schoolmarmish

• But after a promising start, it partly may be the resurgent series 'slide toward juvenility and direct aim at subteen audiences that robs Tomlin's role of its potential, as Clouseau is prevented from doing or saying much that is truly outrageous to provoke the woman's schoolmarmish wrath. —  Variety.com
• The results were clear from the start: a society where values like thrift, industry, and prudence come to be quaintly out-of-place, the schoolmarmish admonitions of bores and prudes who haven't the faintest clue how the copper is really beaten around here. —  Caracas Chronicles
• Faced with schoolmarmish lectures about giving up our creature comforts, our ids rebel: We don't have the time to be frugal; we deserve a reward for our hard work; we want our HBO. —  SmartMoney.com
• Didn't watch the Palin interview, but it seems that he tried to trip her up by Dowdifying a quote and then leaning in and going all schoolmarmish - "Exact words, sweetie, exact words" - which his doctored quote of course wasn't. —  Cold Fury
• Drop the schoolmarmish lectures about democracy and forget about grand intellectual strategies: What's needed here is some principled pragmatism. —  Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories

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