| She is up against poverty of imagination, prudishness, bigotry and ladies locked into pain. |
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| Kits were designed to cover every inch of visible flesh but they survived long after such heavily mannered prudishness had deceased. |
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| Laws against sexual harassment were long considered a symptom of American prudishness. |
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| Her bitter sense of humour and prudishness masks her loneliness, anger and sense of displacement. |
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| Instead, out of prudishness, intolerance and Soviet-style pig-headedness, the response was criminally lackadaisical. |
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| The prudishness was still present in some of the Victorian bathing costumes, but the mood was light-hearted in the mineral pools and blasting wall. |
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| On the other hand, embodying virtue implied restoring a canon of beauty based on the skin's candid whiteness and rosy cheeks, signs of prudishness and modesty. |
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| It's not prudishness, but is intended as an offering. |
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| Machismo from the poor suburban districts and excessive prudishness stand on equal terms: Here a whole generation expresses itself from the inside through outstanding choreographic and musical work. |
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| The power of his images, quite apart from their grimness and dark appeal, lies in his quest for a naked truth, a realism stripped of all prudishness. |
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| I understand there may be some taboos and some prudishness. |
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| Home thoughts from abroad Reprints Related items Presidential politics in Brazil: Her master's voiceNov 12th 2009Tolerance coexists uneasily with prudishness. |
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| That isn't prudishness or sanctimony but a strategy to dampen demand. |
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