Sentence examples for scandalous content from inspiring English sources

Harley Granville Barker's Waste was banned in 1907 for its scandalous content.

The creative fields have long had their shadowy practitioners, figures whose identities, whether because of scandalous content (the author of "Story of O"), fear of ostracism (Joe Klein), aversion to nepotism (Stephen King's son Joe Hill), or conceptual necessity (Sacha Baron Cohen), remain, at least for a time, unknown.

The ever-brilliant Horrible Histories tackles similar themes in a sidelong way, with Lady Jane Grey clicking a dodgy link and getting spammed; a prudish Victorian lying about his age and stumbling across scandalous content (ladies without gloves); and Guy Fawkes learning a valuable lesson about privacy settings as his plot fizzles out.

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Nevertheless, Driberg's incomplete memoir Ruling Passions, when published in June 1977, was a shock to the public and to some of his erstwhile associates, despite advance hints of the book's scandalous content.

Every U.S. publisher had rejected the novel for its scandalous content, and the Olympia version looked (not entirely unwittingly) like the kind of plain package in which racy magazines were once mailed.

Thanks to his gift for making deals, he arranged for the book to be published 'more or less simultaneously in as many parts of Europe as he could manage', and its scandalous contents ensured that it became an instant bestseller in every territory.

Now the "hacker" is demanding that tabloid magazines pay up if they want to see more scandalous contents of Pratt's phone.

Social media is saturated with images of hypersexualized women, but these are rarely considered as scandalous as content that dares to reveal how a woman's body actually functions," she wrote.

But while #boycottunited was trending last week and we were all vowing never to touch this airline again... sadly, it is already stale news as we move on to the next more horrifying and scandalous piece of content.

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