| Here come the tumbrils, inching their way slowly through the rotting cabbages and vulgar ribaldry of Republican isolationists. |
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| But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy. |
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| To encapsulate his humanitarianism in this immensely accessible ribaldry is a triumph of serious intention within comic means. |
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| O'Riordan is credited with introducing a certain ribaldry to the notoriously humourless world of women's magazines. |
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| So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry. |
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| While Faust and Mephisto partook of wild ribaldry and pleasurably summoned up wicked spirits with their sorcery, Gretchen was suffering scorn, ridicule, and imprisonment. |
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| He is between Mirbeau's polemical violence, the ribaldry of the Italian comedy and Elizabethan laughter. |
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| The drunkenness, heated arguments and ribaldry of The County Election return in The Verdict of the People, which focuses on the counting of votes. |
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| There were other, less exalted grades, with less exalted duties and the license probably to engage in satire and ribaldry. |
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| The program, which was a send-up of panel shows, was noted for its word play, ribaldry, and plain silliness. |
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| In ancient Greece, the singing of such songs was a traditional way of invoking good fortune on the marriage and often of indulging in ribaldry. |
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| In the adopted city of the bawdy pun master Pietro Aretino, one of Sansovino's close friends, such ribaldry, even in so august a location, should come as no surprise. |
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| The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the film-making craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack. |
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| Nudity and ribaldry have been a staple of Las Vegas entertainment since Siegel's day, the bosomy chorus girls parading behind the comics and crooners. |
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| In describing thei weaknesses, he would often indulge in a ribaldry that was not acceptable in works of literatur penned for the salons of the bourgeoisie. |
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| The general's soldiers marched last, singing whatever they liked, which included ribaldry and scandal against their commander, probably as a way to avert the evil eye from him. |
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| As it was, fought on front and flank, with the thunders of the Church, and the ribaldry of malicious tongues to scatter their venomed darts abroad, Parnell was a doomed man. |
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| His jargon of slang was a continuous joy and surprise to them. His gestures, his strange poses, his frank ribaldry of tongue and principle fascinated them. |
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