Example Sentences

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It is the best of “Beau” in microcosm, bawdily funny, visually inventive, with a vein of genuine feeling running through it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Grounded in this kind of reality, “Sideways” works beautifully on any number of levels, from the at-times bawdily comedic to the genuinely heartbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2020

The zigzagging between literature, religion, fantasy, the mock-academic and the bawdily demotic will be familiar to any reader, or failed reader, of Midnight’s Children.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2015

As the cowardly Lord High Executioner, Ross Lehman bawdily woos Devine to save his own neck while sporting a getup and manner reminiscent of Eddie Cantor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hagen--now bawdily arrogant, now anguished with betrayal--is ferociously riveting.

From Time Magazine Archive