Sentence examples for rather salacious from inspiring English sources

But the Christian ethic falters in certain parts of the show, including a rather salacious 17th-century German statue, in spindlewood, of Lot and his daughters, and a series of works on mythological themes.

David Cronenberg's 2011 film A Dangerous Method offers a rather salacious dramatisation of Jung's liaison with Spielrein, casting Michael Fassbender (then of Shame fame) as the irresistible Swiss doctor.

It was a rather salacious turn of events.

All of which serves to reconstruct an alternative narrative of the New World and certain rather salacious and cynical, yet consistently under-reported, consequences of its "discovery" for the Old World -- and how those forces and effects continue to shape the world today.

This is an astute and intellectually provocative approach, but it doesn't always serve the rather more salacious script and has the undesired effect of making a grandly hyped battle of the sexes into a first-round KO.

But Yo Majesty prove adept at pop, too, with the ballad Buy Love akin to TLC's Unpretty, and the melodic Don't Let Go merely salacious rather than utter filth.

Moviegoers well-acquainted with Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels' eyebrow-raising filmic oeuvre may be shocked to learn that his latest movie, "The Butler," seems, at first blush, rather short on salacious surprises.

Showtime's "Queer as Folk" is brummy to its core, and that makes it exploitive rather than merely explicit, salacious rather than sympathetic and pandering instead of persuasive.

In July, he created news by all but refusing to cover the case of Chandra Ann Levy, the missing Washington intern, and her relationship with Representative Gary A. Condit, a story that Mr. Rather said was more salacious than newsworthy.

The real problem with Leibowitz's photograph of Miley isn't that it's salacious, but rather that it runs counter to the wholesome, kid-friendly image that she's cultivated with Hannah Montana.

She said that payments had been linked to individual reports: "The vast majority of disclosures led to stories which I would describe as salacious gossip rather than anything that could be remotely regarded as in the public interest… they often involve a breach of trust and an invasion into the privacy of the subject".