英语词汇“prurience”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

And the rest of them leaning forward in their chairs, My dear, all horror and prurience. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opera's detractors tend to regard it as an art nouveau period piece, though it has much to say about prurience and fanaticism, and about the sometimes fine line between spiritual and sensual experience. Tha?s ? review 2011-08-19T11:38:44Z

Representations of anorexia are a mix of prurience, spectacle and aspiration. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Here is also something of what in the days of Henry Miller passed for daring and bawdy high spirits, and may seem today like unreconstructed prurience. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

But the original magazine was no stranger to prurience. Front Row: Holiday, A Travel Magazine, Is Reborn 2014-03-26T21:46:38Z

“Marfa Girl” is the latest exploration — and exploitation — of teenage sexuality from Larry Clark, the photographer and filmmaker who has been splitting the difference between fearless honesty and leering prurience for more than four decades. Review: Larry Clark’s ‘Marfa Girl’ Looks at Dysfunction and Desire 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

And where better to start than with Joe Henry's Dirty Magazine and its lines about the hometown girls who've been displayed for the delight or prurience of all? Readers recommend: songs about magazines – results 2013-05-23T14:00:00Z

But the great HBO series balanced prurience with literary and cinematic ambition. The extraordinary rise of AMC 2010-11-23T17:55:00Z

The tension between innocence and prurience is exquisite, if not unprecedented. Art In Review: STEVE GIANAKOS: ?New Paintings? 2012-02-09T22:52:01Z

They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Unobtrusively, but also with a delicious sense of prurience, the film takes us into the costume shop and the dressing rooms, where the nakedness of the performers is a matter of fact rather than display. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z

But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

A disconcertingly sultry naïf, she made her mark on a culture skittishly poised between prurience and an uneasy Puritanism. Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The reigning narratives of life on the night-club circuit tend to be proud tales of debauchery, prurience, and the gleeful shirking of grown-person responsibility. Lost in America with Hiss Golden Messenger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Your pity is excited more than your prurience. TV Picks: 'Ray Donovan,' 'Matador,' NOLA on 'P.O.V.' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Her voice, with its earnest curiosity and strategic impudence and mitigated prurience, is a crucial modifier of Araki’s idiom in “Now Apocalypse.” The Ennobling Smut of Gregg Araki’s “Now Apocalypse” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Strickland is aware of the inherent prurience of his material, and leads us through its hypnotic twists and turns with meticulous care. “The Duke of Burgundy”: A tender tale of lesbian bondage 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

It would seem that after centuries of looking at naked bodies in the name of artistic enlightenment, we would be accustomed to checking our prurience at the museum door. Naked News: We're Still Prudes! Even at the Museum 2010-04-26T20:42:00Z

I understand people’s queasiness about the current popularity of true-crime documentaries and podcasts; no question, some err on the side of prurience. I rejected fairytales as a kid. Who needs them, when there are real wolves nearby? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Some publishers are clearly exploiting our prurience, slapping one sensationalist subtitle after another onto these books, as if a great feast of anthro-porn awaits. Review: ‘Here and There,’ a Renunciation of a Sect, Tinged With Love 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

We have seen a lot of this before, of course, but Mr. Cronenberg is not interested in rolling out yet another red carpet for our show-business prurience. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

But Ms. Sigismondi infuses crucial scenes with a rough, energetic spirit, and shows a willingness to accept the contradictions inherent in the material without prurience, moralism or too much sentimentality. Movie Review | 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z

There's a genuine sense of deviance in his drunken celebration; while Marc Callahan's Sid deftly admonishes the villagers' prurience: "Stop prying and poking and probing at him/With your pious old faces delighting in sin." Albert Herring – review 2013-05-17T14:33:54Z

Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives. How the British changed their minds about sex 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

And “Polylogues” is a curious, compassionate portal into a topic we most often see treated with prurience. Review: In ‘Polylogues,’ Dispatches From Non-Monogamy 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

As with the more fantastic watercolors, enormous mental tensions animate the collages: not only between male and female, but also between adult and child, purity and prurience, and mercy and sadism. Art Review: Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum 2010-05-13T21:51:00Z

One danger is prurience, the Achilles’ groin of HBO series like “Game of Thrones.” Review: HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ Works a Vibrant Hustle in the Naked City 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Along with that has come prurience, the hyper-dramatization of petty gripes, the disappearance of decorum. Review | The new Oprah exhibit looks like a reward for her $21 million donation. But honestly, she deserves it. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The two Mails' coverage of the McIntyre affair – not that there's any suggestion of such a thing, you understand – combined prurience and disapproval in its usual winning style, but the telling-offs were pretty pointed. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010-07-20T10:30:00Z

But “female stories have an extra dash of piquancy,” Thompson argues — citing the uncommon spectacle of Patricia Hearst, the newspaper scion famously abducted in 1974, wielding a semiautomatic weapon — and “a prurience.” ‘Heiresses’ Adds Up the Melancholy and Danger of Inherited Wealth 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

But the story’s mischievous streak and its cheerful prurience kept the corn quotient low: a few gooey moments felt forgivable, given the over-all daring. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

And that means that I often am uncertain of my place in the uncomfortable space between honest curiosity and creepy prurience. Making Ted Bundy a "rock star": Are we creeps for loving true crime? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

He condemns almost all writing on Picasso, "its prurience, its pedantry" and the prevailing obsession with biography. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z

She wrote that she was immediately “famous” six weeks later for her “Spencer’s Mountain” review, which described the film as “sheer prurience and perverted morality disguised as piety.” Judith Crist, Film Critic, Dies at 90 2012-08-07T16:35:14Z

To the left is something the musical omitted — Degas’s nude statue of her, devoid of sexual prurience or allure, subtly different in a few matters. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

When I saw the New York premiere of “Grasses” at the Public Theater in 2013, I found its prurience and misogyny taxing, even though both were deployed satirically. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

And in that film, as in “Love Crime,” sympathy for the underdog was balanced, or perhaps undermined, by detached, amused prurience. | 'Love Crime': ?Love Crime,? by Alain Corneau - Review 2011-09-01T22:11:12Z

Syed’s hearing is happening at a time when the lines between the legal system and the entertainment industry, justice and prurience are becoming increasingly fuzzy. ‘Serial’ takes the stand: How a podcast became a character in its own narrative 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Any show nowadays can come up with ways to disturb or sicken us or yank the easy chain of prurience — and many do. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

There’s no hysteria or prurience in her writing; she approaches her history with precision, never sentimentality. Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

I also enjoyed Geoffrey Robertson, for using the word "prurience" and for suggesting that actually Murdoch is a bit thick, though he puts it more subtly: "I don't think he's a great thinker." TV review: Wonderstuff; How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-25T20:10:00Z

And with its less than lovable characters and poetic prurience of style, “Stockholm” requires a subtle production that reels in audience members even as it repels them. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z

This strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-’60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience. | 'Happiness Runs': Down on the Commune, in Adam Sherman?s Drama 2010-05-06T23:17:00Z

But the director, who wrote the script with Chris Bergoch, avoids the traps of condescension and prurience that ensnare too many well-meaning movies about poverty in America. Review: In ‘The Florida Project,’ Enchantment in a Shabby Motel 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

First, Ann Powers explains how Kelly’s over-the-top prurience became a weird smokescreen for him — an almost winking ownership of his predatory behavior. Perspective | I gave R. Kelly rave reviews. How much damage did they do? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

That would be the White House, where occupants are transformed overnight into exotic zoological specimens to be gazed upon with amusement, prurience, resentment and wonder by the world at large. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The cast says and sings such lines with a shiny, arch-free cheer that repels prurience and captures the breakneck giddiness of an age when the Algonquin Hotel was the epicenter of worldly wit. Review: Encores! Serves a Bathtub Martini in ‘The New Yorkers’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Perhaps in deference to Disney's famous prurience, the sacrificial dance was excised by the ever-accommodating Leopold Stokowski, the British conductor of Polish-Irish heritage, who led the Philadelphia Orchestra for the soundtrack. A century on, Stravinsky's 'Rite' still summons the caveman 2013-05-26T10:43:44Z

Ms. Fey is an ace student of this universal prurience. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

An unusually personal and powerful story of a murder, it may offer something of a counterweight to the forces of bias and prurience that often pull the genre off-track. A True-Crime Story That Puts the Victims First 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Newspapers indulged in an auction of prurience and faux indignation. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z

The most sensational thing about this novel is how it manages to accomplish all this without a whiff of schadenfreude, prurience or mawkishness. Bill Clegg's 'Did You Ever Have a Family' finds solace amid tragedy 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

But there is more than prurience or even provocation at work here. 'Poor Things' brings hot sex and Stone-cold brilliance to the film festival season 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy,” by New York Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, may ultimately test the prurience of an unsuspecting readership. Review | A business book that makes tales of Hollywood debauchery look tame 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

No longer was royalty shielded from what he called “public prurience” and “a press which now had almost no incentive to give the royal family the loyal protection it had enjoyed since the 19th century.” Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96; Was World’s Longest-Reigning Monarch 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Bikini-clad prurience and quelling of readers’ enviousness in one glittering package. Column: The Atlantic says 'the California Dream is dying.' So what else is new? 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

She was pitched as a virgin: cruel branding that invited media prurience and set a time bomb counting down towards her inevitable downfall. New rules: the destruction of the female pop role model 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

But there is more than prurience in their gaze, and in the movie’s. Review: Nadav Lapid's ‘Synonyms’ is a brilliant, corrosive portrait of a man without a country 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

It started instead as an occasion for prurience: Katie Hill’s ex, she says, handed intimate photographs over to a tabloid, which published them for the nation to consume. Opinion | Katie Hill’s story leaves America in knots 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

He met privately with policymakers, indulging their prurience by displaying a steamer trunk full of sex toys and erotica that he had ordered by post. Opinion | The 19th-Century Troll Who Hated Dirty Postcards and Sex Toys 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Alas, he couldn’t take away sexual prurience so, while people queued round the block to see it, the art world cringed in embarrassment. 'Wow, $91m!' – Jeff Koons on blow-up dogs, record prices and his row with Paris 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Their affair, which lasted three years, created a media feeding frenzy of prurience about lesbianism. The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The impeachment of Bill Clinton, and the puritan prurience he believed had informed it, looms over The Human Stain. Philip Roth: explorer of a golden age's dark corners | Jonathan Freedland 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

This tension between take-what-you-want hedonism and a stark sense of respectability is manifest, too, in the modern world’s blend of prurience and puritanism, or in the support of American religious conservatives for a libertine president. The real resonances, and warnings, of Weimar Germany 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Sexual prurience hasn’t been a major theme of Cruz’s politics over the years. After @tedcruz liked a porn tweet, Sen. Ted Cruz blamed ‘a staffing issue’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom. 'Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press' examines the dangers to news media in the age of Trump 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

It is not mere window-peeping prurience for a reader to crave more about an author’s background. Now we know Elena Ferrante’s real name. How sad. 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Their disdain for the “prurience” of public curiosity about trans bodies mean there are no full nudes in the book. How Two Producers of ‘Transparent’ Are Making Trans Lives More Visible — Starting With Their Own 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

It’s certainly one way of shutting the idea down, though it may remind some that there was a dimension of sexual prurience to Hearst’s furious campaign against Welles’s movie. What Citizen Trump can’t stand – the story is of Melania, not him | Marina Hyde 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Activists have photoshopped male nipples on top of female breasts to mock the gender inequality — and old-fashioned prurience — at the heart of the rules. How panics about pictures of naked women shaped the Web as we know it 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

But the people glued to them are driven less by sexual prurience than by a search for “inspiration and the beauty of the accomplishments of the athletes in them.” What’s on the new frontier of fitness? Hint: It looks a lot like the past. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Gore Vidal maintained that this unconscionable prurience accounted for Hearst’s rage against the movie, and a significant reason he did everything he could to destroy the film’s chances of ever opening. Peter Thiel’s mission to destroy Gawker isn’t ‘philanthropy’. It’s a chilling taste of things to come | Marina Hyde 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

In recent years it has gathered steam as the Farrows have restated their claims, and as social media has facilitated wider debate – or stoked flames of prurience disguised as self-righteousness. Comparing Woody Allen to Polanski and Cosby is lazy and dangerous | Catherine Shoard 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

And that is not a matter of mere prurience. Count me in 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The post reveled in the prurience of what it was publishing. Here’s what you need to know about Hogan v. Gawker: From sex tapes & bogus “experts” to the future of online journalism 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Press prurience – in his memoir, he watched Lakshmi “pose and pirouette” for the paparazzi – is the one topic that provokes any hint of ire. Salman Rushdie: ‘It might be the funniest of my novels’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

Trump’s campaign is the latest episode in a life devoted to an endless exhibitionism: it’s solipsism as prurience. Donald Trump is the last whimper of the angry white man: What’s really behind his stubborn lead 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

But there, the attitude is one of prurience. Saint Laurent’s skinny model is the thin end of the wedge | Hadley Freeman 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

All of our inherent strengths and weaknesses, our greed and generosity, our puritanism and our prurience parade before our eyes, generation after generation after generation. Ken Burns to Grads: Set Things Right Again 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

This test soon morphed into the “utterly without” standard that, leaving prurience and community offensiveness aside, whether the publication is “found to be utterly without redeeming social value.” THE BUSINESS OF SEX: HAVE WE COME TO A NEW NORMAL 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Never mind the selective prurience of some members of Bill Clinton’s party. Oregon’s Monica Wehby may make a house call on the Senate

The internet, that revolution in auto eroticism, is built on mass prurience. Anthony Weiner: America can tolerate a lot, but apparently not a 'wanker mayor' 2013-07-29T14:22:00Z

But on Wednesday, its august chambers entertained a debate of perhaps less significance but far more prurience: whether lap dancing constitutes a form of art. In New York’s Top Court, a Debate Over Lap Dances and Admission Taxes 2012-09-06T02:20:34Z

He would have loved the ongoing Leveson Inquiry into the phone-hacking activities of the British tabloids, the world’s most unscrupulous panderers to public prurience. London?s Last Waltz 2012-05-21T05:00:00Z

The attainment of the new spiritual state had become his sole idea; and his reason succumbed beneath the combined strength of his wishes and the prurience of his ideality. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z

Hence the watery pimples in itch are invariably those that produce the most intolerable prurience. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z

In Part Second six or seven sentences might be omitted by the parent, where the writer deals, without the least prurience, with biblical narratives that can hardly be daintily touched. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

But while the essay depicts the quintessential lazy Sunday, it also satirises the prurience that newspapers - the News of the World is the only one mentioned by name - encourage. Was George Orwell a fan of the News of the World? 2011-07-11T17:18:13Z

There was no angry prurience for fame or gold underlying such complaints. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z

He must not be fair, not be rational, not be sincere, except in his devotion to the principle of beauty, Journalism, reviewing, and prurience. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z

Hippocrates mentions a leprosy that usually occasioned a prurience before rain. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z

Prosecutors balked at the idea, saying those photos would add an unnecessary “element of prurience” to the trial. Lawyers in Bonds Case Will Take Back Seat 2011-03-01T15:28:08Z

The parade of prurience is inescapable, an expression of the rot that’s now manifest at the very top of the Italian government, a reflection of the society’s deeper problem with the evolving role of women. Bunga-Bunga Nation: Berlusconi's Italy Hurts Women 2010-11-15T13:00:00Z

What the News of the World does is publish material that appeals to public prurience in order to maximise its sale. Press freedom risks as News of the World acts with impunity 2010-09-06T12:05:00Z

More and more we see the captain assume the role of news generator and lightning rod for the kind of interest that requires conflict and prurience before the mind will engage. Corey Pavin and Colin Montgomerie enliven the Ryder Cup carry-on 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z

The significance of the three reports delivered by the inspector general to Congress on Wednesday lies not in the prurience of some of the indiscretions, but in the symbolism. How to guarantee a Gulf oil spill 2010-05-07T18:34:00Z

Social conservatism the world over shares a strange mix of sanctimony and prurience, the mingled terror of and obsession with the flesh. Cheerleaders shame Indian cricket | Kanishk Tharoor 2010-03-27T18:00:00Z

In other words, it's a war out there folks and that means caricaturing the media as one great amorphous mass motivated by nothing other than prurience and intrusion. Tiger Woods turns to former George Bush spokesman for help 2010-03-19T00:58:00Z

He will find an apparently genuine piety united with an unprotesting record of the most revolting prurience of the lawless fancy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

It is the curiosity and enthusiasm of youth rather than the prurience of age. Aliens

He never spoke on this subject with the slobbery grin of the voluptuary, or the leer of prurience. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

Modesty, morality, prurience, piety, are the effulgent underwear behind which they increase the mystery and charm of the mons veneris. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath

They turn faith into pietism, sanctity into morality, and righteousness into a reeking prurience. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations

The vulgar call it lust, and blush and hide their faces; in their folly is the shame, in their prurience the disgrace. The Hero

This literature of a sunless Decadence has spread widely, by virtue of its own uncleanness, and its leading characteristics are gloom, ugliness, prurience, preachiness, and weedy flabbiness of style. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Mr. Lilly quotes Thomas Carlyle's sarcastic words about the "blind loquacious prurience of indiscriminate Philanthropism" that commands no revenge for great injustice. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience, to gentle and more harmless pleasantry. History of English Humour, Vol. 2

His savage and unblushing violence or vehemence of satire has no taint of gloating or morbid prurience in the turbid flow of its fitful and furious rhetoric. The Age of Shakespeare

We have life and health,—if we have them,—and it is only veiled prurience to inquire whence we got them. Master of His Fate

So long as this unnatural prurience exists a free unqualified nakedness is rendered difficult. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

The altogether new quality of literary prurience, of which Sterne is still the classical example, could only have arisen on the basis of the new modesty which was then overspreading society and literature. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism

When the rains eventually ended the hiding people would emerge to see their naked friends and relatives in their frenetic prurience. Scorched Earth

Of the suggestive prurience of much modern novelism, whether French or French-derived, he, Fielding, is quite free: he deals with the sensual relations with a frank acknowledgment of their physical basis. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities

They are too often confused in England now, and though our modern Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. Intentions

The prurience and prudery which have poisoned sexual life in the past are alike rendered impossible. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

Of his earlier work the second and ninth satires, and a great part of the sixth, have a cold prurience and disgustingness of detail, that even Swift only approaches at his worst moments. Latin Literature

Virtue or vice, heroics hobnobbing with the basest prurience, there was no pill that it would not swallow if it were gilded with sonorous rhymes and redundant words. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House

That amazing mixture of sententious moralities, of prurience, and of mawkish sentiment, became the rage of the Town. Henry Fielding: a Memoir

There is something unpleasant, painful, degrading in this ingenious mingling of prurience and prudery. Impressions and Comments

The organs of circumspection, prurience, foresight, were sadly deficient in Heisig, who, in a drunken fit, had stabbed his best friend. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828

No age is quite exempt from such pruriences. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

Burton argues that the "naive indecencies of the text of The Arabian Nights are rather gaudisserie than prurience." The Life of Sir Richard Burton

The sense of humour of the Cinquecento was primitive, and in primitive humour prurience plays ever an important part, as is discernible in the literature and comedies of that age. The Life of Cesare Borgia

The language is, however, more frequently coarse than loose, and smacks more of the childish plainness with which high and low talk in the family circles from Tangier to Malayia, than of prurience or suggestiveness. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16

It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Scaramouche

His enormous popularity, the widest in the world of letters, owes absolutely nothing to prurience or curiosity. Essays in Little

By alleging a moral purpose he is enabled to gratify the prurience of his public and to raise them in their own muddy conceit at one and the same time. Style

单词	prurience
例句	prurience And the rest of them leaning forward in their chairs, My dear, all horror and prurience. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The opera's detractors tend to regard it as an art nouveau period piece, though it has much to say about prurience and fanaticism, and about the sometimes fine line between spiritual and sensual experience. Tha?s ? review 2011-08-19T11:38:44Z Representations of anorexia are a mix of prurience, spectacle and aspiration. To the Bone confirms there are (almost) no good movies about anorexia 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Here is also something of what in the days of Henry Miller passed for daring and bawdy high spirits, and may seem today like unreconstructed prurience. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But the original magazine was no stranger to prurience. Front Row: Holiday, A Travel Magazine, Is Reborn 2014-03-26T21:46:38Z “Marfa Girl” is the latest exploration — and exploitation — of teenage sexuality from Larry Clark, the photographer and filmmaker who has been splitting the difference between fearless honesty and leering prurience for more than four decades. Review: Larry Clark’s ‘Marfa Girl’ Looks at Dysfunction and Desire 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z And where better to start than with Joe Henry's Dirty Magazine and its lines about the hometown girls who've been displayed for the delight or prurience of all? Readers recommend: songs about magazines – results 2013-05-23T14:00:00Z But the great HBO series balanced prurience with literary and cinematic ambition. The extraordinary rise of AMC 2010-11-23T17:55:00Z The tension between innocence and prurience is exquisite, if not unprecedented. Art In Review: STEVE GIANAKOS: ?New Paintings? 2012-02-09T22:52:01Z They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience. Review \| This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Unobtrusively, but also with a delicious sense of prurience, the film takes us into the costume shop and the dressing rooms, where the nakedness of the performers is a matter of fact rather than display. \| 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z A disconcertingly sultry naïf, she made her mark on a culture skittishly poised between prurience and an uneasy Puritanism. Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The reigning narratives of life on the night-club circuit tend to be proud tales of debauchery, prurience, and the gleeful shirking of grown-person responsibility. Lost in America with Hiss Golden Messenger 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Your pity is excited more than your prurience. TV Picks: 'Ray Donovan,' 'Matador,' NOLA on 'P.O.V.' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Her voice, with its earnest curiosity and strategic impudence and mitigated prurience, is a crucial modifier of Araki’s idiom in “Now Apocalypse.” The Ennobling Smut of Gregg Araki’s “Now Apocalypse” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Strickland is aware of the inherent prurience of his material, and leads us through its hypnotic twists and turns with meticulous care. “The Duke of Burgundy”: A tender tale of lesbian bondage 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z It would seem that after centuries of looking at naked bodies in the name of artistic enlightenment, we would be accustomed to checking our prurience at the museum door. Naked News: We're Still Prudes! Even at the Museum 2010-04-26T20:42:00Z I understand people’s queasiness about the current popularity of true-crime documentaries and podcasts; no question, some err on the side of prurience. I rejected fairytales as a kid. Who needs them, when there are real wolves nearby? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Some publishers are clearly exploiting our prurience, slapping one sensationalist subtitle after another onto these books, as if a great feast of anthro-porn awaits. Review: ‘Here and There,’ a Renunciation of a Sect, Tinged With Love 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z We have seen a lot of this before, of course, but Mr. Cronenberg is not interested in rolling out yet another red carpet for our show-business prurience. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But Ms. Sigismondi infuses crucial scenes with a rough, energetic spirit, and shows a willingness to accept the contradictions inherent in the material without prurience, moralism or too much sentimentality. Movie Review \| 'The Runaways': Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart as Rock ?n? Roll Idols 2010-03-18T22:06:00Z There's a genuine sense of deviance in his drunken celebration; while Marc Callahan's Sid deftly admonishes the villagers' prurience: "Stop prying and poking and probing at him/With your pious old faces delighting in sin." Albert Herring – review 2013-05-17T14:33:54Z Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives. How the British changed their minds about sex 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z And “Polylogues” is a curious, compassionate portal into a topic we most often see treated with prurience. Review: In ‘Polylogues,’ Dispatches From Non-Monogamy 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z As with the more fantastic watercolors, enormous mental tensions animate the collages: not only between male and female, but also between adult and child, purity and prurience, and mercy and sadism. Art Review: Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum 2010-05-13T21:51:00Z One danger is prurience, the Achilles’ groin of HBO series like “Game of Thrones.” Review: HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ Works a Vibrant Hustle in the Naked City 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Along with that has come prurience, the hyper-dramatization of petty gripes, the disappearance of decorum. Review \| The new Oprah exhibit looks like a reward for her $21 million donation. But honestly, she deserves it. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The two Mails' coverage of the McIntyre affair – not that there's any suggestion of such a thing, you understand – combined prurience and disapproval in its usual winning style, but the telling-offs were pretty pointed. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010-07-20T10:30:00Z But “female stories have an extra dash of piquancy,” Thompson argues — citing the uncommon spectacle of Patricia Hearst, the newspaper scion famously abducted in 1974, wielding a semiautomatic weapon — and “a prurience.” ‘Heiresses’ Adds Up the Melancholy and Danger of Inherited Wealth 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But the story’s mischievous streak and its cheerful prurience kept the corn quotient low: a few gooey moments felt forgivable, given the over-all daring. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z And that means that I often am uncertain of my place in the uncomfortable space between honest curiosity and creepy prurience. Making Ted Bundy a "rock star": Are we creeps for loving true crime? 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z He condemns almost all writing on Picasso, "its prurience, its pedantry" and the prevailing obsession with biography. Picasso – separating truth and fiction 2013-07-10T14:32:55Z She wrote that she was immediately “famous” six weeks later for her “Spencer’s Mountain” review, which described the film as “sheer prurience and perverted morality disguised as piety.” Judith Crist, Film Critic, Dies at 90 2012-08-07T16:35:14Z To the left is something the musical omitted — Degas’s nude statue of her, devoid of sexual prurience or allure, subtly different in a few matters. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z When I saw the New York premiere of “Grasses” at the Public Theater in 2013, I found its prurience and misogyny taxing, even though both were deployed satirically. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z And in that film, as in “Love Crime,” sympathy for the underdog was balanced, or perhaps undermined, by detached, amused prurience. \| 'Love Crime': ?Love Crime,? by Alain Corneau - Review 2011-09-01T22:11:12Z Syed’s hearing is happening at a time when the lines between the legal system and the entertainment industry, justice and prurience are becoming increasingly fuzzy. ‘Serial’ takes the stand: How a podcast became a character in its own narrative 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Any show nowadays can come up with ways to disturb or sicken us or yank the easy chain of prurience — and many do. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z There’s no hysteria or prurience in her writing; she approaches her history with precision, never sentimentality. Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z I also enjoyed Geoffrey Robertson, for using the word "prurience" and for suggesting that actually Murdoch is a bit thick, though he puts it more subtly: "I don't think he's a great thinker." TV review: Wonderstuff; How Murdoch Ran Britain: Dispatches 2011-07-25T20:10:00Z And with its less than lovable characters and poetic prurience of style, “Stockholm” requires a subtle production that reels in audience members even as it repels them. Theater Review: ‘Stockholm,’ by Bryony Lavery, Dissects a Marriage 2014-03-13T02:00:01Z This strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-’60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience. \| 'Happiness Runs': Down on the Commune, in Adam Sherman?s Drama 2010-05-06T23:17:00Z But the director, who wrote the script with Chris Bergoch, avoids the traps of condescension and prurience that ensnare too many well-meaning movies about poverty in America. Review: In ‘The Florida Project,’ Enchantment in a Shabby Motel 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z First, Ann Powers explains how Kelly’s over-the-top prurience became a weird smokescreen for him — an almost winking ownership of his predatory behavior. Perspective \| I gave R. Kelly rave reviews. How much damage did they do? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z That would be the White House, where occupants are transformed overnight into exotic zoological specimens to be gazed upon with amusement, prurience, resentment and wonder by the world at large. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The cast says and sings such lines with a shiny, arch-free cheer that repels prurience and captures the breakneck giddiness of an age when the Algonquin Hotel was the epicenter of worldly wit. Review: Encores! Serves a Bathtub Martini in ‘The New Yorkers’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps in deference to Disney's famous prurience, the sacrificial dance was excised by the ever-accommodating Leopold Stokowski, the British conductor of Polish-Irish heritage, who led the Philadelphia Orchestra for the soundtrack. A century on, Stravinsky's 'Rite' still summons the caveman 2013-05-26T10:43:44Z Ms. Fey is an ace student of this universal prurience. Review: ‘Mean Girls’ Sets the Perils of Being Popular to Song 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z An unusually personal and powerful story of a murder, it may offer something of a counterweight to the forces of bias and prurience that often pull the genre off-track. A True-Crime Story That Puts the Victims First 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Newspapers indulged in an auction of prurience and faux indignation. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z The most sensational thing about this novel is how it manages to accomplish all this without a whiff of schadenfreude, prurience or mawkishness. Bill Clegg's 'Did You Ever Have a Family' finds solace amid tragedy 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z But there is more than prurience or even provocation at work here. 'Poor Things' brings hot sex and Stone-cold brilliance to the film festival season 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z “Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy,” by New York Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, may ultimately test the prurience of an unsuspecting readership. Review \| A business book that makes tales of Hollywood debauchery look tame 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z No longer was royalty shielded from what he called “public prurience” and “a press which now had almost no incentive to give the royal family the loyal protection it had enjoyed since the 19th century.” Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96; Was World’s Longest-Reigning Monarch 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Bikini-clad prurience and quelling of readers’ enviousness in one glittering package. Column: The Atlantic says 'the California Dream is dying.' So what else is new? 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z She was pitched as a virgin: cruel branding that invited media prurience and set a time bomb counting down towards her inevitable downfall. New rules: the destruction of the female pop role model 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But there is more than prurience in their gaze, and in the movie’s. Review: Nadav Lapid's ‘Synonyms’ is a brilliant, corrosive portrait of a man without a country 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It started instead as an occasion for prurience: Katie Hill’s ex, she says, handed intimate photographs over to a tabloid, which published them for the nation to consume. Opinion \| Katie Hill’s story leaves America in knots 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z He met privately with policymakers, indulging their prurience by displaying a steamer trunk full of sex toys and erotica that he had ordered by post. Opinion \| The 19th-Century Troll Who Hated Dirty Postcards and Sex Toys 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Alas, he couldn’t take away sexual prurience so, while people queued round the block to see it, the art world cringed in embarrassment. 'Wow, $91m!' – Jeff Koons on blow-up dogs, record prices and his row with Paris 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Their affair, which lasted three years, created a media feeding frenzy of prurience about lesbianism. The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The impeachment of Bill Clinton, and the puritan prurience he believed had informed it, looms over The Human Stain. Philip Roth: explorer of a golden age's dark corners \| Jonathan Freedland 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z This tension between take-what-you-want hedonism and a stark sense of respectability is manifest, too, in the modern world’s blend of prurience and puritanism, or in the support of American religious conservatives for a libertine president. The real resonances, and warnings, of Weimar Germany 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Sexual prurience hasn’t been a major theme of Cruz’s politics over the years. After @tedcruz liked a porn tweet, Sen. Ted Cruz blamed ‘a staffing issue’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom. 'Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press' examines the dangers to news media in the age of Trump 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It is not mere window-peeping prurience for a reader to crave more about an author’s background. Now we know Elena Ferrante’s real name. How sad. 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Their disdain for the “prurience” of public curiosity about trans bodies mean there are no full nudes in the book. How Two Producers of ‘Transparent’ Are Making Trans Lives More Visible — Starting With Their Own 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s certainly one way of shutting the idea down, though it may remind some that there was a dimension of sexual prurience to Hearst’s furious campaign against Welles’s movie. What Citizen Trump can’t stand – the story is of Melania, not him \| Marina Hyde 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Activists have photoshopped male nipples on top of female breasts to mock the gender inequality — and old-fashioned prurience — at the heart of the rules. How panics about pictures of naked women shaped the Web as we know it 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z But the people glued to them are driven less by sexual prurience than by a search for “inspiration and the beauty of the accomplishments of the athletes in them.” What’s on the new frontier of fitness? Hint: It looks a lot like the past. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Gore Vidal maintained that this unconscionable prurience accounted for Hearst’s rage against the movie, and a significant reason he did everything he could to destroy the film’s chances of ever opening. Peter Thiel’s mission to destroy Gawker isn’t ‘philanthropy’. It’s a chilling taste of things to come \| Marina Hyde 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z In recent years it has gathered steam as the Farrows have restated their claims, and as social media has facilitated wider debate – or stoked flames of prurience disguised as self-righteousness. Comparing Woody Allen to Polanski and Cosby is lazy and dangerous \| Catherine Shoard 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And that is not a matter of mere prurience. Count me in 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The post reveled in the prurience of what it was publishing. Here’s what you need to know about Hogan v. Gawker: From sex tapes & bogus “experts” to the future of online journalism 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Press prurience – in his memoir, he watched Lakshmi “pose and pirouette” for the paparazzi – is the one topic that provokes any hint of ire. Salman Rushdie: ‘It might be the funniest of my novels’ 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Trump’s campaign is the latest episode in a life devoted to an endless exhibitionism: it’s solipsism as prurience. Donald Trump is the last whimper of the angry white man: What’s really behind his stubborn lead 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But there, the attitude is one of prurience. Saint Laurent’s skinny model is the thin end of the wedge \| Hadley Freeman 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z All of our inherent strengths and weaknesses, our greed and generosity, our puritanism and our prurience parade before our eyes, generation after generation after generation. Ken Burns to Grads: Set Things Right Again 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z This test soon morphed into the “utterly without” standard that, leaving prurience and community offensiveness aside, whether the publication is “found to be utterly without redeeming social value.” THE BUSINESS OF SEX: HAVE WE COME TO A NEW NORMAL 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Never mind the selective prurience of some members of Bill Clinton’s party. Oregon’s Monica Wehby may make a house call on the Senate The internet, that revolution in auto eroticism, is built on mass prurience. Anthony Weiner: America can tolerate a lot, but apparently not a 'wanker mayor' 2013-07-29T14:22:00Z But on Wednesday, its august chambers entertained a debate of perhaps less significance but far more prurience: whether lap dancing constitutes a form of art. In New York’s Top Court, a Debate Over Lap Dances and Admission Taxes 2012-09-06T02:20:34Z He would have loved the ongoing Leveson Inquiry into the phone-hacking activities of the British tabloids, the world’s most unscrupulous panderers to public prurience. London?s Last Waltz 2012-05-21T05:00:00Z The attainment of the new spiritual state had become his sole idea; and his reason succumbed beneath the combined strength of his wishes and the prurience of his ideality. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z Hence the watery pimples in itch are invariably those that produce the most intolerable prurience. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In Part Second six or seven sentences might be omitted by the parent, where the writer deals, without the least prurience, with biblical narratives that can hardly be daintily touched. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z But while the essay depicts the quintessential lazy Sunday, it also satirises the prurience that newspapers - the News of the World is the only one mentioned by name - encourage. Was George Orwell a fan of the News of the World? 2011-07-11T17:18:13Z There was no angry prurience for fame or gold underlying such complaints. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z He must not be fair, not be rational, not be sincere, except in his devotion to the principle of beauty, Journalism, reviewing, and prurience. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Hippocrates mentions a leprosy that usually occasioned a prurience before rain. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Prosecutors balked at the idea, saying those photos would add an unnecessary “element of prurience” to the trial. Lawyers in Bonds Case Will Take Back Seat 2011-03-01T15:28:08Z The parade of prurience is inescapable, an expression of the rot that’s now manifest at the very top of the Italian government, a reflection of the society’s deeper problem with the evolving role of women. Bunga-Bunga Nation: Berlusconi's Italy Hurts Women 2010-11-15T13:00:00Z What the News of the World does is publish material that appeals to public prurience in order to maximise its sale. Press freedom risks as News of the World acts with impunity 2010-09-06T12:05:00Z More and more we see the captain assume the role of news generator and lightning rod for the kind of interest that requires conflict and prurience before the mind will engage. Corey Pavin and Colin Montgomerie enliven the Ryder Cup carry-on 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z The significance of the three reports delivered by the inspector general to Congress on Wednesday lies not in the prurience of some of the indiscretions, but in the symbolism. How to guarantee a Gulf oil spill 2010-05-07T18:34:00Z Social conservatism the world over shares a strange mix of sanctimony and prurience, the mingled terror of and obsession with the flesh. Cheerleaders shame Indian cricket \| Kanishk Tharoor 2010-03-27T18:00:00Z In other words, it's a war out there folks and that means caricaturing the media as one great amorphous mass motivated by nothing other than prurience and intrusion. Tiger Woods turns to former George Bush spokesman for help 2010-03-19T00:58:00Z He will find an apparently genuine piety united with an unprotesting record of the most revolting prurience of the lawless fancy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is the curiosity and enthusiasm of youth rather than the prurience of age. Aliens He never spoke on this subject with the slobbery grin of the voluptuary, or the leer of prurience. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Modesty, morality, prurience, piety, are the effulgent underwear behind which they increase the mystery and charm of the mons veneris. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath They turn faith into pietism, sanctity into morality, and righteousness into a reeking prurience. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The vulgar call it lust, and blush and hide their faces; in their folly is the shame, in their prurience the disgrace. The Hero This literature of a sunless Decadence has spread widely, by virtue of its own uncleanness, and its leading characteristics are gloom, ugliness, prurience, preachiness, and weedy flabbiness of style. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Mr. Lilly quotes Thomas Carlyle's sarcastic words about the "blind loquacious prurience of indiscriminate Philanthropism" that commands no revenge for great injustice. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience, to gentle and more harmless pleasantry. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 His savage and unblushing violence or vehemence of satire has no taint of gloating or morbid prurience in the turbid flow of its fitful and furious rhetoric. The Age of Shakespeare We have life and health,—if we have them,—and it is only veiled prurience to inquire whence we got them. Master of His Fate So long as this unnatural prurience exists a free unqualified nakedness is rendered difficult. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The altogether new quality of literary prurience, of which Sterne is still the classical example, could only have arisen on the basis of the new modesty which was then overspreading society and literature. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism When the rains eventually ended the hiding people would emerge to see their naked friends and relatives in their frenetic prurience. Scorched Earth Of the suggestive prurience of much modern novelism, whether French or French-derived, he, Fielding, is quite free: he deals with the sensual relations with a frank acknowledgment of their physical basis. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities They are too often confused in England now, and though our modern Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. Intentions The prurience and prudery which have poisoned sexual life in the past are alike rendered impossible. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Of his earlier work the second and ninth satires, and a great part of the sixth, have a cold prurience and disgustingness of detail, that even Swift only approaches at his worst moments. Latin Literature Virtue or vice, heroics hobnobbing with the basest prurience, there was no pill that it would not swallow if it were gilded with sonorous rhymes and redundant words. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House That amazing mixture of sententious moralities, of prurience, and of mawkish sentiment, became the rage of the Town. Henry Fielding: a Memoir There is something unpleasant, painful, degrading in this ingenious mingling of prurience and prudery. Impressions and Comments The organs of circumspection, prurience, foresight, were sadly deficient in Heisig, who, in a drunken fit, had stabbed his best friend. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 No age is quite exempt from such pruriences. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Burton argues that the "naive indecencies of the text of The Arabian Nights are rather gaudisserie than prurience." The Life of Sir Richard Burton The sense of humour of the Cinquecento was primitive, and in primitive humour prurience plays ever an important part, as is discernible in the literature and comedies of that age. The Life of Cesare Borgia The language is, however, more frequently coarse than loose, and smacks more of the childish plainness with which high and low talk in the family circles from Tangier to Malayia, than of prurience or suggestiveness. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Scaramouche His enormous popularity, the widest in the world of letters, owes absolutely nothing to prurience or curiosity. Essays in Little By alleging a moral purpose he is enabled to gratify the prurience of his public and to raise them in their own muddy conceit at one and the same time. Style
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