Cue Peppa
Prig episode when the very PC and ever-chortling Daddy Pig is making the family dinner.
You can see that Shakespeare, in Hamlet's disgust for Gertrude's middle-aged sexuality, has provided scope for another writer to flesh out both Gertrude as a femme fatale and Hamlet as a
prig.
Bawdily bemoaning her geographically unrequitable attraction to the Empire State Building, she dismisses the allure of the city's other eligible bachelors: "The Chrysler's not my type/The Trump is merely hype/And the Met/Sure can get/ Overbearing./The Woolworth's out of date!/The Guggenheim isn't straight!/And call me a
prig,/But the twins are too big/And they've got this thing for sharing."
She recently appeared as Betsy
Prig in the television adaptation of Martin Chuzzlewit and is looking forward to seeing The Last Of The Blonde Bombshells on TV.
She seems to have been an interesting, unassuming, kind woman and Edna Healey manages to get this across without making her sound a
prig or a bore.
The one new angle introduced here is that of the protag's mother (Frances McDormand), a somewhat eccentric intellectual who abhors rock, and particularly drugs, is far from being a standard-issue moralistic
prig. Character hovers over her son, and the entire film, in an often funny, sobering way, but, among other things, the fact that McDormand is so much better an actor than almost everyone else in the picture makes the others seem rather spineless in comparison.
Oliver is such an insufferable little
prig that you always end up sympathising with Fagin.
Perhaps that last comment has got me classified as a ``joyless
prig''.
I believe myself to be a reasonably well-balanced individual, and not some biased or sanctimonious
prig, as my wife and I follow the career of our rugby-playing offspring (her son/my stepson) wherever he plays.
Even Prince Charles - yes, he who is a bigger
prig than your dad got done for getting torn into the cherry brandy - and he was 12 at the time.
In his grossly simplified approach, hubby Phillip (Martin Donovan) is an academic
prig while prim-hatted Evelyn (Maya Stange) is a spunky saint with '90s ideas.
The turn- around came with the video of his grand jury testimony which revolted people - not against the man they regard as a cross between a queen and a prime minister, but against his hunters, especially the prurient
prig of a special investigator, Kenneth Starr.
From the sound of this dogmatic
prig, if I were unfortunate to be on the streets, I would keep well away from any shelter provided by the likes of her.
The gambit to fill the Caesar role with Preston is perhaps more interesting than rewarding, as one is hard-pressed to imagine this dewy-eyed
prig as a leader great enough to trump the more full-bodied title characters.
Thus on Elizabeth's brother Edward: 'only nine years old but already an accomplished
prig' and her sister Mary: 'was the older, uglier sister, with the ugly sister's taste for parading in rich fabrics and flashy jewels.'
