When she was told that the solid young man making spaniel's eyes at her across the room was Prince Bertil of Sweden, then a naval attaché at the embassy, she pertly replied: "And I'm the Queen of Sheba .It seemed she had always longed to be royal; or at least to be better than a girl had a right to expect, when she came from a mid-terrace house on Garden Street in Swansea.
A chilled soup of fava beans and peas tasted like distilled spring, while a green-bean salad, pertly dressed with a cucumber vinaigrette, was almost too abundant for the plate.
A former news announcer for the network, she was pertly pretty, dressed in a black velvet dress and a gauzy pink scarf.
In this sequence they are joined by the show's class clowns, the pertly girlish Laura Mead as Betsy, and the lovable goof Charlie Neshyba-Hodges as Marty.
As this dismissive lass, who only begins to understand the depth of Silvius's attachment when she herself falls instantly under the sway of Ms. Rylance's uninterested Ganymede, Ashlie Atkinson moves from pertly imperious to dumbstruck with hilarious speed.
Rebekah Camm, a soprano, was a slyly devious Mrs. Cat. Blythe Gaissert, a mezzo-soprano, sang pertly as Auntie Duck.
"I always make it a rule never to look at anything until I'm starring in it," she pertly explains.
Instead of pertly bickering and sweating the small stuff, Reagan ChristinaApplegate and Chris Will Arnettnett) split their time between whispering profanities over the cuteness of their baby and bemoaning their new status as domesticated party animals.
Anyone who went to high school will recognize her as the star of the musical: richly talented and pertly determined that you know it.
No sooner had you come to grips with the succulence Mr. Bowlin and Mr. Rubin brought to Beethoven's opening Adagio-Allegro, then you were jolted sidelong into the tart bursts and gelatinous smears of Mr. Lewis's pertly truculent "Fanfare".
After a spell in which tennis-related style features were a byword for knicker-shots of pertly ponytailed blondes, the sartorial game has stepped up in sophistication with the prospect of a battle between Federer and Rafael Nadal: the preppy versus the pirate.
