Word: prim
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...verdant and manicured as Forest Lawn. They may have represented Israelites of two millenniums past, but they often looked Nordic; God must have had blue eyes. And they spoke the King's English: King James', with an assist from any screenwriter willing to gussy up his fustian. In these prim tones, the heart's revolution that Jesus preached became an Oxford don's lecture, and his ghastly, redemptive death a tableau painted on velvet...
...Jean Le Viste did exist in the Middle Ages, and his family's coat of arms appears in the tapestries. Other than that, little is known about the works, so Chevalier imagines that during a consultation at the Le Viste estate, Nicolas meets Jean's estranged wife Genevieve, prim and tense, as well as her nubile and headstrong teenage daughter Claude. Prodded by Genevieve, and overcome by his urge to "plow" Claude, Nicolas persuades Jean to replace his plans for battle scenes with the unicorn motif, imagining himself as the mythical beast...
...other’s spouse. Together they draw solace in a mutual experience of lost love and begin to develop feelings for each other. Unfortunately, 1960s Hong Kong culture is an unforgiving one of starched-collar propriety: will the two acknowledge their newfound love or stay prim and proper? Besides a superbly realized plot, In the Mood for Love also features a lyrical soundtrack of transcultural appeal, ranging from Chinese folk songs to jazzy Nat King Cole. In the Mood for Love screens 3:00 and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August...
With handsome features and a name that sounds like a Pokemon toy, Bryant has the rep of a star a prim mother or an innocent kid could love. "For teenage girls especially," says Peter Zollo of the polling firm Teen Research Unlimited, "Kobe is way up there. Where Allen Iverson's been the bad boy, Kobe has been the pretty...
When she leaves London to live with an aunt in the country, they begin an extraordinary correspondence. It covers the full breadth of moral and natural philosophy. Always prim but also refreshingly direct, Polly poses her questions--about barometers, insects, river tides, electrical storms--and he responds in the flattering style he inevitably uses with young women who catch his eye. He ends one dense six-page tract, for example, by musing how he might sign off to so receptive a mind as hers. "I had rather conclude abruptly with what pleases me more than any Compliment can please...