Foujita's story would have been well served by a less prim biographer and a better-illustrated volume: in the case of an artist whose once-famous work is now relatively obscure, the paucity of reprints here (and that they have been reproduced in black and white) seems a crime.
Had Eichmann been a bit less prim or the police examination less discreet (it did not extend to cross-examination, presumably so that the examiner would be assured of his coöperation), his "lack of prejudice" might have shown itself in another aspect as well.
She is warmer, less prim, and with a hint of a hippy past, yet still the recognisable maiden aunt who carries everywhere a knitting basket and a pair of reading glasses.
Payne has a nice gag about Paul's wedding ring, which he is permitted to take to Leisureland, where it looks as massive as a life preserver, but there are pages of Swift that can boast half a dozen gags as inventive as that, and he's markedly less prim.
It's less prim than the Hundreds: the closest it gets to an Adam Bomb is an eye riddled with bulging blood vessels, staring out from baseball caps and the center of T-shirts.
What is known is that by the ninth century Arab authors such as Jaber bin Hayyan, an Iraqi polymath best known for elaborating al-jabr or algebra, were describing "flammable vapours" at the mouths of heated wine vessels.His contemporary, the legendary poet and lush Abu Nawas (who died in 815AD), was less prim.
Most newspapers similarly went for asterisking out the word's second half, although the Guardian and Observer were less prim and the Sindy (asterisks) and Indy (no asterisks) disagreed with each other, no doubt with impeccable politeness.
Felicity appears to be a prim, proper wife -- the antithesis of Harley.
With Prim, I'm a lot less likely to make it to the bottom of my sock drawer.
It's a pretty, prim production that is bafflingly devoid of gusto, earthiness and warmth.
