It is mildly repulsive in its crude vulgarity, but strangely and inexplicably alluring. |
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Over the years he built a pagoda to polite English society as it faded in the glare of post-war vulgarity. |
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And god knows I prefer honest vulgarity to polite denial of uncomfortable truths. |
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Fortunately, the potential for vulgarity is dissipated by Halo's reputation for quality. |
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Why no mention of Monty Modlin, whose honest vulgarity marked a sea-change in British broadcasting? |
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The public will goggle at the kitsch vulgarity of diamond-encrusted eggs and crystal flowers. |
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The sheer vulgarity of the presidential jet and the extravagance it represents is disconcerting. |
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You can expect the same vulgarity and crassness you have come to love from these fine upstanding pillars of society. |
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He's honest about his own vulgarity as much as he is about his vulnerability. |
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A term applied to art or artefacts characterized by vulgarity, sentimentality, and pretentious bad taste. |
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Is anyone really interested in the vanity and vulgarity of a couple who make their living by playing up to the media? |
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He was suspended for one game by the NBA on Tuesday for yelling a sexual vulgarity at a female fan during a game. |
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You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity. |
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She laughs, radiant in her self-satisfaction, shielded by a hard hide and chutzpa from charges of vulgarity, greed or egomania. |
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This wasn't just a case of a few New York highbrows flaunting their refinement in reproach of Hollywood vulgarity. |
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Films oscillate between sensuality and vulgarity, between suggestive sexuality and indecent exposure. |
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Despite the vulgarity and unavoidable use of the Hokkien vernacular, he is actually compellingly funny. |
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Yet he couldn't pardon her vulgarity, and corrected the grammatical errors she made while she egged him on in bed. |
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Vietnamese also honor reserve and modesty, attributing loudness and brashness to immaturity and vulgarity. |
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What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all. |
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Pletnev's new version does much to tame the score's incipient vulgarity without compromising its more grotesque elements. |
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On each occasion, they got themselves lots of ink and airtime and contributed nothing but oversize vulgarity to the scene they sought to obscure. |
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Wilson managed to get his frippet to Lahore on a plane provided by Zia, who laughed at the vulgarity of his antics. |
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This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses. |
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Her grandmother, Madame Duval from Paris, shows up and is a marvel of bawdy vulgarity. |
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Profanity, vulgarity, bad language and all such other improprieties of speech were things that just might cause him to all but faint. |
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All too often, what would have formerly passed for simple rudeness or vulgarity is now labelled something much more menacing. |
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She is hopelessly naive about the vulgarity of American life outside her tiny, backwoods hamlet of Sparta, North Carolina. |
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I'm not sure that eschewing the incipient vulgarity of the two marches by Wagner is entirely a good thing, though! |
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The pointless violence and vulgarity, however, that ends his stories smacks of an author thrashing around for an ending. |
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They had money, status and liberal political ideas, and a vulgarity to match their sense of self-importance. |
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We miss its toe-curling political incorrectness, its shabby vulgarity, its embarrassed actors, and its toilet-roll scripts. |
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At times, her attacks were directed straightforwardly against the vulgarity of the middle ranks. |
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If sham and pretence disqualified enlisted personnel, vulgarity, low intellect and radical politics would do the same for officers. |
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The shrillness of our ideological debates, the emotional shallowness, the vulgarity of our culture, would have appalled him. |
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You also hear some blowsiness, a touch of vulgarity, an overindulgence of her baritonal chest register. |
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Like the great music-hall turn, they combine vulgarity and wit, musicality and buffoonery. |
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In doing so, Blatherwick has made you aware of the strange beauty and vulgarity of otherwise unnoticeable, routine human impulses. |
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His philosophy is to make elegant, clean, unoaked wines that, in his words, do not slip into vulgarity. |
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Explicitness and vulgarity are both different subsets of honesty, both very necessary. |
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I can see vulgarity and ugliness anywhere I want to look, and I can see it for free. |
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With color, vulgarity, and brilliance, Thompson makes it clear how and why he unabashedly supports McGovern over Nixon. |
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Clearly, nothing distresses the sensitive Mr Jenkins more than vulgarity. |
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You pick up hints of Benny Hill and Frankie Howard, with the unashamed innuendo that takes you to the brink of vulgarity but never drops over the edge. |
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The tone is set by banter and laddishness, in which crudeness and vulgarity often tends to be a substitute for real wit rather than an organic component of it. |
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Anywhere and any time a vulgarity or offensive expression is used in lieu of expressing an idea, there is usually a better way to make the point using non-offensive words. |
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Wilde deplored American commercialism and vulgarity, but he admired American simplicity and decency. |
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The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down. |
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Of course, when an entire throng is trying to rise above itself, an epidemic of free-form vulgarity and solipsism ensues. |
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The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds. |
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In 1948 he and a group of friends from his rarefied social circle started Mad River Glen about 25 miles away, vowing to preserve their creation from all taint of vulgarity. |
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They tend to resort to non-argument methods like non-validated dismissiveness, arrogance, viciousness, dogpiling, lies, contempt, mockery, vulgarity. |
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Yesterday the five-member commission unanimously declared that, fleeting or not, and in whatever context, the word was a vulgarity and as a result a violation. |
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The piano was transformed from gentle intimacy to huge, brash vulgarity. |
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In an age of crassness, vulgarity and self-indulgence, she has continued to be an icon of what we once were and of what we might yet become again. |
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Conservatives also maintained that the level of vulgarity and obscenity in popular culture was being driven upward primarily by the media conglomerates. |
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Poetry and history trump vulgarity and conspicuous consumption. |
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All through we have orchestration of infinite delicacy, tunes of alarming simplicity, but never a tinge of vulgarity. |
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Sometimes I wonder if I actually believe in vulgarity, as a concept. |
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Where do you see the line between explicitness and vulgarity? |
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He loved New York but felt the city was threatened by commercialism and vulgarity, and he no longer felt at home there. |
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It was all very good-humoured and traditional, relatively tasteful and undrunken, with less rowdy vulgarity than you often find at such an event in Britain. |
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Hall Pass is a potty-mouthed battle of the sexes that takes an off-kilter premise as the starting point for 101 minutes of half-hearted soul-searching and vulgarity. |
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