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Vulgarity is a disease of the human spirit and is not cured by education, or travel, or familiarity with grand opera or works of art.
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Vulgarity is only ONE of Waters 'many tools in filmmaking -- he mostly trades in wit and satire.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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Vulgarity is only ONE of Waters 'many tools in filmmaking -- he mostly trades in wit and satire.
Archive 2005-12-04 Michael Evans 2005
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Vulgarity is surely a disease of the West alone, though, as in Japan, one sees that it can be contagious, and this Oriental, far from apologizing for his déshabille, led us up the steep and difficult ladder by which his house is entered with as much courteous ease as if he had been in his splendors.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
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Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
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Several others scrutinize the manners and morals of the age (such as “On Vulgarity and Affectation”, “On Patronage and Puffing”, and “On Corporate Bodies” [all 1821]).
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Vulgarity in Literature: Digressions from a Theme (1930)
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Several others scrutinize the manners and morals of the age (such as “On Vulgarity and Affectation”, “On Patronage and Puffing”, and “On Corporate Bodies” [all 1821]).
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Vulgarity — a hearty vulgarity, I'll admit — is the basis of bourgeois refinement and culture.
Chapter 45 2010
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