Example sentences for: transgressiveness

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

  • Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.

  • The Trouble With Principle , with its typically Fishy mix of transgressiveness and realism, demonstrates the distance between him and them.


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