Sentence examples for prurience from inspiring English sources

Oduch's various descriptions and their accompanying pictures exceeded the bounds of prurience.

So much has been made of the off-stage dramas with Marilyn Monroe, who kept on fluffing her lines, and of Curtis's real-life relationship with Monroe, that the best things about the film – the reasons it appeals to generations a world away from the prurience of the 50s – are often missed.

His sexual preoccupations appear to belong to an antediluvian, pre-internet age of almost innocent prurience.

Outside America there is a regrettable degree of public prurience.

Protestant countries may recognise it more easily, although prurience about sex is missing in Germany.

IT WAS politics, not prurience, that inspired the publication of the modern world's first "rich list", in 1892.

Without prurience, she sensitively examines his enduring but troubled love for Eric Bruhn, his fabled partnership with Margot Fonteyn, his insatiable need to perform right up to the time of his death.

(The one thing they do not have to reveal is pay, but interest on that score is largely motivated by prurience and envy).

Public figures with blameless private lives may find the media's habitual prurience so unbearable that they leave office.

Mr Blunkett and his supporters have been swift to blame this latest resignation on Britain's predatory media and the criticism holds some truth, in that recent accounts had lapsed into prurience and unforgivable jibes at the expense of his blindness.But Mr Blunkett's departure cannot be dismissed so easily.

The upshot is that nine out of ten people have sexual fantasies, mostly pretty lurid ones and Mr Kahr thinks the remaining tenth are crippled by shame, guilt or repression.Any sense of prurience is relieved by Mr Kahr's prose, which is sympathetic, witty and erudite.