Sentence examples for so proper from inspiring English sources

Aquavit wasn't always so proper.

It was so proper it drove you crazy".

So proper talks about a marriage of Intesa and Capitalia might start soon.

So proper feeding is the first step in breaking the cycle of poverty.

"You know those English people, so proper," said Mr. Smith, chuckling.

Benji had never seen him look so proper, so neat, so unlike the groundskeeper he knew.

Now tarted-up interpretations of the oh-so-proper 1950's look are being resurrected for fall.

"Soames, you're such a stick!" Winifred tells her oh-so-proper brother, an irrefutable comment that makes Soames an unlikely character to hold a series together.

Its renowned lollipops (in chocolate, butterscotch and other flavors) are sold at the oh-so-proper Fairfield Women's Exchange in Southport, Conn., and the New York social lioness Nan Kempner, a San Francisco native, is a lifelong devotee.

She's secretly happy to be rid of all the possessions they've accumulated in 32 years of marriage, and she decides to jettison many of the stuffy, oh-so-proper habits she's acquired in those years as well.

Memoirs by Arthur Gelb and Ben Hecht, she noted, both describe racier newsrooms a century ago — when "journalism was considered by many as 'a catch basin for hooligans, bar flies, and minor swindlers.' " Perhaps dwindling newspapers and magazines, Dowd suggested, should look to their not-so-proper past for instruction on how to survive their shrinking fortunes today.