How To Use Prudery In A Sentence
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A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
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Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
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They went on to accuse the by-then dead Sherburn of sloppy scholarship, slovenliness in proofreading, deception, ruthless and clumsy editing, prudery, censorship, and the hostile trivialization of a great work of Western literature.
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A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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My point is just that I understand why some might use the word punish, because they see a correlation between religion-inspired prudery and lifestyle condemnation and religion-inspired rejection of abortion rights.
Punishment
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His considerable discussions of sexuality are conspicuously free from prudery, so frank that he feared being read by people whose minds were unequal to the seriousness of the subject.
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Mistress Dearmer led the laughter at what she termed Barbara's country manners and prudery.
The Brown Mask
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Prudery, Mrs Grundy, sexual repression - all coexisting with industrial-scale prostitution, alcholism and adultery.
Those Victorian Values ...
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She brought to Russia not only the haemophilic gene of her grandmother, but a sincere prudery, a deeply religious mind, and a repugnance for the rituals and empty pomp of court life.
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Is this progress, or was Victorian prudery preferable to modern rudery?
Archive 2009-07-19
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Women's instinctive attitude had a unique chance of displaying itself, and one wondered at the combined prudery and sentiment with which the subject was approached, while the most offensive part of their conventionalism was the sex-obsession, which was clotted, like cream turned sour, on all their judgments.
Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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In some cultures it is not prudery that leads them to discourage men from looking at pornography.
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The term Victorian today sometimes recalls Queen Victorias stands on personal moral issues and may suggest prudery or a moral self-satisfaction.
Victoria, Queen
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I grew up in those supposedly halcyon days before World War II, and what I mainly remember was the repressive prudery in all matters sexual.
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Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Isn't it just the continued impact of the liberal revolution of the 1960s which liberated us from the vestiges of Victorian prudery?
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It is also where the prudery of a later time has obviously crept in; the sculptures all seem lack-lustre and no sexual connotations are to be found here.
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Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
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The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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It is formed from the term race, which prudery permits, and it expresses once and for all that for which the instinct exists -- not the individual at all, but the race which is to come after him.
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
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Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
