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Example sentences for: obscenity
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With a not quite solemn air, Rosenbaum raises the Problem of the Baby Pictures--the conundrum of Hitler's humanity, his rosy-cheeked normalcy when he was young--and then quotes the film director Claude Lanzmann, who calls the baby pictures an "obscenity."
There are two exceptions to this: child pornography (sexually explicit pictures made using child models) and "obscenity"--but both are much smaller categories than the CDA's "indecency."
In Israel, under the headline "Another UN obscenity," an editorial in the conservative Jerusalem Post stridently condemned the Rome agreement's inclusion, on Arab initiative, of a paragraph that defined as a war crime an occupying power's transfer of a civilians to territory it has occupied.
In real life, it was Gene Reeves Jr. who was shot, along with Flynt, during the publisher's 1978 obscenity trial.
Unlike the literary world, where provocative books such as Ulysses or Lady Chatterley's Lover led to legal battles over obscenity issues, in the movies, no one tried to place fuck onto film until the country was ready for it.