Sentence examples similar to profane phrases from inspiring English sources
"How do they decide what's profanity?" Hakan asked, mentioning several borderline-profane phrases.
The committee chairman, Carl Levin of Michigan, used a profane turn of phrase 11 times in four minutes, quoting from an internal Goldman e-mail message, while questioning Daniel Sparks, the former head of Goldman's mortgage department.
He also adds a profane twist to a phrase that appears in just about every term paper ever written about F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel: "It's the American Dream!" Term-paper authors are eager to read irony into such invocations, but this writer is not so sure.
While he's not explicitly a gangster, this film's grumpy, profane title character is another sensitive thug, whose every phrase and gesture jabs like a dirty thumb for the eye of the decorous, repressed, middle-class society he inhabits.
"Cum," despite its use as a preposition meaning "with" in the Latin phrase summa cum laude ― "with the highest distinction" ― was rendered profane.
The new thirst for intervention on taste issues goes back to the so-called "Bono ruling", delivered in March, when the FCC slated broadcaster NBC for allowing the U2 singer to use the phrase "fucking brilliant" at an awards ceremony in January, describing the incident as "indecent" and "profane".
Koscinski told the newspaper that she "explained that Summa Cum Laude was a Latin term for high academic honor and was not profane" in the "special instructions" box on the Publix website, and included a link that defined the phrase.
