prurience
Example Sentences
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They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021
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
His savage and unblushing violence or vehemence of satire has no taint of gloating or morbid prurience in the turbid flow of its fitful and furious rhetoric.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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