Example sentences for: obscenely

How can you use “obscenely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At the northern edge of the district is Bozu Jigoku (“Monk’s Hell”), an obscenely bubbling mud pond where a Buddhist temple once stood until it was submerged in an earthquake back in the 15th century.

  • They would rise before dawn--if the sun, which lingers obscenely above the horizon during the summer nights--would only set.

  • But enough has been said to show that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a cult of personality in which King's lieutenants covered up his sexual peccadilloes and vied obscenely for his attention and the chance to succeed him in the public eye.

  • At MGM, Louis B. Mayer produced the bourgeois counterpart, the obscenely successful Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, later teamed in the archetypal teen pix Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway . Universal made a likewise profitable series with Deanna Durbin, and over at RKO in the '40s, the teen-age Shirley Temple starred in movies like The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer . It is in 1949 that the echt misunderstood teen film Knock on Any Door was made, starring John Derek as the misfit who wanted to "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."

  • The wide-angle lenses spread the images out obscenely, so that the whole movie takes on the sweaty fatness of Welles' Detective Hank Quinlan, and our own sense of space is continually violated.


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