Sentence examples for limits of candor from inspiring English sources
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".
Repeatedly testing the limits of sexual candor, gender dynamics and the lines between performance and real life — often all at once — Ms. Nakadate's art pushes a mailbag's worth of envelopes.
After pushing the concept of candor to its limits during his resignation announcement on Aug. 12, Mr. McGreevey has reverted to talking in broad strokes about his future while avoiding specifics.
It has been the only issue that has been off limits in the daily barrage of Republican attacks against the administration (Chairman Steele's recent moment of candor on Afghanistan notwithstanding).
Maybe spasms of candor will surface.
Credibility is the modern version of candor.
