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Passionately glum:
George Smiley
pained ire
Marcel Berlins on the BBC pronunciation unit, Guardian April 2, 2008
painfully
hip
painfully
serious
painfully
tasteful marketing campaign Matthew Sweet Guardian June 30 2006
pampered
vanity Margery Allingham
paralysing
boredom
paralysing
idiocy Margery Allingham
passionately
glum Christopher Tayler in London Review of Books on John Le Carré Jan 25 07
patronising
The Edinburgh festival featured an authentic staging which looked like a room
full of bored guests standing around at a particularly joyless toga party
…
Yet by far the worst contribution was a new staging at Opera
North, which was quite the most patronising, puerile and staggeringly
arrogant opera production I've seen for some time. The action was set
in what appeared to be the day room of a rehabilitation clinic for 1980s drug
casualties, whose therapy involved sticking each other to the walls with parcel
tape. A journalist colleague who had interviewed the director
informed me that the production was supposed to have been set in Andy Warhol's
Factory. Armed with this new insight, my perception altered. The production was revealed to be even more atrocious than I'd
originally thought.
Alfred Hickling Guardian blog October 16, 2007
penetratingly
ordinary scenes snapped by Eggleston
perfectly dreadful "a performance that was both
intensely watchable and perfectly dreadful" Kate Flett Observer May 11 08
pickled
English Heritage ambience Guardian January 3, 2007
plaintive installations Guardian
Sept 15 97
platitudinous
pronouncements
plodding earnestness largely prevails Daily Telegraph on RSC’s Morte d’Arthur, July 2010
plucky
polite "the women at home go politely mad" Lucy Mangan on Mad Men
Guardian April 22, 2008
pompous
"pompous plastic hats" Rod Liddle on cyclists' helmets
post-interesting Adrian Searle
post-talented
preachy
"stodgy and preachy" Richard
Morrison in T June 26, 2008 on libretto of Candide
pretentious,
selfserving, arch, snobbish, fey, posturing, self-pitying William
Boyd on Cyril Connolly
pricelessly stupid
prim He took me to "the mind-improving meetings of
the prim societies he belonged to." Alida Baxter on an ex-boyfriend
prissy He
always looks so serious and slightly prissy. He is known to go for a jog every
morning… Times
profoundly
non-hilarious Peter Bradshaw
puerile Is this a witty Dutch gable or a puerile jape?
puppyish the boundless, puppyish optimism
of the performers is deeply depressing. Lyn Gardner Guardian June 10, 2008
purely decorative
quaint
"I don't want the costumes to look quaint." Times May 1 06 "Indeed, the whole
vegetable show world conjures a quaint socks-with-sandals, Marmite-sandwich
Englishness." Guardian Saturday August 19 2006
quarter-baked
"sophomoric mish-mash of quarter-baked ideas" jigsawlounge.co.uk
querulous
Vexatious Litigants and Unusually
Persistent Complainants and Petitioners From Querulous Paranoia to Querulous Behaviour a
pattern of behaviour involving the unusually persistent pursuit of a personal
grievance in a manner seriously damaging to the individual’s economic, social,
and personal interests, and disruptive to the functioning of the courts and/or
other agencies attempting to resolve the claims. Behavioral Sciences and the Law Behav. Sci. Law 24 2006
quite potty
Freud's views on phylogeny, Fay Weldon
quite
stultifyingly pointless Victor Lewis-Smith | 
