Sentence examples for Scandalous for from inspiring English sources

In fact, the book became scandalous for its resemblance to real people and events.

The Wild One, American dramatic film, released in 1953, that was deemed scandalous for its day.

This was particularly scandalous for a public figure who had retained a countercultural air.

"If these allegations are true, this is going to be scandalous for the UK.

Is it indeed quite scandalous for a fashionable Edwardian lady to play tonsil hockey in a bar with her boyfriend?

Times have changed, of course: it's no longer quite so scandalous for married actresses to have affairs.

"I did not like him for his self-assured tone, for his scandalous reputation, for the fact that he is ascribed some special influence on the Kremlin, which has never been the case," Yeltsin wrote.

A satin Norman Hartnell dress with embroidered bodice displayed here was worn for just one scandalous moment – for a film premiere in 1951 where Margaret was snapped smoking a cigarette.

David Cameron is set to rip up decades of Conservative orthodoxy on crime and punishment, admitting that Britain's prison system has been a "scandalous failure" for years and calling for reform to be the "great progressive cause" of British politics.

Unmentionables are not only mentioned but shouted across playgrounds, babies are dolled up by adolescent parents, and what used to be scandalous behavior for adults have become common rites of passage for junior high students.

LIBYA'S long imprisonment of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor is scandalous both for the arbitrary suffering imposed on the six victims and for the feebleness of the outside world's response.