... that also advocated ‘common sense’ as a positive model for political deliberation, and ‘wit’ as a model for discourse. Satire was a common medium for articulating this programme, often in terms that were themselves doubled and ironized. Swift and many of his associates deplored secrecy and innuendo...

... accusation of merchants Natura Brevium purgation simony accusation of tithes ecclesiastical Buckinghamshire assizes Davyes Anne Elcocke Anthony Gardiner John Gravesend Kent London bawdery innuendo woman bastardy excommunication false imputation of Browne Broune Thomas draper 1477 Bryan...

... in the opera, the second order consequences of censoring Act 3 of the Ur-Lulu could have created an acute problem. Censorship of that act had inspired Wedekind’s pronounced use of innuendo in Act 4 of Erdgeist, an example of the indirect treatment of taboo subject matter...

... be slotted easily into almost any recital programme. This one would also make a winning encore. parody uninhibited modern folk-song strophic disco rhythms innuendo robotic rap management-speak Marilyn Monroe Solo voice (baritone, but others possible); Range: Duration: 4′ 17″ T V; M V...

... is rife with sexual innuendo and eroticism. Conversely, within these very same sexually charged frameworks, Prince also teases toward an opposing binary—that is, his reconciliation for praising of a higher power within sexually charged themes. The chapter proposes that Prince's musical arrangements...

... Taylor John writer and polemicist Pierce Helen historian poodles puritans Seasonable Lecture A sermons Walker Henry parliamentarian polemicist Finland and the Finns Germany and the Germans Lapland and the Laplanders lions sexuality and sexual innuendo ‘shape shifting’ ‘Toby's Dog’ fictional...

... Arbuthnot John Fielding Henry Gay John Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis Whitehead Paul George III Hogarth William Pindar Peter John Walcott Wilkes John Woodfall Henry Fox Charles James Pitt William the younger satire law seditious libel licensing Jonathan Swift anonymity innuendo Henry...

...This chapter explores the way people use gossip and innuendo to influence others, but also argues that such talk can get out of hand and create problems which no one anticipated or desired. Rumors fly around the community and seem to take on a life of their own; they are distorted in certain...

... to think that what distinguishes the new and old ways of doing things the most is the kind of talk associated with each. The old ways are associated with gossip and innuendo, whereas under the new law, one should speak straightforwardly and reveal everything that one knows. Cargo cults Egalitarian...

... Sturges’s career: how did he manage to insert so much sexual innuendo in his comedies of the 1940s, given the notorious vigilance of Joseph Breen and other members of the Production Code Administration? Part of it was in the PCA’s quixotic mandate; part of it arose from the filmmaker’s greater skill...

... patient’s family, stigmatization is a two-way street; through innuendo, all the family members-including the patient-surreptitiously attack each other. But only the patient’s violence has an overt component. Like the family members, she attacks others through innuendo, but she also starves herself. All...

... as opinions vs. statements of fact, conveyed meanings brought about by connotation and pragmatics, malicious language (including the contributions of sarcasm, pejorative terms, exaggeration, rhetorical questions, and innuendo), and discourse structure and framing. Goodwin Charles Tiersma Peter Bork Robert...

... from other areas and suggests that the social conditions in small isolated communities make it difficult for anyone to be a strong leader, arguing that gossip, rumor, and innuendo constrain leaders in Melanesia in many ways. First, the atmosphere of suspicion that goes along with rumor and innuendo...

... innuendoes about his employer’s sexual history and refuses to deny spreading rumors about the paternity of the boss’s son. The ensuing confrontation becomes an allegory of labour relations and a parable about the materiality of desire. The chapter analyzes Barnet’s innuendo through the psychoanalytic...

... headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward. The author discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived...