• Traditionalists may shudder at the vulgarity of it all, but Vinopolis is aimed at the mass market.

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  • People here were shocked by his behaviour, his vulgarity, all the mistakes early on in his term.

    ECONOMIST: France��s presidential election: The anti-Sarkozy vote | The

  • Identify your own faux pas and make the Web a bit less of a bubbling swamp of vulgarity.

    CNN: Bring some class to your social media

  • He criticised Mr Fox's vulgarity, and his habit of resorting to personal attacks.

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  • "'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.

    BBC: Kentucky 'kicks ass': Taking pride in plain speaking

  • The show, which has played to nearly a hundred-per-cent capacity since it opened, in 2011, exudes the noisy vulgarity of a Brighton-pier entertainment.

    NEWYORKER: Curtain-Raiser

  • Many have shaken their heads at the sheer vulgarity of it all, among them Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, his brother William, and Sigmund Freud.

    ECONOMIST: The man and his pen

  • The charmless vulgarity of this hybrid comedy blending sketchlike riffing and a tightly plotted crime caper comes alive only when it cuts close to the bone of psychic peril.

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  • The organisers were in a state of panic as the famously purse-lipped dowager Queen Mary was due to watch the match and Moran was accused of bringing vulgarity into tennis.

    BBC: Magazine

  • They do no work in advancing an argument, and their use in fiction represents a capitulation in the face of the tide of vulgarity that cheapens and defaces the public space.

    WSJ: Alexander McCall Smith on Writing Dialogue | Word Craft

  • Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar was quoted by the Press Trust of India news agency as saying that there had been a lot of debate on "the promotion of vulgarity" if the Playboy Club were set up.

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  • It can also have beautiful pitch: the spacious white expanses of his designs somehow redeem his vulgarity, and when he does fill his pictures with colour, it is always with the most voluptuous and vivid of hues.

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  • The feather's unceremonious fall from a symbol of wealth and elegance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to one of vulgarity--from the hats of fashionable women to the heads of Kewpie dolls--is not only a story of the fickleness of the fashion industry.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In a pluralist, commercial society, it is not surprising that it has been the excuse for excruciating vulgarity (the Terezin cookbook), as well as the occasion for aggressive political manipulation, not least by black leaders such as Louis Farrakhan who compare the sufferings of the Jews under Hitler unfavourably with the suffering of Africans under slavery.

    ECONOMIST: History

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