Word: squeamish
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...they are. This world is so controlled that everything happening has some effect on your life. And I think that when it seems that everyone's runnin' your life, you have to scream. You know? Scream to hear you're there," she said in a high, quiet, somewhat squeamish voice. She was talking mostly about punk, about her first album, "Horses," and the musical movement with which her music has evolved...
Occasionally she simply imitates men writers, particularly D.H. Lawrence, who was the subject of her first book. The Laurentian passages veer close to parody: "She was cutting, biting. She herself was like an impregnable virgin, though not puritanical or squeamish. She was open like a man, used lusty words, told bawdy stories, laughed about sex. But still she was impregnable...
...Women who are reaching for the executive suite are going to have to accept ... the financial responsibilities of their new status," Tish writes. Still she gets rather squeamish, for a feminist, about the way a woman should pay the check after a business lunch: If she uses a credit card or signs for the tab, she should do so "quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time...
...which tries to hide them from view. What makes the country wife so refreshing is her total lack of artifice and her good-hearted gusto for sex and fun. Yet she too is a fool, just as Pinchwife and Sir Fidget are fools, just as the Ladies Fidget and Squeamish are hypocrites. There is no one at all who is admirable in the play, unless it be Alithea, but she is no innocent herself, deftly playing one suitor against another...
...Madame Chiang K'ai-shek's older sisters. It was she who insisted the dictator receive me and then, to stiffen me the dainty lady wrote, "... report conditions as frankly and fearlessly as you did to me. If heads must come off, don't be squeamish about...