prurience
Example Sentences
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And “Polylogues” is a curious, compassionate portal into a topic we most often see treated with prurience.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021
They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021
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
Mr. Lilly quotes Thomas Carlyle's sarcastic words about the "blind loquacious prurience of indiscriminate Philanthropism" that commands no revenge for great injustice.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various
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