These plays, designed to combat licentious carnival entertainments, were spoken but had some music. |
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It also contains a number of quibbles or jeux de mots, and a still greater number of facetiae, idle and licentious stories. |
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He censures the licentious behavior which the picaro's freedom implies and from which the hero could abstain through his free will. |
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All the accused men were well known for their licentious behaviour and for this reason possibly became easy targets for incrimination. |
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This process is naturally the opposite of that employed by the forgetful Don Juan, the master figure of our sexually licentious age. |
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Brutal, licentious, violent and debauched as it was, however, ancient Rome is relevant still. |
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That does not mean there should be no sanction for misbehaviour or licentious behaviour. |
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Track down that effeminate foreigner who plagues our women with this new disease, and fouls the whole land with licentious lechery. |
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However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew. |
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The vaguely licentious reputation of cinema also keeps women away, since they must be careful to keep their own reputations unsullied. |
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With a troubled face, Flora, goddess of Spring and licentious revels, stealthily hands the flowers on to Venus. |
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The extravagant lifestyle and licentious ways of some of them became the subject matter of book and films. |
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They fell upon the king's soldiers because of the licentious conduct they had been allowed under Herod's government. |
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Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious. |
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It is a party rhythm, and it can even be said that sometimes this rhythm is rather licentious or even debauched. |
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For the Victorians, the dame represented a rare opportunity to manhandle a lady on stage, for comic and licentious effect. |
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Citizens believed that these swarthy people, with their thieving transactions and licentious sexuality, had no morals. |
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He also accuses Isabel of repeatedly trying to seduce him, although he supposedly refused to succumb to her licentious ways. |
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The example of harmonious and industrious living set by the missionaries was continually undermined by the licentious behaviour of visiting European traders. |
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World famous, he is also a great womanizer, acknowledged as such by his colleagues, wife, and friends who themselves enjoy an entertainingly licentious social and sexual life. |
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And they are very far from any thought that their licentious groupings would provide an avenue for the emergence of a patriarch with a retinue of teen-wives. |
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He passes the time by visiting bathhouses, where he writhes in licentious congress soapy enough to lave his sins and conceal the nether regions forbade by Japanese censorship. |
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I myself visited a striptease establishment in the early 1970s and found the experience detumescent and soporific rather than conducive to licentious behaviour. |
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But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. |
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He used the stock characters of traditional Italian comedy, but cleaned up their characteristic ridiculous licentious behaviour in an attempt to introduce a higher moral tone. |
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Each one of them had enforced onto the state her violent and licentious character, her love stories, whims and cruelty. |
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Children cannot be exploited in the production of licentious materials and in immoral transactions, such as prostitution. |
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Dramatically, the ballet fuses the plot's political intrigue with the characters' comic licentious adventures. |
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Lurid and licentious, lit only by gaslight, the city encompasses art both elevated and abused, pomp and excess, poverty and hardship. |
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The Abbesses district, an authentic popular spot, gets more and more trendy while Pigalle tends to be less licentious. |
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The Miaos were considered by the missionaries as immoral, licentious and drunks because they cultivated opium. |
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For this man, whose licentious morals had him imprisoned many times, luxury rhymes with literature. |
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Our heroine falls in an abuse of licentious power that will enable her to punish her fans. |
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What we know is that between 1656 and 1676, as a result of the construction of two very popular and successful theatres, a licentious way of life spread all over St. Samuel parish, and soon infected the palace. |
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He shows that the former led far more interesting and no less licentious lives than the latter, and had infinitely more power and influence in politics and culture. |
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So closely was the idea of female independence linked with licentious conduct, that nothing less than cast-iron respectability in the author would have made it palatable. Wollstonecraft did not qualify. |
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Contrary to expectations, perhaps, the title of this recording does not refer to the famous 1960 Fellini film about the licentious nights of a cultivated and refined playboy who cannot seem to overcome his boredom. |
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In the midst of Charles's debauched and licentious court, she lived neglected and retired. |
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The Government must make every effort to clean up the media and encourage the Board of Censors to plays its role in censoring obscene and degrading images of women, and licentious commercials and songs. |
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In the market fair on the feast of St. Mark, these acrobats entertained the young people of the place with songs and dances that were judged to be licentious. |
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They longed for the gorgeous, licentious place their memories turned into paradise. The fact is that in the 18th century and today, Venice would win the title of bronchitis capital of the world if such a contest existed. |
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It prohibits licentious and violent publications that target minors. |
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However, the word was coined by the Roundheads as a pejorative propaganda image of a licentious, hard drinking and frivolous man, who rarely, if ever, thought of God. |
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