mary poppinsy

Example Sentences

• "“Look, it’s really very simple. What I want, what the team wants, is the moral and financial support of the public. If we want that support, then we have to act like the public wants us to act. And what the public wants is something to point to, so that parents can tell their kids, ‘Why don’t you act like that.’” Maybe that is Mary Poppinsy, but Nancy Greene has not forgotten that in the first five out of her eight seasons in international racing, the team had virtually no support at all."
• "Robert Stigwood’s “Times Square” was, hands down, the pits, not only tasteless but loathsome for it’s^([sic]) Mary Poppinsy misrepresentation of the sleazy 42nd Street strip."
• "Angels are exciting and more accessible than God, but some pop culture accounts have them bustling around to restart dead alternators and return overdue library books and Mary Poppinsy stuff like that."
• "There are also more structured bags like tweed that is a bit Mary Poppinsy."
• "This hymn to specifically female (and more universally human) self-assertion is cleverly punctuated by Maria stumbling and tripping under the weight of a rather Mary Poppinsy carpet bag and by coming to the song’s musical climax and letting forth a sheepishly intimidated ‘Oh, help!’."
• "‘Absolutely,’ I said as we strolled up the overtly wide, overtly leafy and generally a bit too Mary Poppinsy avenue."