How To Use prudery In A Sentence
- A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
- Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
- Necessity made us philosophers, and we were obliged to show as much sangfroid on the subject as himself; for it was impossible to turn away without our prudery's exciting more attention than would have been pleasant.
- It is formed from the term race, which prudery permits, and it expresses once and for all that for which the instinct exists -- not the individual at all, but the race which is to come after him. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
- The "Leda" of Leonardo, repainted from motives of prudery by the great-grandfather of Louis-Philippe, was bought at the sale of that ex-king's pictures in Paris, in 1849, for thirty dollars, restored to its primitive condition, and sold, we are informed, for one hundred thousand francs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
- Victorian prudery did the rest, followed in quick succession by an unhealthy determination to class sexual congress as obscene and therefore not to be discussed, far less celebrated.
- It is also where the prudery of a later time has obviously crept in; the sculptures all seem lack-lustre and no sexual connotations are to be found here.
- Isn't it just the continued impact of the liberal revolution of the 1960s which liberated us from the vestiges of Victorian prudery?
- Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
- I grew up in those supposedly halcyon days before World War II, and what I mainly remember was the repressive prudery in all matters sexual.
