Sentences with word «obscenity»

The word "obscenity" refers to something that is sexually explicit or offensive in nature. It is often used to describe materials, images, or actions that are considered highly inappropriate or indecent and are not suitable for public view. Full definition
Via her spewing of obscenities at anyone around her and heaping mental, emotional and physical abuse on Tonya at home; she is the embodiment of embitterment and loathing, heaping her frustrations on her daughter under the guise of the most twisted sense of tough love to force Tonya to succeed as a skater.
The majority of pregnant women are yelling all kinds of obscenities at the father - to - be.
Artist Megumi Igarashi (also known as Rokudenashiko), who was first arrested for distributing 3D «vagina selfies» last July, is now on trial for obscenity in Japan.
The opening reception was held at the Corcoran Gallery, which had caved to political pressure by canceling the late photographer's retrospective, and the convocation was given by Dennis Barrie, the Contemporary Arts Center director who had been charged with obscenity for not canceling Mapplethorpe's show in Cincinnati.
For one thing profanity encompasses religious expressions whereas Supreme Court tests for obscenity of which I am aware cover only material of a sexual nature.
LANGUAGE 10 - Nearly 120 F - words, lots of anatomical and scatological references and lots of mild obscenities and insults (some are spoken by kids).
'' Death Trains of Heating Supplies to Auchwitz» «Homer» Rowboat» Hansen» a, getting arrested for screaming obscenities at power plant employees as they try to drive into work, they should be tried for crimes against humanity — a government employee, screaming at power plant employees at their driveway at work, that they're murdering people, by providing heating supplies.
The former category included The People v. Bruce (parrhesia), 2011, an installation by Eric Garduno and Matthew Rana that looks at First Amendment rights in the context of Lenny Bruce's 1964 trial on obscenity charges.
Now Micheal's living in his mansion with his wife Amanda who can't seem to stay faithful to him; his son Jimmy who doesn't work and just plays FPS games while yelling obscenities into a mic all day; and his daughter Tracey who's willing to do anything to get famous on reality TV.
Abortion clinics are firebombed; Planned Parenthood workers are murdered; an art gallery owner is arrested for exhibiting Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs; a rap group is arrested on obscenity charges; the civil rights — or «special privileges» — of gays and lesbians are the subject of controversial referenda; and issues of multiculturahsm, freedom of expression and «political...
Rather than being used as a way to tar the judge, doesn't this just raise questions about obscenity laws in the first place?»
If you're anything like me, MOBAs tend to come off as a confounding mess of strategies sung to the tune of aggressively shouted obscenities from «real players».
Director Stoller and writers Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien are graduates of the Judd Apatow school of studio humor, and so are well - versed in cooking up a comedy that adheres to a certain recipe: bookending the picture with big set - pieces, and then linking those set - pieces with a series of fast - paced episodes that rely chiefly on sight gags and as many obscenities as possible.
E-sports are a big deal in Asia, among other places, but the craze is just finally catching on here in the states — so much so, that Activision Blizzard, creator of the mega popular «Call of Duty» franchise, is including a picture - in - picture feature with their next installment of the «Black Ops» series (so you can scream obscenities into your opponents face after they just fragged the hell out of you).
The number of obscenity cases on our docket gives ample testimony to the burden that has been placed upon this Court.
Whatever you think about obscenity law, this opinion is pretty clearly inconsistent with existing doctrine.
Collection agents may not use obscenity or profanity, contact your employer or call you at inconvenient times to collect a debt.
A man with Tourette Syndrome repeatedly shouts obscenities while a curator attempts to interview a visiting artist.
The enraged chief whip was reported to of hurled obscenities at the two police officers, branding them «plebs» after an incident outside Downing Street.
In some ways this is great, because it means the average player won't have to listen to a squeaky - voiced 6 - year - old spew obscenities at them while they blast away the Vex, but the ability to communicate with other players would add a lot to Destiny's experience, especially since it's supposed to be a social game.
Up to the 1950s the U.S. Supreme Court applied the Hicklin test, which defined obscenity as that material with a «tendency... to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.»
Nor can the name contain obscenities or imply that the business is conducting illegal activities.
Language matches the on - screen intelligence, with many obscenities throughout the script.
-- M.D. — Staying with Quebec and religion, the author here muses about that province's choice of profanity over obscenity when it comes to swearing.
The effect of these broad judgments has been to limit obscenity prosecutions to hard - core porn.
The Protestants who propagated these notions helped create the early laws and ethos that gave rise to our present confusing obscenity standards.
Art critic Robert Hughes, in a 2004 speech at Britain's Royal Academy, called the piece a symbol of the «cultural obscenity» of the international art market.
Also name me a game that has so much obscenity in it that it would probably give your granny a heart attack but then still leave you wanting more.
Second, the court upheld the regulations, so we'll continue with a different sets of obscenity rules for broadcast television, basic cable, and premium cable television.
As a result of our failure to define standards with predictable application to any given piece of material, there is no probability of regularity in obscenity decisions by state and lower federal courts.
She'll run you over for criticising her parenting, prank call you and shout obscenities if you steal her parking space and may even bludgeon you death with a leg of lamb.
(In French with subtitles) William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (Unrated) Bio-pic about Godfather of the Beat Generation featuring recently found footage and interviews with friends and contemporaries of the author of «Naked Lunch,» the notorious 1959 novel banned in Boston because of descriptions of pedophilia which subsequently became the subject of a famous Federal obscenity trial.
This means that when a man with Tourette's syndrome yells obscenities during a Q&A with an important artist (Dominic West), they agree «everyone is welcome, irrespective of views».
Her character, Barbara Weston, lets quite a few obscenities fly in the John Wells - directed flick, but Roberts admits that she tries to keep her language clean when she's around her kids, only cursing once in front of them.
FotoFocus Presents a Panel Discussion on the 25th Anniversary of the Robert Mapplethorpe Obscenity Trial in Cincinnati Following the Watershed Exhibition The Perfect Moment as a PDF
Officers met gallery bosses and are also understood to have consulted the Crown Prosecution Service as to whether the image broke obscenity laws.
Thus, we might conclude that juries are best suited to determine obscenity vel non, and that jury verdicts in this area should not be set aside except in cases of extreme departure from prevailing standards.
Apparently loosely based on The Decameron, Giovanni's Boccaccio's 14th - century collection of ribald tales (which I have never read), The Little Hours is set in an isolated convent filled with lusty, foul - mouthed nuns who spout obscenities as eagerly as they seek sexual gratification.
Since they're not a broadcast company, TNT isn't going to get fined for this, but they go to lengths to avoid accidental profanity on their NBA broadcasts — the game is broadcast on a slight delay so somebody can censor obscenities yelled by players picked up by the broadcast microphone.
After videotaping the evidence --- Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio, a 1978 series that includes pictures of gay sadomasochistic scenarios --- police charged the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, with pandering obscenity.
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