Sentences with phrase «into vulgarity»

Floyd's drawings explore the mundane, the socio - political and the sexually charged through disarming humor that borders on juvenile but never sinks into vulgarity.

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Of course the response is condemned as a philistine reaction against today's so - called high culture, which has, for the most part, descended into a self - indulgent and transgressive vulgarity far removed from the panache and imagination of an earlier modernism.

They are guardians of the world of commerce, where everything is valued only as it might be bought or sold, where all giving and receiving are governed by the satanic law that each must try to take more than he gives, where everything is plunged into the abysmal shadow of that insatiable Typhon called America — that gaslit desert of barbarism, with its infantile, gigantic, exuberant vulgarity, its monstrously guileless delight in affluence, its omnivorous vacuity...» He ceased speaking suddenly, looking all at once abashed.

This kind of emphasis, plus the felt necessity to adapt to the cultural level of the people addressed, meant that the traditional «plain style» which educated preachers of all ages had consciously striven for was in America always in eminent danger of being leveled into plain vulgarity — as witness the succession of revivalists from Buchard and Finney to Billy Sunday.

While this second sequel to Meet the Parents features the same comedy of embarrassment and vulgarity as its predecessors, it also takes a strange sideways step into machismo that leaves it feeling rather joyless.As their...

That's not enough to support a movie around, leaving Myers to reach into his standard bag of tricks, and time and again, Myers proves that, left to his own devices, what he really finds funny is vulgarity for vulgarity's sake.

R - rated by virtue of scatalogical humor — penii, both of the flaccid and majorly erect variety, crowd the screen; jaws dangle, gawking at flopping mammaries; — and frivolous vulgarities, Baywatch fails to insert much conviction into its raunch and lacks even more in the originality department.

Sadly, what attempts there are at actual humor without vulgarity lay mostly dormant, and a few prolonged action scenes are so disgustingly full of blood and gore that they shift the tone further into the tasteless realm than even the barrage of sex and poop jokes can do.

The list is based on the intensity of the language used or the vulgarity of the gestures made, but we also took into consideration the subtlety and nuances of their discourse.

They dismissed the person who put them on the map, Bob took this in good humour and would not be drawn into the petty quagmire of climate vulgarity.