Word: prude
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...people’s being flattened in Wal-Mart parking lots to Increase Mather, Will’s indictment of Puritanism is hardly unique. In section and dining hall discussions, “Puritan” may be understood as shorthand for “obsolete, sexually repressed, joyless prude.” It is one of Harvard’s milder ironies that vilifying Puritans has become something of a pastime at the College that was once a cradle of the Puritan orthodoxy. In October, on this very page, for instance, Joe P. Flood quoted Ambrose Bierce?...
...don’t want to seem like some prude who hates or fears sex and the female body. I think it is important to encourage alternative expressions of female empowerment. Wearing a bikini can be liberating. But the same can be said about donning a veil...
...said. “That would clearly be an ideal career for a prude...
...worst possible type of girl? Gotta be the psycho-prude. A close second: Ann D. Fogarty...
...ever called me a prude, but the window thing is a little creepy. You feel like you're at a school for Peeping Toms, and you find yourself wishing there were a confession window, or maybe a flea dip, at the end of the chute. If they at least rotated your tires, you would feel a little better about yourself. But that's just one take. "I've been to Amsterdam, and this is a better show," Diskin raved as Daisy scored a 9.8 in the floor exercises...