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The Guardian’s Tim Ashley found the scene “protracted and pruriently voyeuristic,” while critic Richard Morrison in The Times called it “inexcusably nasty.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2015

The Guardian's Tim Ashley found the scene "protracted and pruriently voyeuristic," while critic Richard Morrison in The Times called it "inexcusably nasty."

From US News • Jun. 30, 2015

It’s striking, however, that Toulouse-Lautrec’s depictions of women are never cruel or pruriently objectifying but almost always sympathetically affectionate.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2014

The Divide is a show about a highly racial crime, but it does not utilize race pruriently or simplistically.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2014

He is always the hero, and often the victim, of his own imagination; like a star actor, he cannot bear to be outshone; he is morbidly, almost pruriently, conscious of the effect he is producing.

From William of Germany by Shaw, Stanley