Mary Poppinsy

English Alternative forms en Mary Poppins-y Etymology From en w:Mary Poppins y. Adjective 1 Resembling or characteristic of the Mary Poppins book series and its adaptations or their eponymous protagonist, a magical English nanny. en John Henry Auran Canada Loves Nancy Greene Skiing 20 2 November 1967 96 “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. en Alex Keneas In film, the best and the brightest w:Newsday 28 December 1980 part II 5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/703187282/ Robert Stigwood’s “Times Square” was, hands down, the pits, not only tasteless but loathsome for it’s Mary Poppinsy misrepresentation of the sleazy 42nd Street strip. en w:Colin McEnroe And, lo, the land was smitten by a plague of angels The Hartford Courant CLVII 118 28 April 1995 E1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/176577186/ 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. en Belinda Gunn Handbags w:The Sydney Morning Herald 50,071 24 February 1998 section “Good Looks” 10 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/120638538/ There are also more structured bags like tweed that is a bit Mary Poppinsy. en Peter Kemp How Do You Solve a ‘Problem’ Like Maria von Poppins? Bill Marshall; Robynn Stilwell Musicals – Hollywood and Beyond Exeter; Portland, Ore. Intellect Books 2000 section “Star Texts” 57–58 1-84150-003-8 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!’. en w:Richard Asplin T-Shirt and Genes Arrow Books 2001 297 https://archive.org/details/tshirtgenes0000aspl/page/297/mode/1up 0 09 941684 0 ‘Absolutely,’ I said as we strolled up the overtly wide, overtly leafy and generally a bit too Mary Poppinsy avenue. en Ann Burlingham Question for y'all alt.polyamory 7 August 2005 > <sniff> / Weepy sniff or Mary Poppinsy sniff? en maxims AOQ Review 6-6: "Once More, With Feeling" alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer 7 August 2006 If you take a closer look at the song, there's really nothing Mary Poppinsy about it at all. en Riding in style Mad River Union 2 12 17 December 2014 A3 https://archive.org/details/Mad_River_Union_2014-12-17/page/n2/mode/1up Attendees at Friday’s Arts! Arcata enjoyed free carriage rides around the Plaza, courtesy Barney the gray Percheron horse and Brendan Fearon of Old Town Carriage Co. Arcata Main Street provided the service, which, acting as a force multiplier to the dazzling Season of Wonder and Light treatment of Arcata’s downtown, imparted a serious Mary Poppinsy effect to the Plaza experience. en Kiki Archer A Fairytale of Possibilities 2017 978-0-244-00980-9 “You should sing,” she chose to say. “Something Mary Poppinsy?” Synonyms en Mary Poppins-esque en eponyms