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    There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.†  (source)
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    No way I'm going to satisfy your prurient urges by interspace transmission, Roarke.†  (source)
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    There was nothing prurient about his interest in the Version Clinic or in obstetrics and gynecology.†  (source)
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    I appealed to prurient journalistic sensationalism, and-although it damn near killed him-got Walther Apfel to corroborate halfway.†  (source)
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    This again would have no significance and would be unworthy of note except for one thing: I have talked with such men many times as a white and they never show the glow of prurience he revealed.†  (source)
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    The big male seemed a trifle bored; but the female's gaze was fixed on me with what I took to be an expression of unabashed and even prurient curiosity.†  (source)
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    And what if, together with this, he had his inner and personal growths of vice, passion, even prurience, unbecoming obscenity?†  (source)
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    She was overweight and sweated profusely in the tent, which itself had become a greenhouse of prurient fantasy.†  (source)
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    They watched as a rousing tale of love and murder in the court of an Oriental potentate unrolled silently before them; scene after opulent scene sped past, full of naked bodies, despotic lust, and abject servility blind in its zeal, full of cruelty, prurience, and fatal desire—and then suddenly the film slowed to linger revealingly on the muscular arm of an executioner.†  (source)
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    Yossarian was madly in love with all of them as he made his way back to the officers' apartment, in love with Luciana, with the prurient intoxicated girl in the unbuttoned satin blouse, and with the beautiful rich countess and her beautiful rich daughter-in-law, both of whom would never let him touch them or even flirt with them.†  (source)
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    So that, you see, the ordinarily healthy woman (and almost all our women are both healthy and at least comely), respected as a child-bearer and rearer of children, desired as a woman, loved as a companion, unanxious for the future of her children, has far more instinct for maternity than the poor drudge and mother of drudges of past days could ever have had; or than her sister of the upper classes, brought up in affected ignorance of natural facts, reared in an atmosphere of mingled prudery and prurience.†  (source)
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    Tereza's desire to be emancipated and insist on her rightslike the right to lock herself in the bathroomwas more objectionable to Tereza's mother than the possibility of her husband's taking a prurient interest in Tereza.†  (source)
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    And the rest of them leaning forward in their chairs, My dear, all horror and prurience.†  (source)
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