“His pictures are neither symbolic nor meretriciously anecdotal, but his colour and the rhythms and forms he paints are highly suggestive.”

“And how can our heroine, now so chaste and docile, have only two hours ago been writhing meretriciously across the screen in song?”

“It meretriciously urges all parties to exercise restraint, as it, itself, exercises restraint in the field of morality.”