Mary Poppinsy

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of the Mary Poppins book series and its adaptations or their eponymous protagonist, a magical English nanny.

Examples

““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.”

“> / Weepy sniff or Mary Poppinsy sniff?”

“If you take⟳ a closer look⟳ at the song, there's really nothing Mary Poppinsy about it at all.”

“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⟳.”

““You should sing⟳,” she chose to say⟳. “Something Mary Poppinsy?””

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