bawdry

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Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven.

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It's movie analysis with a serrated edge; film criticism as stand-up bawdry; intellectual improvisation that soars into the highest form of word jazz.

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Psychoanalysis, sociology, literary history, bawdry, biology, whatnot, all chip in to make Auden's poems: Rummaging into his living, the poet fetches The images out that hurt and connect.

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The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted.

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Thus, Brooks lumps 1601 with Mark Twain's "bawdry," and interprets it simply as another indication of frustration.

From 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Twain, Mark