How To Use Bowdler In A Sentence
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As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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I asked the guy who would bowdlerize Larry Niven if given the chance this question: "If someone was writing the biography of your life, would you want it to have a sex scene?
Bowdlerized
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Those weren't the first times I "bowdlerized" -- some might say, butchered -- a classic text the term comes from the knuckleheaded 19th century Shakespearian censor Thomas Bowdler.
Trey Ellis: Censoring Huck Ain't So Simple
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Certainly I think that no one is contemplating chemically "bowdlerizing" positive recollections, the talk seems to center around the artificial expurgation of bad memory, viz. trauma and the like.
Lionel: We Are Our Memories
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The above excerpt, “Hamlet,” illustrates how such lingual poverty might bowdlerize the legacy of poetry.
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It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble.
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The Nutcracker — but not any of the chopped-down, bowdlerized, amputated versions pretending to be the real story.
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But the Hollywood treatment reflected the bowdlerization of the era.
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Did its reception shatter his confidence, leaving him unable to finish the other novels he worked on intermittently over his last years: "Islands in the Stream" and "The Garden of Eden" both published posthumously in heavily edited, and perhaps bowdlerized, editions?
The Slow Crack-Up
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In particular, young, unestablished players such as Glover, Mottola, SG DerMarr Johnson and PF Cal Bowdler should play with high energy.
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Society does not need journalists to be leftist bowdlerisers like John Pilger; nor does it want them to be malleable followers.
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I'm bowdlerizing it-just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
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bowdlerized," but they still remained as excruciatingly funny as only French pieces can be.
The Days Before Yesterday
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I'm bowdlerizing it-just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
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Forget that the sense of it being a fable is bowdlerized by the fact that almost none of the character action is fully motivated.
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The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself.
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It's actually a slight bowdlerization of a Tony Robbins quote - not that I'm a huge Tony Robbins fan, but this one's pretty good.
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Garner, always the character, once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit" and that his decision to take it in the first place was "the worst damn fool mistake I ever made.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Extant endemics on Rakiura and its offshore islets include subspecies of southern robin (Petroica australis rakiura), weka (Gallirallus australis scotti), and fernbird (Bowdleria punctata stewartiana), as well as a leaf-veined slug, a Paryphanta spp., and the harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus nebulosis).
Rakiura Island temperate forests
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The more subversive, high-functional sufferers of this syndrome can be quite funny, at least in the context of repressed and bowdlerized bourgeois institutions, like junior high.
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‘The music is a bowdlerisation of Handel's coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest,’ she says, which we presume is a bad thing.
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He understood that at that theatre they did not bowdlerise.
The Silver Spoon
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Nobody tried to bowdlerise it to make it politically correct: we were taught to criticise the text as written for better or for worse.
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But critical taste slavers for "live certs" - transient celebrities, basically, whose final outline has still to be determined and further, who have the power to bowdlerise or censor any attempt on their lives.
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It was, however, subjected to some criticism and ridicule, and gave rise to the expression “bowdlerise,” always used in an opprobrious sense.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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You will have to be brave, the temptation to bowdlerise his life is strong.
Ephemera | Her Bad Mother
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Where Freud suffered from bowdlerization, or having fathered on to him all sorts of odd ideas, Jung has been neglected.
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I knew ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was usually bowdlerised so that at least the heroine survived but in the version in this book she ended up eaten.
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The only justification which can be advanced for such bowdlerisation is undeniable necessity, and this leads on to the third and last aspect of Harker's critique.
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Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier.
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The series aired on CBC in Canada and on HBO in America; a bowdlerised version appeared later on CBS, and 13 uncut editions found their way across the Atlantic to C4.
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How coincidental that the Tate imbroglio should have taken place barely more than a month after the brouhaha stirred by the Yale University Press's bowdlerization of Jytte Klausen's book, "The Cartoons That Shook The World," to be published in November, after having excised the now infamous Danish cartoons as well as Gustave Dore's illustration of Mohammed for Canto 28 of Dante's "Inferno.
Raymond J. Learsy: "Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?
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No, it wasn't ‘walk and chew gum’, it was ‘fart and chew gum’, as you well known; it was bowdlerised for popular consumption.
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Already the municipal council of Paris has undertaken to 'bowdlerise' the literature of the world in order to prevent the minds of the young from being perverted by coming into contact with the name of God.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
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As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas.
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After his death, he remained a key figure, both lionized and bowdlerized by the regime, with statues and shrines set up to celebrate him as a ‘champion of the Party’.
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Perhaps it was the bowdlerization that led to this usage, but even in the thirties some writers use the term "patriarchy" in a derogatory sense as the rule by male tyrants.
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
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I'm bowdlerizing it-just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
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It doesn't matter whether we bowdlerize the lyrics, the musical style has nothing familiar to them other than a major scale and it will not strike them as comfortable or familiar unless they are lapsed Luterans.
Contemporary Worship
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They take an idea, bowdlerize it, blow it up, make it infantile and spend $100 million to give people a brief escape from their boring and often demeaning lives at work.
What Would Fox’s Alan Moore-Approved ‘Watchmen’ Look Like?
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Collecting Children's Books has had a couple of interesting posts about books such as They Were Strong and Good and The Rooster Crows, which have been bowdlerized to reflect changing standards of "appropriateness" in regard to depictions of nonwhite characters.
Archive 2009-04-01
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As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Of course, many people are aware of Shakespeare's crudity (certainly Thomas Bowdler was, when he presented his expurgated version of Shakespeare's plays in the 19th century-hence the word bowdlerized).
The Dirt On Shakespeare
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In Glasgow's jewellers and souvenir shops you can hardly move for bowdlerisations and the palest of borrowings from the city's most famous son.
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I have been obliged to bowdlerise the exact words he used.
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The censorship requirements of 1973 network television further bowdlerized the material.
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The World Heritage area contains the largest populations of the following other uncommon or declining bird species: the forest race of New Zealand falcon; fernbird Bowdleria punctata and Fiordland crested penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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Already his work has weathered rejection by publishers, objection by printers, suppression by censors, confiscation by custom officials, bowdlerization by pirates, oversight by proofreaders, attack by critics, and defense by coteries -- not to mention misunderstanding by readers.
James Joyce
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Who is anyone to expurgate or bowdlerize the word of God?
Lionel: Obama in Cairo: The Immutable Sapience of the Good Book(s)
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I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point.
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And she says those who "bowdlerise" children's literature do have good intentions, but they are missing the cultural and historical point of nursery rhymes and fairytales.
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Thomas Bowdler was a famous expurgator
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It was Dawley journalist Mr Bowdler who, in February 1955, wrote an article published in a Birmingham newspaper which suggested that the vast swathes of derelict land in east Shropshire could be used for housing to accommodate the Birmingham "overspill" population.
Shropshire Star
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I bowdlerize the comment, which concluded with a request that I spare him further examples of local superstition, a subject with which he was only too well acquainted.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
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What I objected to was the bowdlerization of the biographical tradition.
Keeping sex out of scholarship
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Thinking to sink HMS Telegraph, the House of Commons this morning fired off an Exocet missile in the form of publishing its own thoroughly bowdlerized version of their expenses.
Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself
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The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850.
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The scholarly Arden footnotes both the sexual and nonsexual readings of the line, although its explanation of the latter — that she wants somebody else's beard on her chin — seems reminiscent of the puritanical bowdlerizing of editions past.
Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
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The Live 8 solution of 2005 was designed not to get us to send in our money to bowdlerise Mr. Geldof, but to raise awareness and educate the public.
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Jane, please, please never let them bowdlerize you.
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As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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However, their voices have been lost; that is, their idiom and phraseology were bowdlerized by pious editors like Hibbins
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bowdlerize a novel
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They were not published until 1813 and a full, though bowdlerized, edition waited until 1898.
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Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century.
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Spencer sees that modern astronomy's contempt for its mystically minded ancestor has required an acrobatic rewrite of history, in which the ideas of those of the past have been bowdlerised and suppressed.
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His actions did spawn the term "bowdlerize," which means to gut a work of literature.
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Bowdlerism, named after Dr Thomas Bowdler, has been around longer than Comstockery, named for Anthony Comstock.
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Englemann's work has quite clearly and unequivocally brought out the nature of Wittgenstein's well-known protestations against such a bowdlerization of his thoughts as that of Russell in his introductory essay to the Tractatus.
Wittgenstein's Strategy
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In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places.
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What the film does is very clever: it assumes that the poem that has come down to us is a bowdlerized propaganda version (which it assuredly is, having been through several scribal hands since its original composition) – and proceeds to tell us what really happened.
Film
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I'll confess I didn't realize how much his stuff got bowdlerized for the airwaves.
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Reuters spoke to Google, and the company responded in a statement that the enforced bowdlerization was indeed intentional:
Nexus One @%&#! Censors Voice-To-Text Messages - The Consumerist
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Perhaps punishing Lucifee isn't such a bad bowdlerization?
Why I hate my daughter's favorite movie.
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The version of the play that I saw had been dreadfully bowdlerized.
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As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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Ah, yes, the story of Beowulf's victories will live on forever ... until we bowdlerise it by excising one-third of those victories in a revisionist rewrite where we decide * not* to have him kill Grendel's Mother after all.
Archive 2007-11-01
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But none of this comes close to making up for what is a standard made-for-television biography eviscerated by massive, inexcusable bowdlerization.
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One wonders what other half-hidden catastrophes the draftsman might have included in nooks and crannies of the distant vistas, only to have them bowdlerized by his publisher.
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Is it that the artists really hate having their creative works bowdlerised and would resist signing contracts which would result in even wider distribution of the watered-down versions of their work?
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For this bowdlerization of the folk tradition -- deeply disrespectful to the people who created it, I may add -- Pete the tireless popularizer of fake folk music bears much of the blame.
Jesse Larner: Pete Seeger, "Folk Music" and the Left
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The words he spoke were gone forever, a memory only to those who heard them, never to fly back into his face after going viral on him, or bollocks-up his career prospects due to their nonconformity to the range of acceptable ideas, and he was well beyond the reach of Bowdler and the priss who Gribbenized Huckleberry Finn.
Eddie's Story
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Tristero doesn't appear to know what libertarianism is, having confused it with some kind of bowdlerized anarchism.
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