How To Use Bawdy 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'.
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.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
bawdy songs
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
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
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
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.
A bawdy striptease at the Ed Sullivan Theater.
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.
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
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.
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
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 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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
And I get to play his once live-in lover and assistant, who's a very ballsy, bawdy Parisian.
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
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
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.
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
Brothers and sisters should avoid one another in public and refrain from telling bawdy jokes or making sexual remarks in each other's presence.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
If you go beyond bawdy and tear all the veils away, you get pornography and nothing else.
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.
He exposed a widely tolerated bawdyhouse known as the Chicken Ranch in La Grange. Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News! : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
There are bawdy tales in the Bible and that appeals to a certain part of our personalities.
What we've already got, courtesy of executive producer Jeffrey Lane (Mad About You), is a bawdy night of shticks and bones.
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?
Our curiosity was aroused by the gleeful squeals and ripples of bawdy laughter emanating from the crowd.
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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