T . S . Eliot was a genius and a prig-- not an endearing combination in life, and not an easy one to portray on screen.
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Yet her composite portrait may well further tarnish the image of a group of people who come off, for the most part, as tedious, overprivileged prigs.
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For those views, he has been reviled as a Nazi, a prig and someone out to make Seattle safe for the equally reviled yuppies of the world.
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In such a context, it becomes all too clear what an insufferable prig Coriolanus is, scorning the citizenry, comparing plebeians to crows pecking at patrician eagles.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig _ George Santayana, Spanish-born philosopher ( 1863-1952 ).
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He was remembered by historian John Edward Bowle, a year ahead of Blunt at Marlborough, as an intellectual prig, too preoccupied with the realm of ideas.
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Milton was after her dowry and when it did not follow he proved a domineering prig, unresponsive to her sensuousness or her down-to-earth wit.
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For several years, popular magazines have been saying that some Japanese are afflicted with " prig syndrome, " in which they view other people as dirty.
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Maybe, but the claim is unprovable and making it marked Gore anew as the class prig, just when he is supposed to be morphing into an alpha male.
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Call me an absolute prig, even, but I would not want a choir standing around singing the " Hallelujah Chorus " when I'm having a baby.
