They expect incidents, and, finding none, they seek for pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
By its suggestion of horror it provoked that hunger for details which, in its acute stage, becomes pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
But this aspect was far more marked in neo-Kṛishṇaism, which often tends to intense pruriency, than in the other two cults. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference
Charity is the most mischievous sort of pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [Maxims for Revolutionists] Reference
It has nothing to recommend it to the pruriency of curious ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)] Reference
What lustfulness would surround them, what constant pruriency, what stealing!. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society] Reference
He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
He indulged in much pruriency of description, and occasional remarks savouring of infidelity. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
What a humbug is this sensualist, who masks his pruriency back of poetic and philosophical symbols. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
And he is safeguarded against a certain pruriency that comes from wrongly stimulated and vilely fed curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference
His bodily senses grow acute, even to barren and inhuman pruriency; while his mental become proportionally obtuse. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
He was resolved to attract notice at any price -- by putting on cap and bells, and by the pruriency which stains his best work. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
He had no claptrap, no great cause, none of the disease of pruriency which came into fashion with Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
So imperfect is still the education of the multitude that in these matters the ill-bred fanatic of pruriency usually gains his will. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society] Reference
Now I talk of sheets, I must tell you, my reason for writing to you on paper of this kind is my pruriency of writing to you at large. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Burns] Reference
Laïs, and Messalina, who live in history and in art because of their beauty and their pruriency, their loveliness and licentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
But a transition from long skirts to short tight ones, impeding movement, is the transition from prudery to pruriency and is by no means. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
There is a secrecy which adds a glamour of pleasurable naughtiness, leading straight to prudery and pruriency with all their consequences. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals] Reference
Although not a graduate, I had all the pruriency of a young neophyte, and felt very desirous of an occasion wherein my Esculapian acquirements. From Wordnik.com. [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference
And here it may be said that although there is a good deal of coarseness in the "Canterbury Tales," there is not the slightest tinge of pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
I have just now been interrupted by one of my new neighbours, who has made himself absolutely contemptible in my eyes, by his silly garrulous pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
It is the expression of our essential immorality -- using that word in its conventional sense -- having its roots deep down in pruriency, hypocrisy and ignorance. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906] Reference
It has reared an awful idol to which have been sacrificed the best of our youth; with hypocrisy the high-priest, ignorance the creed, and pruriency the detective. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906] Reference
The authors who knew they were lying sank almost as low as the nasty-nice purveyors of fake idealism and candied pruriency who fancied they were writing the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
So-called reforms in this direction are made the excuse for pruriency in drama, in novels, in moving pictures and in other ways that are distinctly vicious in their effect. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics in Service] Reference
F. ’s plays are full of wit and sparkle and, though often coarse, have not the malignant pruriency of some of his predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
Of neer abated pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [Inferno [Hell]. Canto XXIX] Reference
In a universal pruriency, – the thing. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
A blind loquacious pruriency of indiscriminate. From Wordnik.com. [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference
Of ne'er abated pruriency. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
A zest for pruriency worthy of Bayle or Brantome. From Wordnik.com. [Gibbon] Reference
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