fustiness

The play's targets – establishment fustiness, snobbery, racism and duplicity – aren't surprising, but the serpentine subtlety of the plotting is.

The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review 2011

First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones.

The Hard Sell: American Airlines 2012

The Standard-BearersHere are some of the prophets and pathfinders who helped clear away the last of the old formality, fustiness and frou-frou.

Design Literacy: A Primer 2007

Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology.

Archive 2006-04-01 Alistair Myles 2006

Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology.

Today's Today Alistair Myles 2006

In fact, one of the refreshing things about this CD is the complete lack of classical or "early music" fustiness.

Songs From The Labyrinth 2006

In fact, one of the refreshing things about this CD is the complete lack of classical or "early music" fustiness.

Songs From The Labyrinth 2006

In fact, one of the refreshing things about this CD is the complete lack of classical or "early music" fustiness.

Songs From The Labyrinth 2006

Before you go the fusuma are slidden back, and what was your room becomes part of a great, open, matted space — an arrangement which effectually prevents fustiness.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

There's a fustiness about Mr. Beatty's uncharacteristically lackluster stage set, which he locates sort of in the 17th century.

A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing? 2003