Raunchiness
"Raunchiness" in a Sentence (4 examples)
But in none of these did he [Murray Schisgal] descend to the vulgarity and witlessness of his new double bill, Twice Around the Park, a television comedy with added raunchiness that would not be permitted on TV.
Not unexpectedly, we find here a satire not merely of what Eryximakhos says, but of the whole Empedoklean mask that he wears, a satire in which some of the references […] are rather pointed, and much of the humor of which depends upon a certain phallic raunchiness characteristic of Aristophanic comedy.
During the summer of 1897 to 1898, he [Norman Lindsay] placed classical Greek and European figures in the landscape of Charterisville near Heidelberg outside Melbourne, and did line and wash drawings for [Giovanni] Boccaccio's Decameron, for whose raunchiness any young bohemian had to be an enthusiast.
For all the raunchiness of his product, [Hugh] Hefner remained an unusually complex figure. His Playboy Clubs were open to all races – unheard of at the time, the Sixties – and in 1964, he launched the Playboy Foundation to fight censorship.
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