- E.
Ornstein has
carefully detailed the
characteristics of Malvolio's
priggishness:
Those who do not
enjoy Malvolio would reduce him to a
conventional killjoy...
- Altrincham's
accusation in 1957 that her
speeches sounded like
those of a "
priggish schoolgirl" was an
extremely rare criticism. In the late 1960s, attempts...
- Power, Ed (9
December 2017). "The Crown,
season 2,
episode 5 review: the '
priggish'
Queen comes under media attack". The Telegraph.
Retrieved 9
December 2017...
- the
Hillary Mantels of 21st-century Britain,
Catholicism is retrograde,
priggish, obsessive, fanatical, and, well, un-English." The book
continued to receive...
- and
Commonwealth court. He also
likened the Queen's
voice to that of "a
priggish schoolgirl". He was
slapped across the face by a man in public, and was...
- "'Safari': An
American film
about the Mau Mau": "Surely it is
neither priggish nor
pompous to find
something disagreeable in the idea of so horrifying...
- Josiah, the
biblical king who destro**** the
idols of Baal. He
could be
priggish in his anti-Catholicism and once
asked Catherine Parr to
persuade Lady...
-
Voyage of the Dawn
Treader sees
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie,
along with
their priggish cousin,
Eustace Scrubb,
return to Narnia,
three Narnian years (and one...
- (September 18, 2007).
Nanny State: How Food Fascists,
Teetotaling Do-Gooders,
Priggish Moralists, and
other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are
Turning America into a...
-
aristocratic characters in
Cashel Byron's
Profession as
unrealistically priggish even
without his
later understanding that "the real
world does not exist...
