bawdry

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It's movie analysis with a serrated edge; film criticism as stand-up bawdry; intellectual improvisation that soars into the highest form of word jazz.

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Its bawdry is innocent, its humor earthy, its love songs are unselfconsciously sentimental.

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Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven.

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He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos.

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Nothing but downright bawdry: Sirrah, rascal, Is this an age for ribaldry in verse; When every gentleman in town speaks it With so much better grace, than thou canst write it?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir