prudery

1 The abortion issue doesn't just unify the Democratic base, it creates a wedge between the fundamentalists and the rest of the GOP base that isn't nearly so keen on the politics of prudery.

2 But he put that down to her old-fashioned prudery, and had forgiven her for it, since she now seemed quite willing to leave Joan alone with him.

3 The authors wage guerrilla war on prudery; they view sex as yodelingly absurd yet rather fun and, in this fantasia at least, consequence-free.

4 The 1940s carry the stamp of British prudery and paranoia.

5 But when you compare the good done by Catholic social services to the harm done by the church’s anachronistic prudery, the good overwhelms the harm.

6 The nearest approach to those “good old times” which our modern prudery admits, is the short skirts and the “tights” of the ballet.

7 And Twitter provides a smorgasbord of spluttering about the terrors of our new prudery.

8 Whether or not Huppert’s willingness reinforces assumptions about American prudery and French perversity, one could scarcely have hoped for a more accomplished or satisfying outcome.

9 It was, notably, a period of prudery, of all which, objectively, I disliked; while at the same time there had been the undercurrent of license that always accompanied an oppressive hypocrisy.

10 But the authors were after more than a simple international report card of prudery.

11 But when you strip away the social conventions from which a show’s crisis develops — prudery, repression, outerwear, what have you — you leave the action unmotivated and unmoored.

12 And, third — size rarely matters, though Schilthuizen does tell us that in that well-known era of prudery, the Victorian Charles Darwin discovered the most well endowed animal in the world.

13 I am advocating no moral prudery, nor religious bigotry.

14 The Christian right are the villains in "Footloose" and American attitudes towards the prudery caucus haven't grown any warmer since then.

15 This time it was apparently different, having to do with Mapplethorpe’s lack of inhibitions and his lover’s sexual prudery.

16 Pleasure and its unfettered indulgence drove the latter, who refused to put up with the prudery of polite society.

17 Offering up a sharp defense of art for art’s sake in his Gothic novel’s withering repudiation of Victorian prudery, he declared, “Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

18 A woman of artifice and prudery.

善使诡计而又故作正经的女性。

19 He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.

20 The case, however, made Comstock’s name synonymous with “prudery, Puritanism and officious meddling,” according to Broun and Leech.

1 大惊小怪

prissy prudish carry-on ballyhoo fussy fuss to-do hysteria hoo-ha make a drama out of make a big thing about make a big thing of make a thing about make a thing of a storm in a teacup a tempest in a teapot

2 过分拘谨

nice-nelly prudish pudibund uptight

3 拘礼

uncommunicative formality

4 假正经

demurely prim prudish pious goody

5 拘谨

stiff self-contained stuffy starchy prim inhibited punctilio

6 装正经

mump