The film is charming and funny, especially when the professor of literature, in high squeamishly un-erotic professorial mode, proceeds to explain that the Wife of Bath is extremely hot. |
Woolf squeamishly refrains from explaining how the physical difficulties that would arise from this situation are surmounted. |
But we're normally a bit too inhibited, squeamishly embarrassed, or cynical to make a big gushy American-style flag-waving fuss about it, except when it comes to sport. |
Carl Zimmer describes in his squeamishly gripping book Parasite Rex how, eventually, the barnacle fills the entire carapace of the crab, which becomes, in effect, a zombie. |
And yet I almost like the girl, or should if she had been less proudly and squeamishly brought up. |
To squeamishly add almost, to prevaricate with five or maybe six, to stumble and say five or six or seven, is to lose credibility and control and possibly the trial. |