Sentences with phrase «use obscenity»

The conversation quickly becomes heated, with Mr. Kalanick using obscenities and generally being dismissive of Mr. Kamel's complaints.

Mr. Kalanick himself was caught on a video, which quickly went viral, in which he told one of Uber's drivers that «some people just don't want to take responsibility» for their own behavior, using an obscenity.

A new set of etiquette vigilantes who spot such etiquette violations as smoking in the presence of nonsmokers without their permission or refusing to extend road courtesies to other drivers will proudly report having used obscenities and threats in order to make the violators «mind their manners.»

As the award was being handed to him, a reporter asked if the Basketball Association thought calling players obscenities was acceptable, the representative said «no» it was not okay, while at the same time he handed the award to the coach who used obscenities (6).

Lamott, who describes herself as a «left - wing hippie type,» does not shy away from using an obscenity in her writing when it seems appropriate to the situation.

Not exact matches

Bullshit is commonly an object of disgust, and thus, to use the term as an expletive is to utter an obscenity.

The creators have used music, irreverent comedy, and obscenity to tackle controversial subjects before, but they say their approach is new to Broadway musicals.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

To appreciate this fact, one needs to inquire beyond its presence on social media, where its obnoxious use of insult, obscenity, and racism has earned it a reputation for moral idiocy.

If a child is using potty talk or obscenities, you can try saying, «Oh, that's OK to say, but you better not say kumquat.»

«Zwicky began referring to Baade as «the Nazi»... He regarded most of the other Palomar astronomers as fools, and Walter Baade as a cretin... He would swear torrentially at night assistants, using scientific terms laced with obscenities... He referred to Baade and the others as spherical bastards — «They are spherical,» he said, «because they are bastards every way I look at them.»

Contains strong sexual material, graphic nudity, obscenity and brief drug use.

I enjoyed the author's penchant for parenthetical enlightenment, but I was annoyed with the overuse of obscenities (indeed, I fail to see the need for any use of them).

The policy will prohibit use of PayPal for the sale of e-books that contain child pornography, or e-books with text and obscene images of rape, bestiality or incest (as defined by the U.S. legal standard for obscenity: material that appeals to the prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value),» said Anuj Nayar, director of communications for the eBay - owned payment site.

Often the use of euphemism and suggestion results in a far more powerful story in the hands of a skillful author than swearing and obscenities.

Also, your previous article said that «anything that promotes or incites obscenity, drug use, violence, or gambling» would be prohibited.

The exhibition immediately sparked controversy when politicians took offense to the show and the use of public funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts to support it, leading to the indictment of the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and Director Dennis Barrie on obscenity charges.

The retrospective of more than 150 works, many of them depicting gay subcultures, proved too hot to handle and a number of museums found themselves on the frontline of controversy — the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC canceled their presentation of the show and the director of the Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was tried for obscenity and acquitted — and some politicians used the ICA show as an example of how federal grants were misused by the cultural community.

Rather than being used as a way to tar the judge, doesn't this just raise questions about obscenity laws in the first place?»

Is everyone involved really going to be OK with all of this - especially since the law specifically notes that the records may be used as evidence in a federal obscenity prosecution?

In law, words are typically far more precisely defined than in general use, and this is certainly the case here, at least for «obscenity.»

The sequence in which tantrums, oppositional behavior, and physical aggression develop early; proactive aggression, the use of obscenities and vindictive behavior appear later, and blaming others, verbal aggression and insults, and homicidal threats are last to appear; reflects the children's increasing cognitive and verbal capacity.