| But at the same time she believed deeply in her own artistic vision and actively resisted editorial attempts to bowdlerize her poems or rein in her formal innovations. |
| The more you attempt to bowdlerize words, the more you will have anxiety to know them. |
| I have no wish to bowdlerize Sir Richard Steele, his ways and words. |
| The only sensitivity, say the gallery owners, is to depictions of the female body, and the painters generally bowdlerize their work to be on the safe side. |
| His critics take alarm only when it becomes apparent that he would bowdlerize Homer and exclude from his state the great tragedians. |
| There is no desire to bowdlerize Rabelais, but it is not always best to translate his grosser words by their apparently direct English equivalents. |
