| But despite the pertinence and importance of Dawn's critique, her schoolmarmish, finger-wagging tone may put people off. |
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| She combines the schoolmarmish authority of Barbara Woodhouse with the diva presence of Barbra Streisand. |
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| The delivery may be faintly schoolmarmish, but the substance is unexpectedly funky. |
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| The vice president, alas, will no doubt sound just as schoolmarmish when getting in his licks as when he's disgorging numbers. |
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| After a few seconds, she arched her eyebrows in a schoolmarmish way, as if to say, Are we ready to go on? |
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| One of them, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, a former president of Legco with a schoolmarmish manner, enjoys a measure of popularity. |
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| Ganz took note of the glass in my hand with a raised eyebrow and a schoolmarmish pursing of his lips. |
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| Linda chuckled, peering at me over her reading glasses in that schoolmarmish way that turns on the schoolboy in me every time. |
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| In a sense, McGuinty was unopposed, since the Conservatives under Tim Hudak managed to sound as inept and schoolmarmish as the Liberals. |
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| His lapses from ethical discrimination into thumpy moralizing manifest a peculiar schoolmarmish mistrust of his discernment. |
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| Ultimately, The Great British Bake Off is never a one-horse race, it's a dark-horse race, making the show itself a gentle, schoolmarmish admonishment to those brasher TV talent shows. |
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| Ashlee Simpson, strangely blond and schoolmarmish in headband and funereal black suit, depended on dad Joe and new boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama to keep away the riff-raff. |
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| Her schoolmarmish resentment at seeing a canonical figure whom she had spent so many years studying handled in this rough manner was the sort of thing he lived for. |
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| The new party is surfing a rising wave of schoolmarmish disapproval of how we've just ruined our lovely democratic republic with the things we vote for. |
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| Her schoolmarmish tone and slightly toffee-nosed air make her perfect for the part of an ageing vicar's wife in the new stage production of Entertaining Angels. |
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