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prurience



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There’s no hysteria or prurience in her writing; she approaches her history with precision, never sentimentality.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

And that means that I often am uncertain of my place in the uncomfortable space between honest curiosity and creepy prurience.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2019

Representations of anorexia are a mix of prurience, spectacle and aspiration.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2017

Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017

This literature of a sunless Decadence has spread widely, by virtue of its own uncleanness, and its leading characteristics are gloom, ugliness, prurience, preachiness, and weedy flabbiness of style.

From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various




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