Word: priggishness
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...want to change things, and many of them found reason to scorn him. "His smart friends tended to regard him as overmuch of an intellectual," according to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "and the girls of his own set called him 'the featherduster' because of supposedly shallow and priggish qualities...
...King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery, cast into a dungeon, poisoned, sentenced to be burned at the stake. She often shocks the rather priggish Theagenes by escaping her fate through cajolery and subterfuge. He prefers to meet things head on, whether his opponent is an amorous Persian princess, a champion wrestler, an enraged hull or the royal executioner. Finally they win through to Ethiopia, but arrive as prisoners of war scheduled to be sacrificed...
Britain's Queen, said the young English nobleman firmly, presents to the public the personality of "a priggish schoolgirl, captain of the hockey team, a prefect, and a recent candidate for confirmation"; her manner is that of a debutante, her speaking style is "a pain in the neck"; her court is outmoded; and those who surround her "are almost without exception of the 'tweedy' sort...
...Gardner Tillson's mischievous Mercury is marred by awkwardness and profuseness of gestures. Jane Hanle was generally apathetic as Alkmena but conveyed Alkmena's conquetry and supicious insight. She deserves credit for stepping into her role on one day's notice. Paul Fithian's fatuous Amphitryon, Henry Franck's priggish Trumpeter, Ellen Whitman's inappropriately uncosmopolitan Queen Leda contribute to the carnival of characters who romp through the play. Giraudoux's classico-modern play is typical of many twentieth century French plays that use classical myths to reveal unexpected truths about contemporary social or political conditions. Contemporary problems treated...
...than a performance full of the juices of life. But Claire Bloom, 26, was a prize Juliet who made even her more hackneyed passages sound fresh. Looking no more than the 14 Juliet was written to be, she was as soft and warm as a tea cozy, even if priggish NBC censors did raise her neckline by 3½ inches...