prudity

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Preposterous prudity in retrospect, but ah, for the age when there were some standards.

Very tiny Thursday note – The Bleat. 2010
Preposterous prudity in retrospect, but ah, for the age when there were some standards.

11 – February – 2010 – The Bleat. 2010
Preposterous prudity in retrospect, but ah, for the age when there were some standards.

February – 2010 – The Bleat. 2010
A seemingly simple story about a teenage cashier at an A&P store, Updike manages to shove in teenage sexuality, prudity, classism and the nature of work and taking a stand all in one short story.

John Updike; Trophy Wives Ed Gorman 2009
With hapsalap troth, hipsalewd prudity, hopesalot hon-nessy, hoopsaloop luck.

Finnegans Wake 2006
Perhaps these vulvas in Volvos are perfectly liberated from the prudity of Victorian minded Paglias.

Camille Paglia on... it's not my word.... "crotchgate." Ann Althouse 2006