The assumption was that he was bound to bowdlerise and diminish the original film. |
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Mostly, that is just a prissy and patronising habit, but to bowdlerise a celebrated line of poetry is an outrage. |
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There is nothing incredible about the speed at which people throw things, but to bowdlerise a celebrated line from Larkin? |
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Plenty of 60s British bands covered material by black US artists: they tended to bowdlerise it, but the Beatles made it more visceral. |
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The original stage leads were chosen by MGM to appear in Vincente Minnelli's 1956 film version, written by Anderson, who was forced by the studio to bowdlerise the play. |
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Keen does not set out to idealise or bowdlerise the Aboriginal societies of the past. |
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