How to Use prurience in a Sentence

prurience

noun

• But there is more than prurience in their gaze, and in the movie’s.
  — Justin Chang, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Descriptions of her are icky either in their prurience or disgust, with a creepy focus on her body.
  — Alice Bolin, Longreads, 26 June 2018
• Months later people are still asking, and not out of mere prurience, what happened to Steven Murphy?
  — Vicky Ward, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2015
• But perhaps to avoid any charges of prurience, Richard Greene lets a stream of prostitutes and lovers flow through the book as one-dimensional as shapes in a shooting gallery.
  — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
• The sins against her are so numerous, and presented so salaciously, that their prurience becomes the motor that drives the film.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
• Easier to transpose it into a key of prurience and wait for the whole thing to stroke itself into exhaustion.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 18 Jan. 2018
• A year and a half ago, however, for the 2016 edition, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the calendar’s raison d’être took a sharp turn from prurience to pride.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 20 July 2017
• But the director, who wrote the script with Chris Bergoch, avoids the traps of condescension and prurience that ensnare too many well-meaning movies about poverty in America.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• The burden of the film is that Marilyn was, from first to last, a victim, inundated with prurience, misogyny, and venom.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
• Stories about those who arrive on a therapist’s couch to complain about their love woes may appeal to our instincts for voyeurism, but Mr. Tallis never veers into prurience.
  — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2018
• These days, fans spread rumors and memes, which are picked up by media outlets, which disguise their prurience with speculation about box-office prospects or reviews.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• Grevenitis hopes that the photography, which has allowed her control over the prurience of outsiders, will perhaps provide her daughter with something similar.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2020
• Trump’s journey to the White House would have been inconceivable without the coarseness of the Clinton years, a coarseness equally attributable to popular culture and the newfound web, the president’s scandals and the prurience of his critics.
  — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
• Her name is Nazuna (Suzu Hirose), and the movie continually scrutinizes her body with the sort of prurience that feeds the skeeziest, most stereotypical assumptions about the filmmakers’ chosen medium.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 2 July 2018
• Richard Greene, despite his objections to biographical prurience, does give us some piquant details.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• Gawkers jostle for a viewing, journalists angle for takes; in the crowd, expressions of reverent fascination vie with cynical dismissals and racist prurience.
  — The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2019

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024