How To Use Bawd In A Sentence

At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
bawd:" Cf. Letter 60, note 14 and Feb. 18, 1712-13. The Journal to Stella
Whether in spite or because of its humor and bawdiness, Son of Schmilsson actually went gold and reached number 12 on the charts, feats Nilsson would never again accomplish. Midweek Music Moment: Son of Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson « A Progressive on the Prairie
It goes without saying that theatre can be a bit rough and ready, and lord knows our William seems to want to bawdily go where no one has gone before.
Comedy, tragedy, love, death, the spiritual and the bawdy are all represented.

From time-to-time, an unevenness in tone is evident, as the movie swerves between bawdy farce and melodrama.
More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
Their bawdy exploits were commented on by Howerd during asides, complete with awful puns, in a pastiche of the traditional Greek chorus.
There is plenty of Shakespeare's bawdy humour too and the sexual innuendoes come thick and fast.
A few women inspect a gender to be bawdy and feculent content, be in a gender for a long time to check status, also can weaken the sexual desire of oneself greatly.
Perhaps Shakespeare's most famous play, Romeo and Juliet combines the contrasting elements of humor and sorrow, bawdiness and civil strife, and innocent love and ignorant hate to rouse an amazing depth of mixed tenderness and tension.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
But too much bawdiness could also scare off advertisers.
Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
Check every bawdy house, bagnio, Blind Tiger, and frab-joint in the city. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
In orange and green spray paint that seems almost subtle next to the luminous signatures and bawdy slogans, a simple piece of graffiti is etched onto the wall of the off-license on a Hull estate.
The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll.
As result of your reading did you form an opinion regarding the sincerity of the writer in an attempt to express an honest picture as opposed to mere bawdy?
In fact, they seem determined to recreate the bawdy, bumptious atmosphere of a redneck boozer.
Lussurioso undermines her first, more for her being a woman and a mother: "The name [of 'bawd']/is so in league with age that nowadays/It does eclipse three-quarters of a mother. Final drafting stuff:
They jest bawdily about men's sexual anatomies; Iras, when asked amusedly where she would choose to have her 'inch of fortune', replies, 'Not in my husband's nose'. Shakespeare
But Shakespeare makes him live with himself and the consequences of his human weakness (not hypocrisy -- the Duke is hypocritical when he plays bawd to Mariana, but Angelo knows exactly what he's doing). Measure For Measure
He also loved bawdy songs and ancient poetry bordering on the pornographic.
If little has changed regarding governmental disapproval of bad language and bawdy behavior on TV and radio, things certainly are different for Penn these days.
And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal. A Renegade History of the United States
Airmen looking for bawdier entertainment crowded the two major cities of East Anglia, Ipswich and Norwich, spending their liberty evenings in dance halls smelling of tobacco and cheap perfume. Masters of the Air
He observes that the stanza "may be read as a nonsense-verse replacing some traditional bawdry which is represented by the rest of the song in the [Burns] MS. and MMC; but goose, hen and magpie are all low terms for a woman, and from the Nicht Owre
Van Wyk's narrator, a harum-scarum, hard-drinking journalist called Scara Nhlabatsi, relishes all manner of rude jokes, bawdy abuse, malapropisms and puns and provides a slew of images of the vulgar excess of power.
The three storeyed red and white bawdy houses of Upper Queen Street extended into Grey Street, and mingled happily with Chinese grocery shops, masonic clubs, and pakapoo saloons.
This bibliography is an essential resource for those interested in bawdy songlore in English, French, German and a few other languages thrown in. Another Day in the Ketchup Mine
Still, it is risqué by American standards, with lots of sexy love scenes and bawdy humor.
‘A bawdy broad, witty and intelligent, with a mouth like a sailor,’ is how Wise describes her.
Part soap, part farce, the series is undeniably slight, a feelgood bubble of bawdy froth.
Benjamin, who appreciated bawdy humor as much as any of his kindred, would have relished the vitality of the street scene.
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Sheldon met her first bawd when a Mrs Horsham, a very respectable-looking woman, engaged her in polite conversation on a bench in St James's Park.
“E-mer-gen-cee, E-mer-gen-see, evry bawdee to get from street,” Mikhail said, reciting the lines that Alan Arkin had taught him in perfectly inflected Russian English. The Nielsens (part one)
The film pays loving tribute to the striking machinists at Ford's motor plant via the vehicle of the bawdily unreconstructed class-war farce, referencing everything from The Rag Trade to the Boulting brothers 'I'm All Right, Jack to Carry On at Your Convenience. Made in Dagenham
In long passages both bawdy and fantastic, we are shown how the feminine principle makes nonsense of all forms of statecraft, including even the cleverest ones adumbrated in The Prince, and how the distance between the boudoir and the bordello or zenana or harem is disconcertingly short. Cassocks and Codpieces
May impropriety and bawdiness grow and flourish and evolve into lusty, heartfelt words to shake the very foundations of those scared by language.
“Ke ke ke ke,” she sang bawdily, lifting up the hem of her dress, gyrating lasciviously. A Kettle of Vultures
He was surprised in a bawdyhouse by two policemen. The Girl in the Dilger Case
To see the name of John Milton, the great religious and political polemicist, attached to such a bawdy epigram, is extremely surprising to say the least. John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
Later on he successfully puzzled over the riddles of some bawdy conundrums.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Southwark was London's bawdy pleasure district.
This bawdy academic satire, with its potentially offensive laddish point of view, turns out to be a traditional romantic narrative.
But what good is bawdy when its purveyors, from low to high, seem unfailingly recruited for their unsightliness, and act like overwrought underachievers or maundering bystanders?
Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with a coarse, red-faced Irishman named Connor, who was the boss of the loading-gang outside, and would make free with the girls as they went to and from their work. The Jungle
There he was, mopping the deck after that freak storm that had just hit, whistling a bawdy melody that he'd heard in a barroom once, when he spotted her.
The performance opens at a seemingly innocuous meeting of a village fête committee, made up of a drunk vicar and an array of ineffectual local worthies who deliver a string of bawdy one-liners.
The first story admits of a little frivolity, as we see in the conversation of the girls and the bawdy chat of Graham.
Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with The Jungle
In Shakespeare's day, his plays were considered riotous and bawdy.
Wasn't hardly nobody comin" by the bawdyhouse where I was at, either, what with so many men bein" away to the war. The Guns Of The South
Oh blest deliverance — what a profane wretch is here, and what a lewd world we live in — oh London, London, how thou aboundest in Iniquity, thy Young men are debaucht, thy Virgins defloured, and thy Matrons all turn'd Bawds! my Lady Fancy, this is not company for you I take it, let us fly from this vexation of spirit on the never-failing wings of discretion. — Sir Patient Fancy
Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess. Women Beware Women; Bingo
A round of laughter erupted when someone bawdily suggested a connection between the two subjects. Elephant in the City
The interesting thing is he doesn't cross out quite sensitive political or court gossip, or the bawdier passages – it's just the baby talk, which is both infantilising and quite sexualised. Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt
But in London it brought belly laughs with a bawdy display of music hall humour and saucy songs.
In Mitchell's crafty hands, the bawdy drawings become kaleidoscopic fun-fur mosaics: deliciously touchy-feely, rather than puerile or self-consciously lewd.
How dare you, miss, turn the Feathers into little better than a bawdy-house?
they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy
Though bawdy might be censured, it was never censored.
England: "Survivals of agricultural magic-making abound in our folk song even today though as the old meaning becomes unclear what was once ritualistic is likely to change into broad comedy, as with the randy animal-guiser song of the 'Derby Ram', concerning a beast of gigantic, not to say cosmic, attributes, a song that is the lyrical equivalent of those phallophoric dances that survive in farming ceremonies in Europe, intended to celebrate and stimulate the powers of reproduction in plants, animals and men, a song that nowadays survives mainly as a bawdy anthem for beery students or soldiers coming home on leave". Dalby Ram
12 Forster reads, "devil's brood"; probably the second word is "bawd:" Cf. Letter 60, note 14 and Feb. 18, 1712-13. The Journal to Stella
The door had barely closed when the bird fired off two of his bawdier quips. Spider Bones
The last battering engines are philters, amulets, spells, charms, images, and such unlawful means: if they cannot prevail of themselves by the help of bawds, panders, and their adherents, they will fly for succour to the devil himself. Anatomy of Melancholy
The songs on The Best of The Dubliners are mostly good-time songs about drinking and bawdy sex.
When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
The cards revitalized older notions like the comic and dislocated aspects of sexuality which had once found expression in libertine literature, bawdy songs, and burlesque theater.
Bruce established his reputation on naughty language and bawdy social commentary: the hallmarks of modern stand-up comedy.
(1. 3.147-149) and even undermines her motherly status, observing that bawds are often older women, and mothers are older women (usually): "The name [of 'bawd']/is so in league with age that nowadays/It does eclipse three-quarters of a mother. Draft: Women's Negotiations of Moral and Material Status in The Revenger's Tragedy
He has the prettiest _love-songs_ for maids; so without bawdry, which is strange; with such _delicate burdens_ of "dildos" and "fadings," "jump her and thump her"; ... Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
When all other engines fail, that they can proceed no farther of themselves, their last refuge is to fly to bawds, panders, magical philters, and receipts; rather than fail, to the devil himself. Anatomy of Melancholy
C, teh ting eez, ewe shud naot apply enneh fisy… feesi… bawdily discomfurt too teh kitteh. Video: Cat Yodeling - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
A bawdy striptease at the Ed Sullivan Theater.
On the alt.country binge: I bought two from the Asylum Street Spankers, who remind me of Squirrel Nut Zippers, but bawdier, and Joe Henry's Trampoline the oher day from iTunes look out for those iTunes benders! WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2005 Archives
Lysistrata is a very silly play with a very bawdy storyline.
More literary games, but here intellectual conceits are mixed with bawdy farce.
They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
But she's got this behind-the-scenes bawdiness that reminds me of Carol Burnett in her heyday, which is just lovely for a bunch of guys. On the Set Farewell to Chuck Part 4: The Nerd Legacy
_ Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth 45 oftener ask forgiveness. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
Letters Swift wrote to his beloved "Stella" – Esther Johnson – and her companion, Rebecca Dingley, reveal in detail Swift's mixture of bawdry and baby talk. Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt
Other than promoting scripted violence as a spectator sport, fielding accusations of steroid, drug, and sexual abuse among past "Super Stars", McMahon's credentials include wife of WWE's Chairman Vince McMahon, mother of two darling children, Shane and Stephanie, company nepotism at it's very best, all are executive officers and have extensive experience both inside and out of the ring promoting their brand of bawdry entertainment. Mary Ann West: Smack Down on Education: CT's Gov. Nominates WWE CEO
The subject matter ranges from dignified nature-poetry (Du Bellay) and Petrarchesque lyrics (Ronsard), through sententious and moralizing texts, to the familiar drinking-songs, some macaronic texts, and Rabelaisian amorous and bawdy narratives; no one wrote more amusing chansons of this last type (En un chasteau and Il esteoit une religieuse are excellent examples). Archive 2009-06-01
And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal. A Renegade History of the United States
The bawdy bruiser they call Yogi, whose bear-like qualities extend beyond his physique, is almost embarrassed by the suggestion that beneath his comedic exterior lurks a consummate professional.
Regardless how the governor sought to insert notions of bawdry sin and frivolousness with “Las Vegas” and “Disneyland,” the route between LA and Las Vegas will not be made less congested thereby. Bobby - we barely knew ye.
Thousands of them came to Chicago answering advertisements for "servants" and "factory hands," and found themselves trapped by fake employment agencies, and locked up in a bawdyhouse. The Jungle
Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration. 1601
Book containing older and bawdier version of famous Dublin song is presented to Dublin Writers museum Oldest known version of ballad of Molly Malone finds new home
Granted, eroticism is different for each person, I still find it hard to believe that many people would find these tales sensual at all; they fall more into the category of bawdy, if anything. Book Review: In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed IV « Colleen Anderson
it was smoking-room bawdry
This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic.
At the very worst, real mothers suffer by analogy with bawds and pimps.
It has often been chosen as a school set text, due to its edifying subject and absence of bawdy, and has consequently retained an unfortunate aura of the classroom for many readers and commentators.
One day I decided to just come out and ask one of the doctors about it, and he turned beet red and suggested that I possess a certain bawdiness that appeals to many British men. Thank you India, Sheila, Daryl, Cindy!!! | clusterflock
Always a thorough reminder of the delicate beauty and hilarious bawdiness of great language at work. Lauren Gunderson: Belated Valentine to American Theatre... and a Patron Named Joyce
Its impressive, often striking visual design and broad, bawdy humour could best be described as an offbeat combination of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and Wayne and Shuster.
The act got a big laugh at the annual event, and the bawdy tone spread throughout the evening as honorees and presenters told naughty jokes.
Check every bawdy house, bagnio, Blind Tiger, and frab-joint in the city. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
As Martin Lindstrom reminds us in "Brandwashed," marketers make sneaky appeals to our fears and desires, leverage our social connections to maximize peer pressure, dazzle us with tinfoil celebrity and lure us with sexual come-ons that would embarrass a bawd. The Amygdala As Sales Tool
Now bawdy, saucy Bollywood is really getting some respect - and it's about time with the Bombay film industry churning out 1,000 feature films every year.
Outside the recent and welcome burlesque revival, the concept of bawdy humour - something that's proud to be naughty and a little overripe in the interest of a plain old good time - has been largely absent from Toronto stages.
Uncle Satch was a real piece of work -- the quintessential Irishman with a big red face, loudhailer voice, shock of white hair, bawdy laugh, fiery temper and wicked sense of humor. Cathleen Falsani: It's What You Do, Not What You Say: Requiem For Uncle Satch
New Haven was a feast of fat things—now the young wife in "La Ronde," now the bawd in "Pericles," now a play by Euripides, now by Strindberg, now the leading lady, now the ingénue. The Independent-Film Character
And if you would have your daughter riggish, bawdry and unclean, and a filthy speaker, and suchlike, bring her up in music and dancing and my life for yours, you have won the goal. A Renegade History of the United States
Nancy Meyers 'It's Complicated is the kind of movie I would happily have sent my late mother to see: a little bawdy (but not too bawdy), a little naughty (but not too), funny enough, with lots of mome ... Marshall Fine: Movie Review: It's Complicated
I have dim memories of other books being turned into ABC dramas, like perhaps Carrie's war by Nina Bawden, but they never overwrote the book - this one the book and the show are kind of enmeshed in my mind. Eglantine's cake
According to historian Clare Lyons, “Members of all classes and both races frequented taverns, bawdy houses, and ‘Negro’ houses for sexual adventure.” A Renegade History of the United States
It ill befits the distance between your Highness and me to send you for ocular conviction to a jakes or an oven, to the windows of a bawdyhouse, or to a sordid lantern. English Satires
His wonderful wit greatly delighted contemporary readers, most of whom were not worried by bawdy, though there were some who thought it inappropriate for a clergyman.
Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess. Women Beware Women; Bingo
Having read the book, I know that it's a lot of fun perhaps a bit too bawdy for some, but in a past life I was a groundling. More Foolish Stuff
And this was the case with printed miscellanies, where bawdy verse was a favorite.
It amuses the children, who can't resist the bawdiness, and engages the adults, who can't resist the blasphemy. Christmas, and Caganers, in Catalonia
Helen and Paris enter; she implores Pandarus to sing a song of love, which he later sings bawdily.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
And I get to play his once live-in lover and assistant, who's a very ballsy, bawdy Parisian.
Gord teased* "You'll guzzle down a gallon of ale a day for the rest of a long life and never grow fat " you work it off nightly bawdstrot-tlng each willing wench you meet. Night Arrant
A mixture of passion, nostalgia, and masculine bawdy infuses the cult of youthful athleticism.
The Tony -, Grammyand Emmy-winner sings her classics as well as new tunes with boundless energy and bawdy humor.
Herodas was a Greek poet who wrote realistic but bawdy mimes in choliambic verse.
The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy and orgiastic -- or maenadic -- foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
Out of the strange melange of bawdry and bloodshed would emerge the origins of his irrepressible folk humour.
Despite the fact that scholars of all nations scoffed at the thing, and pointed out that the very term 'rune' is of Teutonic origin, one enthusiastic old gentleman -- Mr. Michael Bawdrey, a retired brewer, thirsting for something more enduring than malt to carry his name down the ages -- became fired with enthusiasm upon the subject, and set forth for Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
David Duchovny reprises the role of Moody, the bawdy, cocksure and terminally lovesick belletrist transplanted from his native New York to Venice Beach. Rob Fishman: Californication Season 3: Sneak Peek And Review
The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bequest of Benjamin Altman 'Young Man and Woman in an Inn ("Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart")' (1623) The selection spans most of Hals's career, beginning with the bawdy "Merrymakers at Shrovetide" (c. 1616-17), a densely packed image of revelers that pits a red-faced toper against a young blonde whose flushed cheeks accord nicely with her coral jewelry and elegant, lace-trimmed red dress. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
He was buried in the family vault in the church at Bawdsey, Suffolk.
No one wants anything feminine, unless it is bawdily so, like defending a woman's rights to show her naked body in public or something. Women must be Men: Mourning the Lost of the “Spirit of Man”
To test this, simply think of some particularly bawdily outrageous title for adults and try imagine it being put on a highschool reading list. Yet another G-word
In the adopted city of the bawdy pun master Pietro Aretino, one of Sansovino's close friends, such ribaldry, even in so august a location, should come as no surprise.
The tiny 18th-century book – containing a version of the song that is almost a century older and considerably bawdier than the lyrics sung at Irish weddings and sporting fixtures – has been bought by the city's tourism authority and presented to the Dublin Writers museum. Oldest known version of ballad of Molly Malone finds new home
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
Either image would appeal to the Surrealist Ernst, as comic in a bawdy sense, as shocking to a correct, middle-class audience — in the Dada/Surrealist mode, and, as evocative in a Freudian spirit, of repressed meditations on the afterparts and on the ithyphallic form of the elephant itself. Ernst's Elephant
Alas impromptu recitation of poetry is rather unfashionable in pubs in Toronto - and the locals would never understand the bawdier versions of Christmas Day In The Workhouse, a personal favourite. Cryptic crossword No 25,200
Brothers and sisters should avoid one another in public and refrain from telling bawdy jokes or making sexual remarks in each other's presence.
Amanda had suggested bawdily that this might be a decision which she could make well worth his while.
Douglas Wootton dramatises this bawdily rollicking ditty to perfection, down to the last nudge and wink.
The resident Surrey-based jokers, who gave two sell out performances in Epsom in November and March, have been tickling fans with a melange of bawdy songs and set pieces since they began working together two and a half years ago.
Despite the fact that scholars of all nations scoffed at the thing and pointed out that the very term 'rune' is of Teutonic origin, one enthusiastic old gentleman -- Mr. Michael Bawdrey, a retired brewer, thirsting for something more enduring than malt to carry his name down the ages -- became fired with enthusiasm upon the subject, and set forth for Cleek, the Master Detective
Kathryn Hunter plays the bawd of the title as a butch, shaven-headed operator who deals in drugs as well as sex.
The bawdy humour came straight out of the music hall and it's a British tradition that led on to the Carry On films, Benny Hill and Les Dawson.
Theaters reopened to comedy, bawdy, and romance.
Wolfe offers an updated understanding of fraternities as social lockboxes far removed from their bawdy Animal House progenitors.
It is no accident that the end of Restoration bawdry coincided precisely with the fullest flowering of literary sadism in England. 24 « August « 2007 « Jahsonic
The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bequest of Benjamin Altman 'Young Man and Woman in an Inn ("Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart")' (1623) The selection spans most of Hals's career, beginning with the bawdy "Merrymakers at Shrovetide" (c. 1616-17), a densely packed image of revelers that pits a red-faced toper against a young blonde whose flushed cheeks accord nicely with her coral jewelry and elegant, lace-trimmed red dress. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
If you're a fan of vampires, but don't want to see high school kids staring longingly at each other before taking vows of chastity, then we highly recommend that you tune in for this adult-oriented "bawd" ville horror-fest. IGN TV
Several mainstream game publishers are releasing bawdy games containing nudity and explicit sexual content.
The Observations is an astonishing imaginative feat, brilliantly written in bravura, bawdy style ... The Observations: Summary and book reviews of The Observations by Jane Harris.
Literary references to wine drinking are legion, presumably because it encouraged conversation, civilized, bawdy, or sometimes nonsensical.
The theatres of Shakesepeare's time resounded not just to his great tragedies and comedies but also to more satrical works by the likes of Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, with their lively tales of bawds and coney catchers evoking the teeming life of the city. This week's new theatre
Of course, there are no longer bawdy houses, where these unfortunates are displayed openly to debauched satyrs.
And the provision of our country law to bawdy pornography information is wider extensive.
Publishers splashed sex and violence on risque covers and framed the stories themselves with bawdy advertisements.
But she's got this behind-the-scenes bawdiness that reminds me of Carol Burnett in her heyday, which is just lovely for a bunch of guys. On the Set Farewell to Chuck Part 4: The Nerd Legacy
For all its bawdy variety, however, Picasso's sexual imagination remains remarkably conventional.
When is a bawdy, ribald tale of a wanton wench and her very naughty sexual adventures as boring as a trip to the Field Museum to watch dinosaur bones fossilize?
No resident burgess is in anger to call a bailiff or wardemen by any name such as thief, knave, backbiter, whoreson, false, foresworn, cuckold, or bawd.
Interspersing songs with humorous anecdotes in which his bawdy humor and racy wit come into play, audiences never know what's going to happen when Kan Kan takes to the stage.
The uproarious, bawdy image of these parties is wholly at odds with the petite, soft-spoken 41-year-old divorcee who has masterminded it all.
Pedro Almodovar's homage to women and their complexities is a drama filled with bawdiness, tenderness and raw emotion.
But as all the girls were being played by callow youths with high voices, many of the bawdy references would be directed at them and their questionable or unformed masculinity.
Temples, an amphitheatre, paved roads, toilets and bath houses are uniquely preserved, but it is the individual houses, some with simple mosaics, more than a few with bawdy Roman graffiti, that bring the history to life.
Mozart might not have been the spendthrift hellion portrayed in the 1984 film Amadeus, but he could play the piano blindfolded, loved wooing women and wrote bawdy letters.
Howsoever in public they pretend much zeal, seem to be very holy men, and bitterly preach against adultery, fornication, there are no verier bawds or whoremasters in a country; [5221] whose soul they should gain to Anatomy of Melancholy
What think you, damoiselle, at the coronation, in that same year 61, it was she who made the bed for the chief of the bawdies! III. The Story of a Wheaten Cake. Book VI
It was the red thread of life and love, blood-color -- blood-maker, blood-spiller, heart-quickener, heart-sickener, the red thread of romance, of motherhood and of lust, birth and murder, family and bawdry. We Can't Have Everything
He was a popular performer of a style of Haitian music known as compas, and was notorious for occasionally bawdy performances and foul-mouthed stage antics. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
All we had to do for fuel was to step outside the door of the hut and gather wood for our stove; to this day, the slightest whiff of wood-smoke instantly takes me back to Bawdsey.
If you go beyond bawdy and tear all the veils away, you get pornography and nothing else.
Not necessarily "ballads," as they are no less smoldering than their higher-tempo anthems, "Devotion", "Go Shawty", and "Blind" seem to suggest a real vulnerability underneath the harder, bawdier exterior of the group. Marjon Rebecca Carlos: (Electrik) Red In The Face: Not Your Mom's All-Girl R&B Group
We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move.
From the Bible to bawds, Rembrandt's palette welcomed all women.
She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello's incomprehensible jealousy. November 1st, 2002
He exposed a widely tolerated bawdyhouse known as the Chicken Ranch in La Grange. Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News! : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
She is equally capable of defending her marriage, jesting bawdily with Iago, and responding with dignity to Othello's incomprehensible jealousy.
There are bawdy tales in the Bible and that appeals to a certain part of our personalities.
Viewed in the context of late-19th-century conventions, many of these works convey an almost frathouse bawdiness, as the artists defiantly strip and dare their public not to look away. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
What we've already got, courtesy of executive producer Jeffrey Lane (Mad About You), is a bawdy night of shticks and bones.
This verse from his poem ‘Caller Oysters’ shows his bawdiness and irreverence as well as his humour.
John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems? A Bawdy Milton Poem, Or 17th Century Fraud?
They are inveterate gamblers, drink as much beer as their wages will permit, are devoted to bawdy jokes, and use probably the foulest language in the world.
It will be useful to re-establish first of all that Steele really did think of himself as an innovator, a propagandist for a new comedy, which was to replace Restoration bawdy on stage.
The book fails to portray the bawdy and contentious woman who wanted always to be on center stage.
Catcalls and lewd hooting spilled forth from the mouths of Chris' bawdy band mates.
The Barburen and both the Vermeers depict musical performances. Was musical skill expected of Dutch courtesans as it was of Greek hetairai; or was the women's deft play on instruments a bawdy symbol?
As a man, he was apparently "given to lustfulness but fastidious in other particulars," something which, we are told, "by a curious chance consorts well with the imagery of the plays where there are plentiful references to bawdiness, but where there is also evidence of a general sensitivity to unpleasant sights or smells. The One and Only
Sir, I will serve him; for I do find that your hangman is a more penitent trade than your bawd, he doth often ask forgiveness. Act IV. Scene II. Measure for Measure
She said, savoring the bawdier aspects of kid-speak. Nothing Revolts
Our curiosity was aroused by the gleeful squeals and ripples of bawdy laughter emanating from the crowd.
Temperature was peaking at barely nine in the morning, and townspeople were shuffling their way down the streets, carriages and carts were getting impatient, and competitive bawds were stepping back into the shadows.
Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
Charlotte's bold and bawdy, the song she sings is nice. The Graham Norton Show: Safe on the sofa
But a spinster living alone with an adult man would surely give rise to bawdy speculation among the locals.
Her grandmother, Madame Duval from Paris (an English barmaid before ensnaring Evelina's grandfather), shows up and is a marvel of bawdy vulgarity.
“You were as drunk as a lord last time I saw you, and about to go off to the bawdyhouse with that wench…Lord, she had an arse on her,” he added reminiscently. A Wicked Gentleman

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