Sentences with word «prudishness»

These scenarios are often a rebellious comment on Victorian prudishness.

Someone I know whose mind is stunted and unable to open up to new thoughts or experiences because of this rigid prudishness and narrow limited view of relationships and self.

Who has not been outraged by a debased piety that renders truth into smugness, purity into prudishness, justice into the status quo and honor into pride?

Though the idea of the therapy appears to be the demystification of sex, the filming, with its voyeuristic detachment and curious prudishness (no genitals are shown), serves only to perpetuate the familiar fetishistic mechanisms.

Ozon directs the numerous trysts without prudishness or a nelly discomfort.

Ripping off scenes entire from sources as varied though familiar as Scream, Pet Sematary, and Tenebre, The Pool is teeth - setting in its humdrum prudishness and narrative predictability.

And those wondering whether the non-nomination of the lesbian - themed Blue is the Warmest Color is a sign of Hollywood prudishness, think again.

I don't mind prudishness, but the «I don't want to see this and you shouldn't either» ends up hurting everyone.

I for one don't understand some of this modern prudishness.

In The Inner Circle, his charmingly prurient look at American sex, best - selling author T.C. Boyle whose last book, Drop City, was a finalist for the National Book Award takes us back to an era when we were quicker to conquer Nazi evil than we were to conquer our own inherent prudishness.

Though today going without a shirt doesn't happen unless you are a laborer, historically men forsake top covering altogether (save, in some places, another loose piece of cloth wrapped, not stitched)-- as did women, before Victorian and Muslim prudishness took over.

Is it just that I live in Massachusetts, or is prudishness really dead?

I have no further connection to the paper, but to me, this dust - up has nothing to do with prudishness and has everything to do with knowing and respecting your readers.

prudishness and disbelief in Christian doctrine over the last 200 years has left many people bewildered, even most Christ believers.

«Faux civility, embarrassment, prudishness and a fear of expressing an unpopular opinion has caused many Christians to refrain from explaining how homosexual conduct destroys lives,» Carter wrote.

What MAY be more of a culprit is western's society's prudishness, and the fact that sexual intercourse is to be seen as «bad and naughty» vs a natural occurrence.

Abbott denied «prudishness», instead simply arguing that girls should view Jessica Ennis as a more important role model than Paris Hilton.

«The patriarchy has infused the entire topic, which is a universally wonderful experience, with shame and embarrassment and prudishness.»

It was bad news for Whakatane singles — they're the least lustful in the country — but they weren't alone in their prudishness.

Its levels of tidiness and prudishness are alarming.

We hope it's not prudishness, but somewhat taking the Soderbergh stance that «as soon as someone gets naked, the film becomes a documentary,» that scene's overlength did in fact take us out of the story: by a certain point we had understood the drama and import of this moment for Adèle, and her revelatory experience of having sex, for the first time, with someone she was terrifyingly in love with.

Tom Long scoffed for the Detroit News, echoing a prudishness in the film's reception.

The difference is that this is a story about teen girls and women, made by women, without judgment or prudishness.

Sadly, it doesn't contain the R - rated version of the film, which presumably sheds light on the MPAA's prudishness, and would have given more squeamish fans a viable alternative.

In our current climate it is especially appropriate that their defiance of prejudice and prudishness is at last receiving its proper recognition.

The power of his photography and film lies in Clark's quest for realism, the raw truth stripped of all prudishness gives the work its dark appeal and undeniably influential ability.

The design solution Levi's is hoping for needs to be undeniably stylish, sustainable and effective, so that it can even be applied in areas where clothed lines are banned for the sake of preserving property value and prudishness.

A good topic though, considering that by 2010 more than 50 million home - owners in the US will be banned from line drying clothes outdoors for the sake of preserving property value and prudishness.