Example Sentences

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That touch of overkill derives, I think, from Paul Feig, who finds himself toiling on a scale that is both wider and less raunchily broad than what he is accustomed to.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2016

He leaned to metaphors cosmological and aquatic and to pronoun salads that lightly tossed around gender positions, though never as radically or raunchily as his prime post-soul influence, Prince.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2016

There were others: Minnie Pearl got laughs as an outrageous Southern spinster, Moms Mabley as a raunchily outspoken black philosopher.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2012