Sentence examples for customary limits from inspiring English sources

In this sense, The Handmaid's Tale makes an intellectual peace with historical process and transcends the customary limits of utopias and dystopias.

State Law (obscenity in the 2nd degree) by showing a film that appeals to prurient interest in sex, goes beyond the customary limits of candor, & has no redeeming social value.

As for "customary limits of candor," which could be interpreted as a community-standards test, Brennan said that he could not have meant the standards of local communities, such that each jurisdiction would be free to impose its own bans.

The charge that the book offended contemporary standards — which is what the "customary limits of candor" test amounted to — was met by the fact that the Grove edition had been well received by the literary establishment.

We formulated the test in that case as being whether the material was utterly without social value, whether it went substantially beyond customary limits of candor in representing sexual matters, and whether 'to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.' Id., at 489, 77 S.Ct. at p. 1311.

Brennan cited Mutual, but he saw fit to add definitions of "prurient" from other sources as well: a "tendency to excite lustful thoughts," a "shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion," and an expression "substantially beyond customary limits of candor".

A donation may be made to the charity of family's choice in the case of the death of an employee or a member of his/her immediate family, in lieu of customary flowers (Limit: $100).

The report, the subject of a Senate oversight hearing Wednesday, provided a window into how the administration sought to install politically like-minded officials in positions of government responsibility, and how the efforts at times crossed customary or legal limits.

A one-way trip into the future is the staple of the suspended-animation story, the device behind the Buck Rogers stories and a host of consequent tales in which a hero of the present-day escapes the customary time-bound limits of human mortality.

The village developed a Land and Forest Allocation plan in the mid 1990s, which not only distinguished forest and non-forest boundaries, and defined management rules, but also recognized farmers' access to upland swidden and fallow on a customary basis though limiting farmers to three or four plots.

Under general parliamentary procedure, a member securing the floor may speak without limit, though it is customary to adopt a rule limiting debate to a specified number of minutes.