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Letter "O" » obscene
«But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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calculus, deranged, deranging, differential, differential calculus, inanely, obscene, ordeals, precession, precession of the equinoxes, quantum, scientist, unalterably
«In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.»
«At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.»
«Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.»
Author: Ralph Ellison
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
brutalization, church music, commercial, contemporary, cultural, loot, looting, Negro, obscene, Rock and roll music, rock music
«Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
apparent, low-down, obscene, raffish, ratty, salient, scoundrels, unqualifiedly, utility, virtuosi, virtuoso
«Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.»
Author: John Updike
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attempts, bankruptcy, obscene, spiritualism, theologian, theologians
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs
«Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''»
«Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Cancer
| Keywords:
abominable, Cancer, Death sentence, ill-omened, lied, obscene, original meaning, patients, repugnant, sentenced to death
«For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
affront, affronted, consolations, controlled, obscene
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