| Mr S was very prudish and old-fashioned in thinking he could shield his children from his playboy reputation. |
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| But the family had never been prudish about nudity, Danny, a nurse, explained. |
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| It's not that Paul swears a lot or that I'm prudish about bad language, it's just a surprise to see his glossy showman veneer crack a little. |
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| He points to the UK where, despite a generally prudish approach, underage pregnancies are rife. |
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| Well, the Elizabethans wore voluminous clothing, and an item or two less should not offend even the most prudish, we suppose. |
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| But only the most prudish will have been shocked by the news that Huntington Working Men's Club has finally allowed women into its games room. |
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| The Victorian age was supposed to have been temperate, prudish, serious and industrious, rather like the good Queen herself. |
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| Unlike the prudish Victorians, Lady Mary adopted the Middle Eastern language of flowers to express decidedly carnal desires. |
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| Call me fussy and prudish, but I realised then and there that the relationship would not survive the evening. |
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| Anyhow, this post is all about farting, so if you have problems with that and are a bit prudish, then probably you might not want to read any further. |
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| Our great-grandparents were rather less prudish than we might imagine. |
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| Europeans unvexed by nudity might then escape American advertisers' prudish standards. |
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| What likewise astonishes is how Victorian, prudish, and ultra-conservative in thought most of us really are despite the claim to modernity and non-traditionalism. |
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| There is nothing wrong with a hint of glamour in this dull and increasingly prudish world. |
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| Sure, Cyrus almost certainly knew the Adore You video would spark a prudish outcry, but it's still the least flashy thing she's done of late. |
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| But it is also a land so prudish that its film industry has only recently started to show kisses on screen. |
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| I also get the feeling that they want to criminalise parents who, they believe, do not raise their children in a sufficiently prudish manner. |
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| People who disagree with them are considered prudish, backward, inhibited, and moralistic. |
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| This show is not for the prudish, this series has no qualms with nudity or taking the camera into the bedroom. |
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| Landscape» explores the arid lands of the prudish Albion, deep-rooted in the contemplation of its eternal nature. |
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| It is not about being prudish, or easily embarrassed, or unliberated. |
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| Conservative women who dare to run for office are simultaneously attacked as sleazy and prudish. |
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| Who knew a country notorious for selling used underwear in vending machines could be so prudish? |
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| For a pleasure-loving, hard-drinking barfly, my wife's father was surprisingly prudish. |
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| She was jumpy in Arthur's presence, and her refusal to respond to his mild flirtations made her seem prudish and ill-humored. |
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| The prudish Gorky was an odd duck in this arch, gamy, free-loving company, and his association with it alienated him from his downtown compeers — including de Kooning, who nonetheless loyally defended him. |
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| Ann Petersen as the virginal Elisabeth, splendid in an Ava Gardner-style satin gown, showed the intelligence and strong-mindedness of a role that can seem merely prudish, making up for some unevenness of tone. |
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| We are afraid to be labelled backward, old-fashioned, prudish, moralistic, etc. Our pride can make us afraid to stand up for honest values because we want to look like we are forward-thinking individuals. |
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| Oh, my goodness gracious me! where was I? Where was Robert? To happen to me, a sort of prudish old maid, who kept her house so strict! |
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| I only sounded prudish trying to talk to him about it. |
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| The difference, he would say, is that even the most prudish Victorians saw sexuality largely as a private matter, which the state should neither judge nor attempt to regulate. |
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| But whilst it's easy for some to dismiss those calling for Scudamore's resignation as prudish, comments like his can have a damaging effect on workplace culture that needs to be tackled from the top. |
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| Those who are prudish have prurient thoughts. |
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| For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze. |
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| Crammed with corrupt cops, nymphish flappers, black market violence, and prunish, prudish temperance activists, HBO's latest drama has lots for a libertarian to like. |
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