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Downstairs, Myrna (Wanda MeCaddon) and Alfred (Edward Sarafian) are so prissily of-another-era, their mid-Atlantic accents suggest past service in suburban Noel Coward revivals.

Instead, a shouting, scuffling army of small boys boarded a train, girls sitting prissily somewhere else.

When I asked him what he thinks brings in his male dancers, he answered, "Being a male school owner puts me at an advantage over schools without the male influence." tie also told me he believes that many schools are decorated too "prissily" for the boys.

My blunt and frank contention is that we live on the slippery slope, we do not live on the edge of it, and prissily stay off it.

I remember myself, in my hippie days, sitting poolside with my older, affluent sister-in-law and announcing prissily, "I would never have a maid--it's so patronizing to women and minorities!" To which she replied, "Well, then, what should I do--fire Janice?

As I have suggested, in the current version of this Orwellian ploy, conventional views are vaunted as "incorrect," while radical positions that suggest the need for social change are denigrated as prissily "correct."

It was easy to see why Don Jose would disintegrate for this Carmen, even a Don Jose whose delivery was as prissily lieder-like as Thomas Moser's was here.

But the trouble with 'giving the market free rein' absolutely everywhere is that you end up with a country that may still, rather prissily, call itself post-Christian, but is in fact losing ground and fast to that all-sneering, all-snarling approach to life, promoted so successfully by its tabloid dailies.

But I do find it a problem that when the poor are conveyed with such subtlety and awareness of their thinking patterns and in their relations with others, those of other classes who interacted with them are presented as undifferentiated stereotyped `middle classes', wheeled in from time to time to be rather prissily ticked off for being `certain that there was only one way of doing things'.

It grew from Malthusian fears of high birth rates among the lower classes, prissily referred to as "animal indulgences." In Canada, there was the additional worry of being swamped by large numbers of immigrants, especially from Ireland.

provokes to Murther, and the destruction of God's Images', Dr Williams observes prissily that his 'indignation probably reflects awareness of his own inadequacies'.

Second, Del Banco alleges that Auchincloss fails to establish that the WASP brand of public responsibility was ever "capacious," by which he means inclusive, welcoming, widely responsible, "before it became merely tribal." The most scornful thrusts of Del Banco's argument, in fact, go straight to this point: that the novelist himself, in his attitudes toward the "newer" ethnics, in his valuations of family and boyhood friendships, in his prissily archaic language, far from having transcended tribalism, has positively wallowed in it.

The flamboyantly named "Three Monks" comprised monk fish cooked in three different ways, each served rather prissily in a scallop shell.

There is a new arrival to head up the team, prissily Teutonic Johann Krauss (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) who's basically sentient ectoplasm inside a diving suit.

They moan about how much it all costs and state prissily that they don't need to buy a card or a present to tell the people they love that they care.