Mr Sherborne said Boyle's humour was "deliberately challenging".
A BBC spokesman said: "These programmes were a deliberately challenging examination of the treatment of historical child abuse allegations and their relevance today.
The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, precursor of today's Motion Picture Association of America, introduced a Production Code that deliberately challenged her every double-entendre, effectively neutering her saucy sex comedies.
Some has been demanding and deliberately challenging even to conventional ideas of spatial lucidity, as in Eisenman's Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio.
The opening outfits were deliberately challenging, a stark square-shouldered contrast to the soft, shrug-shouldered silhouette that (thanks to Prada) currently dominates fashion.
The Palestinians and some Israelis say that Mr. Sharon deliberately challenged the peace effort -- and Prime Minister Ehud Barak, his political opponent -- by striding into the Muslim-controlled area, trailing cameras and hundreds of Israeli officers.
As Carson's biographer, Linda Lear, has written, she deliberately "challenged the wisdom of a government that allowed toxic chemicals to be put into the environment before knowing the long-term consequences of their use.
The broadcast at issue then was a 12-minute monologue by the comedian George Carlin, titled "Filthy Words," that deliberately challenged federal regulators by highlighting "the words you couldn't say" on the public airwaves.
Today's events bring to fruition the thrilling "winter of love" in 2004, when thousands of gay and lesbian couples stood in line outside the San Francisco city hall, where Mayor Gavin Newsom deliberately challenged state law by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex partners.
We ask that you grant our president the will to act courageously but cautiously when confronted with danger and to act prudently but deliberately when challenged by adversity.
