Word: priggishness
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...fact your position has won out! The priggish, puritanical, blue-nosed, mandarin, snotty point of view that I represent has been utterly discredited, while the burger has come to accommodate a vast scope not just of proteins but of ethnicities and flavors and different sectors of society. Accessibility is just such a great thing. If everybody that looks at your product feels that they can join in and be a part of it, that's great. That's how I look at it. So for any great chef to put his or her favorite flavors between a bun, that just...
...Women and Nudity" by polling agency Ifop captures the mood. It found that younger French women not only have a problem with nudity - but actually consider themselves prudish. Fully 88% of the women questioned qualified themselves as pudique - a term that can mean anything from "modest" or "prim" to "priggish." And they aren't joking. Though 90% said they get naked with their husband or partner, 59% avoid being nude around their children. Sixty-three percent said they refused to undress around female friends; 22% said they considered a woman in her underwear already naked. (See TIME's France covers...
Vegetarian restaurants often suffer from a perception that they are, well, priggish - more about political correctness than sensual gratification, and filled with the kind of diners that take themselves, and their digestive systems, rather too seriously. Of course, there are a growing number of examples to the contrary, but I - a non-vegetarian not yet fully free of bias - have never seen a place that so thoroughly demolishes the stereotype than San Francisco's Millennium Restaurant, www.millenniumrestaurant.com...
...when he unveiled corruption charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday, referring to the governor's actions as a "political corruption crime spree" that brought the state's notoriously crooked politics to a "truly new low" and "would make Lincoln roll over in his grave." The rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like former Bush aide "Scooter" Libby. "It has become a cliché to compare him to Eliot Ness, the Chicago Prohibition agent whom television and movies...
...favorite to win Best Dramatic Actor at the Emmys on Sept. 18, Laurie, 46, is best known in Britain for playing lovable if priggish buffoons on the comic series Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. In Dr. Gregory House, Laurie and the show's writers have created TV's unlikeliest new hero. The Vicodin-popping specialist's own pain does little to quell his disdain for patients like a 9-year-old cancer victim ("She's such a brave girl; I want to see how brave she is when she hears she's going to die"). "Another actor...