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Перевод: prurient

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Тезаурус:

1. Intellectuals have a weakness for the prurient, I read somewhere.
2. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest."
3. There is also a kind of prurient obsession with filth among many purity campaigners which I find distasteful.
4. "Oh, isn't she a prurient little dyke, pull - ease!" he said, rolling his eyes.
5. It is not prurient but cruel, hip and disturbingly beautiful, intimate and playfully referential, as in Thomas and Dovana, where a naked black man and a ball-gowned white woman are caught, dancing, in a pose that both mocks and reveres the myths and fears of Gone with the Wind.
6. But when it turns to obscenity, their report contrasts the cruelty or violence depicted in Goya's Disasters of War or King Lear , which appeal "to our shared humanity", with depictions of a more prurient kind which "invite us to collude in degrading it".
7. In the nineteenth century there were, of course, families in which the attitude to death was morbid or prurient, such families exist today.
8. In Britain, the same film was refused a cinema certificate by the BBFC in August 1976 because of its prurient sexual exploitation of torture and the brutal degradation of concentration camp prisoners, male and female.
9. "She's been having trouble with her periods, if you must know," she says, imputing a prurient inquisitiveness to Vic, although she is well aware that such gynaecological disclosures are the last thing he wants, especially at this hour of the morning.
10. He didn't like to make Viola completely naked - it seemed too prurient.
11. that "the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest";
12. Although puzzled, he hesitated to investigate more closely for fear his driver should imagine his interest to be prurient.
13. Everything he wrote on those days seemed prurient.