How To Use Schoolmarm In A Sentence

  • You also said I looked like a woman (your mom) and now are calling me a schoolmarm, (another woman). Think Progress » Rubio: ‘I Don’t Think Any Of Us Are Going To Blame Israel’ If They Decide To Attack Iran
  • Everyone loved the schoolmarm, especially the no-good son of the landowner and a young black man, called Sam, who brought wild onions from the mountains and jars of peaches to sell.
  • The problem with me is that when I talk about my mission, I sound deadly serious because I'm a former schoolmarm.
  • The eyeglass chains hanging from her temples gave her pique a schoolmarmish edge. FATAL FLAW
  • The schoolmarm changes her profession and becomes an outlaw, called Kissin’ Kate Barlow.
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  • `If Elizabeth sounded like a schoolmarm, she didn't look like one. STAGE FRIGHT
  • Notable and new, to me at least, was the spectacle of matronly gents dressing up as their mothers, aunties and schoolmarms in dowdy conservative outfits, cheerlessly dispensing disapproval over all.
  • Over the course of the film, she evolves from slightly shy, awkward schoolmarm to a spitfire who can dish it right back to Howard even when he is at his loudest and most obnoxious, and Zellweger hits every note.
  • The schoolmarm buried within me is clamouring to get out.
  • But now she was standing behind the bench, looking down at me in a pose that was part schoolmarm and part Southern hanging judge.
  • But it's not just that Friedman is a little late to this realization, it's his tone of neo-Victorian moral condescension, that wheedling, whining schoolmarm-on-a-laptop tone of his that drives me beserko. Robert Teitelman: Thomas Friedman Discovers Reinvention Again
  • To some people, I suspect, she came to embody the negative image of the copy editor: punctilious, schoolmarmish and blue-stockinged.
  • Whiteside was set to wed "schoolmarm" Elaine Fair. Kansas City Kansan Homepage RSS
  • What film, even before that killjoy schoolmarm Joseph Breen brought his Squaresville strictness to the Production Code in 1934, has ever presented the potentially salacious scenario of three-way love in such a wistfully complicated way? Kim Morgan: It Takes Three: Design for Living
  • Not only was it the time of Reagan, but it was also when (anecdotally) the majority of teachers shifted from schoolmarm types to Mr. Van Dreesen hippie types. The Volokh Conspiracy » California High School Sends Kids Home for Wearing American Flag on Cinco de Mayo
  • It was an ice cream float gone guileful, a schoolmarm with a swagger.
  • We can perhaps see these two, in another life, as the unfailingly organized schoolmarm (Whitman) and the rebel rousing student (Brown). Jessica Levinson: Brown and Whitman Face-Off: Many Differences, Few Surprises
  • Are you a woman in her thirties or a schoolmarm from the thirties? Squawk
  • Doug reached out and gripped his ear, like an old style schoolmarm. SNOWJOB
  • Doug reached out and gripped his ear, like an old style schoolmarm. SNOWJOB
  • The look was schoolmarm prissy, but sexy and was every grown up boy's fantasy of a saucy school mistress or strict female dominant leader like Margaret Thatcher.
  • Many black teachers were themselves once students of the typical Yankee schoolmarms.
  • The following passage from Kipling’s American Notes, ch. i, will be recalled: “Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee schoolmarm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern states are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 1. General Characters
  • So did my New England Yankee public schoolmarms, but they and their policies have passed out of the culture and even the law.
  • With the impatient imperiousness of an Oxfordshire schoolmarm, O'Donnell's Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, lectured, "The First Amendment, the First Amendment establishes ... that there is a separation of church and state that our courts and our laws must respect. Dr. Jonathan David Farley: Witch's Brouhaha: Is Christine O'Donnell Right about the First Amendment, Mice and Men?
  • Yet if nothing else, her predictably ludicrous but unexpectedly endearing determination to play schoolmarm during her celebrity striptease is enough to settle any remaining doubts about the validity of this woman's U.S. passport. Calamity Jane
  • She piles her hair up in a librarian's bun and wears what she calls "schoolmarm" glasses (one blogger compared her to "Tina Fey's sexier sister"). McCain’s Mrs. Right
  • Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm.
  • A follow-up commercial had a gray-bunned schoolmarm firing off a letter about the grammatical goof, only to be challenged with the jingle, ‘Whaddaya want, good grammar or good taste?’
  • This credo of a particular order of comparative literature is like the hush of the schoolmarm enforcing a designed consensus at lesson's end.
  • I hope those UK rad-flees get what they deserve and their “victorian schoolmarm” law fail to pass. Sex Workers: Once again, what’s best for us? « Bound, Not Gagged
  • schoolmarm" thing to say but if people cooked more at home they would at least know how particular dishes ought to taste and of what they should be made. Evening Standard - Home
  • If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
  • She smiled kindly and then paced, taking on a stentorian air, as if she were the stiffest of schoolmarms. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • 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

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