Word: prig
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...most of "Viccie's" family, but dear mother is ill. Helen meets the in-laws and suggests she and Victor buy some flowers for the dear thing. "Mom" is not unlike the mother in "The Silver Cord." She faints conveniently, dislikes her son's wife and is a repulsive prig. Not having seen the play, I cannot compare; that is fortunate, for one frequently finds fault with movies because they are not faithful reproductions. Much of the picture is painfully realistic: in places it seems to lack a swiftness of touch usually attained on the stage, and the debonair Montgomery...
...many irons in the fire he was always hoping one would get hot, but it never did. Meanwhile his favorite sister Catherine died, Anne and Hortense married failures, Aaron got greyer and stingier. Joe's bitterest pill was to watch his youngest brother David, a hypocritical prig, become the only financial success in the family. Joe's letters home were optimistic to the last, but long before the end he found himself a settled failure, saddled with a virago wife, threatened more & more by the insanity that finally...
...choking in the broad fields of alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach, ''even if they don't learn a damned thing." Still another, Elsa Brandt (Katharine Cornell), spiritually...
...postulated a religion of his own, which made for obscurity, immaturity, and didacticism in his poetry. As for his politics and philosophy, Shelley "never escaped from the teaching of Godwin, and I have no doubt Mrs. Shelley was also too much of a 'heavyweight!' Shelley was, in fact, a prig...
...doubt never be heard of. The theme of the novel is based on the same stale social satire which has been poured by the hogs-heads from the dripping quills of surviving English radicals of the nineties and of American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that the prig was so developed by being the son of an insignificant conservative prig, by being nurtured on insignificant priggish conservatism. The basic cause of the hero's state, and of that of his ancestors...