vulgarity

• “But what you call his vulgarity, my dears, is just everyday life; and everyday life is always disgusting to the funny little Bayswaterats, who are compact of timidity and pudibonderie.”

  Nights in London

• “He was more than usually polite to the major: he was in the army, the goal of his aspiration! but he laughed at what he called his vulgarity in private, and delighted to annoy Hester with remarks upon her "ancient adorer.”

  Weighed and Wanting

• “However, she also detested what she called vulgarity, and had never in her life, even when handling it, uttered the word shit.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Women’s Room

• “Started but did not finish: 4 (4.2%) … all distinterested lovers of books, will always look to [literature], as to all other fine art, for a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world.”

  March Bibliolust « A Progressive on the Prairie

• “The mitigated vulgarity is just icing on the cake.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » How to Make the Bureau of Consumer Protection More Consumer Friendly:

• “The dialogue is as awash in vulgarity as, well, a middle school playground.”

  Stromata Blog:

• “The vulgarity is crass, if appropriately realistic, but it's actually deceptively complex, as a little game.”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “Excess vulgarity is the untalented's substitute for thought.”

  Story by JJ Solari

• “Your childish name calling reminds us all that vulgarity is a weak man's imitation of strength.”

  Sound Politics: New Poll Has Reichert +3%

• “That would be the same BBC slated by Anna Ford a newsreader who left the BBC over its atmosphere of fear, who said : "I must sound very old fashioned when I use the word vulgarity, but we are constantly seeing people on screen who are of low intelligence and low educational and whose views on everything seem to be made important.”

  Archive 2008-01-01

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