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The Gorbag passage I quoted is, I think, an example of Tolkien's Authorial Talent shouldering his Priggish Metaphysical Concerns out of the driving seat for a while you can see a similar dynamic in Milton's handling of Satan, but, as I lamented in the article, it doesn't last long, AT gets booted into the back seat again and PMC is back in charge.

The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

Pro-smoking groups have hit back at a proposed ‘smoking permit’ law by suggesting a tandem ‘Mealymouthed Priggish Fuck’ scheme.

Archive 2008-02-01 Push Jelly 2008

Priggish romantic conservatism is an inverse but equivalent to politically cynical post-modernism, both just as tin-eared and blind to art or beauty.

Complicating and transcending institutional parameters with oblique, allegorical, uncertain sociopolitical themes... Ann Althouse 2008

Pro-smoking groups have hit back at a proposed ‘smoking permit’ law by suggesting a tandem ‘Mealymouthed Priggish Fuck’ scheme.

‘Suppose I Kick Your Spine Out?’ Say Smokers Push Jelly 2008

Priggish PC attitudes, whether on the right or the left, are inappropriate at a time like that.

Posing with the suicide bomber. Ann Althouse 2006

Priggish, in a way, proud of her wide-eyed charity.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

Priggish and haughty, entirely caught up in her own consequence, she held no charm for him, handsome as she was … and no charm, either, he suspected, for anyone else.

The English Witch Chase, Loretta 1988

Priggish and uncharitable people may ejaculate: “The reward of cupidity!”

Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899

Priggish and uncharitable people may ejaculate: "The reward of cupidity!"

The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont Louis de Rougemont 1884

Priggish though it may sound, I prefer to ignore these periods of national hysteria; after all, politics is nasty everywhere, it's just that America does everything in extremes.

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