- 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...
-
barriers it
faced from the movement's own
advocates at the time, such as "
priggish" and "dull"
socialist intellectuals and "proletarian"
socialists with little...
- 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...
-
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...
-
Roger Goldby Simon Nye 1 May 2016 (2016-05-01) 6.93 A
visit from some
priggish relatives seems to deem the family's
immigration to
Corfu more temporary...
- E.
Ornstein has
carefully detailed the
characteristics of Malvolio's
priggishness:
Those who do not
enjoy Malvolio would reduce him to a
conventional killjoy...
-
aristocratic characters in
Cashel Byron's
Profession as
unrealistically priggish even
without his
later understanding that "the real
world does not exist...
- the hero of The Merchant's War
stays on
Earth and
reforms it, with a
priggishness which wrecks the satire. It's easy reading, but a
completely unnecessary...
-
Punch as "Codlingsby".
Disraeli left an
unfinished novel in
which the
priggish central character, Falconet, is
unmistakably a
caricature of Gladstone...
- 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...
