Example sentences for: voyeuristic

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

  • The film has all the commonplaces of the genre--the party that utterly trashes someone's parents' house, the voyeuristic visit to the girl's locker room, the guys betting about getting laid, and the happy comic resolution: The geek beds the prom queen, Ringwald lands the cute senior.

  • Same with rap: For all it's hailed as the voice of the urban poor, 70 percent of its sales are to suburban whites, for whom Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke" or Niggaz Wit' Attitude's "Fuck tha Police" offer the delicious, voyeuristic frisson of life in Compton or the South Bronx without actually having to live there.

  • But Monica is road kill here, and Walters the latest in a series of hit-and-run drivers, and there is something sickening about the way we have watched this woman be knocked down again and again and again, yet still feel the need to vilify the object of our voyeuristic pleasure.

  • A dark-eyed, sepulchral head case named Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) begins showing up at all the same disparate meetings for essentially the same voyeuristic ends, and the presence of this "tourist" makes it impossible for Jack to emote.

  • In some of his bathroom scenes of Marthe, Bonnard marks his own voyeuristic presence at the margins--a knee jutting into the canvas here, a hazy profile there.


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