A Miss-Jean-Brodie, in a prim sweater and 50s style skirt, black tights and court shoes. |
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I approach the deputy manager, a prim and very well-spoken lady called Karen. |
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She looked very prim but stylish in a blue suit with a matching cloche hat. |
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Looking prim and proper, and every inch a little lady, Miss Destiny looked demurely down at her hands. |
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Her mother spat fire whenever she caught Danielle sitting in any position other than the normal prim and proper, ramrod stiff spine lady pose. |
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There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson. |
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Creatures like Morris's centaurs hardly qualify as fallen men, and they lie outside the church's prim jurisdiction. |
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But in fact Miss Bates is a triumph of style, because she has her own unruly style, which is a part of Austen's prim one. |
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Young, eager and unshockable, the maid arrives in the prim household, an unwelcome and disruptive presence for her condescending hosts. |
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She was very prim and straight-laced looking, and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance. |
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It's easy to mock Delia, for she's crisp as an iceberg lettuce, prim as a poached egg. |
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Thus is the tone set early on, and it's decidedly at odds with our notions today of the prim and proper Victorians. |
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She is from the 1960's, but extremely prim and proper, a very quiet, moral woman. |
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You heard the Postmaster was here, and so you must prink and prim yourself in front of the mirror. |
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After Henry croaked, Katherine dropped the prim and proper act and married Thomas Seymour. |
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So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry. |
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She appeared in a white suit jacket with an apricot blouse and a prim ruffle down the front. |
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At one point she thought she would laugh aloud at how prim and proper they both sounded, when just below the surface, tension seethed. |
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She is simply adorable in her bustle gowns and ringlets, all prim modesty one moment, saucily displaying her ankles the next. |
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Beverly played a prim townswoman in a pink silk dress, complete with bonnet, parasol, corset, and petticoat. |
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Until they started to dance, they looked prim and librarian-like in their dark-colored culottes topped by demure, sheer, white blouses. |
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These dainties are consumed by groups of tourists, who eat in prim little bites and whisper among themselves like they're sitting in church. |
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Being a prim and proper spinster, Jane Austen did not use the family scandal in any of her novels. |
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It was true Lily was extraordinarily prim and proper when she started going to Alex's school. |
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She was prim and icy, with a Medusa-like glance that vainly tried to gorgonize the desperate ill-clad man before her. |
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The neighbors were prim and proper, from their impeccable manners down to their neatly manicured lawns. |
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There not very far from them sat the Princess, sitting very prim and proper, watching the fish play in the fountain pool. |
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But Australia has always had a seam of prim respectability running alongside its man o' the people stuff. |
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There was no prim and proper lady to be seen near the Great Hall, for they had no great mind to walk outside whilst it was raining. |
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As he babysits the babes, he tries to mould them into prim and proper ladies in this fish-out-of-water caper as they in turn teach Roland the art of seduction. |
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Nathan thinks he has got a surefire win, because Sarah is a prim goody-two-shoes. |
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With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility. |
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And where are they going to find somebody as prim and pretty and sweet-sounding as Julie Andrews? |
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I'm surprised there wasn't a prim bird, vetted for proper conduct, on Tirico's shoulder. |
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There's still an undeniable English order about it – grand whitewashed buildings with prim names. |
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His close-cut blue suits and pinched shirt collars make him look prim even by Washington's atavistic standards of attire. |
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Mr Johnston could never find the spark in Lewis Carroll's Alice, with her prim hairband and her white apron, and thought the film a failure. |
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I feel like the prim and proper news supervisors do not do that in this field. |
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That made her stand out a little bit, and that she wasn't too prim and proper. |
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Though encouraged to be prim and proper in their play, girls as well as boys enjoyed the winter sport of sledding, a typically Canadian pastime. |
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In those rooms where traditionally you might expect to find prim and proper colours, the creamy yellows of the moment surprise the eye. |
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There are freckled little kids and rouged old biddies, elegant fashionistas and prim gentlemen. |
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Mr Walker, the 46-year-old son of a Baptist minister, could pass for a youth pastor: all prim amiability and very neat hair. |
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Causing a commotion down Emmerdale way is Laurel, who's gone from prim vicar's ex-wife to vodka-quaffing hellraiser. |
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To ask this, both sides insist with prim faces, is entirely to miss the point. |
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Key informants listed a num ber of prim ary barriers and challenges to employm ent faced by their clients. |
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If the selection rectangle extends over a part of the prim, but it does not include the datum point then the prim is not selected. |
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Almost as angry as the descriptions of poverty was Orwell's denunciation of the chasm between prim middle-class socialists and the rickets and rankness of working-class life. |
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The torn and dirty breeches, sackcloth shirt, and tangled hair did not exactly jibe with the mental image she had formed of the prim and sharply dressed servant's master. |
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None of those prim roses, bleeding hearts or pansies this year, no sir. |
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In her mug shot, she looks so prim in her shawl-collared coat, with its horizontal weave, buttoned up high and proper. |
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See exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the prim and proper actress at a project for a Scottish clothing brand. |
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That's prim as in a sea of peely-wally, defiantly untoned flesh. |
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Even the waiters, prim and proper and offering excellent service during the day, turn into veritable fleet-footed dancers in the evening, even dragging guests on to the floor. |
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When her 12-year-old sister, prim, is selected to compete in the Hunger Games, Katniss volunteers to go instead. |
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She had the look of a prim and proper lady of the Victorian times, with her well tended hair, all neatly tied in a bun, and simple, ankle length dress. |
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She was even prim and proper during the bloopers at the end of her show. |
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The second was an elderly lady, prim and proper in her Victorian dress. |
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The new Article 14 prim of the Law introduced by the Amending Law recognises the ECB's exclusive right to authorise the issue of euro banknotes within the Community. |
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This new restaurant may have the name of a strumpet, but it has the mien of a prim maiden aunt, with its marble-topped tables, dusky pink seats, cut-glass lustres, and ornately framed mirrors. |
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Dainty diamante clips work well for winter weddings while headbands add a prim note to party frocks. |
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Raj, an impulsive, middle class, hard working, emotional fellow allows cupid to play havoc with his heart strings and in comes Priya, the prim and proper, sophisticated and practical girl. |
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If we don't watch out, we'll all be living in a very prim and proper area. |
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Choose from revealing micro minis, cool surfie styles, prim pinstripes and crisp cotton drills. |
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The KRG focused prim arily on prom oting programs and services to people with disabilities and on increasing internal capacity to better serve this client gr oup. |
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We've been so prim and proper this season. |
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In the old days, Miss Rheingolds seemed prim and proper. |
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Foreign exchange transaction risk arises prim transactions. |
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One minute you are talking to a lorry driver from Cardiff, the next a prim retired couple from Edinburgh or a squaddie going to London for a night out. |
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It might sound a prim precaution in the bohemian world of entertainment, but in an industry where the casting couch is still a tacitly recognised route to the top, it may have its place. |
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His flirty scenes with Annette Bening as the prim hotel manager, at first immune to Collins's money and charisma, are, like the central character himself, silly but full of charm. |
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The likes of Louis Vuitton and Prada embraced 1950s nostalgia with wasp-waisted circle skirts or prim and proper pencil skirts, along with corset-style tops. |
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It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors. |
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The aesthetic of the house is prim and country, with white beadboard knee walls around the first floor and pale flowered wallpaper in the Shaker-style kitchen. |
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From the tough guys forced to dress as women to the prim parson reluctantly press-ganged into working with the prisoners to save his harpsichord from being heaved overboard. |
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Even in her prim, modest sweater and slacks, she may be the best-dressed person among them. |
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Prim is a maker of classic and sport-style Czech watches with cases crafted of platinum, gold, stainless steel or damask steel. |
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In the left frame is the IWS control hierarchy, consisting of Cell, WS, Task, Emove, Prim, and Servo, which are acronyms that correspond to the control levels specified above. |
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