Word: prurient
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...tale involve the love that blooms, reciprocally, between the brothers and Adelaide and Sarah Yates. Readers curious about the conjugal gymnastics required during the marriages that ensue will not be disappointed, but Strauss, an impressively skilled and subtle first novelist, devotes a minimum of space to prurient concerns. The double wedding is the novel's high point, with the words of the preacher--"Eternal Jesus, that joinest them together that were separate"--gaining new meaning in the context. Eng looks at his bride and wonders, "How did I believe I could go through life alone...
...case that this matter of prurient press intrusion - and of private lives having public consequences - dates back not just to, say, Donna Rice, Gary Hart and the Monkey Business, but to Helen and Paris and the Trojan War? Did King David's behavior with Bathsheba tell us something we needed to know about the character issue? Would you have voted for King David? He did, after all, behave like a louse...
Starr was pigeonholed as prurient and incompetent...
...Pinning a corsage on a barely constrained chest constitutes the first hurdle of the night. Proposition: primrose placement may seem a pleasing preface to the promenade, presuming the preeminent payoff does not involve a prurient priapism...
...James Woods and Kathleen Turner. Woods and Turner are well-chosen to visually represent two parents who neurotically keep their children guarded from the dangers that lurk in the pernicious garden of the suburbs. The outspoken leader of the siblings is Lux Lisbon, played by Kirsten Dunst, the sexually prurient, mischievous sister who seems to negotiate with the outside world for the sisters. As the film progresses, she is seduced by Trip Fontaine (Josh Hartnett), the high school Casanova, who convinces Mr. Lisbon to take Lux to the prom on the agreement that he finds dates for the rest...