| We each turned to Antonio who was gazing prissily at his nails, examining them closely. |
| Instead he just turns a page of his newspaper prissily, not even looking up. |
| It was perched prissily on the pillow of Mr. and Mrs. Chonce's neatly made bed. |
| Alex Jennings is superb, too, as the pained, prissily fastidious Britten … while Frances de la Tour as the stage manager, and Adrian Scarborough as the biographer Humphrey Carpenter, give performances of comic perfection. |
| It's no fun prissily adhering to grammatical rules if it's mandatory. |
| But as Terpsichore, Sterling Hyltin was too much of a debutante, prissily playing hard to get. |
