school-marmish

I'd forgotten how handy these things are; you can't buy this stuff from Iran because of school-marmish “trading with the enemy” laws, and enriched uranium that comes out of North Korea is about what you'd expect from a dictatorship run by a cult leader who wears platform heels; you don't order out for Korean food, do you?

How to Make an Atom Bomb While Your Wife's Away Con Chapman 2011

Generally, the consensus is that the writers are old and nasty and jealous and curmudgeonly and school-marmish and politicaly motivated.

Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009

Gibson looked school-marmish with his glasses perced on the end of his nose and the camera angle looked like he was looking down on her; short skirt, her pair of gams and 3 inch heels.

Sarah Palin On Bush Doctrine: Homina, Homina, Homina 2009

But even its educational value is ruined by a school-marmish tone and a style that harks back to the earliest consumer software.

Six Antidotes For Old Age 2008

A bare two months out from the first of the presidential primaries, the pollsters, plus the majority of the media, have all but called it for Hillary --- and her recent prevarications and school-marmish lectures during the last Democratic debate seem not to have damped the prognosticators 'resolve.

Celeste Fremon: Can Obama's "Soft Power" Still Play Hardball? 2008

Gotta love toddlers, though, as he explained to me in a very school-marmish way this morning that there was a difference between a brachiosaurus and a brontosaurus, and it is that the brachiosaurus has big nostrils on its head.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

Gotta love toddlers, though, as he explained to me in a very school-marmish way this morning that there was a difference between a brachiosaurus and a brontosaurus, and it is that the brachiosaurus has big nostrils on its head.

Blogging Etiquette & Miscellaneous Stuff 2005

Leaving aside the school-marmish, preachy, superior attitude that makes him such a magnet for parody, Gore is a phony.

Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007

But when it comes to a genuinely compassionate man like Robert Latimer, who presents absolutely zero risk of re-offending, he gets a school-marmish lecture and back to the pen he goes--after seven years of hard time imposed because he loved his daughter too much to see her suffer in constant, irremediable agony.

Parole Board insanity 2007

But when it comes to a genuinely compassionate man like Robert Latimer, who presents absolutely zero risk of re-offending, he gets a school-marmish lecture and back to the pen he goes--after seven years of hard time imposed because he loved his daughter too much to see her suffer in constant, irremediable agony.

Archive 2007-12-01 2007