Word: priggishly
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Theodore Dreisser's depictions of that same suffering, Alfred Kazin asserts in his effective essay defending the novelist, was rejected by priggish "elderly virgins of the newspapers." Kazin's thesis that Dreiser has been the victim of vacillating American literary taste, is well-argued and convincing...
Henry's jigger is his beautiful wife Katy. To John Rivers, a slightly priggish minister's son and a sexual teetotaler at 28, Katy is a lyric goddess, distant and holy as Dante's Beatrice. When a siege of illness puts Henry in an oxygen tent, John's Platonic devotion is rudely shattered. A shivering, sleepless Kate finds her way to his bed one night and stays there...
Devilish Fantasies. She is still on the same chaise longue. but the year is 1864, the drawing room is stuffy, cluttered, sealed against a breath of air. In this world, she finds, her name is Milly Baines, she is a total invalid, and she has a priggish, self-righteous sister who hates her. When she tells a visiting pastor that she is a woman of the future who doesn't belong in 1864, he denounces her claims as devilish fantasies...
Late Love (by Rosemary Casey) pictures a household apparently bullied by a puritanical old dowager, but actually kept in chains by her priggish novelist son. It tells how a lady painter arrives to paint the master's portrait and stays on to set his people free...
...music is pleasant enough, but not close to par for Cole Porter: it has a "school of Cole Porter" air. The lyrics would not be a credit to anyone, and for Porter they fall woefully flat. Abe Burrows' book, largely concerned with the love of a priggish young judge (Peter Cookson) and a prancing, Montmartre Jezebel, rises only once-in a funny duel scene-from banality to Burrows...