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Example sentences for: obscene

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The cover story christens professional wrestling "a new American art form," albeit a savage one: Fifty episodes of a popular wrestling TV show included "1,658 instances of grabbing or pointing to one's crotch, 157 instances of an obscene finger gesture, 128 episodes of simulated sexual activity, and 21 references to urination."
The anomaly of this prodigal use of language that would once have been generally regarded as unacceptably obscene is that, even today, it in no way coincides with the usage of the great majority of the audience--any more than did the excessive puritanism of the old production code.
Within 24 hours, resolutions had been introduced in the House of Commons calling for his prosecution on charges of obscenity, for his removal as a theater official, and for censure of the network for allowing an obscene word to go out on the airwaves.
No doubt Russell would justify the starkness of the mother's killing by saying you can't make a movie about the obscenity of violence without showing something so obscene that it scalds us.
The rest of us can live on the edge until the first red light--when we can buckle up in obscene leisure.