Only a prude would expect their politicians not to exaggerate.
However, we know he was a prude and I perceive him, to a certain degree, as a prick and smug and that is where we start.
And while she had shrugged off ridicule on such occasions as her setting up a public morals squad (the "chastity commission" of popular parlance) or, prude though she was, her enlisting the help of Louis XV's mistress, Mme de Pompadour, in order to obtain the French alliance, the accusation of "lachrymose hypocrisy" raised in foreign courts during the Polish affair distressed her.
For his performance of this task Daniele earned the nickname Il Braghettone (or Brachettone; "The Breeches Maker"), as well as an undeserved posthumous reputation as a prude.
If that surprises you, it shouldn't –after all, "slut" is just the other side of the same sexist coin that calls women "frigid" or "prude".
Frank Sinatra is just right as the sharply dressed but endlessly harassed gambler Nathan Detroit, while Marlon Brando brings a Method-style intensity as well as an unexpected charm to his role as the hustler Sky Masterson, out to seduce Salvation Army prude Jean Simmons to win an outlandish bet.
The cast is so diverse – there are black people, transgender people, Hispanic people…" The series is also notable for its lesbian sex scenes, which offers a more candid and less prude take than other shows.
"I wasn't really allowed to enter into their homes – people in Brittany are a bit shy, or prude," as she puts it.
I'm actually a bit of a prude at heart.
For the record, I'm neither ageist nor a prude.
