So there's Girl and NML parading around in thongs of varying stringiness and bottom pertness, making we mere bottom-mortals feel bad. |
Her rich, clear soprano captures infinite shadings of mock-hauteur, pertness and good humour. |
One knows this is fun, pertness, cartoon, because it skates on our experience rather than probes it. |
Darcy could perceive from the twinkle in her eyes and the hint of pertness in her tone that there was more to her statement than she was willing to contribute. |
Indeed there's a very animated conversation about whether one should compromise jiggliness for pertness. |
Ms. Gambatese's Constance, in cheerful, cleanly cut 1950s dresses, exudes a wholesome pertness that suggests Donna Reed, and her bell-bright soprano hasn't got a throb of anxiety in it. |