Richardson seemed to be a narrow, straitlaced preacher, who could look at human nature only from the conventional point of view, and thought that because he was virtuous there should be no more cakes and ale.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Still, there was nothing to be done but for all concerned to make themselves as cheerful as possible under the circumstances; so, with that fund of wit and humor which seems to have been concealed under the immaculate coat and formal wig of the straitlaced Haydn, he set about composing a work for the last performance of the royal band, a work which has ever since borne the appropriate title of the "Farewell Symphony."
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
She couldn't be straitlaced anyhow, nor narrow-minded.
"Winding Paths"
Gertrude Page