Buffoons, ninnies and prigs are not the stuff of historical curiosity.
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The James children were hothouse flowers, but their father was determined they not be prigs.
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For the prigs, the mania for FAANG stocks is as abhorrent as a split infinitive.
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Yet America had swarmed since its foundation with censors, prigs, prudes and bluenoses intent on sexual repression.
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We fancy ourselves a more egalitarian, unpretentious people than our European counterparts, but we're prigs these days about matters gastronomic.
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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.
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At the same time the intellectual elite—particularly the Bloomsbury set—took to ridiculing as prigs and bores the Victorian giants who had built up the economic and moral capital which they lived off.
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As mixed martial arts fans we've long grown accustomed to prudes and prigs and spoilsports lashing out at our favorite pastime with "evidence" (psychological, anatomical, ethical, historical-pastoral) that fighting as a source of amusement warps the minds of our children, debilitates the moral growth of our civilization, and sets back the cause of human evolution.
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Hissing Prigs in Static Couture received much acclaim from critics and fans and is considered as one of the band's best recordings, alongside Bonsai Superstar. In a contemporary review of the album for CMJ New Music Monthly, Jenny Eliscu described Brainiac as "Saturday Night Fever gone punk". Retrospectively, Magnet described the album as a "lost classic", while Wondering Sounds Yancey Strickler referred to it as "the band's undisputed masterpiece". Pitchfork ranked Hissing Prigs in Static Couture at number 73 on its list of the top 100 albums of the 1990s.
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In 1995 they played on the Lollapalooza side stage and recorded four songs in the UK for the BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions. They joined Touch and Go Records and released Internationale, produced by Kim Deal (of the Pixies). The following year, their third album, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture, was released on the Touch & Go label. All three of their albums were produced by Eli Janney (of Girls Against Boys).
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He supported the Boer War, which lost him support from some sections of the labour movement. Blatchford denounced his "cosmopolitan friends, who are so cosmopolitan that they can admire every country but their own, and love all men except Englishmen".Semmel, p. 217. He criticised the "smug, self-righteous prigs" in the labour movement who, while "despising military glory, are yet so eloquent over the marksmanship and courage of the Boers".
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The word appears in later writings by both Aquilino Ribeiro and Eça de Queirós. Gafforini returned to Milan and the stage of La Scala in 1806, appearing in the spring in a revival of La capricciosa pentita and in the summer in the premiere of La feudataria. However, there was trouble in the autumn season. Gafforini starred in the premiere of I saccenti alla moda (The Fashionable Prigs), a dramma giocoso satirizing the political regime of Milan.
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Hissing Prigs in Static Couture is the third and final studio album by American indie rock band Brainiac, released on March 26, 1996. It is the band's second release through Touch & Go Records, following the Internationale extended play released the year prior. The album incorporates more electronics than previous Brainiac releases, and hints towards the more synth-based electropunk style that the band would later focus on for their next extended play, and final release before Tim Taylor's death in 1997, Electro-Shock for President.
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No doubt a lot of research and speculation went into Jhabvala's > screenplay, but I wish she had finally decided to jump one way or the other. > The movie tells no clear story and has no clear ideas. In a negative review appearing in Rolling Stone magazine, Peter Travers said, > After a literate and entertaining roll (A Room With a View, Howards End, The > Remains of the Day), the team of producer Ismail Merchant, director James > Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala drops the ball with this droopy, > snail-paced prigs-in-wigs movie. It doesn't help that Nick Nolte is such a > lox as Thomas Jefferson ... [He] seems to think that playing an > introspective man means impersonating a wax dummy.
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