| 单词 | bowdlerize |
| 例句 | But despite bowdlerizing content, my family has been entirely faithful about visiting. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z O’Neill continued to mingle theatrical and social provocation in his productions of the 1920s and early ’30s, refusing to bowdlerize his material to suit contemporary prejudices or commercial imperatives. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons These are not fantasy images — not bowdlerized, not even especially flattering — and they do not aim for the smiling “Say cheese” millisecond beloved by family photographers. The Other Mapplethorpe 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Cable may get away with more than the networks do, but the bowdlerized versions of The Sopranos , Sex and the City , and even Dexter prove that the sex and violence aren't integral to the storytelling. 2009-12-11T20:11:00Z Some complained that Mr. Perry had bowdlerized that’s famous feminist work, but he had made it his own, complete with melodramatic flourishes and divas like Janet Jackson. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z Being an iconic classic, however, hasn’t protected “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from being banned, bowdlerized and bleeped. Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z It has become so popularized — many might say bowdlerized — that it may be difficult to hear with fresh ears. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z But, as Samartzis admitted with a grin, bowdlerizing wind from the breeziest place in the world wasn’t very authentic. The Poignant Music of Melting Ice 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Since its publication in 1862, Victor Hugo’s masterpiece has been pirated, doctored, distorted, bowdlerized and flat-out betrayed by publishers, translators, filmmakers and musical impresarios from around the globe. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Wilson said he was horrified by Russell’s bowdlerized movie, which added fantasy sequences and new plotlines. Sandy Wilson, composer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ dies at 90 This can undermine the well-intentioned efforts to bring a fresh perspective to parts of our collective folklore that have been bowdlerized in the pursuit of audience-pleasing palatability. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z “It” offered a bowdlerized version of Jazz Age liberties—and Glyn herself turns up in the film to offer a sanitized definition of her own idea. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Folk singers have long bowdlerized troubling words in standards, dropping racial slurs or rewriting violent sagas to modernize their musical inheritance. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z An Introvert Finds His Way Through Teenage Terrain Stephen Chbosky is at least one director who can’t be accused of having bowdlerized or betrayed a beloved novel. Movie Review: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Directed by Stephen Chbosky 2012-09-21T00:13:16Z In that way of overprotective parents, I used to skip this passage, before my kids were old enough to catch me bowdlerizing. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Fellowes holds up a bowdlerized edition of British society, where beneath a thin veneer of stratification, servants and masters are friends and confidants, and even cataclysm doesn’t break the bond. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z Are we in such a hurry to introduce preschool kids to "Romeo and Juliet" that they need to see a computer-animated, bowdlerized version featuring garden gnomes and a happy ending? 'Gnomeo & Juliet': Blame Elton John for this happily-ever-after version 2011-02-09T18:22:03Z She has little to do in the third and final of the George Sidney films, a considerably bowdlerized version of the once-scandalous Broadway musical “Pal Joey,” included in this set in a nice new transfer. DVDs: Five Movies With Kim Novak on DVD 2010-08-13T21:50:00Z The popularity of the “Messiah” in various bowdlerized forms helped obscure the true range of Handel’s achievement. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But their similarities, which are marked, reflect a narrow, bowdlerized view of modern American history with which Robin Bissell, the writer and director of “The Best of Enemies,” is positioning the film. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Performing on network TV, Mr. Petersen served up an only somewhat bowdlerized version of his live show. Otto Petersen, the Voice of Vulgarity, Dies at 53 2014-04-16T01:12:14Z It also ended up bowdlerizing ancient Maya culture, sanding away disturbing beliefs and practices, keen to celebrate the heritage. Critic’s Notebook: Maya Treasures Visit Los Angeles to Help Build a Musuem 2014-01-17T22:54:32Z "No ideas but in another thing," to bowdlerize the poet William Carlos Williams, who hovers in the conceptual background of Rios' marvelously materialized veil of tears. Object lessons at Torrance Art Museum's 'Another Thing Coming' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In most of these entertainments, though, the animals primarily come across as people in cutesy, bowdlerized animal drag. ‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z This film is adapted from a tale by the Brothers Grimm — one of the gnarly unexpurgated ones, not the bowdlerized kind long served to American kids. ‘The Juniper Tree’ Review: A Young Björk Enchants in Her Film Acting Debut 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Yet Brice, knowing all that, still adored him, which makes a far more interesting tale than the bowdlerized one the show offers, of a duped woman finally and regretfully seeing the light. Review: Broadway’s First ‘Funny Girl’ Revival Shows Why It Took So Long 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Bowdler’s work fell out of print, his name forgotten except as a synonym for all the purse-lipped virtue vandals who would “bowdlerize” great books in the name of protecting children. Opinion | Why it’s wrong to rewrite Roald Dahl’s children’s books 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event. Op-Ed: Can a Jan. 6 Commission answer our questions? Yes, if Pelosi and the GOP make the right choices 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Also, and not incidentally, the river is named for the tribe whose chief’s bowdlerized name became that of the city. Seattle arose from a tortuously transformed Duwamish River 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Catalan secessionists bowdlerize history in order to weaponize it. Opinion | Catalan secessionists ladle a soup of fiction and paranoia 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Accepting censorship for profit rests on the tempting logic that reaching Chinese buyers with a bowdlerized portrait of the world is better than not reaching them at all. The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z But others simply suggested that pirating the show was a better solution than watching a bowdlerized version. Chinese censorship made Game of Thrones a "medieval documentary" 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Holiday responded by editing much of the political content out of that essay without telling him, and publishing it in its bowdlerized version. Nelson Algren’s Street Cred 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z When “The Picture of Dorian Gray” was republished in its bowdlerized version, Wilde included a series of shots at his critics. Book-It’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ nails the sensual and spooky mood 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z To bowdlerize Benjamin Franklin, in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and Arsenal finishing in the top four. Arsenal v Leicester City: Premier League – live! 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The doctrine, as we all know, comes down — in its bowdlerized version — to not doing “stupid stuff.” Obama is tougher on America than he is on its enemies 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z While this wasn’t a scientific survey, it nonetheless was the first major attempt to look beyond isolated anecdotes and better gauge the scope and usage of trigger warnings, among other efforts to bowdlerize academic discourse. Young fogies: Modern illiberalism is led by students 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I also don’t think he was consciously bowdlerizing the song to make it more ‘‘appropriate’’ for me. The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z On closer examination, Mr. Harding said, it was a bowdlerized version of his original publication and was being marketed by the Russian publisher as a sequel. Russian Publisher Rewrites Books on Putin Without Western Authors’ Consent 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z All the candidates have taken what was once a very specific ideology and extracted their favorite parts, selectively interpreting the vision and generally bowdlerizing it. We’re all populists now 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Huang yelled, frustrated that the show had bowdlerized his story, which included whippings by his father, an immigrant restaurant owner. “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Black-ish” Reviews 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Japan is a country whose identity has been bowdlerized, hollowed out by a dream of Western dominance that no longer exists. Japan's Identity Crisis Lurks Behind Right-Wing Rhetoric 2013-06-03T05:05:23Z In film, weak ideas, often because of political restraints and bowdlerized scripts, and delayed openings because of lengthy censorship are weakening the ability of Chinese directors to attract audiences. Letter from China: State Meddling Stifles China's Film Industry 2012-11-28T11:10:09Z But Mr. Pinkwater’s original story, about an eggplant and a rabbit, had been so thoroughly bowdlerized that when the controversy erupted in New York, he disowned the version that appeared in the test. SchoolBook: Pearson Says Its Tests Are 'Valid and Reliable' 2012-05-04T23:00:06Z Presumably the authors would have to acquiesce in such bowdlerizing. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z I didn't want to see that playground bowdlerized. Can a playground be too safe? 2011-07-19T02:03:23Z I didn’t want to see that playground bowdlerized. Findings: Can a Playground Be Too Safe? 2011-07-18T22:52:09Z Note that, in railing against the bowdlerizing of the film's language, Ebert censored himself. The Family-Friendly Version of The King's Speech: No F-Words Allowed 2011-04-04T15:50:00Z Such bias was common until a decade ago; a devastating Schuyler review of the town houses at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street was very heavily bowdlerized for the Metropolitan Museum Historic District report of 1977. | City Hall Park: A Long-Running Mismatch 2011-03-25T09:00:26Z From Bowdler’s name we have the word to “bowdlerize,” first known to occur in General Perronet Thompson’s Letters of a Representative to his Constituents during the Session of 1836, printed in Thompson’s Exercises, iv. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" I cannot, unfortunately, bowdlerize the best of these without spoiling them, so I will endeavor to give a few examples of the less forceful. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer There was at least one instance early in the conflict of an official communiqu� that had been issued by the French military authorities in Paris being bowdlerized before publication on this side of the Channel. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 In proof of her contentions Ouida disclosed the fact that the French versions of the trilogy, "The Child of Pleasure," "The Victim," and "The Triumph of Death," were bowdlerized. The Child of Pleasure The text was bowdlerized by Chambers, but the book contained much new and valuable information. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Later, when the novel appeared in book form, the Comstocks began an action to have it suppressed, and forced the publisher to bowdlerize it. A Book of Prefaces Fired off a second barrel through Fitz from whom I have just heard that my Despatch cannot be published as it stands but must be bowdlerized first, all the names of battalions being cut out. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I This is called "expurgating" the book; but people who disapprove often call it to bowdlerize. Stories That Words Tell Us But such as held the New York stage in the past season were timorously constructed, bowdlerized by stage managers and, for the most part, poorly acted. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 She should not be allowed to disguise and bowdlerize it to suit the unwelcome tastes she had acquired at school. Joanna Godden "It's always the same," she remarked with indignation, when with forced facetiousness he had given her an extremely imperfect and bowdlerized account of his evening. Mr. Prohack At all events, even on the bowdlerized evidence that exists, it is plain that Anne Turner should have been charged only with attempted murder. She Stands Accused "Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: 'Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil.'" The Lost World The text of this collection of poetry is authentic and not bowdlerized. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century As unmarried girls took part in these performances, the French pieces had to be considerably "bowdlerized," but they still remained as excruciatingly funny as only French pieces can be. The Days Before Yesterday I have no wish to bowdlerize Sir Richard Steele, his ways and words. Essays |
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