Search results for "Prurient" - New World Encyclopedia

that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest *Whether the work depicts/describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct ...

of which Sinfonia and The Chemins are the most prurient examples. Berio often offers his compositions as forms of academic or cultural discourse themselves ...

licentiousness, Whitman believed that prurient interest in as well as embarrassed silence about sex were obstacles to the political and social ...

as they entertain. At its worst, it titillates prurient interests and nudges its viewers to commit acts of evil and stupidity. There is no clearer barometer ...

#Have the sole purpose of appealing to one's prurient interests In explaining its decision to reject claims that obscenity should be treated ...

in Harlem only appealed to the "prurient demand[s]" of white readers and publishers looking for portrayals of Black "licentiousness ...

adapted French operettas and poorly written, prurient burlesques dominated the London stage. As Jessie Bond vividly described it, "stilted tragedy ...