here often has a heavy bantu inflection and sentences can be delivered in bantu grammar. the “properness” of a ugandan’s english increases with education level and exposure to native english speakers, but the average ugandan speaks a purely (and sometimes maddeningly) ugandanized english that includes. From Wordnik.com. [Ugandan Blogs Adapt to 'Luglish'] Reference
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