Word: priggishly
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...protagonist, a priggish young zoo administrator, is not of much interest, the quarrelsome old curators are a fine pride of toothless lions. The dialogue sounds just like human speech, and the novel has violence, sodomy and even a little humor. The book leads nowhere on its own, and as satire it lacks a discoverable satiree. One British critic suggested somewhat desperately that Wilson is discussing the European Common Market, but significantly he did not say whether he thinks the author thinks that the Common Market is good or bad. In the end, the only message that comes through is Wilson...
...wife is imaginative and beautiful. The husband is decent though somewhat priggish and admits that "sex was never my strong subject." The other man is a brilliant scientist who is also a cad and a workmanlike seducer. These characters might result in a story as obvious and predictable as any triangle, but with a special kind of emotional geometry, Scottish Author James Kennaway has arrived at a taut, arresting and convincing novel...
...paced comic novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community now are forging...
Lawrence regarded the coal miner Morel with a somewhat priggish distaste, and the attitude marred his novel. Howard's Morel has a clumsy kindness and a drunkard's fitful dignity. He is no mere brute, although he has been brutalized by the pits in which he has grubbed since he was twelve. There is still no understanding between father and son, but Howard makes it clear, as Lawrence did not fully do, that this is part of the younger Morel's great loss...
Freedom, or License? Sir: Scratch one more American university from the shrinking list of free academic institutions! If Illinois' priggish President Henry considers ex-Professor Koch's condonation of sex , breach of academic responsibility [April 18], he joins a troop of travelers along the road to unreason...