This season, in First Person, an 11-part series of half-hour odd dioramas airing on the Bravo channel through May 10, Morris brings his contemplative
prurience and distant immediacy to television, the happy home of
prurience and immediacy.
No one is in fact likely to find The Spectator to be an indecent, or even indecorous, publication, but there is at least one occasion when Addison takes an excursion not so much into the robust as into something more like
prurience.
There is no evidence here, as opposed (for example) to the experience of a number of Zola's aristocratic heroines, of a
prurience afflicting 'respectable' women.
As for those like Archer who thought of the play as a great moral drama, they were linked in the local press as "lovers of
prurience" and "muck-ferreting dogs," a graphic way of saying pshaw to Shaw, among others.
With bureaucratic
prurience, the Pentagon outlines homosexual "activities" that will be proscribed.
It is the culture of secrecy, and the particularly British culture of
prurience, that gives such rumors their potency."
For the youths who are its main target, it has been difficult fathoming the edifying values that the show has successfully added to their collective essence aside from the yearly scandalous, lewd
prurience. Its dragnet for the youths cannot be discountenanced.
In their hands,
prurience gives way to genuine pathos.
The result is writing marked by 'its
prurience, its pedantry, the wild swings between (or unknowing co-existence of) fawning adulation and false refusal-to-be-impressed' and a determination to say nothing 'about the structure and substance of the work Picasso devoted his life to'.
ANOTHER pointer to
prurience comes from geriatric capital Eastbourne.
As part of his final whittling down process, Zak - with a touch of
prurience and cruelty - insists that the would-be chorus members talk about their lives and their reasons for entering show business.
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