(1) She plays Tracy Flick, an extreme overachiever who has set her prissy little heart on becoming president of the school council.

(2) While America proved unready for the debut Rosset published, its mainstream chances stifled by a prissy New York Times review, France took the book to its heart and today Guinzburg is a national celebrity there.

(3) The colours weren't girlie or prissy , but unusual and beautiful, with unexpected combinations of salmon pink, cream and peat brown, jade and raspberry, or orange and baby blue.

(4) But basically, all you need to know is she's wandering the familiar halls of Eisenhower high right now back in comfortable Indiana as I sit in some prissy old school all the way in Virginia.

(5) They don't want a prissy bar for freaky u2018beautiful peopleu2019 where they can sip cocktails and chat about style.

(6) Think how much better it is that the opposite: prissy , priggish public expression and sinning like mad privately.

(7) Lemmon acts prissy and proper while Matthau schmoozes with the ladies, all the while acting like a general lout.

(8) Imagine how that set of policies, from this prissy pillar of property and propriety, would radicalize national taxation in any modern state.

(9) The look was schoolmarm prissy , but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.

(10) Good enough for me, I dearly hope that this school doesn't end up to be a prissy school in which everyone wears khakis and blouses all the time.

(11) And everyone is guided, not by the oracle, but by a prissy astrologer named Farley.

(12) It's always a joy to watch prissy corporate mail filters twitch their lace curtains and bounce back NTK when they spot a phrase they don't like.

(13) If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.

(14) And we gentle Poms have acclaimed your control, admired your velocity, wet ourselves over the immaculate precision of your bouncers and waxed lyrical over your infinite superiority to our own prissy dobbers.

(15) Kath, a sex-crazed single mother, comes under the scrutiny of her prissy daughter, Kim, when the younger woman leaves her husband and moves back in with Mum.

(16) Though, I fear that I am becoming the woman I created for this fau00e7ade; prim, proper, prissy .

(17) She's a brave choice for a lead, a brittle, almost prissy character who reacts to her situation with irritation and denial more than anything else.

(18) There was nothing prissy at all about another starter which consisted of a pile of rocket, aubergine puru00e9e, fried artichokes slices, shavings of Parmesan and basil on an agreeably chewy slice of toasted olive oil bread.

(19) He flails around at everyone but directs most of his outbursts towards Margaret who acts like a prissy school teacher.

(20) Actually, the man does sound rather a jerk, but no more so than the prissy madam who lectures him about u2018Good Medical Practiceu2019 while depriving him of his living for the crime of stating an unwelcome truth.

(21) U2018You shouldn't laugh at other's mistakes, Lionel,u2019 she said prissily .

(22) It was perched prissily on the pillow of Mr. and Mrs. Chonce's neatly made bed.

(23) Lyndhurst is ideally cast in the title role, a slightly malevolent character in the background, acidic of tongue and a picture of prissiness .

(24) U2018I'd know, and that's enough,u2019 Dennis said rather prissily .

(25) We each turned to Antonio who was gazing prissily at his nails, examining them closely.

(26) Keep them away from me, their prissiness is getting to my brain.

(27) This and adjacent forms of speech do not, however, go with any narrow prissiness .

(28) He retained mahua liquor and tribal sensuality, but brought in the prissiness of the urban middleclass, plus his own reticence.

(29) The complete lack of prissiness , pretentiousness and pomp among the Knights ensures that they themselves would never broadcast such an opinion, but there is a growing weight to it.

(30) Instead he just turns a page of his newspaper prissily , not even looking up.