prurience
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“Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy,” by New York Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, may ultimately test the prurience of an unsuspecting readership.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2023
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
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
They turn faith into pietism, sanctity into morality, and righteousness into a reeking prurience.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
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