The City Madam is the profligate Lady Frugal (the splendidly purse-lipped Sara Crowe), whose two terminally spoiled daughters, like their mother, have forgotten that they are dependent on their rich but cynical, penny-pinching merchant father, Sir John Frugal (who bought his knighthood) for their station in life as well as their lifestyle. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)
But from the meeting with the mind-reading priest ("Give up the other woman…") to the miracle of the money (oh dear, an actual godsend) and the clumsily shoehorned encounter with the daughter's new father-in-law's "discarded first wife" you felt the mechanism of a purse-lipped morality tale clunking away. ❋ Phil Hogan (2010)
Bates 'mother clearly was a person who valued respectability, in a purse-lipped and narrow kind of way; and her loving son was brought up to be mannerly and soft-spoken. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The finished book is a "highly selective" and dry-eyed 400-page account that includes reflections on sex (he's for it), class, his "purse-lipped and silent" military father Eric, and tragically romantic mother, Yvonne, who killed herself during an extramarital rendezvous in Greece. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The purse-lipped budgeters will deny these poor creatures the benefit of health care under the pretext of giving them a "choice" when, in truth, the only choice they have is whether to lose their homes and neglect their families or to seek the care that is needed from a recalcitrant welfare system that is being methodically choked by the same pinch-penny politicians who have created the situation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not a peroxide, blingy, purse-lipped, snarly blonde but a young woman who looks you in the eye; the sort who could jump out of a helicopter, ski and and shoot deer at the same time. ❋ Ms Robinson (2009)
Mom and grandma look on with purse-lipped disapproval. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
Thus, claim purse-lipped bankers, they must protect themselves from us by ratcheting up rates and fees. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A mere pitching change is an occasion "para rumbiar," and the purse-lipped riot squad is always on the move with their spanking machetes swinging from their hips. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She voted to authorize the purse-lipped nincompoop to do just what he did, when fully half of the Democrats didn't. ❋ Unknown (2009)
An offhand threat to commit genocide in Iran, more purse-lipped and prissy insistence that Wright "wouldn't have been my pastor," and the supremely cynical act of pimping for votes by supporting this ludicrous "gas-tax holiday." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Media Watch: TCM played THREE versions of The Wizard of Oz over the holiday -- the 1910 tableaux with Bebe Daniels when she was a child, an odd racist pastiche from the mid-20's with Oliver Hardy -- featuring Dorothy as a purse-lipped flapper princess, plus MGM's classic from 1939. ❋ Michael Evans (2006)
Were I not an English gentleman, I might conclude that Verity was a caustic, supercilious, purse-lipped shrew with a spellchecker. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I'm with the anonymous commenter just above--it drives me nuts that most or maybe all, I forget of the school librarians quoted in the article were, or at least came off as, purse-lipped fearful defenders of censorship, when that's not at all representative of the field. ❋ Fusenumber8 (2007)
The theme is a constant, and a different thing entirely from the purse-lipped descriptions of "polyglot swarming" neighborhoods we associate with HPL's race discourse. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)
This is a 10, even from the purse-lipped impossible to please Russian judge. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)
I thought of that purse-lipped, deeply suspicious gent when I read this. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)
I did come in second in a two-man race "— a slight pause and a purse-lipped smile, in honor of the mild joke, and then the segue —" but here's my point. ❋ Unknown (2004)
