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

I had thought in my middle-class innocence that knee pads were one of Monica Lewinsky’s prurient fantasies, but no, they actually exist, and they’re usually a standard part of our equipment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruza assured him that it was the highest possible compliment to the chef, but the merriness in everyone’s eyes suggested a more...prurient meaning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

While the close cropping preserves the source’s prurient gaze, softening and rendering the image in black and white makes the content more distant and clinical. How would you describe women? Betty Tompkins asked, then painted 1,000 answers 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

But, in the wider culture, the women got treated most frequently as objects of prurient male interest. Keeping Faith with the Manson Women 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

This particular dark wizard thrives on attention of all kinds: the adoration of his followers, the hatred of his enemies, the prurient fascination and/or sober scrutiny of the news media. One small step on the long march to freedom: This weekend, I will not say his name 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Both are lovely exercises in neo-Classical polish that thinly cover prurient interest with a veil of academic high-mindedness. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z

And the federal Small Business Administration denied her loan application because they said she ran a “prurient” business. Vibrators Carry the Conversation 2011-04-20T21:56:26Z

But together and separately Depp and Heard are a flaming mess, adding to the prurient interest of it all. Why Fox News is obsessed with Johnny Depp, its Manliness Under Siege mascot 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

What it insinuates, powerfully, is that Weinman has exploited both Sally and Nabokov to justify her prurient interest in yet another sad, dead girl. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Viewers who were around back then might remember Larry Clark’s “Kids” and other prurient, ostensibly cautionary tales of adolescent misbehavior. Review: ‘Mid90s’ Skates Back to a Less Innocent Time 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

A prolific director of features — and a genially prurient examiner of naked bodies — he benefits from the short form, and also perhaps from a collaborator. | 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z

It's mostly the married ones who are prurient. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

But perhaps they are doing more than providing a prurient reading, as such a western label might suggest? Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women? 2013-04-18T11:14:50Z

Once again, there is a central aisle between tiers of benches that turn the audience into a cross between guilty churchgoers and prurient spectators at a bullfight. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Please get involved below the line with prurient gossip and grandma’s recipes and all caps slanders. The Great British Bake Off 2019: episode three – live 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Her real harassers were a prurient media and psychically assaultive public. Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

But the real failing of Robopocalypse is that, despite its authors eminent qualifications, it is nothing more than an airport thriller, indulging our prurient need to see human civilisation destroyed in ever more exotic ways. Is the Robopocalypse nigh? 2011-07-12T16:24:22Z

Would that be crossing the line into “prurient interest,” or are we still just having a laugh? Perspective | The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Michèle’s prurient, inscrutable cat is his alter ego, and we are the mice, batted from indignation to dread to uneasy amusement, according to his predatory whims. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

As for the public appetite for prurient gossip – and in particular the appetite of the English, Wilde's "nation of hypocrites" sans pareil – that remains greater than ever. The News of the World closes as media's tectonic plates shift 2011-07-11T15:03:15Z

A mastectomy involves more than enough pain – both emotional and physical – without even beginning to think about the prurient and ghoulish interest of millions. Jolie has done something extraordinary 2013-05-14T13:48:10Z

“I don't necessarily want to talk to you about what's happened inside my bedroom,” he concedes, saying that what passes as personal is often just prurient. Teju Cole on knowns, unknowns and 'Known and Strange Things' 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

This is not only because tales of their childhoods and news of their marriages and divorces feed our prurient appetites, or because we can peek into their lives on Instagram and Twitter. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Though it definitely provides some prurient kicks, “Stockholm” is also informed by the carefully measured dispassion and compassion that was evident in Ms. Lavery’s best-known previous work, “Frozen,” seen on Broadway in 2004. Theater Review: In ‘Stockholm,’ the Blades Are Drawn From the Start 2013-08-23T21:34:28Z

No yellowed curtains, no creepy prurient stares, no outdated magazines gathering dust on filthy tables. Men who made my legs 2012-12-03T02:00:00Z

In one episode she says “prurient,” then pauses for a confession. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z

Of course, there's the obvious schadenfreude angle: Toobin is part of the celebrity-journalist set and prurient gossip about talking heads is tempting, especially back here in the cheap seats. I can't believe we have to say this: Pulling a "New Yorker Zoom Incident" at work is a bad thing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

They were intended to document family life or gather material for prints or paintings, or to serve more prurient interests. Art Review: ?Snapshot: Painters and Photography,? at Phillips Collection 2012-04-06T00:25:38Z

She was in her mid-40s by then, receiving fewer acting offers and finding many scripts too prurient for her tastes. Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

It does not manipulate the audience into judgment, pity or prurient curiosity. | 'Tuesday, After Christmas': Case of Romanian Realism: Regular Guy, With Wife and Girlfriend 2011-05-24T21:43:04Z

However clumsily expressed, its prurient intent cannot be misconstrued. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z

You have probably come across newspaper or television accounts of survivors of similar crimes, and registered them with a shivery, prurient detachment. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Larman, who wrote Byron’s Women, an acclaimed study of the key women in the poet’s life, said that after O’Toole died in December 2013 parts of the media magnified and distorted “prurient stories” about him. Peter O'Toole less the drunken hell-raiser he made out, says author 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The documentary “Body Parts” is an attempt to account for cinema’s prurient interests. ‘Body Parts’ Review: Even Sex Scenes Have Rules 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Horror is traditionally one of cinema’s most prurient areas, but it is also extreme in the punishments it doles out to the sexually available. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Recording expressive, mostly prurient outbursts of vulgar annoyance at life’s little nuisances, the T-shirt wall-graphic is a colorful, very witty map of our current spiritual universe. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

But what is most striking about this movie is how un-self-conscious it is as it conducts a prurient and superficial inquiry into adolescent female sexuality. Movie Review: Marine Vacth in ‘Young & Beautiful,’ by François Ozon 2014-04-24T22:35:14Z

Sure, there’s plenty of sex and nudity in Borowczyk’s work, to go with a prurient fascination with female desire. The erotic fables of Walerian Borowczyk: A ’70s art-porn pioneer rediscovered 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

But what is most striking about this movie is how unselfconscious it is as it conducts a prurient and superficial inquiry into adolescent female sexuality. ‘Young & Beautiful’: superficial look at a teenage call girl 2014-05-08T22:05:16Z

Quite the contrary, she said: because affairs with barracks mates were so much a part of ordinary wartime experience the hoopla seemed simply prurient. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2012-09-25T14:41:36Z

But it also, in a literal sense, fixes her with a prurient, almost predatory gaze, and the camera lingers over her young body in various states of exposure. Movie Review: ‘Little Birds,’ First Film by Elgin James 2012-08-29T01:16:25Z

Rather than looking at bodies, you read about sensations and emotions; the experience is engaging and even affectionate rather than prurient. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z

It’s the excuse that makes our prurient leer seem meaningful and reasoned. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z

And if that makes me 'dim' and 'prurient' as Tim maintained in yesterday's comments section, colour me Nosy Parker and call me a few badly-made sandwiches short of the hot-tub picnic. Why Come Dine With Me is a gem 2010-06-03T09:40:00Z

It’s in danger of feeling somewhat obligatory, a prurient question that has to be addressed if a character with a disability is going to be featured prominently. Television Review: ‘Legit,’ With Jim Jefferies, on FX 2013-01-16T23:01:58Z

Lots of pop art has a prurient dimension; we project ourselves onto tales of sex, violence and intrigue because it's more exciting than projecting ourselves into utterly mundane stories about people dealing with reality. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z

The hypersexual hat not only tried to kiss Diaz, but also made some prurient jokes for the camera. Erykah Badu tried to kiss a local news reporter during a live report 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Her parents copped a lot of criticism and the film sparked a national, prurient debate. Dakota Fanning: ‘I don’t remember people not knowing who I am’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Karen, LoBianco reports, “was livid” at Trump’s prurient comments in the “Access Hollywood” tape, but her husband concluded it was too late to drop off the ticket. The Inscrutable Mike Pence 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Despite some prurient interest by the press, focusing on the spectacle of fat women shamelessly declaring it was OK to weigh 350 pounds, the public didn’t buy it. I wasted decades feeling fat and ugly 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

But on a less prurient, storytelling level, the decision to skip over nearly all of Mary and Gillingham's rendezvous means that we don't actually observe them spending time together. 'Downton Abbey': The delights of Liverpool 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

By today’s standards there is nothing sensational or prurient about them. Art Review: Christer Strömholm at International Center of Photography 2012-06-21T21:06:23Z

An intimate look into the global phenomenon of sex tourism, it subjects both its characters and its audience to a series of humiliations in a manner that is at once prurient and punitive. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z

Over the years she reversed her image: from luscious sex object to anti-sex crusader, from taboo-breaker to cultural revisionist, from prurient to puritan. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z

The scene resembled the summoning of a cult leader, and the Dominican firebrand Tokischa, a rapper known for her prurient lyrics and high-profile collaborations, emerged onstage. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Do his paintings represent his own prurient fantasies, or is he satirizing “the male gaze”? Art in Review: JOHN CURRIN: ?New Paintings? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

He remains an endless source of prurient fascination for gossip mags, capable of elbowing Brangelina from their covers. Johnny Hallyday: the French rock'n'roller sets his sights on Britain 2012-11-15T19:00:01Z

“American Predator” is a fine book — exhaustively researched and candid without being prurient — that should be as illuminating to law enforcement as it is fascinating to the general reader. Review | ‘American Predator’ reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Is it a slyly anarchic subversion of the moral certainties of the traditional detective story, showing us the blood on our own prurient hands? Sky Atlantic and the box-set era 2011-01-31T22:00:01Z

That is a shame because Ms. Abt provides an unusually honest, compassionate and challenging view of contemporary youth, neither sugarcoated nor prurient. Movie Review | 'Toe to Toe': On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack 2010-02-26T00:00:00Z

Her boss hated her husband, and her marriage became a source of prurient speculation. Perspective | Farewell to Kellyanne Conway, the ultimate Woman for Trump 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

But reading her memoir made me feel exploitative, prurient and sometimes rather sick. Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z

Though it’s mild, paradoxical and perhaps a bit prurient to say so, “Slave Play” is a happy surprise. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

That there was feverish prurient interest swirling around 340 was something I already knew. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z

A moralistic streak, not to mention a prurient one, is buried in the DNA of cheap horror that is part of this movie. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The movie is not evasive exactly, but reticent, emphasising the moral equivalence of Geimer's and Polanski's suffering at the hands of a prurient and intrusive press over the past decades. Polanski's partial view 2012-05-16T17:27:09Z

At the time, I thought that this was a problem largely confined to the People magazine world of celebrities and that this law would quash the prurient interest in their medical records. Farrah Fawcett was right: We have little medical privacy 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The details she presents, while vivid, are not prurient. Review | Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want it to be prurient, but I also don’t want it to be too respectful,” he added. In ‘The Crown,’ a Young Queen, but a Young Woman, Too 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

“Undateable” has its share of prurient jokes, but there are riffs that are G-rated, contorted and very funny, and the ensemble is better imagined than that of many other new comedies. ‘Undateable’ Keeps a Sitcom Formula Alive 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Beyond the prurient, there’s not much of interest in this dour portrait of middle-class family values. Review: White Bird in a Blizzard: Snow Job for Shailene Woodley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Split” is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Has Personality. O.K., Personalities. Lots. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Yet even as saying no to sex with actual partners is being acknowledged more openly, I think the culture is still weirdly prurient about the idea of other people — particularly women — not having sex. Cultural Studies: The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral 2011-04-15T22:03:59Z

And part is just his own fascinations — prurient, prosaic and offhandedly profound. Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

So when Anastasia just can’t contain her passion any longer and he flips her over like a prurient pancake, the cymbals crash on the quietstorm mix he’s playing in glorious syncopation. The seven most wonderfully ridiculous moments in Fifty Shades Darker 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It tended to be humbler in conception, which was fine because it was mostly designed to shield couples from the prying and prurient eyes of society. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Adler-Bell is saltier, always eager, as he half-jokingly puts it, to highlight the more “lurid and prurient” aspects of the right. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

The tacky, sometimes prurient depiction of three awkwardly frolicking male models left most in the room distinctly uncomfortable. | Gucci, Missoni, Versace, Pringle 2011-01-18T22:45:29Z

Sorkin’s point is that this is none of our business—just part of the messy creative process, the “juicy stuff” of prurient interest. We Can Handle the Truth 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Watching this trial has felt alternatingly prurient and surreal, the kind of trial in which Marilyn Manson is casually listed as a Thanksgiving dinner guest at one of Johnny Depp’s penthouses. Perspective | The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

“I’d like to make clear that the prurient angle of the work holds no interest to us,” Bill states. 'Masters of Sex' recap: Bill's demons arise during TV shoot 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Yet increasingly the focus on possible historical abuse carries uncomfortable resonances, not cleansing but prurient, and feeding into narratives that seek to question lifestyles that fail to fit outdated models of the nuclear family. Social Media Gossip Fuels Bigotry Amid U.K. Sex Abuse Investigations 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

It takes an almost prurient delight in his mental turmoil. New band of the day: Joel Compass (No 1,515) 2013-05-17T15:37:49Z

Her relationship with Michael had sparked a frenzy of prurient, tutting editorialising masquerading as reporting. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

Worse, religious folk continue to manifest wholly prurient interest in the genitalia and sex lives of minors. Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

The accusations aired by Cosby’s accusers have significance that goes well beyond the drumbeat of tabloid headlines generated by each new development in his saga or mere prurient interest. At 78, Bill Cosby’s life is a blur of legal minutiae, lawyers and judges 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her fascination lingered, less a prurient interest than an academic one. Review | One woman’s bold case for breaking the sex-toy taboo 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Baby Got Back,” with its hilariously prurient imagery, is relentless in its single-minded focus on the virtues of “healthy” rumps. We cannot lie: The cultural significance of Sir-Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

“As a matter of general approach, if the aspect of sexual desires and their expression is sensitively handled without bringing coarseness, vulgarity or obscenity, pandering prurient tendencies, then it is not to be disallowed.” Indian film board clears Lipstick Under My Burkha for release 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

As is the case with “The Keepers” or “OJ: Made in America,” “The Staircase” is deliberate and quietly observational; it never relies on an exploitative tone or a prurient approach to achieve its goals. ‘The Staircase’ on Netflix Revisits a Genre-Defining Trial 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Having provoked the audience’s curiosity, the film punishes us, using the bodies of its young performers, the women in particular, as tokens in a prurient, punitive spectacle. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

To do so would be stupid, nay offensive, because no one would care, and it would be prurient, and distract everyone from the very important, dignified matters at hand, matters of government. The Front Runner: the truth behind Hugh Jackman's scandalous new film 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The series has a misleading, come hither title, and it airs on Investigation Discovery, a cable channel that's the TV equivalent of a bookstore's crime section -- a bonanza of prurient interest. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z

It was hard to do this without going over the line or feeling prurient. 'I had to pull over and take half a Xanax': the toll of documenting US gun violence 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

More specifically, the bill prohibited “adult cabaret” in locations where minors might be present, including “topless” or “exotic” dancers, but also “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Perspective | The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

If they are, and the destruction of records becomes an inescapable obligation, then the legitimate desire to secure personal privacy against the gaze of the prurient threatens to leave the future a sadly unfurnished place. Ruskin archive: dust-up 2012-10-28T23:24:13Z

One of those involves a copy of “Little Woman” put to prurient purpose. Review: In Search of Intelligent Life and a Willing Sperm Donor 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Anderson and Lee, now the object of prurient attention, belatedly realized the tape had been stolen and were soon the butt of late-night jokes. ‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Corinne Bailey Rae: The Sea A media focus on the death of her husband might have looked prurient, but the emotional heft of Rae's second album was inexorably linked to her personal tragedy. Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

Are those moments only about prurient interests, or are they also saying something about the characters in them? ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z

That sentiment also reflects a rising receptivity, if not an outright prurient fascination, with topics that were once strictly off limits. In Fashion, Gender Lines Are Blurring 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

The song serves no narrative end, or any prurient or profound purpose. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Are they important contributions to our understanding of major crimes or prurient titivations, careless of the feelings of the victims’ relatives? When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

But for the writers and editors, Gawker’s traditionally public-spirited work and its more prurient efforts were both, in my experience, driven by an obsession with the truth. Gawker’s Essential Unevenness 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

It was “the birth of a different kind of journalism, and a way of writing about sex and scandal in a very, very prurient way,” she said. A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Commentators largely sided with him during his 2010 extradition debacle, denouncing a "prurient hounding" and lamenting him being "thrown to the lions because of ancient history". Bertrand Cantat is back. But should music fans boycott him? 2013-07-25T10:44:59Z

This is a portrait of the Kennedy White House that is recognizable and respectful, and also prurient, giving equal weight to historic turning points and personal weaknesses. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z

Not the sunshine and the school dances but the more meagre sides of our natures, the dumb and prurient and thoughtless parts, all sanctioned by the appearance of nostalgia and middle-class values. The Corrupted American Innocence of Archie Comics 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The gaze animating her show, “Head and Plant,” is neither prurient nor overtly ideological. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z

But as this scene turned intimate and nearly prurient, no gazes were averted, and no one was calling “cut” just yet. ‘Masters of Sex’ Recalls the Work of Masters and Johnson 2013-07-27T05:49:04Z

All the strength and brilliance of acrylic paint fades into a material with the drab associations of amateur portraits, or the prurient gaze of Edgar Degas. At Tate Britain, Celebrating a Mischievous, Subversive Talent 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

And hippies are a particularly toxic presence in a flurry of films and television shows revisiting the Manson family with a prurient eye. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

What felt prurient now looks like child abuse. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

It was a kind of jackpot for the hate watchers when America’s ongoing perverse fascination with epic breeders the Duggar family took a particularly prurient turn this week. Hate-watching the Duggar sex scandal: Feeding bottomless appetites for hypocrisy, schadenfreude and shame 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The focus instead is on the particular and prurient details, and often on the Duggar’s belief system—their hypocrisy, homophobia, prudery, and sexism. What the Duggars should have done for all of their kids: Here’s how to respond to sexual abuse by a minor in the home 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

A great many horror novels are reactionary, prurient and misogynistic. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z

But in the longer term her art was overshadowed by her son’s career, diminished by the usual misogyny and obscured by prurient interest in her lifestyle. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

In outline, this might sound like either a grim cautionary tale or a prurient adventure in exploitation. | 'Sleeping Beauty': Julia Leigh?s ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-12-02T00:02:07Z

But despite the blood and guts, Mahnke says Lore’s appeal goes beyond the prurient. Lore and order: can the hit podcast become the scariest show on TV? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Are we — as listeners, therapists, prosecutors or just a prurient gathering of fascinated spectators — alternately fans or a lynch mob? Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

“The show is about this prurient attitude we have, this fear of sexuality,” Mr. Green said. They Talk About Porn in This Show. Audience Participation Is Encouraged. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal,” he announced on his radio show, before launching into a prurient and frankly weird diatribe. Perspective | Rush Limbaugh had a lot to say about feminism. Women learned how to not care. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, I was appalled by The New York Times Book Review’s decision to publish these five prurient fantasies. Letters to the Editor 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

So Beaulieu removed the tables and installed a counter to accommodate his more prurient patrons. The Post Pub survived D.C.’s ups and downs for 43 years, but it couldn’t survive a pandemic 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Ken Starr's investigation of the Whitewater/Monica Lewinsky case against Clinton was excessive and prurient, but to call Starr's approach, as Richardson does, as "much like McCarthy's" stretches the point. 'To Make Men Free' is a timely tale of the ever-changing GOP 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

He did bits on his relationship with dogs and bats along with his prurient interest in rats. Louis CK Performs at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

It concedes that the makers of a particular R-rated TV series have gone out of their way to blend theoretically prurient sex and nudity with actual storytelling, but are being taken to task anyway. In defense of HBO's "unnecessary" nudity 2011-07-06T14:07:00Z

But the story of Madison Square Garden and the men who made it is an interesting one, even if occasionally in the most prurient of fashions. Review | The glorious past of a long-gone Madison Square Garden 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Thereafter, several of her more prurient tweets were removed. Azealia Banks launches Twitter tirade against the Stone Roses and Rita Ora 2013-03-11T11:48:58Z

Movie and television contains violence to space, enough to satisfy prurient appetites until the sun burns out. With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

In his previous movies, Baker has observed strivers and dreamers on the margins of respectability with an eye that could be prurient and skeptical, but also compassionate. ‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

While they display their charms for the viewer’s prurient perusal, the women appear in poses of classical elegance, like marble sculptures. Art Review: Georges Hugnet?s ?Spumifers? at Ubu Gallery - Review 2012-01-05T22:30:33Z

Through Jack, Donoghue pours light and air into a prison cell, and transforms his story from a prurient horror show into a redemptive tale of resilience and salvation. Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong' 2010-08-13T06:00:00Z

Not for prurient interests, but for explanatory ones. Perspective | Talking honestly about Peter Strzok’s affair would have saved that whole bonkers hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Let’s hope they keep putting the prurient about the po-faced. Less po-faced, more pow! Why Netflix and Marvel need to lighten up 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

That aside, he retains a reputation as a bit of a playboy and there continues to exist a prurient public interest in his private affairs. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Discussions of relationships, but nary a prurient sentiment. Review: In ‘Meet the Patels,’ a Son Submits to a Marriage Quest 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

With not much to fill all those hours, many turned to prurient topics and became easy fodder for satire. Look back in laughter: ‘The Daily Show’ celebrates at 25 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

It perhaps necessarily lacks both the novelistic sweep of the 9/11 Commission Report and the intimate — “prurient” would be a more exact word — scene-setting of the Starr report on President Bill Clinton. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

And there is absolutely no reason to feed their prurient and insatiable appetite for misery. Facebook’s Last Taboo: The Unhappy Marriage 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The overhead footage of all these episodes seemed charged by two opposed qualities: prurient curiosity and a kind of politically charged detachment, bordering on pointed neglect. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

The actors’ content was more extreme — borderline prurient — but the form was a lot safer, the messaging obvious. Review: In the Mood for ‘Prurience’? Speak Up 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

It’s the center of a world rendered with pathos and somewhat prurient fascination in “The Third Wife,” Ash Mayfair’s finespun debut feature. ‘The Third Wife’ Review: Cruelty and Sensuality in 19th-Century Vietnam 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Part of what I was experiencing was the slightly gross excitement one feels when sneakily reading a diary: fulfilling the prurient fantasy of observing people behaving despicably, as they really are. The College-Admissions Scandal and the Banality of Scamming 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

And anyone who really wants to see prurient material will always find a way to get it. Opinion: House Speaker Johnson is a MAGA acolyte, as expected. But he's also a little weird 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z

Psychoanalytic critics use the term “scopophilia” to refer to a presumably male audience’s erotic viewing enjoyment of the prurient presentation of women’s bodies in film or television, for example. Opinion: The abortion pill faces its most disturbing attack yet 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

He was at his best when he managed to winkle out sensitive details of a guest's life without appearing prurient. Michael Parkinson obituary: Setting the standard for TV talk shows 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

It would ban real or simulated groping, real or simulated arousal, and the display of a sex toy if done in a “prurient” manner in front of a minor or on public property. Drag artists and LGBTQ+ activities sue to block Texas law expanding ban on sexual performances 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

The bill would ban real or simulated groping, real or simulated arousal and display of a sex toy, if done in a “prurient” manner in front of a minor or on public property. Texas lawmakers pass sexual conduct bill that drag performers fear will prompt crackdown 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

The commanding ambassador and his captivating wife, Violet, quickly develop a prurient familiarity with Elodie. 10 noteworthy books for April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

It allows him to reposition abortion in the very realm from which mifepristone effectively frees it: that of prurient visual surveillance. Opinion: The abortion pill faces its most disturbing attack yet 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

For the most part, though, this is a thoughtful look at a controversy unlikely to fade away, so long as modern technology and prurient interests continue to exist. Review: Keira Knightley pursues the 'Boston Strangler' in Hulu journalistic thriller 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

In Oklahoma, the state Senate just passed a bill banning material with “a predominant tendency to appeal to prurient interest in sex” from all public libraries, not just those in schools. The right’s obsession with wokeness is a sign of weakness 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

That new law includes “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Leslie Jones slams Tennessee's anti-gay marriage bill: 'We really going back huh?!' 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a bill restricting “adult cabaret performances” in public spaces, which includes “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” RuPaul slams those laws banning drag shows: 'Get these stunt queens out of office' 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

A recent bill passed in Tennessee restricts “adult cabaret performances,” including “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” 2023 is already a record year for anti-LGBTQ bills in the US 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

The law forbids performances in those places by topless, go-go or exotic dancers, strippers, or male or female impersonators who, as the law defines it, “provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Tennessee Law Limiting ‘Cabaret’ Shows Raises Uncertainty About Drag Events 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

In Tennessee, proposed legislation could require places with “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest” to register as strip clubs. Drag story hours have been around for years. Now, they’re targets of violence 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

To meet the definition, the performance must feature real or simulated sexual activities and be intended to appeal to “prurient” interests, a term that’s not defined in the legislation. Arkansas House passes bill restricting ‘adult’ performances 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

The right-wing attack on Sohn leans heavily on the prurient elements of sex work generally and Blunt particularly. Column: The bogus, homophobic campaign against Biden's stellar FCC nominee 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

He noted that the bill would prohibit drag performances intended to appeal to “prurient interest,” a term that’s not defined in the legislation. Arkansas panel advances bill to restrict drag performances 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Schrader films “She Said” with a bracing combination of straightforwardness and sensitivity, staging the most prurient details of Weinstein’s cases with somber restraint rather than salacious literalism. Review | ‘She Said’: A new entry in the pantheon of great newspaper movies 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

I don’t mean in the gossipy, prurient, sense of the term, like a splashy story about celebrity cheating on a spouse. The Jan. 6 attack was a crisis. So why wasn’t it more of a scandal? 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

State statute defines pornographic material as appealing to a “prurient interest in sex,” including “patently offensive” depictions of nudity or sex and lacking “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” Utah’s largest school district defends decision to remove 52 ‘pornographic’ books 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Their editors weigh whether the public benefit of seeing an image outweighs any prurient interest — and they usually pass. Parkland trial a rare, curtailed look at mass shooting gore 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

It is not a prurient book, yet I could never stop questioning its approach to its subject. Review | What made Harvey Weinstein a monster? Does it matter? 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

Virginia state code defines something as “obscene” if it appeals “prurient interest in sex,” goes “substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation” and lacks “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” Va. Republicans seek to limit sale of 2 books in Barnes & Noble for ‘obscenity’ 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

But it also stems from an atmosphere of sexual judgment as prurient as it is puritanical, as evidenced by a squirmingly uncomfortable scene of harassment in a dorm shower. Review: The tense French abortion drama 'Happening' is the movie you need to see right now 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

This inability to deal with facts, this infatuation with prurient and salacious innuendo, led us to Donald Trump — a man who is as vacuous as he is pompous. Donald Trump may finally face prosecution in the New Year: But the trauma won't end there 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

“Why the prurient nature of these?” she said. Fairfax parents object to sexually explicit surveys of students 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

And rather than consuming trials simply as prurient entertainment, audiences seem as invested in the legal questions as they are in the cultural ones. Opinion | Video made police injustice visible. Now that visibility is trickling up to the courts. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

If we aren't promoting the prurient, we are often accused of protecting the powerful instead of speaking truth to power. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

What was once anecdotal and prurient is suddenly a defining feature of society. French Church abuse: Victims demand action after inquiry 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

But a portion of the fascination with Mr. Kelly, who is now 54, is more prurient. R. Kelly’s Trial Is Captivating a Black Audience Online. Here’s Why. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

However, Hepp argued that she is a public figure whose image was used to sell what she called “prurient” goods and services on Facebook without permission or compensation. US court revives suit against Facebook over TV host’s image 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Those reports included allegations he had made suggestive remarks about patients’ bodies, asked prurient questions about their sexual histories, targeted Asian women, touched genitals inappropriately and took unnecessary photos during exams. For USC women, largest-ever sex abuse payout leaves bitterness, vast disparities 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

Thus we are caught in a loop of banality discussing the mundane and the prurient while failing to address in any timely fashion our perceived biases, let alone real news. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Britons care about their writers in a blessedly prurient way, and they want to read about their lives. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Students told clinic employees he asked prurient questions about their sex lives and made suggestive comments about their bodies. USC to pay $1.1 billion to settle decades of sex abuse claims against gynecologist 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

In the U.S., interactions and relationships involving Asian women and non-Asian men sometimes attract prurient attention. Tracy Quan: Don't forget — the Atlanta shooting is a hate crime against sex workers 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

For all the notoriety it received, the original Court TV could be an enigma, swinging from the consequential to the prurient. With Derek Chauvin’s trial, Court TV is back 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

In fact I am curious — outside of the prurient and salacious childlike snickering that inevitably takes place — why anyone would care. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Clinton reasoned that the drip-drip of prurient allegations had allowed the American people to gradually come to terms with his antics, ultimately sparing his political neck. Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

"Omegle isn't intended for prurient interests, and when adults visit Omegle with that intent, it makes sense to direct them somewhere more suitable," he said. Omegle: Children expose themselves on video chat site 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

I enjoy a good true crime documentary as much as the next prurient voyeur, but there is something about living through a global plague that rather puts me off watching TV shows about death. Yes, Emily In Paris is unrealistic. But reality is overrated | Hadley Freeman 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Here, a handsome man throws his head back in ecstasy, yet Warhol’s 36-minute film is not prurient, or at least not entirely so. From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

“We have categorically rejected this person’s demands while dealing with him and this particular member of the media who seemed just as obsessed with the prurient, untrue aspects of this story, however fantastic.” Jerry Falwell resigns as Liberty University president after reversing course: report 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

The Trump administration has barred companies that “present live performances of a prurient sexual nature” from participating. Strip-club stimulus reveals lingering uncertainties over U.S. small-business aid 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

This would be of prurient interest and not public importance if she weren’t, by all accounts, fully complicit in her husband’s corrupt, dangerous presidency. Review | The elusive truths of Melania Trump 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Figuring out why Americans are having less sex is more than a prurient interest, the researchers emphasized. Americans are having less sex now than they did 20 years ago 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

And yet, before the prurient self-regard of our present time, with its interlinked obsessions with reality TV, social media and auto-fiction, here was a man who understood the power of the projected self. The Many Lives of Marc Jacobs 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

The singer-songwriter says his hesitation came from a fear that someone might “furiously read it and mine it for its prurient or sensational aspects” before release. At 71, James Taylor has a new audio memoir, loves watching 'Blue Bloods' and won't dish on Carly Simon 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

He faces an additional count of visual surveillance with prurient intent. Maryland man accused of possessing, distributing child porn 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

Our prurient interest in criminals is nothing new. El Chapo's wife doesn't want your judgment. 'Cartel Crew' won't help 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

More acutely, it is the story of two women who, for the entirety of Houston’s life, concealed the sexual origins of that relationship, amid intense and often prurient speculation. 'Our friendship was intimate on all levels': Robyn Crawford on her love for Whitney Houston 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

America’s most notorious print publication began by covering murders and car crashes, swerved into prurient celebrity coverage, and eventually became a tool of the Trump campaign. US briefing: Impeachment testimony, Syrian oil and anti-vaxxer ads 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The truth is that, despite our prurient interest in celebrities, the overwhelming majority of people do not want to be famous, and the minority of people who truly desire fame are abnormal. Opinion | In the age of a reality-TV president, Americans are saying no to fame 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Those of us who are older remember Watergate, which is much more analogous to what we're seeing now than the farce of the Ken Starr investigation and the absurd, prurient charges leveled against Clinton. Yes, it's this bad: Conspiracy-hunter Bill Barr is roaming the globe under Trump's orders 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

It was a serious academic undertaking; his interest was curatorial, not prurient. Ralph Whittington, erotica collector extraordinaire, dies at 74 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

She had weathered the onslaught of prurient attention – not just to her writing, but to her life and her looks – that had come along with that. Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian on the trouble with writing about sex 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

The skepticism was warranted; both women began playing music in their teens, the Runaways especially guided and misguided by older men with sometimes prurient interests who treated the group as a novelty. How two fearless rock pioneers survived the ’70s and found each other four decades later 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Some were comments, persistent or prurient or both. Opinion | America’s last hideous man 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Some might call that prurient; we aren’t going to sit in judgment. Alabama editorial roundup 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Tyndall acknowledged in a 1996 memo to his boss that the nursing staff thought he had prurient reasons for photographing patient genitals and delving in their sexual histories. Secret USC records reveal dire warnings about gynecologist accused of abusing students 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

William Burck told a Palm Beach County judge that releasing the video would only satisfy a “prurient interest,” during a hearing held in part to determine whether media outlets could offer arguments in the case. Lawyer: Video of sex act invades Robert Kraft’s privacy 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

“There’s no interest in actually seeing the video unless you have a prurient interest in seeing the video.” Patriots owner Kraft asks Florida judge not to release... 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Roger Ebert slammed the film as “clearly intended to appeal to the prurient interests of dirty old men of all ages.” Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

But even ignoring the prurient details, the scandal is sending the president’s personal attorney to prison, and the story is still generating new questions in need of answers. Did two Trump attorneys lie in the hush-money scandal? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Exposing someone’s most intimate thoughts and expressions is meant to appeal to prurient interests and to destroy another’s life. Opinion | The National Enquirer shows us just how sleazy it really is 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

An application for a government-funded loan from the Small Business Administration was denied due to the “prurient” nature of Dame’s products. The secret censorship holding back the sex toy industry 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

There was a lot in that report which was simply of prurient interest, rather than legitimate investigative interest. Trump, Mueller and the lessons of history: Special prosecutors "are incapable of saving us" 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

The podcast adopted the investigative format of “Serial,” but had a far shakier claim of being a story in the public interest, rather than being one of interest to a prurient public. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Democrats have been debating how far to go in asking Judge Kavanaugh about such prurient matters. A Hearing’s Test: Blasey Must Seem Credible. Kavanaugh Must Defend but Not Attack. 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

There have been instances, however, when the teasing has overreached and Rudolph has, like her parents, found her interracial relationship the object of prurient interest. How Maya Rudolph Became the Master of Impressions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

She left no diary or letters about the crime; nothing to feed readers’ prurient interest, but also nothing for a true crime writer to utilize. The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Media coverage, he said, tended to focus on the “prurient” aspects of the movement. Tom Gallagher, Foreign Service officer who quit to live as openly gay, dies at 77 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

She now believes that he took pictures of her and others not for medical reasons but as a “prurient personal collection of vaginal photographic imagery,” according to the court papers. Ex-USC gynecologist retains high-profile criminal attorney 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

What, exactly, is the point of running this story, other than trying to satisfy readers’ prurient interest in the tragic end of someone’s life? Opinion | How to Reverse the Rising Suicide Rate 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

But there was also a flurry of prurient interest in highly personal details: for Bourdain, it was his family and his money. Newsweek and the race to fill Google with suicide news 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Whatever disappointment she felt over my prurient tastes was offset by her appreciation of both my natural curiosity and unwillingness to dissemble. A Centerfold and a Lesson From Mom 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

In Britain, there was a good deal of prurient interest in the show’s brief flash of nudity. Time for a revolution: how the art of 1968 caught a world in turmoil 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

It would be prurient to dwell on the details, yet nor should they be glossed over, as to do so would be to sustain the collective amnesia that has characterised America’s relationship with racial terrorism. The sadism of white men: why America must atone for its lynchings 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

He said he believed it was placed in an effort to “gather information” rather than for prurient purposes, and that it could be accessed remotely. FBI joins investigation into surveillance camera in school office in Md. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Those thin, hardcover volumes were a frequent source of useful information and prurient entertainment. I was one of the first people on Facebook. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

“It was not in a place that lends itself to prurient behavior. We do not believe it was placed for criminal purposes,” Stawinski said. Video recording device found in Prince George’s school office, police say 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Oldale was charged with one count of conducting visual surveillance, with prurient intent, of another person in a private place without consent. Federal prosecutors say Maryland dad secretly filmed children in his bathroom 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

But this prurient tidbit overlooks the main factors driving the illegal rhino horn trade—and may even be reinforcing false beliefs about the substance’s powers. The Hard Truth about the Rhino Horn "Aphrodisiac" Market 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

The Daniels affair is of more than just prurient interest: It would appear that Trump may have violated federal campaign law by failing to disclose the payment on his reporting forms. Opinion | Stormy Daniels beat Trump at his own game 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

A spotlight-seeker uses a woman’s sex life as a prop for his one-man show, playing on the audience’s interest in all things prurient to earn himself attention and cash. Opinion | With the Nikki Haley smear, liberals finally find their principles 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The story itself is of more than merely prurient interest. Opinion | For conservatives, character counts — when you’re a Democrat 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Much easier to retreat, into ever more shocked and prurient silence, or into the sort of reflection that seems less intended as honesty, and more aimed to please. Opinion | The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

But there are many people who will be drawn to them out of some deeply disturbed prurient fascination. Texas Church Shooting Video Raises an Unsettling Question: Who Should See It? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

In other words, it includes both actual criminal offenses alongside, perhaps, the kind of kinky sex that a British tabloid might enjoy exposing for a bit of prurient titillation and some 1950s-style condemnation. Opinion | The Deep Confusion of the Post-Weinstein Moment 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

In the same prurient vein, Blackberry’s use of #RIMjobs to announce new hiring caused the Canadian tech company embarrassment. The #hashtag turns 10. Some haven't worked quite so well … 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The Goldwater rule protects us all against prurient speculation about our mental health. The Goldwater rule: why commenting on mental health from a distance is unhelpful 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The Supreme Court has previously ruled content may be considered obscene if it appeals to the average person’s prurient interests, is “patently offensive” and wholly lacks “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” FCC won’t discipline Stephen Colbert over Trump-Putin joke 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

“It is one of the four preliminary models, part of the preparatory work,” Mr. Salomon said, and it was practical, not prurient. Finally, From Italy, the Full George Washington 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

Every time a plot feels corny or prurient or preachy, there’s an acknowledgment in the dialogue. Archie’s and Veronica’s Misconceived Return to “Riverdale” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Not long ago, censors had banned Lady Chatterley's Lover to stop "prurient minds which take delight and pleasures from erotic writings". Rehana Sultan: The trail-blazing actress Bollywood forgot - BBC News 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Francis’ lawyer had said that news media coverage was creating a “carnival atmosphere” and “arousing prurient interests.” Thomas Platt, 91, Dies: Fined Air Traffic Controllers $100,000 an Hour 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Dark comedy in particular thrives in juxtaposing the solemn, the mortal, with the petty and the prurient. Is it wrong to laugh at Donald Trump? | Steven Johnson 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The county state’s attorney’s office said in a news release that James Sims pleaded guilty on Tuesday to visual surveillance with prurient interest and misconduct in office. Police officer pleads guilty to taking upskirt photos 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

It was sexy—and, in later seasons, downright kinky—but rather than being prurient it was romantic, in more ways than one. Archie’s and Veronica’s Misconceived Return to “Riverdale” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

“Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest,” he wrote. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

But apparently, milky butt play and squirt scenes seemed to fit with the “prurient interests” of enough people. Crackdown on America’s favorite form of entertainment: Is porn endangered in the Trump era? 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Hopefully, the prurient interest in hacked emails will run its course and treated like the junk mail we get in our own mailboxes. Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides, Emails Show 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

“There is, to me, a kind of fundamental American decency, and it’s just been lost in the prurient shallowness of the discourse.” Ripples From the ‘How Low Can They Go’ Campaign 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Or is this just to satisfy our own prurient interests? Dr Oz's missed opportunity: scolding Trump for all his bad habits | Celine Gounder 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Supreme Court had used “prurient” only once before in its history. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s personal, professional and prurient as ever on the return of the period drama “Masters of Sex.” TV This Week, Sept. 11-17: 'Sister Cities' and more 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

“But how important was that trash article from the Daily Beast? … for nothing people are being put in danger. The article is just a really truly prurient vulgar thing.” Wayback Machine Won’t Censor Archive for Taste, Director Says After Olympics Article Scrubbed 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s also our prurient interest in other people’s vanity,” Streep says, “imagining that it has nothing to do with our own.” Meryl Streep: A League of Her Own 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

I replied, “The Supreme Court's definition of obscenity is that it has to be material which appeals to your prurient interest.” Remembering Lenny Bruce, 50 years after his death 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

In Mutual, the Court noted that “a prurient interest may be excited and appealed to” by movies, but made no more of it. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

The grand jury indicted Sims, 30, on four counts of visual surveillance with prurient interest and two counts of misconduct in office, prosecutors said. Prince George’s police officer indicted amid investigation of upskirt photos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

He said at a news conference Thursday that 30-year-old James Sims, a 6-year veteran of the department, was indicted on charges of visual surveillance with prurient intent and misconduct in office. Police officer indicted for allegedly taking upskirt photos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Officer James Sims was indicted Thursday on four counts of visual surveillance with prurient interest. James Sims, Prince George’s police officer, accused of upskirt photos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

He magically produced an unabridged dictionary from the suitcase on his bed, and looked up the word “prurient.” He closed the dictionary, clenching his jaw and nodding his head in affirmation of a new discovery. Remembering Lenny Bruce, 50 years after his death 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Some patrons use this help to find content that is prurient or otherwise objectionable by many contemporary standards — think hate speech and religious radicalization. Religious freedom: Think of the other jobs that test people's beliefs 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The story is so nasty, so depraved and troubling, that viewers may well wonder at its value beyond prurient interest. ‘Tickled’ takes viewers to the dark sides of the Internet and the human psyche 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Looking at these pictures, one gets the sense that they were staged for our prurient benefit. Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston: as close as we'll get to two memes dating 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, I’ll make a few observations: Gawker has always had a strong political bent, in addition to its unabashedly prurient and gossipy side. Gawker Was a Great Place to Become a Journalist 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

No one would have known or cared about his sex tape if Gawker hadn't made it a story for no reason other than to get hits from prurient thrill-seekers on it's website. I Stand With Gawker 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Thiel said he was irate that a website owned by Gawker had, among other things, outed him and several of his friends as gay, solely to be prurient. Revenge and the Future of Media Finances 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Several of the names have brought prurient snickers from those with creatively immoral minds. Will Binghamton Mets Become Stud Muffins? The Internet Will Decide 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

"The history of the prurient nature of some of the earlier reporting is a clear indicator that such reporting might be repeated," he said in his ruling. Woman who refused treatment after losing 'sparkle' to stay anonymous - BBC News 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

If anything, our culture has become even more obsessed with celebrity and its prurient underbelly in the years since. What does the obsession with OJ Simpson say about America? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

She always knew about the last letter, and what it revealed Birthday Letters was also an attempt by Hughes to nail shut a Pandora’s box of prurient, often vicious, speculation. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 4 – Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998) 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

But when they got into the water, all prurient curiosity gave way to naked awe. Swimming troupe Aqualillies is making a splash in Hollywood with Coen brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Israel Mangroo, 31, faces one count of misconduct in office and one count of visual surveillance “with prurient intent,” according to court records. Maryland judicial officer charged in ‘upskirting’ case 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

I looked down my nose at sensational biographies that aimed to satisfy the prurient curiosity of that mythical creature, the “average” reader. Dirt for art's sake: what's offensive and what's essential in author biographies? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it also became fashionable to write about the chastity belt as a convenient topic in order to meet prurient interests during the repressive Victorian age. Is the Medieval Chastity Belt a Myth 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

For me, the larger question was whether the elite prep-school setting is what drove the frequency and prominence of the coverage, giving it a kind of seedy, prurient glamour. Prep-School Sex, Refugees and Clarence Thomas: Rounding Up Reader Concerns 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

The flip side of the strict sexual prohibitions in the culture to which the Duggars belong is a belief, sometimes bordering on the prurient, in the unbridled nature of male sexuality. Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison Problem 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

The camera gives us almost a shot of what most people were trying to look at without at without getting prurient bout it. 'I Am Cait' recap: 'Trans-zilla' Caitlyn Jenner is comfortable in the 'pink cloud'; Ronda who? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The interest is still classified as a prurient one. Ann Rule's true crime books: what made them so compelling? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Moreover, despite the title and the film’s almost prurient judgment, there isn’t anything wrong with Amy having consensual, safe sex with various partners. Review: Amy Schumer's 'Trainwreck' Plays It Safe 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Prompting decades of prurient speculation, Chang and Adelaide had 11 children, and Eng and Sarah had 10. The 17 Most Intriguing Weddings Of All Time 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

But let’s be clear: This post was less about piercing a marketing haze than it was about tapping into the timeless appeal of celebrity voyeurism, the more prurient the better. Gawker’s Moment of Truth 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

And if Garland simply left it at that, it would be easy to write off as prurient hand-wringing. Bodies electric: Ex Machina twists the history of sexy robots 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

In the case of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, the interest in his private life was ultimately more than just an appetite for prurient spectacle, those who have followed the trial closely said. France Crosses a Threshold in Examining Strauss-Kahn’s Personal Life 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

In a more gender-neutral and less prurient time, it wouldn’t have to be considered an important film merely for existing. Review: Amy Schumer's 'Trainwreck' Plays It Safe 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Yet we now care oh-so-much when the woman in an R-rated female-centric adult fantasy is actually consenting to said treatment as a consensual act of roleplay and potentially for her own prurient pleasure. 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Is A Sex Fantasy Of Consent In A Sea Of Damsels In Distress 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

I did not attend Dartmouth, but I was born at Dartmouth’s Mary Hitchcock Hospital, I attended a college comparable in both prestige and traditions of prurient masculine nonsense, and I also drink liquor. Good Luck Outlawing Hard Liquor, Dartmouth 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

After two years of reporting he had decided that, while Hart was flawed, the candidate’s refusal to answer prurient questions showed true strength of character. Why the Media Doesn’t Want to Remember Gary Hart 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

“Yet when it comes to future handling of such information, the gray area in which they reside — between public and private, between prurient and illuminating — might not be the exception, but the new normal.” Why Sony probably can’t stop the media from publishing stories from the hack 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Robin: There is always a prurient interest in executive compensation that never seems to leave the headlines. Five Insights into Why Human Resources Executives Can Be the Stewards of Compensation 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The somewhat uncomfortable truth is that although these videotaped executions do indeed “cause fear,” they also arouse curiosity and prurient interest. Book review: ‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Found,’ by Frances Larson

It turns out, though, that the book is substantially more thoughtful and less prurient than those labels suggest. 'XL Love' Examines the Private Complications of Obesity in Americans’ Relationships 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

“In a time when our data ends up in databases, people can use it for their own prurient interests,” said Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union. Uber executive stirs up privacy controversy

Someone had nicknamed him “Mark Uterus,” implying his interest was somehow prurient. This conservative cause is the GOP's worst nightmare 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

I don’t believe even the 50s would be as judgmental as these prurient times. So Brooks Newmark sent some explicit pictures – why should he resign? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The lawyers argued that given the prurient nature of the investigation and the "other woman" narrative propounded by the leakers, it was likely that Kelley's treatment was motivated by sexual discrimination. Judge: Lawsuit in Petraeus scandal can proceed 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

The lawyers argued that given the prurient nature of the investigation and the “other woman” narrative propounded by the leakers, it was likely that Kelley’s treatment was motivated by sexual discrimination. Judge allows Jill Kelley privacy suit against FBI in Petraeus affair 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Supreme Court Justices particularly were all over the lot, formulating such unworkable tests as “whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.” THE BUSINESS OF SEX: HAVE WE COME TO A NEW NORMAL 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The racy images of these nubile bodies are the biggest story on the internet, and every site that refuses to reprint the images has already left itself absolved while leaving a prurient trail of breadcrumbs. The Great Naked Celebrity Photo Leak of 2014 is just the beginning 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

But the Islamic State fighters guarding the women appear to have mostly demonstrated prurient adherence to the tenets of Islam that forbid contact with non-Muslim women. In Iraq, captured Yazidi women fear the Islamic State will force them to wed

Although it covers all the bases – childhood, young womanhood, family, relationships, character strengths and flaws – it is not prurient, or given to hunting down answers where they are not offered. Harper Lee: should Marja Mills' memoir have been published? 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

All prurient folk need to do is bash a few words into Google Google to be greeted with a torrent of smut that would have given previous generations a heart attack. Porn Brand Behind '21st Century Playboy' Plans A Hardcore Future For Journalism 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Many think of this interest in the prurient as a bad thing—degrading or even a sin against God, who gave us our libidinal urges in the first place. THE BUSINESS OF SEX: HAVE WE COME TO A NEW NORMAL 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

At about half the length and a lower dramatic temperature, is sexually charged but not prurient, the character study of a person at her most mysterious age, as she navigates from girlhood to womanhood. REVIEW: Young & Beautiful: I Was a Teenage Hooker (in Paris) 2014-04-22T19:00:05Z

Keeping the prurient interest of the material at hand always just below the surface, CDL always delivered the goods, in the purported interest of suppressing the very texts it sampled for its members. Meet the spiritual forefather of conservatives’ War on Women 2014-04-13T10:59:00Z

The media ecosystem is increasingly a pro-am affair, where the wisdom — or prurient interest — of the crowd decides what is important and worthy of sharing. The Media Equation: Risks Abound as Reporters Play in Traffic 2014-03-24T01:05:18Z

As she rose to the top of Britain’s prurient press and Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire here, Ms. Brooks received advice from Mr. Murdoch, her father-figure boss and mentor. Editor Testifies in Phone Hacking Case, Taking a Turn Toward Tabloid 2014-02-27T02:29:22Z

Puritanism is a sin against human nature, and the worst of it is that puritanism is the most leering and prurient of world views. Sex and the French 2014-01-17T15:18:01Z

London audiences swarmed into the theatre out of prurient interest - the play had already been staged in Vienna and America and everyone knew it contained the profane and forbidden line: "Not bloody likely!" The map that saved the London Underground 2014-01-10T01:10:43Z

But the willingness to fixate on how “gay-acting” someone is means nothing other than that the writer has a prurient sort of bloodlust. The bizarre quasi-”outing” of Aaron Schock 2014-01-06T17:15:00Z

“They would be dumbfounded and probably prurient,” she sniffs. Britain's Part-Time Wives 2013-08-05T08:45:00Z

"It's time to end this prurient charade, which has nothing to do with justice or the public interest." Consent age should be 13 says lawyer 2013-05-08T22:01:44Z

The editor of The Sun, Dominic Mohan, has so far defended the paper’s prurient content. Murdoch to Cover Up Page 3 Girls? 2013-02-12T07:25:00Z

"Some sections of the print media are either unable or unwilling in their reportage to distinguish between 'prurient interest' and 'the public interest'," he added. Irish Daily Star editor suspended 2012-09-17T19:17:04Z

As the prince headed for a heart-to-heart with his father this weekend, press reaction ranged from the sanctimonious to the prurient. IHT Rendezvous: Las Vegas and the Prince Harry Effect 2012-08-25T10:47:31Z

Mr. Chasanoff contended that he touched the girl because she was shaking and nervous, not for any prurient purpose, and that his remark, while clumsy, was made out of pride. Found to Have Misbehaved, but Still Teaching in New York City 2012-04-06T03:07:20Z

She was not neurotic; her healthy mind revolted against prurient suggestion either in conversation or in novels. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z

On the contrary, it permitted his prurient imagination to become more mischievous in its influence. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z

The newspapers, morning or evening, found ready sale, and had no need to rely on murder-panics or prurient discussions. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z

A great man, certainly, a wonderful orator, no doubt, but much tinctured with selfishness, and carried away by wild and prurient schemes. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z

They are on the counters in the department stores, in the most flashing advertisements where their most prurient qualities are held out as inducements to the buyer. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z

Page 5: the affect of arousing prurient thoughts; that they are written the effect of arousing prurient thoughts; that they are written Page 12: Jer. xi. Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature 2011-12-13T03:00:25.353Z

At his separate trial, Mr. Komisarjevsky was convicted of the killings and a host of other crimes, including sexually assaulting the 11-year-old and making prurient photographs of her on his cellphone. Joshua Komisarjevsky Gets Death for Cheshire Killings 2011-12-09T22:21:03Z

Despite all its writhing naked bodies and Fassbender’s full frontal nudity, the film isn’t prurient. Sex Addict Prowls Subways, Bars; Comic Cook Gets Serious: Film 2011-12-02T03:22:02Z

"This bill does far more than feed the prurient interests of newspaper editors who are looking for a headline about how much Coach Paterno makes," Spanier said at the time. Pa. law backs up Penn State's fight for secrecy 2011-12-01T22:13:08Z

What are Eugene Sue and his English competitors, but coarser and more prurient Ostades? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z

He is the first in Heaven to make a prurient suggestion. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z

Expanded, for a mysterious purpose—and it is curious what a number of such mysterious purposes seem to have occurred to prurient eyes—it is Ionic. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z

Shall the courts thus close the front entrance to constituted authority, and open wide the back door to idle or prurient curiosity? The Right to Privacy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.037Z

How full, and yet how empty for a prurient curiosity, and how reverently reticent even while they are triumphantly confident! The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z

With all the time they devote to training and playbook study, when do players have time to master prurient barbering? The Fifth Down: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose 2011-08-13T18:07:04Z

Shortly after she married Rupert, The Wall Street Journal, in one of the more prurient stories in its mostly staid history, ran a detailed account of her life before Rupert. Deng! The Story of Wonder Wendi 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sabarwal has had to explain to the sometimes prurient news media that SlutWalk is not just about “scantily clad women” taking to the streets. The Female Factor: Ready or Not, Delhi Gets a 'SlutWalk' 2011-06-14T12:20:19Z

He's not easily knocked over and I think he's got his private life and he's got his football life and sometimes they cross over because we're a prurient nation. Giggs' football 'will not suffer' 2011-05-24T12:44:50Z

So, in closing, how do you determine if your partner’s overnight prurient poking is thoughtless or thoughtful? Sex, Sleep and the Law: When Nocturnal Genitals Pose a Moral Dilemma 2011-05-21T02:15:05.520Z

And the prurient, who are most intimately moved by it, make up most of those who cannot see beyond it. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z

Led and checked by Congress, the prurient and fearless, because anonymous, animadversions of the Press, now so often premature and inconsiderate, might be disciplined into serviceable capacity to interpret and judge. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z

His title of “cavalier,” and his “chivalry,” like that of the Southern slave-driver, were simply pseudonyms—a ludicrous misapplication of terms, self-appropriated by a prurient conceit. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z

To tell what we have done is to pay a compliment to prurient curiosity which it does not deserve. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z

Discursiveness and prurient exuberancy of thought and suggestion, they often possess, but always fail when they attempt a literary or other work of Art. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z

And what, Joe Scarborough asks, did a man who has made millions off prurient interest in the publicly private lives of pampered housewives find “objectionable about these little cute children singing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’?” City Room: He Says P.S. 22 Singers 'Ruined' Oscars: Do You Agree? 2011-03-01T16:21:27Z

In London or in New-York, an establishment so public would be thronged with persons eager to gratify a prurient curiosity. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z

He knew there was no more prurient sign of the age of groping and essay in which we live than the unrest and diseased brains of its women. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z

Least of all the scene in episode three, in which a teen character abandoned by his parents is locked out of his house naked; the context of the scene isn't remotely prurient. Watching Skins: More Sentimental than Porno 2011-01-25T06:50:00Z

She had thought that in regard to women he was a prurient savage: she now knew that he was a high-principled and rather fastidious celibate. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z

Still, as H.P. and Mr. Hurd move on to new but separate paths, some techies of Silicon Valley grasp for prurient details. Another View: At H.P., Governance Trumps Gossip 2010-08-26T16:50:00Z

I thought about what this remarkable evening tableau would look like if another terrible shoe dropped here, and then shook it off as prurient and unproductive. In Times Square, Deciding When to Suspend Fear 2010-05-08T21:19:00Z

It argues that it is not the job of the government to feed a prurient lynch-mob mentality demanding information that it was agreed long ago would stay secret. Bulger killer secrecy fuels anger 2010-03-04T04:58:00Z

There is something strangely prurient about wandering round an abandoned television studio. 2010-02-11T10:48:00Z

He has been accused of betraying a prurient imagination in the names which he gave to many objects, both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History

Many of these visions seem like the wildest hallucinations of prurient lunacy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

"Full of physiological truths, which all children ought to know, at a proper age; will be read by boys without awakening a prurient thought." What a Young Husband Ought to Know

Aaron Hill, who had apparently ignored the publication of Shamela, angrily conveyed to Richardson a rumor that Pamela Censured was a bookseller's contrivance written in order to promote sales among readers with prurient interests. Pamela Censured

Yes, there is a terrible moral in "Dorian Gray"—a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Merchants and shop-keepers stood in their doors wearing prurient countenances, and anon, sending would-be purchasers away with curt replies; for since the sun rose on that eventful morn, had not traffic grown out of fashion? K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it.

Some of these rumours are probably false, the work of prurient imaginations in the most abandoned age in history. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Huber had a complicated arrangement in reference to this, which his admirers accepted enthusiastically, while Latreille and other apiarists reject it as a cluster of prurient fancies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865

Oh, no, I don't mean that my prurient mind was gloating over the destruction of Jack's marital bliss. Captain Macedoine's Daughter

No prurient effeminacy degraded, deformed, or unduly confounded, the types of sex idealised in sculpture. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion

It was a prurient, morbid curiosity that had seized me. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864

For the gravest charges of youthful depravity no proof or authority is given; they seem to be the offspring of that prurient gossip which can assail any character. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Were it not for this astounding gift of resilience one might deplore the prurient curiosity that wants to peep into the hollow image of Isis and get at the machinery of the priesthood. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916

And this in the interest of health and longevity, not in the interest of a prurient and effeminate "art." Whitman A Study

His morality is at the superior antipodes from the cynicism of a Wycherley; and far superior to the prurient sentimentalism of Sterne or the hot-pressed priggishness of Richardson, or even the reckless Bohemianism of Smollett. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

She had not forgotten it, the thing her daughter called "society"; the little, cruel, careless, prurient world she had left far behind her and thought well lost. Kildares of Storm

The gloomy or prurient satirist gives us a picture of ideal baseness; the gentle and charitable aristocrat opens before us a society in which people are charmingly refined, and perhaps a little too good. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

So far as my words go, there is not a syllable to shock any but a prurient modesty. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

And, like to Ingres' Odalisque, supine, Defying prurient modesty turned she, Displaying in her beauty candidly Wonder of curve and purity of line. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems

The Aino's imagination is as prurient as that of any Zola, and far more outspoken. Aino Folk-Tales

But he is most attracted by prurient sexual adventures. A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver

The bohemian man of letters had heard many a scandal about great ladies, some of them true, others distorted and exaggerated by prurient gossip, after passing through a hundred tainted imaginations. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

She spends, the lewd girl; it only shows the prurient ideas girls must have when my birching affects them in such a sensual manner. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies

For this reason we ought to regard sex with reverent thought, to hold it sacred to the highest purposes, to speak of it ever with purest delicacy, and never with jesting or prurient smiles. What a Young Woman Ought to Know

It is a very dreadful book; not calculated, I think, to excite any prurient feeling in any one. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I

Why did you remain," said Saxham, wrung by pity, "to be tortured by such prurient prattlers? The Dop Doctor

The testimony of Petronius is tainted by a suspicion of prurient imagination. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Their works stare you every where in the face; the magazines abound with their wit; their songs, consisting for the most part of prurient parodies, are resonant throughout the purlieus of Covent Garden. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845

Yet it is not long since Mr. Whitman was made the target of the “prurient prudes,” who carry on the Comstockian movement of the Vice Society, and was ordered to expunge some of his writings. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10

A prurient eruption formed in a circle, affecting children, and would seem to be the work of insects, according to the theory of Linn�us, who ascribes the itch and dysentery to microscopic animalcula. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

One could write about it while feeling simultaneously prurient, principled, and prescient: the journalistic trifecta. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

The rumour in his case may have been well-founded, although we are not bound to believe all the tales of prurient gossip which Suetonius has handed down. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

And let it not be forgotten that an indictment of Comstockery is an indictment of ourselves, for the prurient, hypocritical, degrading thing can exist not one instant after we have declared that it shall perish. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906

This “prurient prudery” of the vulgar mind was once strongly exhibited in Baltimore. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10

He trampled with sarcasm and scorn upon canting critics, and retorted that the prurient prudery of their own minds suggested the impurities which they found in works of pure art. Studies in Literature and History

This is modesty in its healthy and natural development, not in those morbid forms which suggest an imagination ever on the alert for prurient images. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland

That it is not a prurient invention is proved by the pages of Tacitus and Suetonius and the records of Roman morals for more than two centuries. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

He capitulated in the face of her unpitying ridicule, and surrendered all to the prurient agility of a young body. The Goose Man

Gush’d ’neath this sacred dome the prurient flood Of filth and venom, from that viper brood, Which o’er the land hath spread its noisome stain, While shudd’ring virtue weeps, but weeps in vain? The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers

He is, perhaps, a braggadocio of minuteness, a swaggering chronologer, a man bristling up with small facts, prurient with dates, wantoning in obsolete evidence. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852

Translators there were, who strove to render into the manly, wholesome Anglo-Saxon tongue, the produce—witty, frivolous, prurient, and amusing—of Gallic imagination. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847

If Amy Lowell Had It Far away In the third-floor-back of my skull I feel a light, airy, prurient, menacing tickling, Dainty as the pattering toes of nautch girls On a polished cabaret floor. Songs for a Little House

But while her language may seem coarse to our over-fastidious ears, it never becomes prurient or indecent. Mary Wollstonecraft

Men of prurient tastes become collectors of such books, many of which are not without some literary merit, while many more are neither fit to be written, nor printed, nor read. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

To him, a scholar and a gentleman and a man of the world, Pamela was a new-fangled blend of sentimental priggishness and prurient unreality. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation

The idea flashed into his mind that it must be some inquisitive boor, who was following him merely out of prurient curiosity to see how he conducted himself with Mrs. Maroney. The Expressman and the Detective

At length, the little man with the epaulet commenced a very prurient tale. Rattlin the Reefer

There is a sense in which biographical detail gives light to criticism, but not the sense in which the prurient moralist uses or seeks it. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron

There is often a prurient desire to explore the tracts of sin, as if information on such subjects meant wisdom. Friendship

Noble old child-hearted heroes, with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm which is simply, one often fears, a product of our scepticism! Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife

To call such a man ‘ambitious,’ to figure him as the prurient windbag described above, seems to me the poorest solecism. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

No prurient speculation about sexual matters would enter their heads. Plain Facts for Old and Young

Here are no incitements to passion, no prurient suggestions of sensual delights. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters

But what else means the minute morbid anatomy of death beds, the prurient curiosity to know how the dying one bore himself in the solemn passage? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Yet it is always a matter of delicacy; and great care should be taken lest, while pointing out the evil, there be also a stimulus added to a prurient curiosity. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence

Trollope is never bombastic, or sensational, or prurient, or grotesque. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

The prurient coarseness of Fletcher is due to the peculiar licentiousness of the period. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour

I would rather give my boy Jonson, Massinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, whose very improper things 'are called by their proper names,' than let him dive in the prurient innuendo of these later writers. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1

I am quite certain that our present habit of not discussing sexual questions in our books is bound to disappear, and that free and dignified speech will take the place of our present prurient mealy-mouthedness. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2

The conversation turned on Boulogne, where Mike had loved many solicitors' wives, and then on the impurity of the society girl and the prurient purity of her creation—the "English" novel. Mike Fletcher A Novel

But there is not an impure or prurient passage in the whole library of tales. Studies in Early Victorian Literature

One who suspects hypocrisy in the world is rarely transparent; the man constantly on the watch for cheating is generally dishonest; he who suspects impurity is prurient. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series

In that story some of the writer's saddest experiences in the East End are told with an unshrinking fidelity, which yet has nothing mawkish or prurient in it. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences

It is not from any idle or prurient desire to become acquainted with the cause of your emotion that I speak, but simply from a wish to serve you, if you will permit me. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

It would be an unfortunate thing, indeed, if the "prurient prudes" of the meeting houses were permitted to make the laws by which society should be governed. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

Chatterton was born in Bristol, on the Avon, in 1752, of poor parents, but early gave signs of remarkable genius, combined with a prurient ambition. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

No enlightened reader of Greek mythology can proceed far without discovering that he is dealing with the prurient and often lascivious imaginings of semi-barbarous poets. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

Brother Nicholas was one of those people who are in a perpetual state of prurient concern about the sexual morality of the human race. The Altar Steps

No, but its babblings travel, and rejoice A myriad prurient ears with noisome news, Fit only for the shambles and the stews. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892

This is the great harm of prurient clothes, literature, art, and stage,—it unfits people for sex reality. The Nervous Housewife

The frown of puritanism, in the polemic period, had checked its progress: with the restoration of Charles II, it had returned to rival the French stage in wicked plots and prurient scenes. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

Yes, there is a terrible moral in Dorian Gray—a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Miscellanies

The book was too true to life to please the bourgeois and yet not ribald enough to tickle the prurient. Shandygaff

Even from the religious point of view, prurient prudery is not justifiable. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

Grave, shy, and reserved, I was never taken into the counsels of prurient schoolmates. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women

Genius may have soiled its canvas with what is prurient and vile; lascivious groups may stand side by side with pictures of saints and madonnas. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction

Then it struck him that the great Gallehault of modern life—El Gran Galeoto—was the impalpable power of gossip, the suggestive force of whispered opinion, the prurient allurement of evil tongues. The Theory of the Theatre

I confess they are not altogether such as I should wish them to have been; but I can see no good cause why prurient inference or speculation should busy itself in going behind them. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England

In this manner the mother will, indirectly, be able to safeguard her child at the outset against the prudish and prurient notions alike which he will encounter later. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society

Associated words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing. leverage, n. purchase. levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity. lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic. Putnam's Word Book

He shrugged his shoulders as he answered, "But then Westerns have such prurient minds." Tales of Old Japan

It is the story-teller who rolls some prurient morsel under his tongue who has the taint in him: he who, to sell his books, panders to the degraded instincts of his audience. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities

Longus knew very well that nothing is so tempting to libertines as purity and ignorant innocence; hence he made purity and ignorant innocence the pivot of his prurient story. Primitive Love and Love-Stories

The doctrines of Mormonism, if plainly stated, are no longer such as can commend themselves to a mind not perverted nor naturally prurient. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859

The beaux are attorneys' apprentices, with chapeau bras and Limerick gloves—fiddlers, harp teachers, and clerks of genius: the belles are faded fan-twinkling spinsters, prurient vulgar misses from school, and enormous citizens' wives. Famous Reviews

She has the excuse of necessity for the sale of her picture, while her sisters in society are driven solely by a prurient itch for notoriety to exploit themselves in the public prints. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10

In a sentence, don't join in the prurient clamor of "purity" hypocrites and "strong" libertines that exaggerates and distorts the most commonplace, if the most important feature of life. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

It appears that where marriage is solemnized by the church and blessed by the priest, it may at the same time be surrounded with customs and ideas of a frivolous, superficial, and even prurient character. The Soul of the Indian

Like a nun whose faith in the Virgin is met with a prurient jibe, He shrank—'twas the wife of his bosom in the arms of Philo, the scribe. Ballads of a Cheechako

The sight convicted him in the court of his own soul as a prurient and mean-minded rustic. The Damnation of Theron Ware

Driven by motives that were completely unethical and prurient, I now examined the handwritten notes. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier

It is shocking only to the most prurient of prudes; and in point of morality is infinitely better than Frou-Frou. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870

Its love of debauchery was only equalled by its prurient love of scandal. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!—ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

The barriers of prurient puritanism are being demolished. Woman and the New Race

Simple prurient snooping is by far the most common activity. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier

Out with your scissors, censor, and clip off the prurient paragraph! The Virginians

His thoughts on sex were so prurient that, in common with many people, he considered any frankness about it most indecent. Gone to Earth

On the contrary, it would do much to clear away from healthy-hearted lads one of their sorest trials—that prurient curiosity which is bred of prudish concealment. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

Another fingered his spear with a prurient hand. Children of the Frost

People, even quite normal people without any particular prurient interest in forbidden knowledge, did not shut their eyes in terror at the thought of beholding a "dangerous" document from a telephone company. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier

I am wholly opposed to that prurient intermeddling policy which finds so much favour with certain classes of Indian officials. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

Despite prurient opposition it is making rapid headway. Marvels of Modern Science

To the movement for the eligibility and entrance of women amid new spheres of business, politics, and the suffrage, the current prurient, conventional treatment of sex is the main formidable obstacle. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

A word may be said, lastly, with regard to prurient and polluted talk and unclean stories. Religious Reality

Vice has its votaries,—and there is, too, that worn-out longing for vice, "prurient, yet passionless, cold-studied lewdness," which drags on a feeble continuance with the aid of money. He Knew He Was Right

The people who discoursed glibly about love, and wove their sorrows into elegies, what sort of prurient curs were they? Watersprings

Then the elder man, with the whiskers round his face, said in a prurient manner to the young man: 'What price that, eh? Women in Love

"You think to fling yourself upon me as you have upon Captain Farnsworth," he said, with an insulting leer and in a tone of prurient innuendo. Alice of Old Vincennes

I inquired of the brigadier if he did not think an establishment had the beneficial effect of sustaining truth, by suppressing heresies, limiting and curtailing prurient theological fancies, and otherwise setting limits to innovations. The Monikins

Joseph's temptress did not tempt even the prurient taste which gave us the Parisian operatic versions of the stories of Phryne, Thais, and Messalina. A Second Book of Operas

The gasconading reptile who is responsible for the slimy life of that prurient sheet, the Coyote, paid us a sneaking visit Saturday. Wolfville Days

The man must be prurient and lecherous as a dog-faced baboon in rut to have aught of passion excited by either. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16

She heard the prurient scream of every male Elizabeth in England; the allusions in the House—the jeers, the bitter attacks of enemies and rivals. Beatrice

I fancied they might have been engaged in some of the prurient discourse with which they have been so disgustingly free of late. Stalky & Co.

Ahasuerus and his boon companions rounded out the banquet with prurient talk. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4

My knowledge and wealth of detail—for all that I curbed it lest I should seem to know too much—delighted her prurient soul. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...

Englishmen are no longer what they were if they continue to tolerate this Ignoble espionnage of Vicious and prurient virtuous "Associations." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16

"To h–––– with their prurient laws," said Lopez, rising suddenly from his chair. The Prime Minister

Broad type of joke, but not unhealthy or prurient. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus

The newspapers, morning or evening, found ready sale, and had no need of recourse to murder-panics, or prurient discussions. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels

Noble old child-hearted heroes, with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep them from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm, which is simply, one often fears, a product of our scepticism! Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth

While they thus keep to the open plain and trust to their speed, they are safe; but they have a prurient curiosity that sometimes betrays them to their ruin. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

Is not French Existence, as before, most prurient, all loosened, most nutrient for it? The French Revolution

And this fair-haired little figure was the woman that people who knew her only from her books, called bold, prurient even! The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll

What a world of prurient corruption lies visible in that super-sublime of modesty! The French Revolution

That prurient heat in Twenty-five millions of hearts is not cooled thereby; but is still hot, nay hotter. The French Revolution

For the rest, that in such prurient confusion, Clubbism thrives and spreads, need not be said. The French Revolution

单词	prurient
例句	prurient I had thought in my middle-class innocence that knee pads were one of Monica Lewinsky’s prurient fantasies, but no, they actually exist, and they’re usually a standard part of our equipment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruza assured him that it was the highest possible compliment to the chef, but the merriness in everyone’s eyes suggested a more...prurient meaning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z While the close cropping preserves the source’s prurient gaze, softening and rendering the image in black and white makes the content more distant and clinical. How would you describe women? Betty Tompkins asked, then painted 1,000 answers 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But, in the wider culture, the women got treated most frequently as objects of prurient male interest. Keeping Faith with the Manson Women 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z This particular dark wizard thrives on attention of all kinds: the adoration of his followers, the hatred of his enemies, the prurient fascination and/or sober scrutiny of the news media. One small step on the long march to freedom: This weekend, I will not say his name 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Both are lovely exercises in neo-Classical polish that thinly cover prurient interest with a veil of academic high-mindedness. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z And the federal Small Business Administration denied her loan application because they said she ran a “prurient” business. Vibrators Carry the Conversation 2011-04-20T21:56:26Z But together and separately Depp and Heard are a flaming mess, adding to the prurient interest of it all. Why Fox News is obsessed with Johnny Depp, its Manliness Under Siege mascot 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z What it insinuates, powerfully, is that Weinman has exploited both Sally and Nabokov to justify her prurient interest in yet another sad, dead girl. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Viewers who were around back then might remember Larry Clark’s “Kids” and other prurient, ostensibly cautionary tales of adolescent misbehavior. Review: ‘Mid90s’ Skates Back to a Less Innocent Time 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z A prolific director of features — and a genially prurient examiner of naked bodies — he benefits from the short form, and also perhaps from a collaborator. \| 'Autoerotic': When Sex Is Loneliness Multiplied 2011-07-21T21:47:40Z It's mostly the married ones who are prurient. Back in the game: dating in your 50s 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z But perhaps they are doing more than providing a prurient reading, as such a western label might suggest? Misery memoirs: why is it different for Muslim women? 2013-04-18T11:14:50Z Once again, there is a central aisle between tiers of benches that turn the audience into a cross between guilty churchgoers and prurient spectators at a bullfight. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Please get involved below the line with prurient gossip and grandma’s recipes and all caps slanders. The Great British Bake Off 2019: episode three – live 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Her real harassers were a prurient media and psychically assaultive public. Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z But the real failing of Robopocalypse is that, despite its authors eminent qualifications, it is nothing more than an airport thriller, indulging our prurient need to see human civilisation destroyed in ever more exotic ways. Is the Robopocalypse nigh? 2011-07-12T16:24:22Z Would that be crossing the line into “prurient interest,” or are we still just having a laugh? Perspective \| The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Michèle’s prurient, inscrutable cat is his alter ego, and we are the mice, batted from indignation to dread to uneasy amusement, according to his predatory whims. Review: In ‘Elle,’ Isabelle Huppert Subverts the Role of Rape Victim 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z As for the public appetite for prurient gossip – and in particular the appetite of the English, Wilde's "nation of hypocrites" sans pareil – that remains greater than ever. The News of the World closes as media's tectonic plates shift 2011-07-11T15:03:15Z A mastectomy involves more than enough pain – both emotional and physical – without even beginning to think about the prurient and ghoulish interest of millions. Jolie has done something extraordinary 2013-05-14T13:48:10Z “I don't necessarily want to talk to you about what's happened inside my bedroom,” he concedes, saying that what passes as personal is often just prurient. Teju Cole on knowns, unknowns and 'Known and Strange Things' 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z This is not only because tales of their childhoods and news of their marriages and divorces feed our prurient appetites, or because we can peek into their lives on Instagram and Twitter. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Though it definitely provides some prurient kicks, “Stockholm” is also informed by the carefully measured dispassion and compassion that was evident in Ms. Lavery’s best-known previous work, “Frozen,” seen on Broadway in 2004. Theater Review: In ‘Stockholm,’ the Blades Are Drawn From the Start 2013-08-23T21:34:28Z No yellowed curtains, no creepy prurient stares, no outdated magazines gathering dust on filthy tables. Men who made my legs 2012-12-03T02:00:00Z In one episode she says “prurient,” then pauses for a confession. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z Of course, there's the obvious schadenfreude angle: Toobin is part of the celebrity-journalist set and prurient gossip about talking heads is tempting, especially back here in the cheap seats. I can't believe we have to say this: Pulling a "New Yorker Zoom Incident" at work is a bad thing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z They were intended to document family life or gather material for prints or paintings, or to serve more prurient interests. Art Review: ?Snapshot: Painters and Photography,? at Phillips Collection 2012-04-06T00:25:38Z She was in her mid-40s by then, receiving fewer acting offers and finding many scripts too prurient for her tastes. Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z It does not manipulate the audience into judgment, pity or prurient curiosity. \| 'Tuesday, After Christmas': Case of Romanian Realism: Regular Guy, With Wife and Girlfriend 2011-05-24T21:43:04Z However clumsily expressed, its prurient intent cannot be misconstrued. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z You have probably come across newspaper or television accounts of survivors of similar crimes, and registered them with a shivery, prurient detachment. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Larman, who wrote Byron’s Women, an acclaimed study of the key women in the poet’s life, said that after O’Toole died in December 2013 parts of the media magnified and distorted “prurient stories” about him. Peter O'Toole less the drunken hell-raiser he made out, says author 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The documentary “Body Parts” is an attempt to account for cinema’s prurient interests. ‘Body Parts’ Review: Even Sex Scenes Have Rules 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Horror is traditionally one of cinema’s most prurient areas, but it is also extreme in the punishments it doles out to the sexually available. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Recording expressive, mostly prurient outbursts of vulgar annoyance at life’s little nuisances, the T-shirt wall-graphic is a colorful, very witty map of our current spiritual universe. Pippa Garner at Redling Fine Art: Vehicles for clever satire 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z But what is most striking about this movie is how un-self-conscious it is as it conducts a prurient and superficial inquiry into adolescent female sexuality. Movie Review: Marine Vacth in ‘Young & Beautiful,’ by François Ozon 2014-04-24T22:35:14Z Sure, there’s plenty of sex and nudity in Borowczyk’s work, to go with a prurient fascination with female desire. The erotic fables of Walerian Borowczyk: A ’70s art-porn pioneer rediscovered 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But what is most striking about this movie is how unselfconscious it is as it conducts a prurient and superficial inquiry into adolescent female sexuality. ‘Young & Beautiful’: superficial look at a teenage call girl 2014-05-08T22:05:16Z Quite the contrary, she said: because affairs with barracks mates were so much a part of ordinary wartime experience the hoopla seemed simply prurient. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer of Lesbian Fiction, Dies 2012-09-25T14:41:36Z But it also, in a literal sense, fixes her with a prurient, almost predatory gaze, and the camera lingers over her young body in various states of exposure. Movie Review: ‘Little Birds,’ First Film by Elgin James 2012-08-29T01:16:25Z Rather than looking at bodies, you read about sensations and emotions; the experience is engaging and even affectionate rather than prurient. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z It’s the excuse that makes our prurient leer seem meaningful and reasoned. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z And if that makes me 'dim' and 'prurient' as Tim maintained in yesterday's comments section, colour me Nosy Parker and call me a few badly-made sandwiches short of the hot-tub picnic. Why Come Dine With Me is a gem 2010-06-03T09:40:00Z It’s in danger of feeling somewhat obligatory, a prurient question that has to be addressed if a character with a disability is going to be featured prominently. Television Review: ‘Legit,’ With Jim Jefferies, on FX 2013-01-16T23:01:58Z Lots of pop art has a prurient dimension; we project ourselves onto tales of sex, violence and intrigue because it's more exciting than projecting ourselves into utterly mundane stories about people dealing with reality. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z The hypersexual hat not only tried to kiss Diaz, but also made some prurient jokes for the camera. Erykah Badu tried to kiss a local news reporter during a live report 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Her parents copped a lot of criticism and the film sparked a national, prurient debate. Dakota Fanning: ‘I don’t remember people not knowing who I am’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Karen, LoBianco reports, “was livid” at Trump’s prurient comments in the “Access Hollywood” tape, but her husband concluded it was too late to drop off the ticket. The Inscrutable Mike Pence 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Despite some prurient interest by the press, focusing on the spectacle of fat women shamelessly declaring it was OK to weigh 350 pounds, the public didn’t buy it. I wasted decades feeling fat and ugly 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z But on a less prurient, storytelling level, the decision to skip over nearly all of Mary and Gillingham's rendezvous means that we don't actually observe them spending time together. 'Downton Abbey': The delights of Liverpool 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z By today’s standards there is nothing sensational or prurient about them. Art Review: Christer Strömholm at International Center of Photography 2012-06-21T21:06:23Z An intimate look into the global phenomenon of sex tourism, it subjects both its characters and its audience to a series of humiliations in a manner that is at once prurient and punitive. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z Over the years she reversed her image: from luscious sex object to anti-sex crusader, from taboo-breaker to cultural revisionist, from prurient to puritan. Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z The scene resembled the summoning of a cult leader, and the Dominican firebrand Tokischa, a rapper known for her prurient lyrics and high-profile collaborations, emerged onstage. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Do his paintings represent his own prurient fantasies, or is he satirizing “the male gaze”? Art in Review: JOHN CURRIN: ?New Paintings? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z He remains an endless source of prurient fascination for gossip mags, capable of elbowing Brangelina from their covers. Johnny Hallyday: the French rock'n'roller sets his sights on Britain 2012-11-15T19:00:01Z “American Predator” is a fine book — exhaustively researched and candid without being prurient — that should be as illuminating to law enforcement as it is fascinating to the general reader. Review \| ‘American Predator’ reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Is it a slyly anarchic subversion of the moral certainties of the traditional detective story, showing us the blood on our own prurient hands? Sky Atlantic and the box-set era 2011-01-31T22:00:01Z That is a shame because Ms. Abt provides an unusually honest, compassionate and challenging view of contemporary youth, neither sugarcoated nor prurient. Movie Review \| 'Toe to Toe': On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack 2010-02-26T00:00:00Z Her boss hated her husband, and her marriage became a source of prurient speculation. Perspective \| Farewell to Kellyanne Conway, the ultimate Woman for Trump 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z But reading her memoir made me feel exploitative, prurient and sometimes rather sick. Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z Though it’s mild, paradoxical and perhaps a bit prurient to say so, “Slave Play” is a happy surprise. Review: ‘Slave Play,’ Four Times as Big and Just as Searing 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z That there was feverish prurient interest swirling around 340 was something I already knew. T Magazine: Suddenly Susan 2011-02-25T17:39:23Z A moralistic streak, not to mention a prurient one, is buried in the DNA of cheap horror that is part of this movie. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The movie is not evasive exactly, but reticent, emphasising the moral equivalence of Geimer's and Polanski's suffering at the hands of a prurient and intrusive press over the past decades. Polanski's partial view 2012-05-16T17:27:09Z At the time, I thought that this was a problem largely confined to the People magazine world of celebrities and that this law would quash the prurient interest in their medical records. Farrah Fawcett was right: We have little medical privacy 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The details she presents, while vivid, are not prurient. Review \| Sharon Stone comes to terms with childhood trauma and Hollywood toxicity in ‘The Beauty of Living Twice’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z “I don’t want it to be prurient, but I also don’t want it to be too respectful,” he added. In ‘The Crown,’ a Young Queen, but a Young Woman, Too 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “Undateable” has its share of prurient jokes, but there are riffs that are G-rated, contorted and very funny, and the ensemble is better imagined than that of many other new comedies. ‘Undateable’ Keeps a Sitcom Formula Alive 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Beyond the prurient, there’s not much of interest in this dour portrait of middle-class family values. Review: White Bird in a Blizzard: Snow Job for Shailene Woodley 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “Split” is lurid and ludicrous, and sometimes more than a little icky in its prurient, maudlin interest in the abuse of children. Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’ Has Personality. O.K., Personalities. Lots. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Yet even as saying no to sex with actual partners is being acknowledged more openly, I think the culture is still weirdly prurient about the idea of other people — particularly women — not having sex. Cultural Studies: The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral 2011-04-15T22:03:59Z And part is just his own fascinations — prurient, prosaic and offhandedly profound. Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z So when Anastasia just can’t contain her passion any longer and he flips her over like a prurient pancake, the cymbals crash on the quietstorm mix he’s playing in glorious syncopation. The seven most wonderfully ridiculous moments in Fifty Shades Darker 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It tended to be humbler in conception, which was fine because it was mostly designed to shield couples from the prying and prurient eyes of society. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Adler-Bell is saltier, always eager, as he half-jokingly puts it, to highlight the more “lurid and prurient” aspects of the right. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The tacky, sometimes prurient depiction of three awkwardly frolicking male models left most in the room distinctly uncomfortable. \| Gucci, Missoni, Versace, Pringle 2011-01-18T22:45:29Z Sorkin’s point is that this is none of our business—just part of the messy creative process, the “juicy stuff” of prurient interest. We Can Handle the Truth 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Watching this trial has felt alternatingly prurient and surreal, the kind of trial in which Marilyn Manson is casually listed as a Thanksgiving dinner guest at one of Johnny Depp’s penthouses. Perspective \| The trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard was too much and not enough 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z “I’d like to make clear that the prurient angle of the work holds no interest to us,” Bill states. 'Masters of Sex' recap: Bill's demons arise during TV shoot 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Yet increasingly the focus on possible historical abuse carries uncomfortable resonances, not cleansing but prurient, and feeding into narratives that seek to question lifestyles that fail to fit outdated models of the nuclear family. Social Media Gossip Fuels Bigotry Amid U.K. Sex Abuse Investigations 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z It takes an almost prurient delight in his mental turmoil. New band of the day: Joel Compass (No 1,515) 2013-05-17T15:37:49Z Her relationship with Michael had sparked a frenzy of prurient, tutting editorialising masquerading as reporting. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Worse, religious folk continue to manifest wholly prurient interest in the genitalia and sex lives of minors. Donald Trump’s phony faith-mongering, Ted Cruz doomed crusader: Sex, lies, religion and the GOP’s 2016 carnival 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The accusations aired by Cosby’s accusers have significance that goes well beyond the drumbeat of tabloid headlines generated by each new development in his saga or mere prurient interest. At 78, Bill Cosby’s life is a blur of legal minutiae, lawyers and judges 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Her fascination lingered, less a prurient interest than an academic one. Review \| One woman’s bold case for breaking the sex-toy taboo 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “Baby Got Back,” with its hilariously prurient imagery, is relentless in its single-minded focus on the virtues of “healthy” rumps. We cannot lie: The cultural significance of Sir-Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z “As a matter of general approach, if the aspect of sexual desires and their expression is sensitively handled without bringing coarseness, vulgarity or obscenity, pandering prurient tendencies, then it is not to be disallowed.” Indian film board clears Lipstick Under My Burkha for release 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z As is the case with “The Keepers” or “OJ: Made in America,” “The Staircase” is deliberate and quietly observational; it never relies on an exploitative tone or a prurient approach to achieve its goals. ‘The Staircase’ on Netflix Revisits a Genre-Defining Trial 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Having provoked the audience’s curiosity, the film punishes us, using the bodies of its young performers, the women in particular, as tokens in a prurient, punitive spectacle. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z To do so would be stupid, nay offensive, because no one would care, and it would be prurient, and distract everyone from the very important, dignified matters at hand, matters of government. The Front Runner: the truth behind Hugh Jackman's scandalous new film 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The series has a misleading, come hither title, and it airs on Investigation Discovery, a cable channel that's the TV equivalent of a bookstore's crime section -- a bonanza of prurient interest. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z It was hard to do this without going over the line or feeling prurient. 'I had to pull over and take half a Xanax': the toll of documenting US gun violence 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z More specifically, the bill prohibited “adult cabaret” in locations where minors might be present, including “topless” or “exotic” dancers, but also “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Perspective \| The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z If they are, and the destruction of records becomes an inescapable obligation, then the legitimate desire to secure personal privacy against the gaze of the prurient threatens to leave the future a sadly unfurnished place. Ruskin archive: dust-up 2012-10-28T23:24:13Z One of those involves a copy of “Little Woman” put to prurient purpose. Review: In Search of Intelligent Life and a Willing Sperm Donor 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Anderson and Lee, now the object of prurient attention, belatedly realized the tape had been stolen and were soon the butt of late-night jokes. ‘Pam & Tommy’: A Story of Sex, Crimes and Videotape 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Corinne Bailey Rae: The Sea A media focus on the death of her husband might have looked prurient, but the emotional heft of Rae's second album was inexorably linked to her personal tragedy. Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Are those moments only about prurient interests, or are they also saying something about the characters in them? ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z That sentiment also reflects a rising receptivity, if not an outright prurient fascination, with topics that were once strictly off limits. In Fashion, Gender Lines Are Blurring 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The song serves no narrative end, or any prurient or profound purpose. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Are they important contributions to our understanding of major crimes or prurient titivations, careless of the feelings of the victims’ relatives? When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z But for the writers and editors, Gawker’s traditionally public-spirited work and its more prurient efforts were both, in my experience, driven by an obsession with the truth. Gawker’s Essential Unevenness 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z It was “the birth of a different kind of journalism, and a way of writing about sex and scandal in a very, very prurient way,” she said. A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Commentators largely sided with him during his 2010 extradition debacle, denouncing a "prurient hounding" and lamenting him being "thrown to the lions because of ancient history". Bertrand Cantat is back. But should music fans boycott him? 2013-07-25T10:44:59Z This is a portrait of the Kennedy White House that is recognizable and respectful, and also prurient, giving equal weight to historic turning points and personal weaknesses. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z Not the sunshine and the school dances but the more meagre sides of our natures, the dumb and prurient and thoughtless parts, all sanctioned by the appearance of nostalgia and middle-class values. The Corrupted American Innocence of Archie Comics 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The gaze animating her show, “Head and Plant,” is neither prurient nor overtly ideological. Art Review: Altfest, Barlow, Dean, Djurberg and Liden at New Museum 2012-06-07T22:17:35Z But as this scene turned intimate and nearly prurient, no gazes were averted, and no one was calling “cut” just yet. ‘Masters of Sex’ Recalls the Work of Masters and Johnson 2013-07-27T05:49:04Z All the strength and brilliance of acrylic paint fades into a material with the drab associations of amateur portraits, or the prurient gaze of Edgar Degas. At Tate Britain, Celebrating a Mischievous, Subversive Talent 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z And hippies are a particularly toxic presence in a flurry of films and television shows revisiting the Manson family with a prurient eye. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z What felt prurient now looks like child abuse. Time's finally up for Hollywood's Lolita complex 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z It was a kind of jackpot for the hate watchers when America’s ongoing perverse fascination with epic breeders the Duggar family took a particularly prurient turn this week. Hate-watching the Duggar sex scandal: Feeding bottomless appetites for hypocrisy, schadenfreude and shame 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The focus instead is on the particular and prurient details, and often on the Duggar’s belief system—their hypocrisy, homophobia, prudery, and sexism. What the Duggars should have done for all of their kids: Here’s how to respond to sexual abuse by a minor in the home 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z A great many horror novels are reactionary, prurient and misogynistic. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z But in the longer term her art was overshadowed by her son’s career, diminished by the usual misogyny and obscured by prurient interest in her lifestyle. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z In outline, this might sound like either a grim cautionary tale or a prurient adventure in exploitation. \| 'Sleeping Beauty': Julia Leigh?s ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-12-02T00:02:07Z But despite the blood and guts, Mahnke says Lore’s appeal goes beyond the prurient. Lore and order: can the hit podcast become the scariest show on TV? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Are we — as listeners, therapists, prosecutors or just a prurient gathering of fascinated spectators — alternately fans or a lynch mob? Review: In ‘Tonight/Jungle’ by Philip Ridley, Darkness Rules 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z “The show is about this prurient attitude we have, this fear of sexuality,” Mr. Green said. They Talk About Porn in This Show. Audience Participation Is Encouraged. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “So, Ms. Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal,” he announced on his radio show, before launching into a prurient and frankly weird diatribe. Perspective \| Rush Limbaugh had a lot to say about feminism. Women learned how to not care. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, I was appalled by The New York Times Book Review’s decision to publish these five prurient fantasies. Letters to the Editor 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z So Beaulieu removed the tables and installed a counter to accommodate his more prurient patrons. The Post Pub survived D.C.’s ups and downs for 43 years, but it couldn’t survive a pandemic 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Ken Starr's investigation of the Whitewater/Monica Lewinsky case against Clinton was excessive and prurient, but to call Starr's approach, as Richardson does, as "much like McCarthy's" stretches the point. 'To Make Men Free' is a timely tale of the ever-changing GOP 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z He did bits on his relationship with dogs and bats along with his prurient interest in rats. Louis CK Performs at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It concedes that the makers of a particular R-rated TV series have gone out of their way to blend theoretically prurient sex and nudity with actual storytelling, but are being taken to task anyway. In defense of HBO's "unnecessary" nudity 2011-07-06T14:07:00Z But the story of Madison Square Garden and the men who made it is an interesting one, even if occasionally in the most prurient of fashions. Review \| The glorious past of a long-gone Madison Square Garden 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Thereafter, several of her more prurient tweets were removed. Azealia Banks launches Twitter tirade against the Stone Roses and Rita Ora 2013-03-11T11:48:58Z Movie and television contains violence to space, enough to satisfy prurient appetites until the sun burns out. With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z In his previous movies, Baker has observed strivers and dreamers on the margins of respectability with an eye that could be prurient and skeptical, but also compassionate. ‘Red Rocket’ Review: All My XXX’s Live in Texas 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z While they display their charms for the viewer’s prurient perusal, the women appear in poses of classical elegance, like marble sculptures. Art Review: Georges Hugnet?s ?Spumifers? at Ubu Gallery - Review 2012-01-05T22:30:33Z Through Jack, Donoghue pours light and air into a prison cell, and transforms his story from a prurient horror show into a redemptive tale of resilience and salvation. Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong' 2010-08-13T06:00:00Z Not for prurient interests, but for explanatory ones. Perspective \| Talking honestly about Peter Strzok’s affair would have saved that whole bonkers hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Let’s hope they keep putting the prurient about the po-faced. Less po-faced, more pow! Why Netflix and Marvel need to lighten up 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z That aside, he retains a reputation as a bit of a playboy and there continues to exist a prurient public interest in his private affairs. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Discussions of relationships, but nary a prurient sentiment. Review: In ‘Meet the Patels,’ a Son Submits to a Marriage Quest 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z With not much to fill all those hours, many turned to prurient topics and became easy fodder for satire. Look back in laughter: ‘The Daily Show’ celebrates at 25 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z It perhaps necessarily lacks both the novelistic sweep of the 9/11 Commission Report and the intimate — “prurient” would be a more exact word — scene-setting of the Starr report on President Bill Clinton. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z And there is absolutely no reason to feed their prurient and insatiable appetite for misery. Facebook’s Last Taboo: The Unhappy Marriage 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The overhead footage of all these episodes seemed charged by two opposed qualities: prurient curiosity and a kind of politically charged detachment, bordering on pointed neglect. Perspective \| Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The actors’ content was more extreme — borderline prurient — but the form was a lot safer, the messaging obvious. Review: In the Mood for ‘Prurience’? Speak Up 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s the center of a world rendered with pathos and somewhat prurient fascination in “The Third Wife,” Ash Mayfair’s finespun debut feature. ‘The Third Wife’ Review: Cruelty and Sensuality in 19th-Century Vietnam 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Part of what I was experiencing was the slightly gross excitement one feels when sneakily reading a diary: fulfilling the prurient fantasy of observing people behaving despicably, as they really are. The College-Admissions Scandal and the Banality of Scamming 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z And anyone who really wants to see prurient material will always find a way to get it. Opinion: House Speaker Johnson is a MAGA acolyte, as expected. But he's also a little weird 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Psychoanalytic critics use the term “scopophilia” to refer to a presumably male audience’s erotic viewing enjoyment of the prurient presentation of women’s bodies in film or television, for example. Opinion: The abortion pill faces its most disturbing attack yet 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z He was at his best when he managed to winkle out sensitive details of a guest's life without appearing prurient. Michael Parkinson obituary: Setting the standard for TV talk shows 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z It would ban real or simulated groping, real or simulated arousal, and the display of a sex toy if done in a “prurient” manner in front of a minor or on public property. Drag artists and LGBTQ+ activities sue to block Texas law expanding ban on sexual performances 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The bill would ban real or simulated groping, real or simulated arousal and display of a sex toy, if done in a “prurient” manner in front of a minor or on public property. Texas lawmakers pass sexual conduct bill that drag performers fear will prompt crackdown 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The commanding ambassador and his captivating wife, Violet, quickly develop a prurient familiarity with Elodie. 10 noteworthy books for April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z It allows him to reposition abortion in the very realm from which mifepristone effectively frees it: that of prurient visual surveillance. Opinion: The abortion pill faces its most disturbing attack yet 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z For the most part, though, this is a thoughtful look at a controversy unlikely to fade away, so long as modern technology and prurient interests continue to exist. Review: Keira Knightley pursues the 'Boston Strangler' in Hulu journalistic thriller 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In Oklahoma, the state Senate just passed a bill banning material with “a predominant tendency to appeal to prurient interest in sex” from all public libraries, not just those in schools. The right’s obsession with wokeness is a sign of weakness 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z That new law includes “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Leslie Jones slams Tennessee's anti-gay marriage bill: 'We really going back huh?!' 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z On Thursday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a bill restricting “adult cabaret performances” in public spaces, which includes “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” RuPaul slams those laws banning drag shows: 'Get these stunt queens out of office' 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z A recent bill passed in Tennessee restricts “adult cabaret performances,” including “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” 2023 is already a record year for anti-LGBTQ bills in the US 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The law forbids performances in those places by topless, go-go or exotic dancers, strippers, or male or female impersonators who, as the law defines it, “provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.” Tennessee Law Limiting ‘Cabaret’ Shows Raises Uncertainty About Drag Events 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z In Tennessee, proposed legislation could require places with “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest” to register as strip clubs. Drag story hours have been around for years. Now, they’re targets of violence 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z To meet the definition, the performance must feature real or simulated sexual activities and be intended to appeal to “prurient” interests, a term that’s not defined in the legislation. Arkansas House passes bill restricting ‘adult’ performances 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The right-wing attack on Sohn leans heavily on the prurient elements of sex work generally and Blunt particularly. Column: The bogus, homophobic campaign against Biden's stellar FCC nominee 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z He noted that the bill would prohibit drag performances intended to appeal to “prurient interest,” a term that’s not defined in the legislation. Arkansas panel advances bill to restrict drag performances 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Schrader films “She Said” with a bracing combination of straightforwardness and sensitivity, staging the most prurient details of Weinstein’s cases with somber restraint rather than salacious literalism. Review \| ‘She Said’: A new entry in the pantheon of great newspaper movies 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z I don’t mean in the gossipy, prurient, sense of the term, like a splashy story about celebrity cheating on a spouse. The Jan. 6 attack was a crisis. So why wasn’t it more of a scandal? 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z State statute defines pornographic material as appealing to a “prurient interest in sex,” including “patently offensive” depictions of nudity or sex and lacking “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” Utah’s largest school district defends decision to remove 52 ‘pornographic’ books 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Their editors weigh whether the public benefit of seeing an image outweighs any prurient interest — and they usually pass. Parkland trial a rare, curtailed look at mass shooting gore 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z It is not a prurient book, yet I could never stop questioning its approach to its subject. Review \| What made Harvey Weinstein a monster? Does it matter? 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Virginia state code defines something as “obscene” if it appeals “prurient interest in sex,” goes “substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation” and lacks “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” Va. Republicans seek to limit sale of 2 books in Barnes & Noble for ‘obscenity’ 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z But it also stems from an atmosphere of sexual judgment as prurient as it is puritanical, as evidenced by a squirmingly uncomfortable scene of harassment in a dorm shower. Review: The tense French abortion drama 'Happening' is the movie you need to see right now 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z This inability to deal with facts, this infatuation with prurient and salacious innuendo, led us to Donald Trump — a man who is as vacuous as he is pompous. Donald Trump may finally face prosecution in the New Year: But the trauma won't end there 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z “Why the prurient nature of these?” she said. Fairfax parents object to sexually explicit surveys of students 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z And rather than consuming trials simply as prurient entertainment, audiences seem as invested in the legal questions as they are in the cultural ones. Opinion \| Video made police injustice visible. Now that visibility is trickling up to the courts. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z If we aren't promoting the prurient, we are often accused of protecting the powerful instead of speaking truth to power. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z What was once anecdotal and prurient is suddenly a defining feature of society. French Church abuse: Victims demand action after inquiry 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z But a portion of the fascination with Mr. Kelly, who is now 54, is more prurient. R. Kelly’s Trial Is Captivating a Black Audience Online. Here’s Why. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z However, Hepp argued that she is a public figure whose image was used to sell what she called “prurient” goods and services on Facebook without permission or compensation. US court revives suit against Facebook over TV host’s image 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Those reports included allegations he had made suggestive remarks about patients’ bodies, asked prurient questions about their sexual histories, targeted Asian women, touched genitals inappropriately and took unnecessary photos during exams. For USC women, largest-ever sex abuse payout leaves bitterness, vast disparities 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Thus we are caught in a loop of banality discussing the mundane and the prurient while failing to address in any timely fashion our perceived biases, let alone real news. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Britons care about their writers in a blessedly prurient way, and they want to read about their lives. Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Students told clinic employees he asked prurient questions about their sex lives and made suggestive comments about their bodies. USC to pay $1.1 billion to settle decades of sex abuse claims against gynecologist 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In the U.S., interactions and relationships involving Asian women and non-Asian men sometimes attract prurient attention. Tracy Quan: Don't forget — the Atlanta shooting is a hate crime against sex workers 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z For all the notoriety it received, the original Court TV could be an enigma, swinging from the consequential to the prurient. With Derek Chauvin’s trial, Court TV is back 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z In fact I am curious — outside of the prurient and salacious childlike snickering that inevitably takes place — why anyone would care. Why I don't care about the "pee tape" — and you shouldn't either 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Clinton reasoned that the drip-drip of prurient allegations had allowed the American people to gradually come to terms with his antics, ultimately sparing his political neck. Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z "Omegle isn't intended for prurient interests, and when adults visit Omegle with that intent, it makes sense to direct them somewhere more suitable," he said. Omegle: Children expose themselves on video chat site 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z I enjoy a good true crime documentary as much as the next prurient voyeur, but there is something about living through a global plague that rather puts me off watching TV shows about death. Yes, Emily In Paris is unrealistic. But reality is overrated \| Hadley Freeman 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Here, a handsome man throws his head back in ecstasy, yet Warhol’s 36-minute film is not prurient, or at least not entirely so. From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z “We have categorically rejected this person’s demands while dealing with him and this particular member of the media who seemed just as obsessed with the prurient, untrue aspects of this story, however fantastic.” Jerry Falwell resigns as Liberty University president after reversing course: report 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The Trump administration has barred companies that “present live performances of a prurient sexual nature” from participating. Strip-club stimulus reveals lingering uncertainties over U.S. small-business aid 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z This would be of prurient interest and not public importance if she weren’t, by all accounts, fully complicit in her husband’s corrupt, dangerous presidency. Review \| The elusive truths of Melania Trump 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Figuring out why Americans are having less sex is more than a prurient interest, the researchers emphasized. Americans are having less sex now than they did 20 years ago 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z And yet, before the prurient self-regard of our present time, with its interlinked obsessions with reality TV, social media and auto-fiction, here was a man who understood the power of the projected self. The Many Lives of Marc Jacobs 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The singer-songwriter says his hesitation came from a fear that someone might “furiously read it and mine it for its prurient or sensational aspects” before release. At 71, James Taylor has a new audio memoir, loves watching 'Blue Bloods' and won't dish on Carly Simon 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z He faces an additional count of visual surveillance with prurient intent. Maryland man accused of possessing, distributing child porn 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Our prurient interest in criminals is nothing new. El Chapo's wife doesn't want your judgment. 'Cartel Crew' won't help 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z More acutely, it is the story of two women who, for the entirety of Houston’s life, concealed the sexual origins of that relationship, amid intense and often prurient speculation. 'Our friendship was intimate on all levels': Robyn Crawford on her love for Whitney Houston 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z America’s most notorious print publication began by covering murders and car crashes, swerved into prurient celebrity coverage, and eventually became a tool of the Trump campaign. US briefing: Impeachment testimony, Syrian oil and anti-vaxxer ads 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The truth is that, despite our prurient interest in celebrities, the overwhelming majority of people do not want to be famous, and the minority of people who truly desire fame are abnormal. Opinion \| In the age of a reality-TV president, Americans are saying no to fame 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Those of us who are older remember Watergate, which is much more analogous to what we're seeing now than the farce of the Ken Starr investigation and the absurd, prurient charges leveled against Clinton. Yes, it's this bad: Conspiracy-hunter Bill Barr is roaming the globe under Trump's orders 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z It was a serious academic undertaking; his interest was curatorial, not prurient. Ralph Whittington, erotica collector extraordinaire, dies at 74 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z She had weathered the onslaught of prurient attention – not just to her writing, but to her life and her looks – that had come along with that. Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian on the trouble with writing about sex 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The skepticism was warranted; both women began playing music in their teens, the Runaways especially guided and misguided by older men with sometimes prurient interests who treated the group as a novelty. How two fearless rock pioneers survived the ’70s and found each other four decades later 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Some were comments, persistent or prurient or both. Opinion \| America’s last hideous man 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Some might call that prurient; we aren’t going to sit in judgment. Alabama editorial roundup 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Tyndall acknowledged in a 1996 memo to his boss that the nursing staff thought he had prurient reasons for photographing patient genitals and delving in their sexual histories. Secret USC records reveal dire warnings about gynecologist accused of abusing students 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z William Burck told a Palm Beach County judge that releasing the video would only satisfy a “prurient interest,” during a hearing held in part to determine whether media outlets could offer arguments in the case. Lawyer: Video of sex act invades Robert Kraft’s privacy 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z “There’s no interest in actually seeing the video unless you have a prurient interest in seeing the video.” Patriots owner Kraft asks Florida judge not to release... 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Roger Ebert slammed the film as “clearly intended to appeal to the prurient interests of dirty old men of all ages.” Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z But even ignoring the prurient details, the scandal is sending the president’s personal attorney to prison, and the story is still generating new questions in need of answers. Did two Trump attorneys lie in the hush-money scandal? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Exposing someone’s most intimate thoughts and expressions is meant to appeal to prurient interests and to destroy another’s life. Opinion \| The National Enquirer shows us just how sleazy it really is 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z An application for a government-funded loan from the Small Business Administration was denied due to the “prurient” nature of Dame’s products. The secret censorship holding back the sex toy industry 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z There was a lot in that report which was simply of prurient interest, rather than legitimate investigative interest. Trump, Mueller and the lessons of history: Special prosecutors "are incapable of saving us" 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z The podcast adopted the investigative format of “Serial,” but had a far shakier claim of being a story in the public interest, rather than being one of interest to a prurient public. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Democrats have been debating how far to go in asking Judge Kavanaugh about such prurient matters. A Hearing’s Test: Blasey Must Seem Credible. Kavanaugh Must Defend but Not Attack. 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z There have been instances, however, when the teasing has overreached and Rudolph has, like her parents, found her interracial relationship the object of prurient interest. How Maya Rudolph Became the Master of Impressions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z She left no diary or letters about the crime; nothing to feed readers’ prurient interest, but also nothing for a true crime writer to utilize. The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Media coverage, he said, tended to focus on the “prurient” aspects of the movement. Tom Gallagher, Foreign Service officer who quit to live as openly gay, dies at 77 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z She now believes that he took pictures of her and others not for medical reasons but as a “prurient personal collection of vaginal photographic imagery,” according to the court papers. Ex-USC gynecologist retains high-profile criminal attorney 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z What, exactly, is the point of running this story, other than trying to satisfy readers’ prurient interest in the tragic end of someone’s life? Opinion \| How to Reverse the Rising Suicide Rate 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z But there was also a flurry of prurient interest in highly personal details: for Bourdain, it was his family and his money. Newsweek and the race to fill Google with suicide news 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Whatever disappointment she felt over my prurient tastes was offset by her appreciation of both my natural curiosity and unwillingness to dissemble. A Centerfold and a Lesson From Mom 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In Britain, there was a good deal of prurient interest in the show’s brief flash of nudity. Time for a revolution: how the art of 1968 caught a world in turmoil 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z It would be prurient to dwell on the details, yet nor should they be glossed over, as to do so would be to sustain the collective amnesia that has characterised America’s relationship with racial terrorism. The sadism of white men: why America must atone for its lynchings 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He said he believed it was placed in an effort to “gather information” rather than for prurient purposes, and that it could be accessed remotely. FBI joins investigation into surveillance camera in school office in Md. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Those thin, hardcover volumes were a frequent source of useful information and prurient entertainment. I was one of the first people on Facebook. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “It was not in a place that lends itself to prurient behavior. We do not believe it was placed for criminal purposes,” Stawinski said. Video recording device found in Prince George’s school office, police say 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Oldale was charged with one count of conducting visual surveillance, with prurient intent, of another person in a private place without consent. Federal prosecutors say Maryland dad secretly filmed children in his bathroom 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But this prurient tidbit overlooks the main factors driving the illegal rhino horn trade—and may even be reinforcing false beliefs about the substance’s powers. The Hard Truth about the Rhino Horn "Aphrodisiac" Market 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The Daniels affair is of more than just prurient interest: It would appear that Trump may have violated federal campaign law by failing to disclose the payment on his reporting forms. Opinion \| Stormy Daniels beat Trump at his own game 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z A spotlight-seeker uses a woman’s sex life as a prop for his one-man show, playing on the audience’s interest in all things prurient to earn himself attention and cash. Opinion \| With the Nikki Haley smear, liberals finally find their principles 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The story itself is of more than merely prurient interest. Opinion \| For conservatives, character counts — when you’re a Democrat 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Much easier to retreat, into ever more shocked and prurient silence, or into the sort of reflection that seems less intended as honesty, and more aimed to please. Opinion \| The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z But there are many people who will be drawn to them out of some deeply disturbed prurient fascination. Texas Church Shooting Video Raises an Unsettling Question: Who Should See It? 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In other words, it includes both actual criminal offenses alongside, perhaps, the kind of kinky sex that a British tabloid might enjoy exposing for a bit of prurient titillation and some 1950s-style condemnation. Opinion \| The Deep Confusion of the Post-Weinstein Moment 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In the same prurient vein, Blackberry’s use of #RIMjobs to announce new hiring caused the Canadian tech company embarrassment. The #hashtag turns 10. Some haven't worked quite so well … 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The Goldwater rule protects us all against prurient speculation about our mental health. The Goldwater rule: why commenting on mental health from a distance is unhelpful 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court has previously ruled content may be considered obscene if it appeals to the average person’s prurient interests, is “patently offensive” and wholly lacks “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” FCC won’t discipline Stephen Colbert over Trump-Putin joke 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “It is one of the four preliminary models, part of the preparatory work,” Mr. Salomon said, and it was practical, not prurient. Finally, From Italy, the Full George Washington 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Every time a plot feels corny or prurient or preachy, there’s an acknowledgment in the dialogue. Archie’s and Veronica’s Misconceived Return to “Riverdale” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Not long ago, censors had banned Lady Chatterley's Lover to stop "prurient minds which take delight and pleasures from erotic writings". Rehana Sultan: The trail-blazing actress Bollywood forgot - BBC News 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Francis’ lawyer had said that news media coverage was creating a “carnival atmosphere” and “arousing prurient interests.” Thomas Platt, 91, Dies: Fined Air Traffic Controllers $100,000 an Hour 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Dark comedy in particular thrives in juxtaposing the solemn, the mortal, with the petty and the prurient. Is it wrong to laugh at Donald Trump? \| Steven Johnson 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The county state’s attorney’s office said in a news release that James Sims pleaded guilty on Tuesday to visual surveillance with prurient interest and misconduct in office. Police officer pleads guilty to taking upskirt photos 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It was sexy—and, in later seasons, downright kinky—but rather than being prurient it was romantic, in more ways than one. Archie’s and Veronica’s Misconceived Return to “Riverdale” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z “Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest,” he wrote. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z But apparently, milky butt play and squirt scenes seemed to fit with the “prurient interests” of enough people. Crackdown on America’s favorite form of entertainment: Is porn endangered in the Trump era? 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Hopefully, the prurient interest in hacked emails will run its course and treated like the junk mail we get in our own mailboxes. Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides, Emails Show 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z “There is, to me, a kind of fundamental American decency, and it’s just been lost in the prurient shallowness of the discourse.” Ripples From the ‘How Low Can They Go’ Campaign 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Or is this just to satisfy our own prurient interests? Dr Oz's missed opportunity: scolding Trump for all his bad habits \| Celine Gounder 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court had used “prurient” only once before in its history. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s personal, professional and prurient as ever on the return of the period drama “Masters of Sex.” TV This Week, Sept. 11-17: 'Sister Cities' and more 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “But how important was that trash article from the Daily Beast? … for nothing people are being put in danger. The article is just a really truly prurient vulgar thing.” Wayback Machine Won’t Censor Archive for Taste, Director Says After Olympics Article Scrubbed 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z “It’s also our prurient interest in other people’s vanity,” Streep says, “imagining that it has nothing to do with our own.” Meryl Streep: A League of Her Own 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z I replied, “The Supreme Court's definition of obscenity is that it has to be material which appeals to your prurient interest.” Remembering Lenny Bruce, 50 years after his death 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z In Mutual, the Court noted that “a prurient interest may be excited and appealed to” by movies, but made no more of it. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The grand jury indicted Sims, 30, on four counts of visual surveillance with prurient interest and two counts of misconduct in office, prosecutors said. Prince George’s police officer indicted amid investigation of upskirt photos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z He said at a news conference Thursday that 30-year-old James Sims, a 6-year veteran of the department, was indicted on charges of visual surveillance with prurient intent and misconduct in office. Police officer indicted for allegedly taking upskirt photos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Officer James Sims was indicted Thursday on four counts of visual surveillance with prurient interest. James Sims, Prince George’s police officer, accused of upskirt photos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z He magically produced an unabridged dictionary from the suitcase on his bed, and looked up the word “prurient.” He closed the dictionary, clenching his jaw and nodding his head in affirmation of a new discovery. Remembering Lenny Bruce, 50 years after his death 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Some patrons use this help to find content that is prurient or otherwise objectionable by many contemporary standards — think hate speech and religious radicalization. Religious freedom: Think of the other jobs that test people's beliefs 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The story is so nasty, so depraved and troubling, that viewers may well wonder at its value beyond prurient interest. ‘Tickled’ takes viewers to the dark sides of the Internet and the human psyche 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Looking at these pictures, one gets the sense that they were staged for our prurient benefit. Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston: as close as we'll get to two memes dating 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Instead, I’ll make a few observations: Gawker has always had a strong political bent, in addition to its unabashedly prurient and gossipy side. Gawker Was a Great Place to Become a Journalist 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z No one would have known or cared about his sex tape if Gawker hadn't made it a story for no reason other than to get hits from prurient thrill-seekers on it's website. I Stand With Gawker 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Thiel said he was irate that a website owned by Gawker had, among other things, outed him and several of his friends as gay, solely to be prurient. Revenge and the Future of Media Finances 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Several of the names have brought prurient snickers from those with creatively immoral minds. Will Binghamton Mets Become Stud Muffins? The Internet Will Decide 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z "The history of the prurient nature of some of the earlier reporting is a clear indicator that such reporting might be repeated," he said in his ruling. Woman who refused treatment after losing 'sparkle' to stay anonymous - BBC News 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z If anything, our culture has become even more obsessed with celebrity and its prurient underbelly in the years since. What does the obsession with OJ Simpson say about America? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z She always knew about the last letter, and what it revealed Birthday Letters was also an attempt by Hughes to nail shut a Pandora’s box of prurient, often vicious, speculation. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 4 – Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (1998) 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But when they got into the water, all prurient curiosity gave way to naked awe. Swimming troupe Aqualillies is making a splash in Hollywood with Coen brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Israel Mangroo, 31, faces one count of misconduct in office and one count of visual surveillance “with prurient intent,” according to court records. Maryland judicial officer charged in ‘upskirting’ case 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z I looked down my nose at sensational biographies that aimed to satisfy the prurient curiosity of that mythical creature, the “average” reader. Dirt for art's sake: what's offensive and what's essential in author biographies? 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Indeed, it also became fashionable to write about the chastity belt as a convenient topic in order to meet prurient interests during the repressive Victorian age. Is the Medieval Chastity Belt a Myth 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z For me, the larger question was whether the elite prep-school setting is what drove the frequency and prominence of the coverage, giving it a kind of seedy, prurient glamour. Prep-School Sex, Refugees and Clarence Thomas: Rounding Up Reader Concerns 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z The flip side of the strict sexual prohibitions in the culture to which the Duggars belong is a belief, sometimes bordering on the prurient, in the unbridled nature of male sexuality. Josh Duggar’s Ashley Madison Problem 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z The camera gives us almost a shot of what most people were trying to look at without at without getting prurient bout it. 'I Am Cait' recap: 'Trans-zilla' Caitlyn Jenner is comfortable in the 'pink cloud'; Ronda who? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The interest is still classified as a prurient one. Ann Rule's true crime books: what made them so compelling? 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Moreover, despite the title and the film’s almost prurient judgment, there isn’t anything wrong with Amy having consensual, safe sex with various partners. Review: Amy Schumer's 'Trainwreck' Plays It Safe 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Prompting decades of prurient speculation, Chang and Adelaide had 11 children, and Eng and Sarah had 10. The 17 Most Intriguing Weddings Of All Time 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z But let’s be clear: This post was less about piercing a marketing haze than it was about tapping into the timeless appeal of celebrity voyeurism, the more prurient the better. Gawker’s Moment of Truth 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z And if Garland simply left it at that, it would be easy to write off as prurient hand-wringing. Bodies electric: Ex Machina twists the history of sexy robots 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z In the case of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, the interest in his private life was ultimately more than just an appetite for prurient spectacle, those who have followed the trial closely said. France Crosses a Threshold in Examining Strauss-Kahn’s Personal Life 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z In a more gender-neutral and less prurient time, it wouldn’t have to be considered an important film merely for existing. Review: Amy Schumer's 'Trainwreck' Plays It Safe 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Yet we now care oh-so-much when the woman in an R-rated female-centric adult fantasy is actually consenting to said treatment as a consensual act of roleplay and potentially for her own prurient pleasure. 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Is A Sex Fantasy Of Consent In A Sea Of Damsels In Distress 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z I did not attend Dartmouth, but I was born at Dartmouth’s Mary Hitchcock Hospital, I attended a college comparable in both prestige and traditions of prurient masculine nonsense, and I also drink liquor. Good Luck Outlawing Hard Liquor, Dartmouth 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z After two years of reporting he had decided that, while Hart was flawed, the candidate’s refusal to answer prurient questions showed true strength of character. Why the Media Doesn’t Want to Remember Gary Hart 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z “Yet when it comes to future handling of such information, the gray area in which they reside — between public and private, between prurient and illuminating — might not be the exception, but the new normal.” Why Sony probably can’t stop the media from publishing stories from the hack 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Robin: There is always a prurient interest in executive compensation that never seems to leave the headlines. Five Insights into Why Human Resources Executives Can Be the Stewards of Compensation 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The somewhat uncomfortable truth is that although these videotaped executions do indeed “cause fear,” they also arouse curiosity and prurient interest. Book review: ‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Found,’ by Frances Larson It turns out, though, that the book is substantially more thoughtful and less prurient than those labels suggest. 'XL Love' Examines the Private Complications of Obesity in Americans’ Relationships 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “In a time when our data ends up in databases, people can use it for their own prurient interests,” said Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union. Uber executive stirs up privacy controversy Someone had nicknamed him “Mark Uterus,” implying his interest was somehow prurient. This conservative cause is the GOP's worst nightmare 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z I don’t believe even the 50s would be as judgmental as these prurient times. So Brooks Newmark sent some explicit pictures – why should he resign? 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z The lawyers argued that given the prurient nature of the investigation and the "other woman" narrative propounded by the leakers, it was likely that Kelley's treatment was motivated by sexual discrimination. Judge: Lawsuit in Petraeus scandal can proceed 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z The lawyers argued that given the prurient nature of the investigation and the “other woman” narrative propounded by the leakers, it was likely that Kelley’s treatment was motivated by sexual discrimination. Judge allows Jill Kelley privacy suit against FBI in Petraeus affair 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Supreme Court Justices particularly were all over the lot, formulating such unworkable tests as “whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.” THE BUSINESS OF SEX: HAVE WE COME TO A NEW NORMAL 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The racy images of these nubile bodies are the biggest story on the internet, and every site that refuses to reprint the images has already left itself absolved while leaving a prurient trail of breadcrumbs. The Great Naked Celebrity Photo Leak of 2014 is just the beginning 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z But the Islamic State fighters guarding the women appear to have mostly demonstrated prurient adherence to the tenets of Islam that forbid contact with non-Muslim women. In Iraq, captured Yazidi women fear the Islamic State will force them to wed Although it covers all the bases – childhood, young womanhood, family, relationships, character strengths and flaws – it is not prurient, or given to hunting down answers where they are not offered. Harper Lee: should Marja Mills' memoir have been published? 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z All prurient folk need to do is bash a few words into Google Google to be greeted with a torrent of smut that would have given previous generations a heart attack. Porn Brand Behind '21st Century Playboy' Plans A Hardcore Future For Journalism 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Many think of this interest in the prurient as a bad thing—degrading or even a sin against God, who gave us our libidinal urges in the first place. THE BUSINESS OF SEX: HAVE WE COME TO A NEW NORMAL 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z At about half the length and a lower dramatic temperature, is sexually charged but not prurient, the character study of a person at her most mysterious age, as she navigates from girlhood to womanhood. REVIEW: Young & Beautiful: I Was a Teenage Hooker (in Paris) 2014-04-22T19:00:05Z Keeping the prurient interest of the material at hand always just below the surface, CDL always delivered the goods, in the purported interest of suppressing the very texts it sampled for its members. Meet the spiritual forefather of conservatives’ War on Women 2014-04-13T10:59:00Z The media ecosystem is increasingly a pro-am affair, where the wisdom — or prurient interest — of the crowd decides what is important and worthy of sharing. The Media Equation: Risks Abound as Reporters Play in Traffic 2014-03-24T01:05:18Z As she rose to the top of Britain’s prurient press and Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire here, Ms. Brooks received advice from Mr. Murdoch, her father-figure boss and mentor. Editor Testifies in Phone Hacking Case, Taking a Turn Toward Tabloid 2014-02-27T02:29:22Z Puritanism is a sin against human nature, and the worst of it is that puritanism is the most leering and prurient of world views. Sex and the French 2014-01-17T15:18:01Z London audiences swarmed into the theatre out of prurient interest - the play had already been staged in Vienna and America and everyone knew it contained the profane and forbidden line: "Not bloody likely!" The map that saved the London Underground 2014-01-10T01:10:43Z But the willingness to fixate on how “gay-acting” someone is means nothing other than that the writer has a prurient sort of bloodlust. The bizarre quasi-”outing” of Aaron Schock 2014-01-06T17:15:00Z “They would be dumbfounded and probably prurient,” she sniffs. Britain's Part-Time Wives 2013-08-05T08:45:00Z "It's time to end this prurient charade, which has nothing to do with justice or the public interest." Consent age should be 13 says lawyer 2013-05-08T22:01:44Z The editor of The Sun, Dominic Mohan, has so far defended the paper’s prurient content. Murdoch to Cover Up Page 3 Girls? 2013-02-12T07:25:00Z "Some sections of the print media are either unable or unwilling in their reportage to distinguish between 'prurient interest' and 'the public interest'," he added. Irish Daily Star editor suspended 2012-09-17T19:17:04Z As the prince headed for a heart-to-heart with his father this weekend, press reaction ranged from the sanctimonious to the prurient. IHT Rendezvous: Las Vegas and the Prince Harry Effect 2012-08-25T10:47:31Z Mr. Chasanoff contended that he touched the girl because she was shaking and nervous, not for any prurient purpose, and that his remark, while clumsy, was made out of pride. Found to Have Misbehaved, but Still Teaching in New York City 2012-04-06T03:07:20Z She was not neurotic; her healthy mind revolted against prurient suggestion either in conversation or in novels. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z On the contrary, it permitted his prurient imagination to become more mischievous in its influence. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z The newspapers, morning or evening, found ready sale, and had no need to rely on murder-panics or prurient discussions. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z A great man, certainly, a wonderful orator, no doubt, but much tinctured with selfishness, and carried away by wild and prurient schemes. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z They are on the counters in the department stores, in the most flashing advertisements where their most prurient qualities are held out as inducements to the buyer. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Page 5: the affect of arousing prurient thoughts; that they are written the effect of arousing prurient thoughts; that they are written Page 12: Jer. xi. Is the Bible Indictable? Being an Enquiry whether the Bible Comes within the Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice as to Obscene Literature 2011-12-13T03:00:25.353Z At his separate trial, Mr. Komisarjevsky was convicted of the killings and a host of other crimes, including sexually assaulting the 11-year-old and making prurient photographs of her on his cellphone. Joshua Komisarjevsky Gets Death for Cheshire Killings 2011-12-09T22:21:03Z Despite all its writhing naked bodies and Fassbender’s full frontal nudity, the film isn’t prurient. Sex Addict Prowls Subways, Bars; Comic Cook Gets Serious: Film 2011-12-02T03:22:02Z "This bill does far more than feed the prurient interests of newspaper editors who are looking for a headline about how much Coach Paterno makes," Spanier said at the time. Pa. law backs up Penn State's fight for secrecy 2011-12-01T22:13:08Z What are Eugene Sue and his English competitors, but coarser and more prurient Ostades? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z He is the first in Heaven to make a prurient suggestion. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Expanded, for a mysterious purpose—and it is curious what a number of such mysterious purposes seem to have occurred to prurient eyes—it is Ionic. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z Shall the courts thus close the front entrance to constituted authority, and open wide the back door to idle or prurient curiosity? The Right to Privacy 2011-09-11T02:00:10.037Z How full, and yet how empty for a prurient curiosity, and how reverently reticent even while they are triumphantly confident! The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z With all the time they devote to training and playbook study, when do players have time to master prurient barbering? The Fifth Down: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose 2011-08-13T18:07:04Z Shortly after she married Rupert, The Wall Street Journal, in one of the more prurient stories in its mostly staid history, ran a detailed account of her life before Rupert. Deng! The Story of Wonder Wendi 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Sabarwal has had to explain to the sometimes prurient news media that SlutWalk is not just about “scantily clad women” taking to the streets. The Female Factor: Ready or Not, Delhi Gets a 'SlutWalk' 2011-06-14T12:20:19Z He's not easily knocked over and I think he's got his private life and he's got his football life and sometimes they cross over because we're a prurient nation. Giggs' football 'will not suffer' 2011-05-24T12:44:50Z So, in closing, how do you determine if your partner’s overnight prurient poking is thoughtless or thoughtful? Sex, Sleep and the Law: When Nocturnal Genitals Pose a Moral Dilemma 2011-05-21T02:15:05.520Z And the prurient, who are most intimately moved by it, make up most of those who cannot see beyond it. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Led and checked by Congress, the prurient and fearless, because anonymous, animadversions of the Press, now so often premature and inconsiderate, might be disciplined into serviceable capacity to interpret and judge. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z His title of “cavalier,” and his “chivalry,” like that of the Southern slave-driver, were simply pseudonyms—a ludicrous misapplication of terms, self-appropriated by a prurient conceit. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z To tell what we have done is to pay a compliment to prurient curiosity which it does not deserve. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z Discursiveness and prurient exuberancy of thought and suggestion, they often possess, but always fail when they attempt a literary or other work of Art. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z And what, Joe Scarborough asks, did a man who has made millions off prurient interest in the publicly private lives of pampered housewives find “objectionable about these little cute children singing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’?” City Room: He Says P.S. 22 Singers 'Ruined' Oscars: Do You Agree? 2011-03-01T16:21:27Z In London or in New-York, an establishment so public would be thronged with persons eager to gratify a prurient curiosity. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z He knew there was no more prurient sign of the age of groping and essay in which we live than the unrest and diseased brains of its women. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Least of all the scene in episode three, in which a teen character abandoned by his parents is locked out of his house naked; the context of the scene isn't remotely prurient. Watching Skins: More Sentimental than Porno 2011-01-25T06:50:00Z She had thought that in regard to women he was a prurient savage: she now knew that he was a high-principled and rather fastidious celibate. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Still, as H.P. and Mr. Hurd move on to new but separate paths, some techies of Silicon Valley grasp for prurient details. Another View: At H.P., Governance Trumps Gossip 2010-08-26T16:50:00Z I thought about what this remarkable evening tableau would look like if another terrible shoe dropped here, and then shook it off as prurient and unproductive. In Times Square, Deciding When to Suspend Fear 2010-05-08T21:19:00Z It argues that it is not the job of the government to feed a prurient lynch-mob mentality demanding information that it was agreed long ago would stay secret. Bulger killer secrecy fuels anger 2010-03-04T04:58:00Z There is something strangely prurient about wandering round an abandoned television studio. 2010-02-11T10:48:00Z He has been accused of betraying a prurient imagination in the names which he gave to many objects, both in the vegetable and animal kingdoms. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Many of these visions seem like the wildest hallucinations of prurient lunacy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "Full of physiological truths, which all children ought to know, at a proper age; will be read by boys without awakening a prurient thought." What a Young Husband Ought to Know Aaron Hill, who had apparently ignored the publication of Shamela, angrily conveyed to Richardson a rumor that Pamela Censured was a bookseller's contrivance written in order to promote sales among readers with prurient interests. Pamela Censured Yes, there is a terrible moral in "Dorian Gray"—a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Merchants and shop-keepers stood in their doors wearing prurient countenances, and anon, sending would-be purchasers away with curt replies; for since the sun rose on that eventful morn, had not traffic grown out of fashion? K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. Some of these rumours are probably false, the work of prurient imaginations in the most abandoned age in history. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Huber had a complicated arrangement in reference to this, which his admirers accepted enthusiastically, while Latreille and other apiarists reject it as a cluster of prurient fancies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Oh, no, I don't mean that my prurient mind was gloating over the destruction of Jack's marital bliss. Captain Macedoine's Daughter No prurient effeminacy degraded, deformed, or unduly confounded, the types of sex idealised in sculpture. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion It was a prurient, morbid curiosity that had seized me. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 For the gravest charges of youthful depravity no proof or authority is given; they seem to be the offspring of that prurient gossip which can assail any character. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Were it not for this astounding gift of resilience one might deplore the prurient curiosity that wants to peep into the hollow image of Isis and get at the machinery of the priesthood. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 And this in the interest of health and longevity, not in the interest of a prurient and effeminate "art." Whitman A Study His morality is at the superior antipodes from the cynicism of a Wycherley; and far superior to the prurient sentimentalism of Sterne or the hot-pressed priggishness of Richardson, or even the reckless Bohemianism of Smollett. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She had not forgotten it, the thing her daughter called "society"; the little, cruel, careless, prurient world she had left far behind her and thought well lost. Kildares of Storm The gloomy or prurient satirist gives us a picture of ideal baseness; the gentle and charitable aristocrat opens before us a society in which people are charmingly refined, and perhaps a little too good. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius So far as my words go, there is not a syllable to shock any but a prurient modesty. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) And, like to Ingres' Odalisque, supine, Defying prurient modesty turned she, Displaying in her beauty candidly Wonder of curve and purity of line. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems The Aino's imagination is as prurient as that of any Zola, and far more outspoken. Aino Folk-Tales But he is most attracted by prurient sexual adventures. A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver The bohemian man of letters had heard many a scandal about great ladies, some of them true, others distorted and exaggerated by prurient gossip, after passing through a hundred tainted imaginations. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius She spends, the lewd girl; it only shows the prurient ideas girls must have when my birching affects them in such a sensual manner. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies For this reason we ought to regard sex with reverent thought, to hold it sacred to the highest purposes, to speak of it ever with purest delicacy, and never with jesting or prurient smiles. What a Young Woman Ought to Know It is a very dreadful book; not calculated, I think, to excite any prurient feeling in any one. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Why did you remain," said Saxham, wrung by pity, "to be tortured by such prurient prattlers? The Dop Doctor The testimony of Petronius is tainted by a suspicion of prurient imagination. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Their works stare you every where in the face; the magazines abound with their wit; their songs, consisting for the most part of prurient parodies, are resonant throughout the purlieus of Covent Garden. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Yet it is not long since Mr. Whitman was made the target of the “prurient prudes,” who carry on the Comstockian movement of the Vice Society, and was ordered to expunge some of his writings. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 A prurient eruption formed in a circle, affecting children, and would seem to be the work of insects, according to the theory of Linn�us, who ascribes the itch and dysentery to microscopic animalcula. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life One could write about it while feeling simultaneously prurient, principled, and prescient: the journalistic trifecta. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind The rumour in his case may have been well-founded, although we are not bound to believe all the tales of prurient gossip which Suetonius has handed down. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius And let it not be forgotten that an indictment of Comstockery is an indictment of ourselves, for the prurient, hypocritical, degrading thing can exist not one instant after we have declared that it shall perish. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 This “prurient prudery” of the vulgar mind was once strongly exhibited in Baltimore. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 He trampled with sarcasm and scorn upon canting critics, and retorted that the prurient prudery of their own minds suggested the impurities which they found in works of pure art. Studies in Literature and History This is modesty in its healthy and natural development, not in those morbid forms which suggest an imagination ever on the alert for prurient images. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland That it is not a prurient invention is proved by the pages of Tacitus and Suetonius and the records of Roman morals for more than two centuries. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He capitulated in the face of her unpitying ridicule, and surrendered all to the prurient agility of a young body. The Goose Man Gush’d ’neath this sacred dome the prurient flood Of filth and venom, from that viper brood, Which o’er the land hath spread its noisome stain, While shudd’ring virtue weeps, but weeps in vain? The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers He is, perhaps, a braggadocio of minuteness, a swaggering chronologer, a man bristling up with small facts, prurient with dates, wantoning in obsolete evidence. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 Translators there were, who strove to render into the manly, wholesome Anglo-Saxon tongue, the produce—witty, frivolous, prurient, and amusing—of Gallic imagination. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 If Amy Lowell Had It Far away In the third-floor-back of my skull I feel a light, airy, prurient, menacing tickling, Dainty as the pattering toes of nautch girls On a polished cabaret floor. Songs for a Little House But while her language may seem coarse to our over-fastidious ears, it never becomes prurient or indecent. Mary Wollstonecraft Men of prurient tastes become collectors of such books, many of which are not without some literary merit, while many more are neither fit to be written, nor printed, nor read. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries To him, a scholar and a gentleman and a man of the world, Pamela was a new-fangled blend of sentimental priggishness and prurient unreality. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The idea flashed into his mind that it must be some inquisitive boor, who was following him merely out of prurient curiosity to see how he conducted himself with Mrs. Maroney. The Expressman and the Detective At length, the little man with the epaulet commenced a very prurient tale. Rattlin the Reefer There is a sense in which biographical detail gives light to criticism, but not the sense in which the prurient moralist uses or seeks it. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron There is often a prurient desire to explore the tracts of sin, as if information on such subjects meant wisdom. Friendship Noble old child-hearted heroes, with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm which is simply, one often fears, a product of our scepticism! Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife To call such a man ‘ambitious,’ to figure him as the prurient windbag described above, seems to me the poorest solecism. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History No prurient speculation about sexual matters would enter their heads. Plain Facts for Old and Young Here are no incitements to passion, no prurient suggestions of sensual delights. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters But what else means the minute morbid anatomy of death beds, the prurient curiosity to know how the dying one bore himself in the solemn passage? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Yet it is always a matter of delicacy; and great care should be taken lest, while pointing out the evil, there be also a stimulus added to a prurient curiosity. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Trollope is never bombastic, or sensational, or prurient, or grotesque. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The prurient coarseness of Fletcher is due to the peculiar licentiousness of the period. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour I would rather give my boy Jonson, Massinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, whose very improper things 'are called by their proper names,' than let him dive in the prurient innuendo of these later writers. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 I am quite certain that our present habit of not discussing sexual questions in our books is bound to disappear, and that free and dignified speech will take the place of our present prurient mealy-mouthedness. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 The conversation turned on Boulogne, where Mike had loved many solicitors' wives, and then on the impurity of the society girl and the prurient purity of her creation—the "English" novel. Mike Fletcher A Novel But there is not an impure or prurient passage in the whole library of tales. Studies in Early Victorian Literature One who suspects hypocrisy in the world is rarely transparent; the man constantly on the watch for cheating is generally dishonest; he who suspects impurity is prurient. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series In that story some of the writer's saddest experiences in the East End are told with an unshrinking fidelity, which yet has nothing mawkish or prurient in it. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences It is not from any idle or prurient desire to become acquainted with the cause of your emotion that I speak, but simply from a wish to serve you, if you will permit me. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One It would be an unfortunate thing, indeed, if the "prurient prudes" of the meeting houses were permitted to make the laws by which society should be governed. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Chatterton was born in Bristol, on the Avon, in 1752, of poor parents, but early gave signs of remarkable genius, combined with a prurient ambition. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction No enlightened reader of Greek mythology can proceed far without discovering that he is dealing with the prurient and often lascivious imaginings of semi-barbarous poets. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Brother Nicholas was one of those people who are in a perpetual state of prurient concern about the sexual morality of the human race. The Altar Steps No, but its babblings travel, and rejoice A myriad prurient ears with noisome news, Fit only for the shambles and the stews. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 This is the great harm of prurient clothes, literature, art, and stage,—it unfits people for sex reality. The Nervous Housewife The frown of puritanism, in the polemic period, had checked its progress: with the restoration of Charles II, it had returned to rival the French stage in wicked plots and prurient scenes. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Yes, there is a terrible moral in Dorian Gray—a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Miscellanies The book was too true to life to please the bourgeois and yet not ribald enough to tickle the prurient. Shandygaff Even from the religious point of view, prurient prudery is not justifiable. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Grave, shy, and reserved, I was never taken into the counsels of prurient schoolmates. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Genius may have soiled its canvas with what is prurient and vile; lascivious groups may stand side by side with pictures of saints and madonnas. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Then it struck him that the great Gallehault of modern life—El Gran Galeoto—was the impalpable power of gossip, the suggestive force of whispered opinion, the prurient allurement of evil tongues. The Theory of the Theatre I confess they are not altogether such as I should wish them to have been; but I can see no good cause why prurient inference or speculation should busy itself in going behind them. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England In this manner the mother will, indirectly, be able to safeguard her child at the outset against the prudish and prurient notions alike which he will encounter later. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Associated words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing. leverage, n. purchase. levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity. lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic. Putnam's Word Book He shrugged his shoulders as he answered, "But then Westerns have such prurient minds." Tales of Old Japan It is the story-teller who rolls some prurient morsel under his tongue who has the taint in him: he who, to sell his books, panders to the degraded instincts of his audience. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Longus knew very well that nothing is so tempting to libertines as purity and ignorant innocence; hence he made purity and ignorant innocence the pivot of his prurient story. Primitive Love and Love-Stories The doctrines of Mormonism, if plainly stated, are no longer such as can commend themselves to a mind not perverted nor naturally prurient. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 The beaux are attorneys' apprentices, with chapeau bras and Limerick gloves—fiddlers, harp teachers, and clerks of genius: the belles are faded fan-twinkling spinsters, prurient vulgar misses from school, and enormous citizens' wives. Famous Reviews She has the excuse of necessity for the sale of her picture, while her sisters in society are driven solely by a prurient itch for notoriety to exploit themselves in the public prints. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 In a sentence, don't join in the prurient clamor of "purity" hypocrites and "strong" libertines that exaggerates and distorts the most commonplace, if the most important feature of life. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise It appears that where marriage is solemnized by the church and blessed by the priest, it may at the same time be surrounded with customs and ideas of a frivolous, superficial, and even prurient character. The Soul of the Indian Like a nun whose faith in the Virgin is met with a prurient jibe, He shrank—'twas the wife of his bosom in the arms of Philo, the scribe. Ballads of a Cheechako The sight convicted him in the court of his own soul as a prurient and mean-minded rustic. The Damnation of Theron Ware Driven by motives that were completely unethical and prurient, I now examined the handwritten notes. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier It is shocking only to the most prurient of prudes; and in point of morality is infinitely better than Frou-Frou. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 Its love of debauchery was only equalled by its prurient love of scandal. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!—ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy The barriers of prurient puritanism are being demolished. Woman and the New Race Simple prurient snooping is by far the most common activity. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier Out with your scissors, censor, and clip off the prurient paragraph! The Virginians His thoughts on sex were so prurient that, in common with many people, he considered any frankness about it most indecent. Gone to Earth On the contrary, it would do much to clear away from healthy-hearted lads one of their sorest trials—that prurient curiosity which is bred of prudish concealment. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Another fingered his spear with a prurient hand. Children of the Frost People, even quite normal people without any particular prurient interest in forbidden knowledge, did not shut their eyes in terror at the thought of beholding a "dangerous" document from a telephone company. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier I am wholly opposed to that prurient intermeddling policy which finds so much favour with certain classes of Indian officials. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin Despite prurient opposition it is making rapid headway. Marvels of Modern Science To the movement for the eligibility and entrance of women amid new spheres of business, politics, and the suffrage, the current prurient, conventional treatment of sex is the main formidable obstacle. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy A word may be said, lastly, with regard to prurient and polluted talk and unclean stories. Religious Reality Vice has its votaries,—and there is, too, that worn-out longing for vice, "prurient, yet passionless, cold-studied lewdness," which drags on a feeble continuance with the aid of money. He Knew He Was Right The people who discoursed glibly about love, and wove their sorrows into elegies, what sort of prurient curs were they? Watersprings Then the elder man, with the whiskers round his face, said in a prurient manner to the young man: 'What price that, eh? Women in Love "You think to fling yourself upon me as you have upon Captain Farnsworth," he said, with an insulting leer and in a tone of prurient innuendo. Alice of Old Vincennes I inquired of the brigadier if he did not think an establishment had the beneficial effect of sustaining truth, by suppressing heresies, limiting and curtailing prurient theological fancies, and otherwise setting limits to innovations. The Monikins Joseph's temptress did not tempt even the prurient taste which gave us the Parisian operatic versions of the stories of Phryne, Thais, and Messalina. A Second Book of Operas The gasconading reptile who is responsible for the slimy life of that prurient sheet, the Coyote, paid us a sneaking visit Saturday. Wolfville Days The man must be prurient and lecherous as a dog-faced baboon in rut to have aught of passion excited by either. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 She heard the prurient scream of every male Elizabeth in England; the allusions in the House—the jeers, the bitter attacks of enemies and rivals. Beatrice I fancied they might have been engaged in some of the prurient discourse with which they have been so disgustingly free of late. Stalky & Co. Ahasuerus and his boon companions rounded out the banquet with prurient talk. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 My knowledge and wealth of detail—for all that I curbed it lest I should seem to know too much—delighted her prurient soul. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Englishmen are no longer what they were if they continue to tolerate this Ignoble espionnage of Vicious and prurient virtuous "Associations." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 "To h–––– with their prurient laws," said Lopez, rising suddenly from his chair. The Prime Minister Broad type of joke, but not unhealthy or prurient. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus The newspapers, morning or evening, found ready sale, and had no need of recourse to murder-panics, or prurient discussions. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels Noble old child-hearted heroes, with just romance and superstition enough about them to keep them from that prurient hysterical wonder and enthusiasm, which is simply, one often fears, a product of our scepticism! Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth While they thus keep to the open plain and trust to their speed, they are safe; but they have a prurient curiosity that sometimes betrays them to their ruin. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Is not French Existence, as before, most prurient, all loosened, most nutrient for it? The French Revolution And this fair-haired little figure was the woman that people who knew her only from her books, called bold, prurient even! The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll What a world of prurient corruption lies visible in that super-sublime of modesty! The French Revolution That prurient heat in Twenty-five millions of hearts is not cooled thereby; but is still hot, nay hotter. The French Revolution For the rest, that in such prurient confusion, Clubbism thrives and spreads, need not be said. The French Revolution
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