priggishness उदाहरण वाक्य

Where had I been, where had any of us been when miscegenation and cross-racial _ call it erotica, call it pornography _ became an emblem of social and political priggishness?
Hundert's smug self-regard is hard to separate from Kline's, which comes through most strongly when the character cracks the shell of his priggishness to show warmth or humor.
What makes this especially fascinating is the intensity of Russell's own self-examination, even when he was too blinded by priggishness and self-importance for self-examination to be of much use.
"Upright to the point of priggishness, he fined all who swore in his presence ", according to Charles Carlton, a biographer of Charles I, who describes Henry as an " obdurate Protestant ".
But then a minor concussion turns Sylvia into a sex maniac, and Ullman's made-for-scrunching face beautifully and hilariously expresses the woman's subsequent mood swings between addled ardor and sourpuss priggishness.

Wilde might have been forecasting the current political and social climate, in which the jostling for the moral high ground _ whether by Bill Clinton or Bob Dole, the left or the right _ is covered in hypocrisy and priggishness.
Lovecraft said of him : " He has nothing of the musty cleric about him; but dresses in sports clothes, swears like a he-man on occasion, and is an utter stranger to bigotry or priggishness of any sort ."
Given the climate Benedict and Yaeger described and the priggishness of today's Hall monitors, we can expect the Pro Football Hall of Fame to become a tougher place to crack than the LPGA Hall of Fame was before it relaxed its performance criteria.
That is until Harry resigns his commission, drawing disdain from his father, the general ( Tim Pigott-Smith, who's playing the same exemplar of British upper-class priggishness he displayed in " Jewel in the Crown " ).
However, prison would be a crucial formative experience for Orton; the isolation from Halliwell would allow him to break free of him creatively; and he would clearly see what he considered the corruption, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country.