And on the strength of
peccadillos, reprehensible in an author, but excusable in a son, the Anglo-Saxon race is accused of prudishness, humbug, pretentiousness, deceit, cunning, and bad cooking.
Any of which
peccadilloes, if Miss Sharp discovered, she did not tell them to Lady Crawley; who would have told them to the father, or worse, to Mr.
You have too good a right to a free pardon, to render you very scrupulous about
peccadilloes.''
In childhood, I had always been accustomed to regard him with a feeling of reverential awe - but lately, even now, surmounted, for, though he had a fatherly kindness for the well-behaved, he was a strict disciplinarian, and had often sternly reproved our juvenile failings and
peccadilloes; and moreover, in those days, whenever he called upon our parents, we had to stand up before him, and say our catechism, or repeat, 'How doth the little busy bee,' or some other hymn, or - worse than all - be questioned about his last text, and the heads of the discourse, which we never could remember.
Perhaps there are peasants who remove their neighbor's landmark without much scruple; or they may cut a few osiers that belong to some one else, if they happen to want some; but these are mere
peccadilloes compared with the wrongdoing that goes on among a town population.
The reliable sources that some elements are assisting RAW just to hide their
peccadillo from public's view in this slandering campaign who are involved in trafficking of children in the name of adoption and girls in disguises of marriages and earning million of rupees for per case.
The diva is also a jolly good sport for her enthusiastic send-up of diva-dom in Broadway's "Living on Love." Joe DiPietro's comedy is an airy adaptation of "
Peccadillo," Garson Kanin's 1985 spoof of a famed soprano and her temperamental husband (call him "Maestro") played by Douglas Sills, who separately hire ghostwriters (a boy for her, a girl for him) to pen their memoirs.
What is a
peccadillo: a petty sin or a type of cigar?
Clement's, has a new resident company and managing organization:
Peccadillo Theater Company, whose next production there will be Johnny on a Spot in October.
So, I got myself all exchanged-up and trawled the site for my personal
peccadillo, the top goalscorer market.
Though his only direct queer reference is a personal aside about a memorable sexual
peccadillo in Paris, Dessaix constructs this literary travelogue with observations and anecdotes that will resonate with any curious queer traveler, Like Edmund White's The Flaneur (an homage to loitering through Paris, aimless yet attuned to history and chance adventure), Twilight of Love revels in the thrill of allowing whim and obsession to unseat the rigid travel agent as arbiter of itinerary.