(a.) Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(2) One of the judges, Malcolm Muggeridge, resigned halfway through because he felt most of the entries were ill-written and pornographic.
(3) An investigation by Channel 4 news has revealed the site to be "full of pornographic sexual chat", despite it being aimed at children age 13 upwards, and used by some as young as nine years old.
(4) There is a culture of increasingly sexualised images among young people: a culture that says that girls will only get on in life if they live up to the crudest of stereotypes; a culture where pornographic images, some violent, are available at a click on a smartphone or a laptop.
(5) Wilson admitted two counts of making extreme pornographic images and one count of sexual activity with a child.
(6) They claimed, falsely, that he had abandoned his wife and children, that he had behaved inappropriately by touching a man (on the arm) at a public meeting and even that he had sponsored a pornographic website – all lies.
(7) In addition, 39% of the battered women (in contrast to 3% of the comparison group) responded in the affirmative to the question, "Has your partner ever upset you by trying to get you to do what he'd seen in pornographic pictures, movies, or books?"
(8) Or Malcolm McDowell’s performance in the semi-pornographic 1979 film Caligula, produced by Penthouse supremo Bob Guccione .
(9) Saunders said he accepted that Brooks hid the material, which included pornographic DVDs, for the reasons that he gave during the trial.
(10) Default-on is a system whereby internet service providers block access to pornographic images as standard, unless the customer opts out of the filters.
(11) These scenes still have a certain, fleeting power and effect – even if we are deadened and wearied by the pornographic thrill of spectacular screen violence.
(12) She recently interviewed a well-known pornographer, while his latest film played in the background.
(13) George made 124 pornographic images of children in that time.
(14) Inside the house are the relics, pristine and pornographic.
(15) It is the kind of letter that might well lead to a distinctly uncomfortable conversation around the breakfast table: this month, between 20,000 and 30,000 German households received legal warnings for having viewed copyrighted pornographic films via the streaming website RedTube.com.
(16) The fact that pornographers found it worth their while to produce and disseminate their wares (which involved some investment and expense) suggested that there was a real market for the stuff.
(17) It's worth remembering that this is the Richard Desmond who made his first fortune through pornographic magazines and adult television (he still owns the Fantasy Channel); then made his second by exercising a ruthless grip on the Express and Star newspapers, cutting staff and squeezing out pay cheques of more than £50m in the middle of the last decade .
(18) If Wetlands is pornographic, it has certainly subverted the genre.
(19) Paris was the place to be, the political atmosphere suited a cartoonist’s work – cartoons fitted with the slogans and graffiti of the time, its poetry.” Willem joined Hara Kiri , Charlie Hebdo ’s precursor, setting himself immediately to work on blasphemy, vicious political satire and “things some people might regard as pornographic”.
(20) So, it seems that scenes conceived with the same bent logic as the Fox network TV series 24 , where torture was routinely shown to elicit vital information, were included for dramatic, political or even pornographic effect.
Spicy
Definition:
(superl.) Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
(superl.) Producing, or abounding with, spices.
(superl.) Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(2) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
(3) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(4) The latter of these focus on the things Chile does best: wine and pisco, the local brandy with a grassy colour and spicy-sweet taste.
(5) Patients with gastroesophageal reflux often describe heartburn after "spicy meals."
(6) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
(7) Fried foods, "spicy" foods, and alcohol were the most common precipitating factors.
(8) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(9) In the last few years my wife and I have gone off going out as much as we used to, but if I did, it would be something spicy, or a really nice Chinese.
(10) Waiting for them, bobbing in oil, are the deals: three spicy wings with regular fries for £1, two pieces of chicken and chips for £2; or the "student special": one piece of chicken, regular fries plus a can of Pepsi, also for £2.
(11) He could often be seen eating spicy lamb chops at his favourite curry houses, flattering local businessmen and speaking irreverently about parliamentary colleagues.
(12) With its brightly punchy tomato sauce, good mound of rocket, decent if sparingly distributed mozzarella and porky, spicy salsiccia sausage, my sampler largely backed up such hype.
(13) The recipes veer from the incredibly simple, such as stir-fried potato slithers with chillies to the more elaborate, such as dry-braised fish with pork in spicy sauce.
(14) Note, too, how many manuals of eating are termed "bibles": in the cult of "nutritionism" we have Patrick Holford's Optimum Nutrition Bible and Gillian McKeith's Food Bible , and there also exist a Baby Food Bible , a Whole Food Bible , a Gluten-Free Bible , a Party Food Bible , a Spicy Food Lover's Bible , and so on ad nauseam or perhaps ad astra.
(15) The typhoon shelter was famous for its restaurants' cuisine – including Under Bridge Spicy Crab – and it was a nightlife hub, alive with mahjong games and hired singers.
(16) From a rich Indonesian rendang to a smoky Indian aubergine side dish, the ones I finally picked certainly didn't disappoint, but it was the unusual sweet and sour flavours of Angela Kim's Keralan vegetable sambar that really grabbed my attention – surely the perfect spicy, comforting Sunday supper.
(17) A plate of plump, pan-fried gnocchi with peppery, spicy ground pork was simple but full of good, accurate flavours.
(18) Mexican hot chocolate Spicy and nice: thejameskitchen's Mexican dark hot chocolate drink.
(19) Spiced cornbread EverydayVeg's spicy cornbread is easily packed and great for sharing.
(20) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).