- An
expurgation of a work, also
known as a
bowdlerization, fig-leaf
edition or
censorship by
political correctness is a form of
censorship that involves...
-
Bowdler the Younger. From his name
derives the
eponym verb
bowdlerise or
bowdlerize,
meaning to
expurgate or to
censor something through the
omission of elements...
- its
street address.
Adjectives and
verbs may be eponyms, for
example bowdlerize.
Adjectives derived from the word
eponym include eponymous and eponymic...
-
separate volumes, e.g. The
Fellowship of the Ring. Dyson's
actual comment,
bowdlerized in the TV version, was "Not
another ****ing Elf!" Grovier,
Kelly (29...
- 1830s; they and
others consider the
expression to have been a
simple bowdlerization, with,
according to the
Oxford English Dictionary, an
unknown origin...
-
released in 2011. This show
garnered particular praise for
refusing to
bowdlerize many of the
sadder or more
unpleasant aspects of the
source works, which...
- tale
genre as a
genre for children, and has been
accused by some of
bowdlerizing the
gritty naturalism – and
sometimes unhappy endings – of many folk...
-
necessarily straightforward imitations. For example, Bill Haley's
incompletely bowdlerized cover of "Shake,
Rattle and Roll"
transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous...
- Friday",
although the chain's
television commercials as of 2010[update]
bowdlerized the
phrase as "Thank
Goodness It's Friday".[failed verification] TGI...
- on June 12, 1972, and was
advertised in The New York
Times under the
bowdlerized title Throat. The film's po****rity
helped launch a
brief period of upper-middle...
