Word: prig
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Vice meets a harrowing reward. The poor slob is marooned on a desert island with a prissy goggle-eyed missionary lady (Glynis Johns). Rescued at last, he is thanked by the parson "for sparing her." Ted gasps: "Me! and that sanctimonious, psalm-singing little prig! I've never been so insulted in my life!" The idea so unnerves him, in fact, that he gets smashing drunk to drive it out of his mind. Fadeout : Ted at the harmonium, wheezing away at a hymn, and reeking of salvation quite as repulsively as he ever did of booze...
...power which he takes to his death. He had it, Eliot explains, over since he resigned the Chancellorship to devote his whole being to the Church. In the first act, when he dismisses the temptors who came to lure him from his purpose, Gaydos was too much the prig. He tends also to overuse facial gestures. But in the death scene, when faced by four drunken assassins, he brings a great, cold dignity to the role...
...That the prig is incredible-is, in fact, a mere setup for the action-matters less than that everyone else is so nice. Never were people more aggressively charming, genteelly rowdy or sweetly romantic (for Late Love has more than its share of early love). Arlene Francis and Lucile Watson do what they can to enliven things; but the play is for those who take their tea very weak, and with three lumps of sugar...
...brutal picture, with a core of horror imbedded in its accounts of mere hell-raising. All but one of the principal characters are fairly scarifying as future warriors or even as future citizens. There is a blabbing prig, a conniving misfit, an ingratiatingly evil Jocko De Paris (Ben Gaz-zara), a master of midnight ceremonies violent enough to mean court-martial and expulsion...
...Count d'Orgel, in fact, was a lineal prig, living & breathing for social ritual The Orgels met François de Séryeuse at the circus one night and invited him to lunch. Soon he and Mahaut were talking about their childhood lives in the country. François words refreshed her like a gift of wild flowers...