Sentence examples for something obscene from inspiring English sources

She declines, and he walks away muttering something obscene.

Fletcher carries on and says something obscene about the checkout girl.

The first is that there is something obscene about turning people's misery into a tourist attraction.

Martha Friedman's "Olive End" suggests something obscene by Richard Artschwager, but you don't care if it's on purpose or not.

"There is something obscene about a magnificent creature dying in an amusement park".

On the other, I know there's something obscene about needing a gym membership to mitigate the effects of overeating.

Section 1 covers the test to determine if something is obscene; an article is taken to be obscene if the entire article "is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it".

In view of the above, there is, perhaps, something rather obscene about Cable's analogy.

He finds something "almost obscene" in the "constant rehashing" of arguments in Germany about how to commemorate the Holocaust.

"Maybe I'm a bit of a puritan," she says, "but there's something slightly obscene about watching oneself on film.

STICKER-SHOCK WINCE It's all really very nice stuff and everything, but there is still something viscerally obscene about a $53 tank top.