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Often I am annoyed by KH's breathiness; but I watched this movie again when I was working on Uganda a few years ago--a smidge of it was filmed there--and she's nothing but great as Rose, the tight-laced missionary lady who relaxes into her hitherto undiscovered gifts for sex and sabotage.

Someone Else's Favorite Women in Film Fresca 2009

Often I am annoyed by KH's breathiness; but I watched this movie again when I was working on Uganda a few years ago--a smidge of it was filmed there--and she's nothing but great as Rose, the tight-laced missionary lady who relaxes into her hitherto undiscovered gifts for sex and sabotage.

Archive 2009-10-01 Fresca 2009

Nevertheless, she was simple and clumsy in her ways; her vacant smile had nothing criminal in it, and you would have pronounced her innocent only from seeing the large red and blue checked kerchief that covered her stalwart bust, tucked into the tight-laced bodice of a lilac — and white-striped gown.

La Grand Breteche 2007

Nevertheless, she was simple and clumsy in her ways; her vacant smile had nothing criminal in it, and you would have pronounced her innocent only from seeing the large red and blue checked kerchief that covered her stalwart bust, tucked into the tight-laced bodice of a lilac — and white-striped gown.

La Grand Breteche 2007

Her dress was white damask, exceeding neat; but her stays seemed not tight-laced.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

An hourglass figure–a soft, plump 150 -pound 5′4″ woman in a tight-laced corset–is not at all the same as a size 2 fashion model.

Fatophobic Sex Scenes in The L Word 2005

Prussian Captain of Lancers (Those tight-laced, whiskered prancers)

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Sisters-in-law, faithful to their upbringing and tight-laced in their respectable stays, think that they have overflowed into the most distressing enthusiasm if they have written: ‘my kindest regards.’

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

Thin, tight-laced, with a shrill voice and an acidulated temper,

Madame Midas 2003

She ran, and somehow never reached the back wall of the set, and Lilith floated on ahead, tauntingly just out of reach, her long blond hair (a wig, certainly, Romy's hair was nothing like that long) shimmering down her tight-laced red satin back beneath her lace-edged Elizabethan headpiece.

The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002