Sentence examples for bowdlerise from inspiring English sources

TO THE gall of Iranian novelists, who have to wait for years for permission to publish and are then turned down or forced to bowdlerise their masterpieces a former mistress of the late shah, Parvin Ghaffari, has been allowed to publish a sensational kiss-and-tell memoir of her liaisons with the king and several of his courtiers in the 1940s.

The assumption was that he was bound to bowdlerise and diminish the original film.

Mostly, that is just a prissy and patronising habit, but to bowdlerise a celebrated line of poetry is an outrage.

There is nothing incredible about the speed at which people throw things, but to bowdlerise a celebrated line from Larkin?

Plenty of 60s British bands covered material by black US artists: they tended to bowdlerise it, but the Beatles made it more visceral.

The original stage leads were chosen by MGM to appear in Vincente Minnelli's 1956 film version, written by Anderson, who was forced by the studio to bowdlerise the play.

❦ In 2008, on a two-day hike across the auto-plutocratic city-state of Dubai and into the Empty Quarter of Arabia, I marvelled at skyscraper after skyscraper, built by indentured labour, and each seemingly a more bowdlerised example of that inherently bowdlerising architectural style, postmodernism.

For that reason they ruled that dinner-party tittle-tattle or Lord Browne's views of his colleagues should remain private, but details of his alleged misuse of BP computers and staff to help the man who was then his lover could be revealed.The bowdlerised sorry tale should be on the streets this weekend.

ALMOST everywhere in Nicaragua in recent weeks someone can be heard playing or crooning a bowdlerised version of "Give Peace a Chance".

The Higgs boson is, indeed, known to headline writers as the God particle (though the sobriquet was actually first given by a bowdlerising editor, who shortened an author's reference to "that goddamn particle").

The leftists who seized control of the universities in the 1960s have imposed their world-view on the young with awesome enthusiasm, bowdlerising text-books of anything that might be considered sexist or racist, imposing draconian speech codes and inventing pseudo-subjects such as women's studies.