The slightest progressive wrinkles of even the starchiest corporate Democrats have been ironed out by media steamrollers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It doesn't sound like a cheerful topic, and I don't suppose that is is, but it's a beautiful story beautifully told by young men in the starchiest and stuffiest school uniforms who whip out handheld microphones to sing their innermost thoughts, and the young women in long dresses who find something stirring but know not what. ❋ The Brillig Blogger (2008)
For when only the starchiest of starches will do ... but you'd rather not work too hard. ❋ Suricattus (2005)
And that night he donned his starchiest uniform, pinned on his bright service medals, and made the round of the tiendas, throwing chests at the black-haired girls behind the counters. ❋ Charles Goff Thomson (N/A)
Sometimes they say that all starches should be avoided and in the next breath prescribe toast, one of the starchiest of foods. ❋ R. L. Alsaker (N/A)
Miss Prunty had on her starchiest collar and most formal tie. ❋ Various (N/A)
When they had a wedding that night, and Buck and Addy got married, we got ourselves up in the very starchiest of the professor's duds for the blow-out, and when they danced we jined in and shook a foot up there. ❋ Unknown (1894)
The cleanest and starchiest of curtains, the most dazzling and whitest of tidies and chair-covers, bespoke the adjacent laundry; indeed, the whole cottage seemed to exhale the odors of lavender soap and freshly ironed linen. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
She took life with a zest unknown to us New Yorkers, and let the starchiest people in the house know that she was glad to see them when they returned after an absence by going across the dining-room to shake hands with them and to inquire whether they had had a good time. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
These changes make sense, except that not all carbs are treated equally: fructose-laden fruit and all but the starchiest vegetables have zero points under the new plan. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The flour appears to have been ground from the starchiest, underground parts of cattails, ferns and other plants. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"While this movie's barrage of gynecology-inspired jokes would have driven the prudes at the old Hays Office mad, its story, about a young man trying to do what used to be the very definition of the Right Thing, might equally have brought a smile of approval to the lips of the starchiest old-Hollywood censor." ❋ Unknown (2009)
