| In the 1960s and 1970s bad language and obscenity began to make its presence felt on the stage and television. |
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| Morality is one of those things, like obscenity, that arbiters have had a hard time defining. |
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| I've looked at the extradition treaty and there's no extradition for obscenity. |
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| Officials are reviewing several complaints regarding obscenity and lawmakers are moving quickly to provide regulators with even more ammunition. |
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| Because the Court has ruled that obscenity is not protected speech, the FCC may ban it entirely. |
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| She then explains that she thinks that's a dirty word because obscenity is all in the mind and that word just doesn't sit right with her. |
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| Define, if you must, what you mean by obscenity and come up with a 21st century version of blasphemy. |
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| The line between what constitutes art or something of literary merit and obscenity or blasphemy is a fine one. |
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| An example of why has come up on this post, where a disagreement between two posters degenerated into crude obscenity. |
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| Mirreen, in a statement issued to press, regretted that obscenity and immoral activities are on the rise. |
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| Since 1927, the United States government has regulated against indecent language, obscenity, and indecency. |
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| I drink coffee once a day and I'm obsessed with fair-traded products because I know the obscenity around the coffee industry. |
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| Charged with obscenity, the 60-year-old professor not only fearfully complied with the cops but immediately finked on two friends. |
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| Check your local obscenity ordinances before you do this one or you could land up in the pokey. |
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| The few restrictions allowed concern such matters as obscenity, libel, national security, and the sometimes conflicting right to a fair trial. |
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| Three non-glamorous examples are spam catching, obscenity blocking, and terrorist interception. |
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| For this they were hauled up in a New York court on either obscenity or public decency charges. |
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| Just at obscenity, the same place where the line is drawn with regard to sales for private viewing? |
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| Bruce Lehman echoed Justice Potter Stewart's famous definition of obscenity when asked what he thought would constitute a chimeric human. |
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| Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism. |
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| Knowing that the book is devoted to obscenity, the viewer strives to make these recalcitrant shapes congeal into something naughty. |
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| A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity. |
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| This thing is worth a huge amount to the city of Edinburgh and it would be an obscenity, an act of barbarism, if there was any threat. |
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| Your comment underscores for me why I think a movie using special effects would be an obscenity. |
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| The obscenity of surrendering state education to corporate benefactors reeks of Victorian attitudes to the poor. |
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| Under that logic, the entire concept of obscenity has become abrogated and essentially null and void. |
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| Undoubtedly, English law was imprecise on the matter of obscenity, and the jurist might well have found this irritating. |
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| Anti-gambling activists argue that economic gains are overstated and legalization would cause obscenity, violence, and other social problems. |
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| Among these are obscenity, defamation, fighting words, express incitement to unlawful conduct, and threats. |
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| It would be the greatest obscenity to do this work, discover the products and then find that those who need them cannot use them. |
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| Bertrand Russell denounced the obscenity of deliberately humiliating a nation, of making people crazy so that a straitjacket would be needed. |
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| One trucker did shout an obscenity, and a musclebound mechanic told them to go and do something useful like study. |
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| Some Yiddish scholars said this was a serious penis-based obscenity, and not, as Mr D'Amato claimed, the innocent twin of schmuck. |
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| Zine editors, we are told, feel they are immune to the restrictions of copyright, libel and obscenity laws, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and pagination. |
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| The workers were also charged with at least four other counts of obscenity related to safer-sex educational materials found on their premises. |
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| They are up to speed in this enlightened world in praising the dramatisation of the sub culture with the abundance of obscenity and foul language. |
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| I have deleted the post involving obscenity and banned the poster from commenting, although they told me that they would not be returning to the site in any event. |
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| Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks. |
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| Tendentious jokes are a way of bypassing the barriers against the direct expression of both obscenity and aggression which civilization has set up. |
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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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| His novels enjoyed a brief popular revival after the obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960, but most of them have fallen off the literary map. |
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| Abuse cannot be condoned, but cricket authorities can sometimes be accused of oversensitiveness about the odd obscenity muttered in the heat of the moment. |
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| Some might say there is also an obscenity to it, given the amount of poverty in the world. |
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| We hastily examined the despatched message to check that an obscenity or profanity had not somehow slipped in, or that a word could have been misinterpreted. |
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| The colonies absorbed and put into legislative form the common law test of obscenity under which material having a tendency to deprave and corrupt was suppressed. |
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| The Net can sometimes seem like a monstrous fountain of obscenity, hate and lies, the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration. |
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| She claims she suffered serious harm, apparently from viewing the halftime show, but the complaint is cast in language of protecting children from obscenity. |
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| And, besides all this we do need a language to deal with obscenity. |
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| The account of English obscenity laws in the book is wildly inaccurate. |
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| They are up to speed in this enlightened world in praising the dramatisation of the sub-culture with the abundance of obscenity and foul language. |
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| He actually tried to persuade policemen to bring a prosecution against Sir Stanley Spencer, a fellow academician, under Britain's obscenity laws. |
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| However tacky, this was hardly the flagrant public obscenity Cohen alleges. |
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| Anything that mitigates the obscenity of so rich a country leaving so many people without coverage will be a change for the better. |
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| I fidget with my cap using it to shield myself from obscenity and continue walking. |
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| Plausible arguments are brought forth by those who approve the use of obscenity and verbal titillation. |
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| To the extent that the question is one of taste rather than obscenity or profanity, the CBSC will not interfere with the broadcaster's choice. |
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| Noonan added that it was an obscenity that the liability for loans was being transferred on to the taxpayers, especially the poorest ones. |
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| Such a culinary obscenity – not so very unrealistic – becomes an exclusive signifier of social superiority. |
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| Similarly, don't use profanity, obscenity, slander or libel. |
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| Never as today have immorality, impurity and obscenity been so continually propagandized, through the press and all the means of social communication. |
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| Larry Flynt fought against pornophobes when he took his obscenity lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court and won! |
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| Georgia asserts the right to protect the individual's mind from the effects of obscenity. |
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| In 1998, Mr. Rykov started an e-zine with an English-language obscenity for a name, which was loaded with jokes about culture, showbiz and relationships. |
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| Only a performance from the school of José Mourinho's self-assured arrogance or Joe Kinnear's obscenity packed rants would have prevented a public belittlement of Hodgson, the former Inter Milan and Liverpool coach. |
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| So, I will wish you all most strength to your elbow in this fight against this biggest obscenity on supposedly a civilized society, that of human trafficking. |
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| Trump isn't even the first to wriggle out from under charges of obscenity. |
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| There have been obscenity laws in this and other jurisdictions for decades banning obscene depictions of this sort, but there has never been a prosecution against a legitimate work of fiction such as that. |
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| Will the Hollywood crowd allow them to crack down on obscenity? |
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| Surely it is time to remedy this obscenity. |
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| I wanted to make images that expressed the obscenity of the war. |
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| It remains an obscenity that in 2009, after an age of unprecedented global prosperity, 1.5 billion of our fellow human beings are living in extreme poverty. |
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| For example, in a case called R. v. Fringe Product, she delivered reasons upholding the obscenity provisions of the Criminal Code that were later quoted and relied on by the Supreme Court in the famous case of R. v. Butler. |
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| More demanding than certain professional codes, it requires a responsible drinking message in all Group advertisements, for example, and bans obscenity and gratuitous nudity. |
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| These issues arise with regard to the application of States' laws dealing with such fields as intellectual property, defamation, libel, obscenity, privacy, racism and freedom of speech. |
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| The single writer who most supports the charge of obscenity levelled then and now at Restoration comedy is probably Wycherley. |
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| No can do. Yo no Speedo. It wins in my book for shock and obscenity value. Also known as a nuthugger, banana hammock, or weenie wrapper. |
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| The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry. |
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| He achieved notoriety in 1979 when the BBC suspended production of his play Solid Geometry because of its supposed obscenity. |
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| Saying that obscenity is indecent and then saying something is indecent if it's obscene is a circular definition. |
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| A related practice is to spin around three times as fast as possible on the spot, sometimes accompanied by spitting over their shoulder, and uttering an obscenity. |
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| One night coming home from work, I was driving through a quiet housing estate and had a driver cut me up. I had my window open, and mouthed some obscenity towards him. |
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| An exhausted and exasperated Olivier screamed an obscenity at her and slapped her face, and a devastated Leigh slapped him in return, dismayed that he would hit her publicly. |
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| This last phenomenon is sometimes referred to as 'the clbuttic effect', named in honour of the mangling of the word 'classic' by over-zealous obscenity filters. |
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| A wiser approach would be to aggressively prosecute the less extreme material meeting the three-pronged Miller test, which serves as the basis for the obscenity statues. |
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| The author uses obscenity to make a point about the culture. |
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