Should I be worried about her behaviour?' And for the teens watching, there's a real transgressive pleasure in seeing a kid puking in her mum's face and swearing at her!" The demon controlling its adolescent host doesn't just represent raging teenage hormones, in Snelson's view.
Despite the fact that the currency of swearwords has become greatly devalued through over-circulation, they still harbor a power of transgressive pleasure and can inflict pain.
And notwithstanding Mr. Nitardy and his neighbors, there is a sort of transgressive pleasure in ambling along the Promenade and taking in the backyards -- it's an unexpectedly intimate glimpse, like being in an elevator and standing inches from the nape of someone's neck, far closer than normal personal space allows.
It's hard to tell, for though Ben's sexual tastes run to such transgressive pleasures as sadomasochism and group sex, pleasure is not something he seems capable of.
A landmark lesbian movie, the carnal Concussion, a recent commercial screening of which sent two elderly spectators careening out of the theater during an especially sensual sequence, suggests that the depiction of lesbian pleasure continues to wield a transgressive power.
She is writing a transgressive fairy tale, not a worthy book for a school list.
He is one of those writers whom each new reader discovers with a transgressive thrill.
Nabokov's novel is both a comic tour de force and a transgressive romp.
In this divided landscape of rigid role assignment, the postwar he-man was a transgressive figure.
It had cream, five eggs, sugar and a transgressive dose of salt.
The onlapping pattern demonstrates a transgressive nature for the sequence.
