- An
expurgation of a work, also
known as a
bowdlerization, is a form of
censorship that
involves purging anything deemed noxious or
offensive from an artistic...
- 1830s; they and
others consider the
expression to have been a
simple bowdlerization, with,
according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, an
unknown origin...
- evil. A "fig-leaf edition" of a work is
known as an
expurgation or
Bowdlerization.
Ancient Gr**** art was
dominated by the
tradition of
heroic nudity and...
-
separate volumes, e.g. The
Fellowship of the Ring. Dyson's
actual comment,
bowdlerized in the TV version, was "Not
another ****ing Elf!" Grovier,
Kelly (29...
- the
United States "Fellow" is
substituted for "****" or "****er" in
bowdlerized or
sanitized versions of the acronym. Quote: "Designing the B-29 had...
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Double entendre Dysphemism Emotive conjugation Expurgation (often
called bowdlerization,
after Thomas Bowdler)
Framing (social sciences)
Minimisation Persuasive...
-
necessarily straightforward imitations. For example, Bill Haley's
incompletely bowdlerized cover of "Shake,
Rattle and Roll"
transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous...
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Thomas Hardy. It was
written in 1866 but
first published, in a
slightly bowdlerized form, in
Poems of the Past and the
Present (1901).
Thomas Hardy's "The...
-
liberties the
filmmakers take with reality, but that this isn't an
engaging bowdlerization...
Johnny Depp
neither soars nor crashes, but
moseys forward with vague...
- tale
genre as a
genre for children, and has been
accused by some of
bowdlerizing the
gritty naturalism – and
sometimes unhappy endings – of many folk...
