"It won't take long for me to tell you our idea," Brashen countered pushily.

"It's not a very pushily academic school, and they take in pupils from all walks of life, but the results are very good.

Here the production, by Tim Hopkins, was cheerful enough, but pushily cartoonish, too.

At a joint family party, Susan overhears her parents quarreling about Bitsy Donaldson's too pushily aired opinions on child-rearing.

Lily is often overly and pushily affectionate towards Anita and Hisami, intimating that she is a pedophile.

No matter how they are, no matter how pushily they are marketed, the Spice Girls are truly winning.

With characters named Happy, Sabu and Spanky, the film is almost pushily arch and would probably work better on the stage, in the tradition of hey-look-at-me burlesques like Charles Busch's "Psycho Beach Party."