bowdlerization

How To Use bowdlerization In A Sentence

• But the Hollywood treatment reflected the bowdlerization of the era.
• It's actually a slight bowdlerization of a Tony Robbins quote - not that I'm a huge Tony Robbins fan, but this one's pretty good. Blogging the Bridge Conference: Integrating Social Media
• Garner, always the character, once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit" and that his decision to take it in the first place was "the worst damn fool mistake I ever made. Your Right Hand Thief
• Where Freud suffered from bowdlerization, or having fathered on to him all sorts of odd ideas, Jung has been neglected.
• How coincidental that the Tate imbroglio should have taken place barely more than a month after the brouhaha stirred by the Yale University Press's bowdlerization of Jytte Klausen's book, "The Cartoons That Shook The World," to be published in November, after having excised the now infamous Danish cartoons as well as Gustave Dore's illustration of Mohammed for Canto 28 of Dante's "Inferno. Raymond J. Learsy: "Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?
• As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas.
• Perhaps it was the bowdlerization that led to this usage, but even in the thirties some writers use the term "patriarchy" in a derogatory sense as the rule by male tyrants. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
• Already his work has weathered rejection by publishers, objection by printers, suppression by censors, confiscation by custom officials, bowdlerization by pirates, oversight by proofreaders, attack by critics, and defense by coteries -- not to mention misunderstanding by readers. James Joyce
• What I objected to was the bowdlerization of the biographical tradition. Keeping sex out of scholarship
• Englemann's work has quite clearly and unequivocally brought out the nature of Wittgenstein's well-known protestations against such a bowdlerization of his thoughts as that of Russell in his introductory essay to the Tractatus. Wittgenstein's Strategy