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Ants Tammik’s camerawork is similarly inspired, especially in the framing of the women’s bodies which are displayed without prudery but also without prurience, and usually only partially — backs, breasts, bellies, chins propped on knees.
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Mar. 2023
Wilde’s writings may be homoerotic, but the prose remains coded and demure; prurience was reserved for the bedroom, and eventually for the courtroom.
—Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
Its gutsy prurience often collapses down into muddled emptiness, fun gags that get wasted.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
True crime can be given a gloss of prestige, can approach its subject from new and different angles, and can reach for bigger themes, but there’s a kernel of prurience to the genre that’s never going to go away.
—Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
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Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Mar. 2023
Wilde’s writings may be homoerotic, but the prose remains coded and demure; prurience was reserved for the bedroom, and eventually for the courtroom.
—Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
Its gutsy prurience often collapses down into muddled emptiness, fun gags that get wasted.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
True crime can be given a gloss of prestige, can approach its subject from new and different angles, and can reach for bigger themes, but there’s a kernel of prurience to the genre that’s never going to go away.
—Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
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“Prurience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prurience. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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