Book-club bowdlerization is despicable. From Wordnik.com. [Presto, change-o] Reference
Perhaps punishing Lucifee isn't such a bad bowdlerization?. From Wordnik.com. [Why I hate my daughter's favorite movie.] Reference
What I objected to was the bowdlerization of the biographical tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping sex out of scholarship] Reference
Reuters spoke to Google, and the company responded in a statement that the enforced bowdlerization was indeed intentional. From Wordnik.com. [Nexus One @%! Censors Voice-To-Text Messages - The Consumerist] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. ["One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wittgenstein's Strategy] Reference
But bowdlerization or no bowdlerization, the show still has a lot of charm. From Wordnik.com. [Columbia Daily Spectator] Reference
On a merely stylistic level, you can see the effects of the bowdlerization. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is IOZ?] Reference
In Barrett, then, in 1883 we can see the beginnings of that painful bowdlerization of hymns that still continues. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
Additionally, Morris and Burne-Jones disapproved of Tennyson's bowdlerization of Le Morte d'Arthur, for which Tennyson never forgave them. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The amendment of the communiqué by the Herald Editor amounts to bowdlerization and has the effect of subjecting the media to the dictates of the "powerful". From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
Vanneman comes this tale of the bowdlerization of a cartoon version of a classic novel that is apparently every bit as naughty as it is generally unreadable. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
Another consequence comes from the bowdlerization of Paganism in the name of maintaining a friendly public face: the watering down of the Pagan religious experience. From Wordnik.com. [Witchvox - RSS Feed - New Articles This Week] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Mel and Norma Gabler (from Texas, surprise!) had been successfully lobbying for bowdlerization and revisionism in school textbooks in Texas, California, and by economic proxy, the rest of the country for decades. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
(To your comment "I thought the Loebs were franker than that," I have noticed that the earlier imprints, which are slowly being replaced by newer ones, are a bit more squeamish than the newer; the edition of Catullus, for example, was thoroughly revised by G.P. Goold in 1988, in part to reverse extensive bowdlerization of both Latin and English texts in the 1913 Loeb.). From Wordnik.com. [National Review Online] Reference
A lot of people, reading this, assume that it’s a bowdlerization and “correct” it to the more obscene version. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Sturgeon’s Law] Reference
Sorry I don’t sell well team – must be the way I learned to abjure bowdlerization by seeing vested interests polluting a pristine environment. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
One can only hope that the bowdlerization of the Summary with respect to the WG1 contents will be so egregious that even a going-with-the-flow reporter will see it when it’s exposed. From Wordnik.com. [Fixing the Facts to the Policy « Climate Audit] Reference
Ban disinformative censored-to-meet-Texass-bowdlerization-requirements textbooks. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 136] Reference
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