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CC Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Meredith's novel was banned by the circulating libraries for the frankness of its sexual descriptions.
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As with her previous writings, we are treated to some of the frankness for which her works are rightly celebrated: she gives us her reflections on issues from colonialism (and her inescapable complicity in its continuance) to women's shouldering of the care burden, to increasing social inequality (all the more "horrifying" to someone who has lived through the optimism of the postwar period).
WORDS that once would have had mouths on Madison Avenue washed out with soap are becoming common enough in advertisements that one could wonder if the familiar Wendy's slogan from 1984, were it being introduced today, might be brought out as "Where's the [choose your expletive] beef?" There are two main reasons, experts say, for the increasing frankness of the language in everyday advertising.
However, as the interviewer gained rapport and emphasized the need for frankness, participants began discussing the elements of the intervention that they did not like or understand and often revealed that their sexual health-related behaviours and attitudes towards condoms had remained unchanged and resistant to the intervention's messages of faithfulness and condom use.
For this frankness, she was sometimes accused of having a bad attitude.
Personally, I love the album Dusty in Memphis - for its sexual frankness, the production values and the affected coquettishness of Dusty's vocal performances.
When questioned about his lifelike depictions, Jagger remarked to The Daily Express newspaper that the "experience in the trenches persuaded me of the necessity for frankness and truth".
There are rampant possibilities for phoniness, and for the loss of frankness Mr Gelernter fears.
The show had great reviews when it premiered in Adelaide, praised for its frankness about the pleasures and resentments of being part of a family.
I won't reveal the captain's name or jurisdiction, for fear he will face retribution for his frankness and the access he granted me.
But in literature, for a certain kind of character, it can dissolve self-mythology and clear the way for breathtaking frankness.
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