(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.
Unnecessarily
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(2) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
(3) Official papers released by the National Archives show that the "wets" – notably Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Ian Gilmour, Mark Carlisle, Lord Soames and Francis Pym – were able to demonstrate that a majority of the cabinet rejected as unnecessarily harsh Sir Geoffrey Howe's demands for further public spending cuts and tax cuts.
(4) "NHS funding is incredibly tight at the moment and this is £7m that's been spent unnecessarily due to the restructure," said Dr Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA's GPs committee.
(5) Through this clear indication, it could be said, that pregnancies with delicate prognosis through tocolytic therapy are possibly unnecessarily lengthened and the final result is not better.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Relatives of passengers react to Dutch investigation findings The Dutch safety board report, published in English and Dutch, concedes that family members had to wait “an unnecessarily long period of time” for formal confirmation that their loved ones were dead.
(7) I don't think either coalition partner is aware of how high the stakes are being raised, the degree to which they are unnecessarily backing themselves into a corner, and how much the ground has to be prepared before launching the country on the unprecedented path they plan.
(8) The use of antibiotic prophylaxis for unnecessarily prolonged periods after surgical procedures can contribute to increased health care costs and adverse drug reactions as well as the development of antibiotic-resistant infections.
(9) Sources at Maria Miller's culture department felt the royal charter model – a power of the Crown to create corporate bodies – was unnecessarily complex.
(10) It’s a surprisingly simple answer: as David Klinger, an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St Louis and a former officer with the Los Angeles police department, says, “Officers aren’t required to risk their lives unnecessarily.” Officers are trained to use deadly force on suspects wielding weapons, Klinger said.
(11) In some cases these errors led to needless radiotherapy and to an unnecessarily poor prognosis being given.
(12) On the other hand, when cow milk is fed together with beikost, infants receive unnecessarily high intakes of protein and electrolytes, resulting in an unduly high renal solute load.
(13) But he admitted there were shortcomings that made the campaign unnecessarily difficult and said he was "amazed there haven't been more resignations in light of … the ongoing issues of equipping the army".
(14) Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) chairwoman Joan Walley said: "Ministers have managed to make a complete mess of their planned carrier bags charge by making it unnecessarily complicated.
(15) This problem cannot be solved by attempts to multiply publications unnecessarily or to blur the meaning of authorship.
(16) It’s unnecessarily divisive and likely to weaken industrial relations and human capital.
(17) However, combination regimens are often used unnecessarily and can result in increased side effects, costs, and other undesirable effects.
(18) Close collaboration between toxicologists and the authorities responsible for drawing up toxicological regulations is called for in order to ensure that the rules applied during the important and fascinating process of discovering and developing new drugs do not become unnecessarily burdensome.
(19) When people from these communities attend the hospital they do so less unnecessarily than those from other communities.
(20) The law includes a variety of penalties for different acts: 99 lashes if two unrelated males sleep "unnecessarily" under the same blanket – even without any sexual contact.