primness

The Left will never be able to renounce its primness.

She looked up at him with an air of demure primness.

Certainly I'd never detected any trait of primness in him before.

Elizabeth settled back in the seat and relaxed her primness.

Her primness was so blatantly false, he would have laughed some other time.

A note of excitement disguised beneath intense primness came into her voice.

"Now you forget your part," and Christie's primness vanished in a laugh.

Smith smiled in the dark room at Klein's primness.

There was an irritating primness about her, that was it.

The primness does not accord very well with his talents in that direction."

That matronly primness, from the child she was, went near to ending my patience.

I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.

Its music gains intensity by straining against primness without ever abandoning it.

Has anyone ever found the passion in primness the way Rosemary Harris can?

The ensemble began by dancing as if it equated correctness with primness.

It's not primness that leads one to like Grand Central without billboards.

There was a primness about the gesture that began to rekindle Blade's anger.

He also noticed a certain rectitude, a tight primness, at odds with his easy sociability.

"But it's not what I prefer; that's the legal position," Luce said with a return to his old primness.

She tucked the bill into her purse and then endeavored to look at him with an expression of dignified primness.

Conchita waited until he had gone away again, then tipped the veil from her face with an air of angelic primness.

Ms. Graham's straightforward, poised primness has little to do with her character's emotional effusiveness.

Joan answered his letters with an adorable primness that filled him with delight.

That primness seemed sweet to him.

She had been amused by this urban primness when she first went to work in mainland city newsrooms.