Sentences with word «prissiness»

«I wasn't taught to draw at art school,» House ¬ ago says with exasperation at what he considers the high - concept prissiness of his curriculum.

The point of these corrections is neither liturgical prissiness nor aesthetic nostalgia; there is no «reform of the reform» to be found in lace surplices, narrow fiddleback chasubles, and massive candles.

Still, I don't think it's a matter of American prissiness to suggest that «satire» doesn't capture the prevailing cast of mind displayed in Charlie Hebdo, which has always struck me as far more nihilistic than satirical.

But the time for nominative prissiness may have passed too.

While the key to the episode is a huge Griffin Muppet animated, in part, by Henson's son Brian, the humour of its spoiled prissiness is offset by a melancholy subplot involving a doomed ferryman played with convincing dourness by veteran character actor Robert Eddison.

This is not mere prissiness, and it does not imply that mainstream journalism is generally unreliable.

Again, this is not a matter of prissiness, and still less one of clericalism; it is a matter of doctrinal and theological precision» which, if lost, can damage the celebration of the sacred liturgy.

Meanwhile, Allison Janney conveys the sometimes antagonistic but ultimately caring relationship between Juno and her stepmom in a subtle but effective way, and Jennifer Garner actually does a great job of at first annoying you with her prissiness, but (without altering her character any) completely turning that on its head later on.

Laney, when she was mad at Gloria, liked to call her «Princess Priss,» and it was apt, he supposed, but he rather liked his daughter's prissiness (there were a hell of a lot worse things your daughter could be).

«There's a prissiness right now,» Cavin added.

And all those components are fairly antithetical to the prissiness and hygiene of the white cube, yet it doesn't have that type of antagonistic dynamic towards the normative configuration of a gallery.

Of course, I also had trouble not imagining an imagined prerecorded lecture from Clement Greenberg on the prissiness of French postwar abstraction.