Word: frumpishly
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Goodnight Desdemona is that fear some creature, the play within a play Constance Ledbelly (Lindsey Richardson), a frumpish assistant professor from Queens, is struggling with the slings and arrows of outrageous academia. She endures an arrogant and exploitative senior professor, his disdainful girlfriend, and the ridicule of her peers, who dismiss her theory that Romeo and Juliet and Othello were adapted by Shakespeare from lost originals in which they were comedies...
...Supermarket-like duty-free shops selling wide range of goods. Refinements include animal hostel, dramatic society that rehearses and performs in the airport's underground chapel, a legendary bowler-hatted ghost who supposedly turns up in emergencies. Minihospital. European Terminal 2 is receiving $20 million facelift. Overall: friendly, frumpish...
...that hateful dictator and the bleating industry which he leads around by the nose all lose their fur-lined shirts on this graceless, hideous, frumpish monstrosity! I, for one, refuse to start looking like my own grandmother at the whim of this tyrannical male chauvinist...
...Clean the bacteriophobic eunuch, and the Man from Glad, who is gussied up in platinum hairdo and white trench coat. In one ad, a failing used-car salesman takes a dollop of Listerine mouthwash, and customers start buying without waiting for the sales pitch. In another commercial, a bespectacled, frumpish old maid uses Ice Blue Secret deodorant and is transformed into a glamorous beauty; presumably, even her eyesight is improved because at the end she no longer wears glasses...
This summer, Vivien will play Lady Macbeth opposite Paul Scofield at Stratford. Films scarcely interest her. She appeared in Alfie, playing the frumpish, pathetic housewife who gets an abortion, and she has a role in the forthcoming Pinter adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's novel, Accident. But that is the limit of her movie career, because she grew tired of the endless retakes. In one scene in Alfie, Michael Caine is called upon to slap her. "I was hit and hit all day long," she recalls, "until by the end of the afternoon my face was swollen out to here...