How To Use Prudish In A Sentence
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I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
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What likewise astonishes is how Victorian, prudish, and ultra-conservative in thought most of us really are despite the claim to modernity and non-traditionalism.
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This persecution heralds the rise of the hate-mongering wolf dressed up in the sheep's skin of sexual prudishness.
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He points to the UK where, despite a generally prudish approach, underage pregnancies are rife.
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I don't consider myself prudish but I do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.
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It's not that Paul swears a lot or that I'm prudish about bad language, it's just a surprise to see his glossy showman veneer crack a little.
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Mr S was very prudish and old-fashioned in thinking he could shield his children from his playboy reputation.
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The most savoury of the paintings (if I can use that word without coming across as prudish) are a series of nudes done from life in South Africa.
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Two decades after government-imposed prudishness ended with the Soviet collapse, Russians still shy away from embracing European-style sexual mores.
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He was religious and prudish, which is one of the main reasons why the novels of his era do not feature any sex.
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Robespierre, a narrow, prudish, jealous, puritanical but able lawyer from Arras, with journalists like Desmoulins and Loustallot, inveighed against what they described as iniquitous class legislation that would have excluded from the councils of the French nation Jean
The French Revolution A Short History
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But the family had never been prudish about nudity, Danny, a nurse, explained.
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Much of America adopts a prudish attitude to betting.
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They see him in one role only: the stern disciplinarian driven by an unshakable belief that God and he are as one, a man so prudish he can't tolerate unclothed statuary.
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She is up against poverty of imagination, prudishness, bigotry and ladies locked into pain.
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she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste
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The prudishness was still present in some of the Victorian bathing costumes, but the mood was light-hearted in the mineral pools and blasting wall.
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Ben "feels compelled" to follow through with the porning, apparently because he needs to prove (somewhat predictably) that his marriage is different, and not the steel cage Andrew makes it out to be; Andrew is anxious to acquire evidence that his lifelong rebellion against squaresville hasn't been a big joke, especially after an abortive tryst points up his own sexual prudishness.
SpoutBlog
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The film is perfunctory, even prudish, in its depiction of sex and refuses to acknowledge Aids.
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Anyhow, this post is all about farting, so if you have problems with that and are a bit prudish, then probably you might not want to read any further.
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Rational Review
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Her bitter sense of humour and prudishness masks her loneliness, anger and sense of displacement.
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And, most definitely, there is the looking glass trained on an era always described as prudish and restrained -- a welcome revelation that Victorian values may have plagued society at large, but couldn't entirely penetrate life behind closed doors. the controversy Kinsey's work is plagued with.
Cinematical
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She defended it in terms so robust as to seem to her prudish contemporaries as boasting of promiscuity.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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She might be a prurient woman of lustfulness, or she may be a prudish, puritanical girl.
Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
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Two decades after government-imposed prudishness ended with the Soviet collapse, Russians still shy away from embracing European-style sexual mores.
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But only the most prudish will have been shocked by the news that Huntington Working Men's Club has finally allowed women into its games room.
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With that prudish attitude, I wonder if his wife has any fun?
The Sun
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We just knew you prudish rubes would be upset and it would sell papers (which is, after all, the point of this business)!
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American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish.
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Parents tend to a have a prudish, Victorian hangover about sex education in this country - it's pathetic.
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My guess is that quite a few parents who don't particularly care about sex in the papers on their own account suddenly develop prudish tendencies when their child reads about it.
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(I put the perverse in quotations because I fear to be called prudish by Freudians.)
The Foundations of Personality
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The question for Lovelace, in Clarissa, is whether female virtue is more than prudishness: ‘whether her frost be frost indeed’.
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Kits were designed to cover every inch of visible flesh but they survived long after such heavily mannered prudishness had deceased.
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What a scene: the great and prudish orator bent over the hand of the most titled trollop in Rome!
CONSPIRATA
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The company hints that there could be more such products and we can expect their promotion to be a little less prudish.
Times, Sunday Times
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a shopkeeper in the same village -- his Gloriana a certain prudish old maiden lady, benempt Miss Goldie; I think I see her still, with her thin arms sheathed in scarlet gloves, and crossed like two lobsters in
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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In their boasts, dissidents are lady-killers; in their writings, they are squeamish, priggish, and prudish.
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I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
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In 1948, Professor Alfred C. Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, dropping a proverbial bomb of sexual information on a largely misinformed and prudish culture.
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Bernarda had arrived in Barcelona shortly after the war, fleeing from poverty and from a father who on a good day would beat her up and tell her she was stupid, ugly, and a slut, and on a bad one would corner her in the pigsty, drunk, and fondle her until she sobbed with terror - at which point he'd let her go, calling her prudish and stuck up, like her mother.
The Shadow of the Wind
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But the torrent of sex content never feels gratuitous, partly thanks to the actors' uninhibited performances: they indulge themselves so unselfconsciously that we're loath to turn prudish.
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Americans retain a strong prudish streak.
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But in the prudish 1840s, women were expected to know their place - and it did not involve depicting headstrong, passionate women who became enamoured with married men.
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WITH their prim clothes and strict moral code, the Victorians have always seemed a prudish lot.
The Sun
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Rational Review
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It's not that they are at all prudish or old fashioned, or even disapproving of my having a sexually active lifestyle; the opposite in fact.
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It is not about being prudish, or easily embarrassed, or unliberated.
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I don't consider myself prudish but I do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.
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Number one in the list is the Cornish hamlet of Cocks, which has resisted attempts by a prudish local authority to respell it Cox.
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And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness.
The Brimming Cup
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Well, the Elizabethans wore voluminous clothing, and an item or two less should not offend even the most prudish, we suppose.
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The virginal Mina (Cindy Marie Small) is no shrinking violent and is understandably exasperated by the Victorian prudishness of fiancé Jonathan Harker.
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These strict and prudish ideals were those of the austere Hejaz merchants.
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American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish.
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He was religious and prudish, which is one of the main reasons why the novels of his era do not feature any sex.
The problem of length -- part 1
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The Victorian age was supposed to have been temperate, prudish, serious and industrious, rather like the good Queen herself.
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Another thing that worries me is how prudish people are about nudity, and sex.
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The exuberant decadence of such pictures aroused, in the most famously prudish of English art historians, something akin to a sexual terror, so that even when looking at Bronzino's religious altarpieces he saw nothing but bodies orgiastically intertwined in a carnal hell.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Our great-grandparents were rather less prudish than we might imagine.
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We thought he was a bit of a playboy; actually, he was quite prudish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nay, even the tipsy crew at Bacchus's affected to treat her name with scorn: -- "The girl had made much noise about being called a trull, as if many a better than she wasn't one; and, after all, what was the prudish wench?
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Those of us who live in the wonderful world of the twenty-first century are inclined to forget, even if we were alive then, just how prudish and tight-arsed the English were in the 1950s.
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'decencies' that swaddle it, or that we best reverence such sacred object by a prurient prudish conspiracy of silence concerning it?
Prose Fancies
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a tenth part of the popularity of his more "scabrous" things, though itself is very far from prudish, and though it makes no appearance in some lists and collections of his work.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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His hero was promptly rechristened Rodolfo, and Cammarano also argued, to Verdi's annoyance, that the prudish Neapolitan audience would never accept a prince's mistress on stage.
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Those of us who live in the wonderful world of the twenty-first century are inclined to forget, even if we were alive then, just how prudish and tight-arsed the English were in the 1950s.
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This prudishness is no doubt a result of my mother's insistence on trotting me out of the house with my vest tucked into my pants on a daily basis until I was about 12 years old.
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Hilarious Ad About Dirty, Dirty Money (kinda NSFW) (WARNING: Not meant for kids, or for adult viewing while in prudish work environments).
Boing Boing
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Purists were quick to counter-attack accusations that the legislation threatened individual liberty and encouraged prudish self-satisfaction.
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I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
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The prudish and squeamish might want to look away now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sex is a part of life and I felt we were being a bit prudish not showing any.
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The book chronicles her sexual encounters with the various men who replied and, despite my initial, rather prudish shock, I found myself saluting her courage.
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But in the prudish 1840s, women were expected to know their place - and it did not involve depicting headstrong, passionate women who became enamoured with married men.
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Older people will have grown up in a time of greater sexual prudishness.
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BLOOM: Yes, he is called prudish for considering it a crime for a 43 - year-old man to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.
CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2009
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Rational Review
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The Euripides story tells of a young and prudish king who tries to stop a vengeful God and his band of tutu-clad Bacchae from corrupting the women of his kingdom - including his own mother, Agave.
