How To Use Prurient In A Sentence
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There is something about regulating pornography that causes even the most prurient libertarian to become apoplectic.
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Anyways, malware is the first thing that comes to mind when you say it started opening up a ton of windows unsolicited -- especially if they were, ahem, of a prurient nature.
Jean's Knitting
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I'd also like to report, on a lighter note, that this song racily mentions ‘making love’ at a time when the Boys were still supposedly buzz-cut neuters without a prurient interest in their hearts.
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With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.”
Gamey indeed
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Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.
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prurient literature
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If tabloids want to divulge salacious and prurient accounts of intimate sexual behaviour in future, against the wishes of one of the participants, they may find European Union law barring their path with a sword of flame.
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In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect.
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But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media.
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It's a film that focuses on ethics, be they pure or prurient, and how criminals and hoods can still require a sense of justice and fair play.
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'decencies' that swaddle it, or that we best reverence such sacred object by a prurient prudish conspiracy of silence concerning it?
Prose Fancies
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Modern Britain, nation of curtain-twitchers, lethally prurient, a country obsessed with hanky-panky, tuts and clucks and wonders if Mr. Hague is having a hot, steamy "pash" with the fellow.
William Hague's Hotel Bedroom Boob
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But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair.
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(An interesting aside for those who enjoy etymology: the word "prurient" is derived from the same root as pruritus - it just refers to a different sort of "itch.")
The Martha's Vineyard Times News Headlines
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These type of programmes are cheap (from a production standpoint) puerile, prurient and sadly popular.
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She showed a prurient interest in the details of the rape case.
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Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence.
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It is the suggestive, sometimes prurient, power of euphemism that lends itself so serviceably to the poet on one hand, and to the busybody, huckster, or sniggerer on the other.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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Publications fight for survival in a highly competitive market by pandering to prurient interests.
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Michael Malone, director of photography at the San Jose Mercury News, said the call was an easy one and that his paper would never print such a "prurient" photo, which he said was "not something people need to see.
Undefined
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‘Nobody is going to speak freely if they're going to be quoted by ambitious and prurient journalists’.
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Berlusconi's amoral business practices can never translate into financial success on a national scale, and his sexual ethics will only promote the kind of prurient, hypocritical society that Murdoch would appreciate.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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If prurient peering into other people's private lives is now an offence, the Home Office should be the first in the dock, with this Act offered as evidence for the prosecution.
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The febrile excitement of the story is sustained by the use of rapid action, exotic locales, and exaggerated passions, often cruel or prurient.
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Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
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Shaun's censorious attitude combines freely with a prurient interest in sexual matters.
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The squeamish may feel their pulses flutter at times, but the geeky, the prurient, and the gothic will find much to savor.
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The film, however, while presenting itself as a compassionate treatment, exploits for dramatic purposes the prurient interests of the audience.
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In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers.
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Here's my answer, and please don't be offended if I read some kind of prurient interest into your query.
Um...
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If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
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The fact that the dim-witted and near-sighted MPAA has slapped an NC-17 rating on Steve McQueen's Shame implies that there is something prurient about this film, whose central figure is a sex addict, struggling with his demons.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: Shame
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The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing.
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He denied that the article had been in any way prurient.
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Even the sexual aspects of the story seem more integral to the whole and are not adventitiously added for a prurient effect.
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I have watched you and your crew, how you preach up selfish ambition for divine charity and call prurient longings celestial love, while you blaspheme that very marriage from whose mysteries you borrow all your cant.
The Saint's Tragedy
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And it has enough about actual sex to satisfy your prurient side as well.
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He denied that the article had been in any way prurient.
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I have any number of fairly prurient interests, among them, a penchant for gossip columns.
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The trouble is, we are a prurient lot, always interested in the sex lives of other people, especially the famous.
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Delightful self-accountant reverence of author-craft! which wields full knowledge of a shaddock-tainted world, yet presents no licence to the prurient lad, reveals no trail to the suspicious moralist.
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
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prurient thoughts
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Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen.
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One of the prongs of the Court's obscenity test is that the speech must ‘appeal to the prurient interest’ in order to be punishable as obscenity.
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First of all, Tennessee is remarkably lacking in any kind of prurient accommodations along its interstate, and secondly, on the first trip, we stopped and ate at places that served cold beer and roasted goat, and on the second trip we stopped to eat at places that didn't serve black people.
Looky, Daddy!
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He denied that the article had been in any way prurient.
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This writer, in his repellent movies and plays, has consistently exhibited not mature insight into the nature of evil but a prurient burrowing into gleefully accumulated muck.
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In his last chapter of the political soap opera, Mr. Graves writes about the shift in focus in the last few months of Parliament to the "prurient speculation" about cocaine use, so-called busty hookers and the lifestyle of former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer and his wife, former Harper cabinet minister, Helena Guergis.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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She might be a prurient woman of lustfulness, or she may be a prudish, puritanical girl.
Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
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Odd Iain that I have not heard the word "prurient" in many months yet both you and David Cameron use it on the same day about the same subject.
How Not to Chase Ratings
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People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism so why should we blame the programme makers for that?
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Indeed, the only possible response to prurient questions is ‘mind your own business’.
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There is nothing "prurient" about his enthusiastic interest; far from it, Di Filippo deals with such activities with warm good humor, engaging prose, and, when the story dictates, with love.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership.
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These are people who frequented the beaches and pruriently connected naturism with sex.
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When did we become the single nosiest, most prurient population on Earth?
Val Brown: The Ex Ex-Pat, At Home Everywhere and Nowhere: Chapter One, Miscellany and Media
