We need no other principle than that to account for the degradation of heathenism and for the obscenities and foul transgression within the very courts of the temple.
In Tyber ducking thrice, by break of day, To wash the obscenities of night away.
But the demons delight even in the obscenities of carnal sins; as Augustine says (De Civ.
Postcards of a homely and harmless vulgarity are for sale in every Munich stationer's shop, but the connoisseur looks in vain for the studied indecencies of Paris, the appalling obscenities of the Swiss towns.
For what but a guileful purpose could that goddess demand the best man, seeing that in her own sacred festivals she requires such obscenities as the best men would be covered with shame to hear at their own tables?
That the obscenities of those plays which the Romans consecrated in order to propitiate their gods, contributed largely to the overthrow of public order.
Of the obscenities practised in honour of the mother of the gods.
How could any man of high original genius ever stoop publicly, at the present day, to dip his fingers in the least of those glittering and rancid obscenities which float on the surface of Mr Hunt's Hippocrene?
And the sea-witch shook her rough deformed knuckles at the city, while streams of obscenities flowed from her cavernous mouth.
But the youngsters were already at it, shrieking obscenitiesinto the night in a tumultuous uproar.
The number of women whose testimony was obtained was only eight, but among these were some with whom extraordinary obscenities were practised in church.
The obscenities of Catullus, however, it must be admitted, are oftener the sport of satire, than the ebullitions of a voluptuous imagination.
His indulgent conformity, however, to the unpolished taste of his age, ought not to be admitted as an excuse for the obscenities which Plautus has introduced.
Broad-sides of obscenities were exchanged across the table, and all about the wedding-night, until the whole arsenal of peasant wit was exhausted.
All sorts of obscenities were reported to follow upon these scenes.
Gilles de la Tourette has coined the word ‘coprolalia’ (mucktalk) for obsessional explosions of blasphemies and obscenities which characterize a malady described most exhaustively by M.
The one cultivates chiefly his pessimism, and accepts his obscenities into the bargain, though without enthusiasm, and often even with visible embarrassment and secret repugnance.
He was looking only for the prurient, the indecent, the immoral in actions and dress, and with his scanty French was sharpening his ears to catch the obscenities that the austere guardians of the fatherland had foretold.
She told how she with two hundred other witches had sailed in sieves from Leith to North Berwick church, how they had there encountered the devil in person, how they had feasted with him, and what obscenities had been practised.
Those prefixed to the Lena and the Suppositi contain allusions so indecent, and veil obscenities under metaphors so flimsy, as to justify a belief in Ariosto's vulgarity of soul.
Lilius Giraldus:[245] "the obscenities of the stage return in all their foulness.
The legend based upon its audacious obscenities was credited by Bayle, and in part refuted by the Antibaillet of Menage.
He promised to kill no more or crave to look upon or participate in sexual obscenities with women and, like a few untold times, with men and animals.
People pushed and shoved one another and screamed obscenities at a man, about Dearborne's age, who jumped up on the magician's stage, knocking the magician to the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obscenities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
