Sentence examples for obscene for from inspiring English sources

It felt obscene, for someone so young.

Mr. Meyer enjoys citing Indian names too obscene for English translation.

Isn't it vulgar and obscene for me too?" To many of us, the specter of so much control suggests the possibility, even the inevitability, of rebellion.

Citing the bombings Wednesday in Baghdad, he called it "obscene" for terrorists to claim to be acting in response to Western aggression against Muslims.

It's obscene, for example, that the BAM Cultural District in Brooklyn will receive only a fraction of the amount earmarked for the "new" Lincoln Center.

Israel's taking steps to avert this threat hardly amounts to a "treacherous trope" of "victimhood" that rightfully should be inverted; it is obscene for Mr. Cohen to suggest otherwise.

The shop owners were charged with displaying "obscene articles for publication for gain".

Mr. Nader has quite rightly called for an end to the obscene race for money that now marks political campaigns in this country.

And those who took them -- and received obscene bonuses for doing so -- are coming back for even more.

Obscene rewards for success are as socially corrosive as obscene rewards for failure.

For any of this to happen, fossil-fuel companies, which have made obscene profits for decades, will have to start losing.