Victorian values
Britishplural noun
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Season 2 continues the wild exercise over 10 episodes, earnestly honoring Dickinson’s poetry by bringing it to the fore while bending Victorian values and period-piece conventions into pop art.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2021
The idea of "art for art's sake" turned Victorian values upside down.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011
Susie Trayling as the thoughtful, quick-witted and ultimately subversive Constance, and Maggie Steed as her bemused mother still clinging to Victorian values, seize their opportunities with evident delight.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2011
And it wasn’t Enron or the Iraq war that caused the breakup; it was her boyfriend’s snobbish parents, and that reflects Victorian values, not the new millennium.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010
But if you are poor and sick, what then do Victorian values offer you?
From Time Magazine Archive
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