| But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair. |
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| I have any number of fairly prurient interests, among them, a penchant for gossip columns. |
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| Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence. |
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| It's a film that focuses on ethics, be they pure or prurient, and how criminals and hoods can still require a sense of justice and fair play. |
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| Even the sexual aspects of the story seem more integral to the whole and are not adventitiously added for a prurient effect. |
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| People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism, so why should we blame the programme makers for that? |
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| The febrile excitement of the story is sustained by the use of rapid action, exotic locales, and exaggerated passions, often cruel or prurient. |
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| The squeamish may feel their pulses flutter at times, but the geeky, the prurient, and the gothic will find much to savor. |
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| In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect. |
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| In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers. |
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| And if so, are the male viewer's prurient cravings exposed or validated by the esthetic delectability of such images? |
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| But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media. |
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| Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane. |
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| The film, however, while presenting itself as a compassionate treatment, exploits for dramatic purposes the prurient interests of the audience. |
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| The influence of Oliver Stone, our granddaddy of prurient interest in political violence, hung thick in the air. |
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| These type of programmes are cheap puerile, prurient and sadly popular. |
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| There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership. |
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| Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen. |
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| At its centre are dozens of lickerish TV executives, scores of fruity allegations and one very prurient journalist. |
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| At this, Lost in Showbiz confesses, it felt a certain prickle of prurient anticipation. |
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| ReprintsIn Italy, things have become even tougher for the prying or prurient. |
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| Of great concern to naturists is being secretly or deviously observed by a person or persons with prurient intent. |
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| They indulge through their imitation into wild imagination and prurient curiosity. |
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| Among other things, unfettered and unfiltered online access rewards prurient interest. |
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| As IFJ points out, serious political and social debate is eclipsed by tasteless voyeurism and prurient entertainment. |
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| The purpose of the publication ought not to be gossipy, prurient or gratuitously offensive. |
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| As to the latter point, the public's interest must be serious, not merely prurient. |
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| The only interest served by the Guardians of Peace is our prurient interest. |
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| So far no Republican congressman has been foolish enough to cast himself as the Ken Starr figure, prude, proud and prurient. |
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| He had this idea that he was in the wrong body and wanted to become a woman, and these issues are not just prurient. |
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| It remains unclear whether the interest is altruistic or self-aggrandizing, humane or prurient, psychopathic or admirable. |
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| Perhaps this is one reason, beyond the prurient, that people are fascinated. |
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| And Monica Lewinsky, now 41, is once again the object of prurient curiosity. |
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| This writer, in his repellent movies and plays, has consistently exhibited not mature insight into the nature of evil but a prurient burrowing into gleefully accumulated muck. |
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| Badly translated and adapted French operettas and poorly written, prurient Victorian burlesques dominated the London stage. |
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| It must be removed at once, lest it disturb the young and arouse in adults the most prurient thoughts. |
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| Comstock in a career that didn't end until his death in 1915 claimed he'd destroyed 160 tons of obscene literature and arrested some 3,600 purveyors of prurient material. |
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| This is just again a transparent effort to ask prurient questions about people's personal and private lives which members of the opposition find quite interesting. |
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| He has titles enough to greatness, without borrowing plumes from the gratuitous bedeckings of prurient writers. |
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| No longer trying to figure out, as we've all had to recently, what's prurient, what's necessary, what bears witness to horror but doesn't somehow revere the brutality. |
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| In addition to this impressive resume, Vasquez soon discovers that her attractive physique will give her a significant advantage when dealing with some of the Salemites' more prurient abominations. |
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| Those who are prudish have prurient thoughts. |
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| Does this kind of prurient interest irritate him? |
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| For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze. |
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| But in contemporary consumerist societies, when the kids are safely in bed, television programs allow viewers to indulge their more prurient interests. |
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| Henry and his new wife did not conceive any children, generating prurient speculation as to the possible explanation, and the future of the dynasty appeared at risk. |
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